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An estimated 15,000 people representing Governments, NGOs, IGOs, along with over 2,000 journalists will travel to Copenhagen from all over the world for the conference.  The main objective of the organisers is to minimise greenhouse gas emissions as far as possible. Whatever cannot be avoided, is to be offset. In addition, every delegate can make [...]

Just outside the heavily polluted industrial city of Baotou, Inner Mongolia, surrounded by smokestacks, lies a lake with no name. At this time of year the lake bed freezes into waves of solid mud. In summer, locals say, it oozes a viscous, red liquid. It is a “tailing lake”, where toxic rare earth elements from [...]

The emissions from international fights are not allocated presently to any country because there is no international agreement on how to apportion them. So they are all left up in the air! Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Airlines has offered a US$25 million challenge ‘Virgin Earth Challenge’ to anyone that can come up with a [...]