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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 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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Eco-Nationalism: How Right-Wing Groups Will Hijack Climate Change Politics

Posted on 30. Nov, 2009 by Ross.

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Most environmentalists see right-wing politicians like Nick Griffin as their main opponents in protecting the world from potentially devastating climate change. Defending companies and households in the Ostrich Block from potentially crippling carbon taxes is the right’s primary goal, whilst nationalists often declare that the whole case for global warming is just a Marxist plot [...]

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9 of the Best Climate Change Stories - 27th November 2009

Posted on 27. Nov, 2009 by Ross.

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Energy-Saving News brings you the best climate change, clean technology and energy efficiency news from the top news, business and science sites of the World Wide Web. This week’s best climate change news stories include unexpectedly fast melting in Antarctica, the world’s first osmotic power station, and a new machine capable of turning carbon dioxide [...]

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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 [...]

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India: Climate Change’s Jekyll & Hyde

Posted on 10. Nov, 2009 by Ross.

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As Copenhagen approaches, countries are slowly but surely aligning their political commitments to carbon reduction in order to come to an effective and agreeable international agreement to avoid catastrophic climate change.
India, however, seems to still be reading a different script.
The signals emanating from India are constantly confusing and contradictory: just when India looks unmoveable on climate [...]

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8 of the Best Climate Change News Stories This Week - 6th November 2009

Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by Ross.

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Energy-Saving News brings you the best climate change, clean technology and energy efficiency news from the top news, business and science sites of the World Wide Web. This week’s best climate change news stories include President Barak Obama pushing for more progress at Copenhagen whilst at the same time scaling down expectations of a deal, [...]