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What is the Carbon Footprint of Whaling?

Posted on 26. Feb, 2010 by Ross.

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The last century of whaling has released as much carbon dioxide into the air as 128,000 Humvees driving continuously for 100 years: and that’s without taking emissions from the whaling fleet into account.
One of the flagship issues of the environmental movement in the 20th century, whaling has long been condemned not just by green groups but [...]

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After Copenhagen, What Is Business As Usual?

Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by Ross.

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Copenhagen was supposed to start the world on a path to fighting climate change, but with the talks largely derided as meaningless what now constitutes business as usual?
The Copenhagen conference descended into diplomatic farce at the 11th hour, with agreements negotiated over weeks, months and years between 192 countries discarded in a meeting between just [...]

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Copenhagen Conundrum 6: Technology Transfer v Green Jobs

Posted on 18. Dec, 2009 by Ross.

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In the final part of our Copenhagen Conference Focus, we look at the only thing which the politicians and negotiators are likely to agree to at the ailing summit: the need for technology transfer of energy efficiency technology and renewable energy to developing countries.
All the commitments on this issue came early in the conference, with [...]

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Copenhagen Conundrum 5: Funding The Fight In Developing Countries

Posted on 16. Dec, 2009 by Ross.

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The developing world holds developed countries responsible for the impending effects of climate change, given that industrial revolutions in the Western world and the subsequent economic activity is responsible for most of the world’s atmospheric carbon dioxide. The historic emissions from the USA alone amount to 30% of the world’s atmospheric carbon.
This had led to [...]

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Copenhagen Conundrum 3: Deforestation and REDD

Posted on 14. Dec, 2009 by Ross.

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The Copenhagen Conference is all about carbon reduction. Reducing industrial carbon emissions and reducing economic carbon intensity tends to gain the mainstream attention for the impact that it may have on the quality of life of Westerners, but one of the main sources of man-made carbon emissions is not from the developed world but the [...]

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Copenhagen Conundrum 2: Enforcing Commitment

Posted on 10. Dec, 2009 by Ross.

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In Part 2 of our look at the areas of debate in the Copenhagen Conference, we’re looking at the framework needed to enforce whatever carbon reduction commitments are made by the world’s leaders, and why the Kyoto protocol cherished by poorer nations is now under fire from both ends of the pollution spectrum as not [...]

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Copenhagen Conundrum 1: National Carbon Emissions Targets and the Danish Text

Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by Ross.

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As part of a series of posts surrounding the diplomatic shenanigans currently occuring in Copenhagen this month, Energy-Saving News focuses on a selection of the key areas of debate standing between the world’s countries and a meaningful global accord against the looming prospect of climate change.
In the first of these posts, we’re talking targets - [...]

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Obama Shows US Cards Early In Copenhagen Climate Poker

Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Ross.

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For the last couple of months, all the expectation placed on the Copenhagen Conference was that it would fail, despite some nations believing there to be no Plan B. That the USA could commit to nothing because of the stalled legislation in the Senate, and that other countries would feel no need to adopt stringent [...]

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What Is The Carbon Footprint Of The Large Hadron Collider?

Posted on 30. Nov, 2009 by Ross.

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The Large Hadron Collider is the highest profile science experiment on the planet, promising scientists insights into the creation of the universe and the nature of matter. It is a circular tunnel 27km (17 miles) in circumference running under the surface of France and Switzerland through which particle beams circle at almost the speed of [...]

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India Makes Strides In Renewables And Energy Efficiency; Ominous Accord With USA

Posted on 26. Nov, 2009 by Ross.

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India is still the Jekyll and Hyde of climate change this week: despite positive announcements over solar power targets and steps to help transfer low-carbon technologies to developing countries, their growing agreement with climate change sloth the USA could spell trouble at the Copenhagen negotiating table in December.
After months of rumours and draft report leaks, [...]

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Ocean Acidification Masks The Smell Of Death

Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by Ross.

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Ocean acidification is the silent, unfashionable side-effect of climate change. With the world’s media focused on the prospect of more powerful storms, droughts, sea level rises and other meteorological phenomena, as well as the impact on humanity from lower quality of life through to climate refugees, what happens beneath the churning surface of the stormy [...]