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South Asia - ‘CLIMATE SMART’ WORLD WITHIN REACH, SAYS WORLD BANK
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If developed countries act now, a ‘climate-smart’ world is feasible, and the costs for getting there will be high but still manageable, says a new World Bank report released today. High-income countries also need to act quickly to reduce their carbon footprints and boost development of alternative energy sources to help tackle the problem of climate change.
Condoms to the rescue - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
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Birth control is more cost-effective compared to new energy technologies when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, British study shows.
Le Japon s'engage à réduire nettement plus ses émissions de CO2 | GreenUnivers
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Jusqu’ici, le Japon ne visait qu’une modeste réduction de 8% de ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Mais après la victoire de la gauche aux élections, le futur Premier ministre Yukio Hatoyama vient d’annoncer que le Japon relèverait cet objectif à -25% d'ici 2020 par rapport à 1990, comme il l’avait promis pendant la campagne. C’est plus ambitieux notamment que les 20% de réduction visés par l’Union européenne.
allAfrica.com: Rwanda: Country Wants Carbon Emissions Reduced By 40 Percent By 2050 (Page 1 of 1)
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Rwanda will join the rest of Africa to urge developed countries to reduce their carbon emissions by 40 percent come 2050.
On September 26, 2009, citizens get the chance to communicate their views on global warming | World Wide Views on Global Warming
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On
September 26, 2009, World Wide Views on Global Warming (WWViews) will give
citizens all over the world a possibility to define and communicate their
positions on issues and questions central to the negotiations at the United
Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, starting two months
later.
How to Profit from Energy Illiteracy
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A new bill submitted by Rep Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA), the American Clean Energy and Security Act, would aim to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by 20% from 2005 levels by 2020 (vs. the 15% proposed by President Obama), and by 80% by 2050.
EU Energy Law Newsletter
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The Energy Council of Thursday 19th February focused on the second Strategic Energy Review. Inevitably, the Council was cautious agreeing concrete changes to existing rules or arrangements on the basis of the Strategic Energy Review. Instead it has cautiously welcomed many of the proposals tabled or announced in the Review, awaiting the detailed Commission proposals or the outcome of discussions in Council on the specific proposals. Nonetheless, the conclusions do demonstrate a willingness of the member States for some - probably gradual - change in developing a more Community approach to energy security issues.
Japan Launches First Satellite to Monitor Greenhouse Gases Worldwide : Sustainablog
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The Japanese government has launched the first satellite to monitor greenhouse gases worldwide. This tool will help scientists better ascertain where global warming emissions are coming from and how much is being absorbed by the oceans and forests. The U.S. will launch a similar orbiter next month.
Tackle Climate Change: European leaders clash over pledges on global warming
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Failure is not an option, they say. But Polish veto threats, Italian resistance, and German insistence that it will not jeopardise jobs to help save the planet, suggest that the action plan will be diluted. The risk is the EU will draw withering criticism from climate campaigners and signal weakness and indecision to the US, China, India and other key players in the global warming fight.
MIT World » : Global and Regional Climate Change: Underlying Science and Emerging Riddles
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Veerabhadran Ramanathan recaps 35 years of key findings, and brings his audience up to date on the latest climate data, models, and observations which together demonstrate how CO2 is but one piece of a complex puzzle.
Is nuclear power essential to addressing climate change and energy independence? - NewTalk
Calling climate change one of the greatest challenges ever faced by the human race, some former opponents of nuclear power have recently become its advocates, if cautious advocates. Our purpose here is not to debate climate change, but rather "Is nuclear power essential to addressing climate change and energy independence?"
The Oil Drum: Europe | Gore sets goal of 100% carbon-free electricity by 2020
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Al Gore has made a major speech in Washington this morning, setting out an ambitious goal for the USA to produce all of its electricity from carbon-free sources by 2020. I thought I'd comment on the technical feasibility of the plan, and the underlying economics of such an endeavour.
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The short answer is: while 100% is probably unrealistic, it's not unreasonable to expect to be able to get pretty close to that number (say, in the 50-90% range) in that timeframe, and it is very likely that it makes a LOT of sense economically.
The (Annotated) Climate Declaration From the Industrial Powers - Dot Earth - Climate Change and Sustainability - New York Times Blog
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Below is the Declaration on Environment and Climate Change from the Group of 8. I’ll be annotating it as time allows and encourage you to weigh in in a comment. I’ll add footnote-style links to your contribution if you allude or refer to specific passages you think are significant, disingenuous, wishful, toothless, powerful…:
Kyoto's Great Carbon Offset Swindle
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According to David Victor, a leading carbon trading analyst at Stanford University, as many as two-thirds of the supposed "emission reduction" credits being produced by the CDM from projects in developing countries are not backed by real reductions in pollution. Those pollution cuts that have been generated by the CDM, have often been achieved at a stunningly high cost: billions of dollars (or pounds) could have been saved by cutting the emissions through international funds, rather than through the CDM's supposedly efficient market mechanism.
Future Scenarios - Introduction
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The
simultaneous onset of climate change and the peaking of global oil
supply represent unprecedented challenges for human civilisation.
Global oil peak has the potential to shake if not destroy the
foundations of global industrial economy and culture. Climate change
has the potential to rearrange the biosphere more radically than the
last ice age. Each limits the effective options for responses to the
other.
The strategies for mitigating the adverse effects and/or
adapting to the consequences of Climate Change have mostly been
considered and discussed in isolation from those relevant to Peak
Oil. While awareness of Peak Oil, or at least energy crisis, is
increasing, understanding of how these two problems might interact to
generate quite different futures, is still at an early state.
Welcome to brave new world « 3E Intelligence
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It does not happen often that I agree with the American Enterprise Institute but Steven Hayward’s analysis of the “real cost of tackling climate change” in the Wall Street Journal of 28 April is spot on: an 80% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 will have dramatic implications for our way of life.
Hayward has at least the courage (which cannot be said for our politicians) to tell the public what this 80% cut will mean for citizens’ daily lives. In not one political document have I ever seen a serious impact assessment of the 80% target. The fear of being the bearer of bad news is one which characterises all policymakers (even the ones who know that the climate crisis will hit hard).
T2419.pdf (application/pdf Object)
The report presents how climate will change according to climate models concerning the planning and building of electric power networks from the present state to the period from 2016 to 2045. The essential impacts of changes in weather conditions on planning and building of electric network are defined regionally based on the climate change scenarios. The importance of the effects is shown as costs and failure durations for different line structures. Moreover, the influence of the climate change on the loading capacity of the power system components is presented. On the basis of all these factors
it will be judged how strong an effect the climate change has in the present electric power network and how one should be prepared for it.
Tackling Climate Change Achievable And Affordable · Environmental Leader · Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News
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The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has released its 2008 Environmental Outlook.
Without new policies, the world risks irreversibly damaging the environment and the natural resource base needed to support economic growth and well-being, according to the report. But the Outlook finds that tackling climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and the health impacts of pollution is both achievable and affordable.
Energy Outlook
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An article in today’s Washington Post reported on new scientific research suggesting that emissions of greenhouse gases must be reduced to zero by mid-century, in order to prevent global warming that could persist for hundreds of years, perhaps eventually producing average temperatures higher than for millions of years. As the climate debate focuses increasingly on policy, the impact of such findings on efforts to craft practical frameworks for reducing US and global emissions becomes as important as the scientific result itself. The implication of the need for truly radical change contained in this latest report might either galvanize action on capping our emissions, or convince us that none of the current pathways for reducing emissions is truly worth pursuing.
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