On World Environment Day June 5th 2009 the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation with the help of its dedicated staff and all of you, launched the STOPlasticBags – Global action to Ban the Plastic Bag; forever. On September 26th 2009 we held the first ‘Say NO to Plastic Bags Day’. The petition is going strong with over [...]

In 5 days, 2 African governments will try to pry open the worldwide ban on ivory trading — a decision that could wipe out whole elephant populations and bring these magnificent animals closer to extinction.
Tanzania and Zambia are lobbying the UN for special exemptions from the ban, but this would send a clear signal to [...]

This report fron the New York Times follows up on other reports posted this week by the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation.
Climate scientists have long warned that global warming could unlock vast stores of the greenhouse gas methane that are frozen into the Arctic permafrost, setting off potentially significant increases in global warming.
Now researchers at the University [...]

Reported in Science this tipping point on the destabilization of methane clathrates was detailed as a possible consequence on Arctic warming in ZERO Greenhouse Emissions. The book by Bob Williamson of the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation suggests this as one of multiple interlinked outcomes. It is required reading to determine how action must now be focused, [...]

Despite his steady hands at the helm of climate talks, de Boer was losing his touch and navigated into rancorous territory
How can everything have gone so wrong so quickly? A year ago, the prospects for successful climate change regulation were bright: a new US president promised positive re-engagement with the international community on the issue, civil society everywhere [...]

Atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gas, which is as much as 60 times more potent than carbon dioxide, appear to have risen significantly for the past three years running, scientists say.
Experts have long feared that vast amounts of the natural gas trapped in the frozen tundra of the Arctic could be unlocked as the permafrost [...]

A rapid acceleration may have begun in levels of a gas far more harmful than CO2
Atmospheric levels of methane, the greenhouse gas which is much more powerful than carbon dioxide, have risen significantly for the last three years running, scientists will disclose today – leading to fears that a major global-warming “feedback” is beginning to [...]

An economic assessment from APEC INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT GROUP
Sooner or later, mounting losses on commercial real estate could crash through the market’s 2009 optimism and send the economy and stocks into a double-dip downturn.
The major problem is that lawmakers and regulators are setting up investors into believing that commercial real estate (CRE) losses are being effectively [...]

A majority of the world’s nations signed up to the Copenhagen Accord and filed plans for emissions reductions, scraping over the UN deadline of 31st January for doing so. But the pledged actions fall far short of action needed to prevent global temperatures rising by 2 degrees C – the target adopted in the text [...]

A stirring if not confronting question from U2 on the state of our world and how we treat it.

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