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The Urgent Threat to World Peace is … Canada
The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century.
Until now I believed that the nation which has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada.
News - EU could easily make 40 per cent cuts by 2020 - The Ecologist
"Phasing out fossil fuels, encouraging faster take-up of renewables and making radical improvements in energy efficiency would double Europe's emission cuts, says study
The EU could double its target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 without resorting to building new nuclear power stations or unproven technologies like Carbon Capture and storage (CCS), according to research released by the Stockholm Environment Institute. "
China sets first targets to curb world's largest carbon footprint | Environment | The Guardian
"The Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, will attend the Copenhagen climate talks next month, the government said today, as it unveiled firm targets for curbing the world's biggest carbon footprint for the first time.
A day after the US president, Barack Obama, confirmed he would attend the early stages of the conference, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, Qin Gang, said Wen would join the gathering, which aims to set a global strategy for reducing emissions.
China announced that it would cut emissions of carbon relative to economic growth by 40% to 45% by 2020 compared with 2005 levels."
China’s carbon intensity targets explained
China has set what would at 1st glance appear to be ambitious GHG reduction targets. However a deeper look and you start to see that all is not as it seems.
Are North American Companies Improving Their Climate Change Performance? | ClimateBiz.com
"With climate change legislation finally appearing to be making some headway in the U.S., and with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) having recently issued regulations mandating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting by high-emitting U.S. companies, a new report from Ethical Investment Research Services (EIRIS) entitled "2009 Climate Change Tracker: North America" arrives at an opportune moment. EIRIS is a global provider of research into corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance."
UN: Developed countries need to cut gas emissions by 25-40 per cent
"UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on developed countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 to 40 per cent in an address to the Greek parliament Thursday. With just over a month remaining before a key UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, Ban urged leading nations to unite on accord that is "comprehensive, equitable, balanced and binding" at the December 7-18 talks.
Climate change negotiations are currently underway in Barcelona, Spain ahead of the Copenhagen conference.
At an international conference on immigration in Athens on Wednesday, Ban said a deal is also needed at the Copenhagen conference in order to curb environmental refugees.
"We are in a critical period...populations will relocate due to more extreme weather including prolonged droughts, intensive storms and wildfires," Ban said, citing the rising migration numbers in Africa due to desertification and in Asia because of flooding."
EU agreement to curb CO2 emissions from planes and ships - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
"European environment ministers have agreed to cut global emissions by 10 percent from planes and 20 percent from ships. "
Government climate change figures 'are misleading' - Times Online
"The Government has been accused of exaggerating Britain's success in fighting climate change by presenting "misleading" figures on carbon emissions.\n\nSir Michael Scholar, chairman of the UK Statistics Authority, said that presentation of data by the Department of Energy and Climate Change was "unsatisfactory". "
Climate Change - What We Do: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation
"Despite the fact that deforestation is the second leading contributor of carbon emissions worldwide after the burning of fossil fuels, countries currently have few incentives for preserving their forests. However, deforestation is finally gaining attention in international discussions on climate change"
Soccer teams will leave record carbon footprint
"Emissions of greenhouse gases from next year’s FIFA World Cup in South Africa are expected to be 10 times those of the 2006 tournament in Germany"
New demands from the US - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
"A US demand that developing countries should set their entire emissions reducing actions under international scrutiny has been rejected as “non-negotiable” by the developing countries in Bangkok. "
U.S. companies may look abroad to fight global warming -- latimes.com
"U.S. companies could save tens of billions of dollars by investing in efforts to combat deforestation in developing nations instead of cleaning up their own domestic carbon dioxide emissions, according to a report released Wednesday."
Carbon emissions will fall 3% due to recession, say world energy analysts | Environment | guardian.co.uk
"Man-made greenhouse gas emissions will drop 3% in 2009 largely because of the worldwide financial crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said today.
Three-quarters of the reduction has been the result of less industrial activity, with the rest coming from countries turning to renewable energy and nuclear power."
Obama Orders Agencies to Set 2020 Emissions Goals
"U.S. President Barack Obama signed an executive order Monday ordering federal agencies to set goals within 90 days for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. "
News - Emissions from tar sands seriously underestimated - The Ecologist
"Governments and companies making no effort to quantify the real climate impacts
Greenhouse gas emissions from tar sands operations are being significantly under-reported according to new research by Global Forest Watch Canada."
Carbon Disclosure Project Continues to Grow
"Last week, the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) announced continued growth for its global corporate GHG emissions registry. CDP has become the defacto global GHG emissions repository, with 66% of the S&P 500 now reporting."
E.P.A. to Require Big Polluters to Report Emissions - NYTimes.com
The Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday that it would require the nation’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases to start tracking their emission levels on Jan. 1 and report them to the government.
The E.P.A. said the reporting would cover roughly 85 percent of the greenhouse-gas emissions in the United States linked to global warming.
South Africa softens stance on emissions targets - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
South Africa appears to have softened its position on greenhouse gas emissions, saying on Wednesday it would support cuts to prevent global warming.
"On global warming, cabinet would like to correct the wrong impression that had been created that South Africa was opposed to targets being set on global warming," cabinet spokesman Themba Maseko told journalists, according to Reuters.
eBay Announces First Greenhouse Gas Reduction Target: 15 Percent by 2012 | Triple Pundit
eBay Inc. recently achieved a first among internet companies: it was the first such company to disclose greenhouse gas figures in 2009 to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
HP Sets New Energy Reduction Goals, Reports on Environmental Programs
HP today announced it has established new goals to reduce the energy use and carbon intensity of its operations and products as well as reported its progress on environmental initiatives across the company.
HP has already met its goal of reducing combined energy consumption and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of HP operations and products to 25 percent below 2005 levels by 2010.
HP’s new goal is to reduce the energy consumption and associated GHG emissions of all its products to 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of 2011.
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