Month: September 2008

Improved design and RSS

For the past two evenings I have been working on improving the design and RSS syndication of this blog. It was done with the invaluable help of Max from the Blog Tool Box. Many things were done to improve your browsing experience of this website. This includes making it easier for you to subscribe to …

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The USA are the Saudi Arabia of energy conservation

As I mentioned in a previous article, the US oil billionaire T Boone Pickens believes his country is the Saudi Arabia of wind energy. This may be true. But according to the Daily Green, America also has the potential of saving up to ten million barrels per day by doubling the fuel efficiency of all …

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Some progress achieved in UN Accra talks

In the capital city of Ghana took place between the 21st and the 27th of August the latest series of UNEP talks to prepare the future of climate change mitigation. The United Nations are indeed already preparing the successor of the Kyoto Protocol – due to end in 2012. Discussions focused this time on forests …

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Cutting fossil fuels subsidies to cut emissions

The UNEP issued an interesting report on how cutting the subsidies given to big oil and coal companies would cut by up to six percent per year global greenhouse gases emissions. Up to 300 billions USD (around 200 billion euros) are spent annually on subsidies for the energy sector, all of them being benefiting in …

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The major threat of rising sea levels : the consequences (1/2)

After last week’s article on the scientific data of rising sea levels, it is time for us to have a look at how they would affect millions of people and possibly destroy assets worth billions. The OECD report mentioned last week gives us further data on this very topic and the least I can say …

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