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 [...]

Powerful vested interests and climate sceptics will work overtime to block legislation and discredit the science ahead of the next global climate summit in Mexico It is often said by perceptive observers that a disconnect is in evidence in many countries between a public that want stringent action to tackleclimate change and what governments are [...]

ZERO Greenhouse Emissions – The Day the Lights Went Out – Our Future World (available in Hard Cover $24, or in e-book form $9.99) Author Bob Williamson – Chair & Founder of the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Chapter 1 The Flick of a Switch. Looking back it all seemed to happen with the flick of a [...]

Yesterday, Al Gore issued a bold challenge from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, calling on Members of Congress to pass clean energy and climate legislation in the United States by next April 22, the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. In an inspiring speech that was interrupted often with outbursts of applause and [...]

IT WAS a candid remark in a private briefing. But the comments by an Australian climate negotiator in Copenhagen late last week gave some insight into where Labor intends to find a potentially ambitious cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. It will be in the same place that Liberal leader Tony Abbott is indicating [...]

COPENHAGEN, Dec 8 (IPS/TerraViva) – As the climate change summit in the Danish capital moves into a second day, environmental groups warn that by pushing carbon offsetting and trade, governments of developed countries are bypassing their responsibility to significantly reduce domestic emissions and provide aid to developing countries. Activists think that even if the best [...]

DELEGATES turning up to the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change—known as the Copenhagen conference—face a fortnight of negotiation, beginning on Monday December 7th, almost as rich in complexity as in hyperbole. The range of different possibilities in the negotiations means that there is, potentially, something for everyone, [...]

AROUND 100 world leaders are set to attend the UN climate-change summit in Copenhagen to discuss a global deal to replace the Kyoto protocol. This will be tough. Scientists estimate that greenhouse-gas emissions from rich countries need to be cut by 25%-40% to keep global warming to a 2ºC rise above pre-industrial levels. The offers [...]

When you start to analyse a few numbers you understand the complexity of climate change emissions reductions. You can see into some of the political spin when talking about individual nation’s agendas and also the often use of Per Capita Emissions to further complicate public and national opinion. As an example Australia claims broadly to [...]

After intense opposition from building owners, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has dropped the most far-reaching initiative of his plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The plan, which the owners said was too costly, called for all buildings of 50,000 square feet or more to undergo audits to determine which renovations would make them more energy [...]