Day: July 8, 2008

Seven years left to reverse the CO2 emissions trend

Tuesday, July 8, 2008 / Climate change / 2 Comments

Carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases emissions have been increasing continuously since the beginning of the industrial revolution at the end of the 18th century. According to the IPCC experts who met the EU environment ministries today, this trend have to be reversed and emissions have to start decreasing within the next seven years. To these …

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50 million more hungry people in 2007

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 / Sustainable development / 4 Comments

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization – FAO, part of the United Nations – the amount of people undernourished rose by approximately 50 million in 2007. Many factors contributed to such a dramatic increase, like the increasing population and demand, biofuels production (see cartoon on the left) and climate change related phenomena. As world …

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