Tag: emissions reductions
Will Greenhouse Gas Emissions Increase Or Decrease?
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) thinks global carbon emissions will increase 43 percent by 2035 if major nations maintain the status quo as far as energy policies go and do not try to stop climate change. The EIA’s 2010 long-term global energy analysis predicts that energy use will increase 49 percent between 2007 and [...]
Posted: June 4th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Tipping Points, World News.
Tags: Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, CO2 levels, Coal Fired Power Stations, coal lobby, emissions reductions, global warming, greenhouse emissions
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There’s No Time Like Now to Be an Activist
I applauded Mickey Z for this exceptional and inspiring piece of writing, his perception of how every one of us needs to be galvanised into personal action and why echoes many of the goals of the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation. Thank you Mickey – Bob Williamson Founder & Chair.
There’s no time like now to be an [...]
Posted: May 16th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Interviews with Activists.
Tags: activism, activists, Climate Change, CO2 levels, Copenhagen, emissions reductions, global warming, species extinction, United States, World News
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EPA: Stubborn Environment Refusing To Meet Civilization Halfway
Following on from the Foundations YouTube ‘Leaked Government Letter – Highly confidential for your eyes only!’ which if you haven’t viewed you must, comes this appeal from the US EPA.
Officials wonder if maybe the environment could find some time in its busy schedule to refreeze a few glaciers.
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency called a press [...]
Posted: May 13th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Nature.
Tags: Climate Change, climate change costs, emissions reductions, global warming, stop climate change, United States
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WE NEED LESS PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA, NOT MORE!!
Population debate misses the facts by
CLIVE HAMILTON
April 19, 2010 SMH
If further proof were needed that, despite their pious words, our political leaders do not take climate change seriously, the recent population debate provides it.
The argument over whether we should aim for 36 million people by the middle of the century is conducted as if the [...]
Posted: April 19th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, emissions reductions, global warming, sea level rise
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Carbon in warming soil could accelerate climate change: Study
VANCOUVER — Warming soils in Canada’s north are releasing a vast store of carbon that has been inert for millennia, which could further accelerate the rate of climate change, according to the author of a new study published in the journal Nature.
Field work conducted in Canada by the study’s co-author Ben Bond-Lamberty suggests that the [...]
Posted: April 17th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, emissions reductions, global warming, natural systems, Tipping Points
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CO2, Mass Extinction of Species, and Climate Change
Andrew Glikson
Earth and paleoclimate scientist, Australian Earth and paleoclimate scientist, Australian National University
The release of more than 370 billion tons of carbon (GtC) from buried early biospheres, adding more than one half of the original carbon inventory of the atmosphere (~590 GtC), as well as the depletion of vegetation, have triggered a fundamental shift in [...]
Posted: February 26th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, CO2 levels, emissions reductions, global warming, Tipping Points, World News
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EU agrees to make lowest climate offer to U.N
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union has decided to stick to its lowest offer for cutting carbon emissions under a U.N climate accord, but will maintain a conditional pledge to do more if others follow suit, EU diplomats said on Wednesday.
Their comments after EU ambassadors met in Brussels confirmed the 27-nation bloc’s commitment to unilateral [...]
Posted: February 3rd, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Negotiations, World News.
Tags: Climate Change, climate negotiations, COP15, Copenhagen, emissions reductions, European Union, global warming, International negotiations
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Minimal climate goal set by Australia – 5% by 2020
AUSTRALIA has declared it will not go beyond a 5 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 without guaranteed action by major emitters including the US, China and India.
The Government’s formal submission to the Copenhagen Accord – the widely criticised agreement hatched between the US and major developing countries at the conference last [...]
Posted: February 3rd, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Negotiations, World News.
Tags: Australia, China, Climate Change, climate negotiations, emissions reductions, global warming, India, International negotiations, Kyoto, United States
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UN says nations’ greenhouse gas pledges too little
UNITED NATIONS — The reduction goals announced by the nations responsible for the bulk of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are likely to fall short of what many scientists say is needed to limit the disastrous effects of climate change, a U.N. official said Monday.
Janos Pasztor, the top climate adviser to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, however, [...]
Posted: February 3rd, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General.
Tags: Climate Change, climate negotiations, emissions reductions, global warming, United Nations
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Environmentally-Friendly Policies: You Say Offset, I Say Tax? Labels and Political Affiliation May Affect Preferences
Foundation comment: This is an important semantic on the communication of an idea for change to a greater public. The study detailed below should be widely distributed, understood and adopted. The Foundation supports the introduction of a tariff on carbon emissions at the point of emission source in order to maximise the opportunity for the [...]
Posted: January 17th, 2010 under Climate Change, Foundation News, General.
Tags: airline emissions, carbon credits, carbon tax, emissions reductions, Emissions Trading Scheme, industrial emissions
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