December 10, 2007 – 1:50 am
Campaign posters at the Bali conference
Imelda V. Abano
7 December 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
[BALI] Greenhouse gas emissions must start declining within the next 10–15 years and urgent cuts of at least 50 per cent are needed by 2050, climate scientists have declared.
More than 200 experts signed the ‘Bali Climate Declaration by Scientists’ on the fourth day (6 December) [...]
December 6, 2007 – 9:43 am
ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2007) — European Union countries likely require an old ally — Mother Nature and her forests — to meet an ambitious post-Kyoto goal for cutting greenhouse gas emissions 20% by 2020, according to new research.
The University of Helsinki study says that despite rising population and affluence, the EU can meet its obligations [...]
November 5, 2007 – 4:12 am
October 10, 2007
GreenPeace
The threat to the world’s forests has never been more acute nor the risk of global warming so imminent. With about one-fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions being caused by forest destruction, we are highlighting how Indonesia is now at the heart of this problem.
Indonesian forests are being destroyed faster than any [...]
October 15, 2007 – 1:32 pm
GreenPeace
10 October 2007
Local children on a wooden
raft surrounded by smoke
from tropical rainforest on
fire in Indonesia.
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Sumatra, Indonesia — Never has the threat to the world’s forests been more acute nor the risk of dangerous climate change so imminent. With about one-fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions being caused by forest destruction we are highlighting [...]
September 22, 2007 – 2:41 am
Image from Freaking News.
TreeHugger
Americans responding to a survey by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) seems not to be aware just how much their buildings contribute to global warming via the emission of greenhouse gases. In the US buildings consume 71% of power plant electricity and are responsible for 48% of the countries GHG emissions. [...]
August 25, 2007 – 2:16 pm
Climate Crisis Coalition
California Attorney General and San Bernardino County Settle Lawsuit on Greenhouse Emissions
By Margot Roosevelt, The Los Angeles Times, August 22, 2007
“California officials have settled a greenhouse gas suit and agreed to monitor the effects of rapid growth on the environment. San Bernardino County, one of the fastest-growing regions in the nation, will be [...]
August 17, 2007 – 6:01 am
SciDev.net
The evidence for human-induced climate change
Mike Hulme and Simon Torok
October 2001
Summary
The 2001 report by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, the body set up in 1988 to advise governments on the latest science of climate change, concluded that “most of the warming observed over the past 50 years is likely to have been due to [...]
Climate Crisis Coalition
Missing Carbon Mystery: Case Solved?
By Jane Burgermeister, Nature Magazine, August, 2007 Issue
“[Scientists have long been vexed by] the ‘missing carbon sink’, a billion tonnes of human-generated carbon assumed to be absorbed by northern forests, but unaccounted for in field studies. Scientists now say they have located the missing carbon in tropical forests that [...]
SierraClub
When you live on an island, the threat of global warming has specific consequences. Fortunately, Hawaii became a national leader in the fight against global climate change when Governor Linda Lingle signed a historic measure that will dramatically decrease the state’s greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade.Said Jeff Mikulina, director of the Sierra Club’s [...]
Sierra Club
The Government Accountability Project has charged that a White House official who previously worked for the oil industry’s lobby group repeatedly edited and altered government climate reports in a way that downplays links between global warming and greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. Philip Cooney, chief of staff for the White House Council on [...]
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