August 14, 2008 – 3:47 pm
The following summary was submitted by Andrea Hill, who works with Durwood Zaelke, President of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development.
Amidst all the complexity of international climate change negotiations, it is easy to lose sight of actions we can take now, using proven technologies. Such “immediate mitigation” is essential if [...]
From SciDev.Net
by Naomi Antony
3 April 2008
Biomass stoves contribute
to black carbon emissions
Flickr/Eileen Delhi
Black carbon, a key component of soot, plays a much larger role in global warming than previously estimated, scientists have found.
They cite black carbon as the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide.
“We’ve got one more thing to worry about,” says Veerabhadran [...]
January 8, 2008 – 2:48 am
Global warming could cause northern plants to lose carbon
Jia Hepeng
4 January 2008
Source: SciDev.Net
[BEIJING] Global warming could cause plants in northern regions to lose carbon to the atmosphere rather than sequester it, according to a new international study.
The research, published in Nature yesterday (3 January), looked at atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and carbon dioxide held in [...]
September 20, 2007 – 3:08 am
Climate Crisis Coalition
The Carbon Crisis. By Bill McKibben, The National Geographic Magazine, October, 2007 issue. “It’s impossible to precisely predict the consequences of any further increase in CO2 in the atmosphere. But the warming we’ve seen so far has started almost everything frozen on Earth to melting; it has changed seasons and rainfall patterns; [...]
Climate Crisis Coalition
Keep Carbon Tax in the Mix
Editorial, Detroit Free Press, July 12, 2007
“U.S. Rep. John Dingell (D - MI) is stretching the boundaries of the debate over energy use and global warming by proposing a carbon tax that would add 50 cents per gallon to the price of gasoline. It’s really too bad that [...]
From: Climate Crisis Coalition
Where the Presidential Candidates Stand on Climate and Energy Issues
By David Roberts, Grist Magazine, July 7, 2007.
“All of the Democratic presidential candidates put energy independence and climate change among their top-tier issues. They all support carbon cap-and-trade systems of varying strengths. They all at least gesture at renewable energy and hybrid [...]
From: Climate Crisis Coalition
Germany Aims for 45% of Electricity From Renewable Resources by 2030.
Agence France-Presse, July 5, 2007.
“Germany plans to boost the percentage of electricity generated by renewable resources to 45 percent by 2030 in a bid to curb global warming, environment minister Sigmar Gabriel said Thursday. Gabriel told reporters that a progress report on [...]
From: Climate Crisis Coalition
Switzerland to Impose a Carbon Tax on Oil Imports
Neue Zurcher Zeitung, June 29, 2007.
Switzerland will introduce a tax on carbon dioxide emissions from January 1, 2008 to meet its Kyoto objectives, the government said on Thursday. The tax will be applied to all imported fossil fuels, amounting to around three centimes on [...]
TreeHugger
Scientists have discovered that the recent surge in the number of Antarctic icebergs, prompted by rising temperatures, has resulted in the creation of vast new ecosystems of plankton, seabirds and krill. They believe they could play a key role in absorbing the excess carbon dioxide emissions driving global warming.
By using photosynthesis, the species in these [...]
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