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Climate Change Crop Yields Will Lead To Starvation

Posted on 11. Aug, 2010 by Ross.

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With all-time record temperatures being set worldwide this year, and the trend likely to continue as the world warms under climate change, the question of how such temperatures will affect us all is an obvious one.
The current headlines coming out of Russia are similar to those generated by the 2003’s European heatwave - the deadliest [...]

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Record Temperatures And Record Energy Use

Posted on 10. Aug, 2010 by Ross.

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17 countries around the world have recorded all-time national record temperatures this summer, giving people from different corners of the world more of an idea of what to expect from future climate change.
With the Russian 37°C heatwave currently doubling Moscow’s death rate, and Pakistan suffering from cataclysmic flooding, these warm weather patterns are bringing more [...]

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International Climate Negotiations Are Dead (Thanks America), But That’s Not Stopping China

Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by Ross.

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Whatever lingering hopes the most blindly optimistic of climate negotiators had of finding further progress in the wake of the Copenhagen disaster was extinguished by the announcement that the US Senate was to abandon its attempts to pass some form of carbon emissions regulation. However, other countries including China are continuing with their decarbonisation strategies [...]

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Philippines SMEs Crippled By Energy Shortages

Posted on 03. Jun, 2010 by Ross.

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Recent power outages brought about by the lack of supply for the Philippines’ Cebu-Negros-Panay Grid have had a crippling effect on local small and medium businesses (SMEs) which lack their own emergency generators.
Two-hour power outages hit much of Cebu yesterday due to the huge deficit in supply, which reached 260MW. Local power plants are either [...]

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When Hydroelectric Meets Climate Change: Lessons For Renewable Diversity

Posted on 20. May, 2010 by Ross.

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Reliance on hydroelectric power can lead to drought, famine and turmoil when not combined with other power sources and when future climate projections are ignored.
Around the world, governments which rarely agree on anything all agree with one thing: that climate change is a real danger to civilisation. Developed and developing nations are pursuing greater levels [...]

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All The Green Eggs In One Basket: Why China Is Not The Bottom Line Of Offshoring Climate Change

Posted on 14. May, 2010 by Ross.

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Worried about China’s inexorable financial growth and exploding levels of carbon dioxide emissions?
Worry less about China and more about everyone else, as the most populous country on Earth starts to see the effects of one of global capitalism’s least popular phenomena: offshoring.
The growing strength of the yuan is starting to destroy the margins of domestic [...]

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Shorter Weddings Won’t Save Pakistan From Energy Crisis

Posted on 28. Apr, 2010 by Ross.

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After years of neglected energy infrastructure, shortages and blackouts, Pakistan is desperately clutching at straws in an effort to save energy and face in the wake of growing national protests.
Pakistan’s continuing energy crisis, which has already seen the collapse of the nation’s once-booming textile industry, is caused by a generating shortfall of around 5,000MW: approximately [...]

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UK and India Proves That Not All Of Copenhagen Was All Talk And No Action

Posted on 18. Feb, 2010 by Ross.

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Copenhagen was full of hot air, right? Commitments by developed and developing nations fell short of the mark then and have since been further scaled back, correct? There’s no hope for further progress on the international response to climate change, is there?
Some countries have other ideas.
The Copenhagen agreement was a complicated beast, and although most [...]

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Malaysian Energy Prices Set To Rise

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by Ross.

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Malaysia is bracing itself for substantial energy prices rises, with many companies and industries making a deliberate push towards energy saving solutions in order to counter the possibility of rising cost overheads.
Presently, Malaysia’s tariff rates are the third lowest in the region after Vietnam and Indonesia, but a tariff review will be imminent if international [...]

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After Copenhagen, The Carbon Tariff Trade Wars Begin

Posted on 05. Jan, 2010 by Ross.

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In the aftermath of the global economic collapse, the industrialised world looked back at the lessons of the 1930s and realised that the fastest way out of recession was to avoid protectionist trade wars and to keep international markets as open as possible, in order to try to keep trade flowing as freely as possible [...]

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Copenhagen Conundrum 4: Aviation And International Shipping

Posted on 15. Dec, 2009 by Ross.

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One part of the Copenhagen conference trying to quietly slip under the radar is the inclusion on shipping and aviation emissions into national carbon reduction targets.
Few people remain ignorant of the environmental cost of flying: worldwide aviation emissions have risen by 50% since 1990 on the back of cut-price aeroplane operators and rising affluence. (Having [...]