Tag Archives: carbon emissions
Industrial Farming Has Already Saved The World From Climate Change!
Posted on 15. Jun, 2010 by Ross.
Worried about what the climate will be like in twenty years time with the continuing escalation in carbon dioxide emissions? About how much the planet will have warmed by, how high the sea level has risen and how many more storms, droughts and other extreme weather conditions will plague civilisation?
Without industrial farming we’d already be [...]
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Copenhagen Conundrum 4: Aviation And International Shipping
Posted on 15. Dec, 2009 by Ross.
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 [...]
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Copenhagen Conundrum 1: National Carbon Emissions Targets and the Danish Text
Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by Ross.
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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USA, China Agree Carbon ‘Easing’ Targets… But What Are They?
Posted on 17. Nov, 2009 by Ross.
After months of political to-ing and fro-ing, the two most polluting nations on Earth today agreed to set binding carbon dioxide emissions targets at the Copenhagen Conference next month.
Despite the press conference held between Hu Jintao and the visiting Barak Obama to announce the agreement, as well as the outcome of other discussions including trade, [...]
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South Korea: Leading The World The Wrong Way In Carbon Emissions
Posted on 14. Oct, 2009 by Ross.
Think about the world’s worst environmental offenders with respect to climate change, and the same culprits always spring to mind: USA, Australia, China, India, Canada… South Korea?!
Whilst the rest of the world have bickered over who should reduce carbon emissions the most, South Korea have managed to sneak under the eco-radar in true anti-climate ninja [...]
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Japan’s New Government Commits To Leading The World With Carbon Reductions
Posted on 07. Sep, 2009 by Ross.
Having firmly ousted the previous administration, Japan’s Democratic Party are turning the country from an environmental laggard to a world leader.
The new government has confirmed that a 25% drop in carbon dioxide emissions from 1990 levels by 2020, a prominent campaign message during the recent election campaign, is now the country’s official carbon target which [...]
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Australia and New Zealand Agonise Over Carbon Reduction Targets
Posted on 10. Aug, 2009 by Ross.
In the spectrum of the ambition of industrialised nations to combat climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Australia and New Zealand have traditionally occupied the same end of the scale as the USA: could do better and don’t really care.
As the Copenhagen conference begins to loom ever closer, intensifying international debate on the carbon [...]
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Russian Climate Change Targets To Spark All-Out Copenhagen Carbon War
Posted on 23. Jun, 2009 by Ross.
Whilst the rest of the world was announcing their intentions of how much carbon dioxide to stop emitting in to the atmosphere, Russia had remained noticeably and ominously quiet. Having kept its cards to its chest longest, the Kremlin finally played its hand on Friday with a target which left other governments open-mouthed for all [...]
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Don’t Drive - Flying By Plane Is Greener Way To Travel
Posted on 15. Jun, 2009 by Ross.
Despite airlines now talking about carbon-neutral growth and bio-fuels, they already have a green feather in their cap: flying by plane causes less carbon emissions than driving a car.
A study (PDF) from the University of Berkeley, California found that the carbon footprint of flying, generally held to be the most environmentally polluting form of transport, [...]
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Global Demand For Energy To Rise 44 Percent By 2030, Says Energy Information Administration
Posted on 28. May, 2009 by Ross.
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) - the USA’s primary energy forecasting agency - has announced predictions that global energy demand is set to soar by 44% over the next two decades. As a result, carbon emissions are expected to rise by 39% in the absence of control policies such as effective cap-and-trade schemes, and energy [...]
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Cut Costs or Cut Carbon: Energy Efficiency Kills Two Birds With One Green Stone
Posted on 30. Apr, 2009 by Ross.
Energy efficiency projects are the most popular carbon dioxide emission-cutting measures being taken by businesses during the economic downturn, but the motivation is not as simple as saving the environment: businesses are saving energy to save money.
This is the obvious conclusion from npower’s annual Business Energy Index report, which recently surveyed the opinions of 300 [...]
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