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This is the amount we literally dumped in our atmosphere last year alone and this keeps on increasing according to new research carried out by the Global Carbon Project. It’s no surprise as I evoked it earlier, but this new study provides further data and details according to countries (or continents) but also of activities […]
10 billion tonnes of carbon Read More »
You perhaps read it before somewhere else as I am pretty late on this, but Arctic sea ice melt to a worrying extent this summer and almost beat last year’s record. But according to the people from the WWF, the extent may not be as small as last year, but in terms of thickness –
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As we saw three weeks ago in my article on the scientific data on level sea rise, the melting of both Arctic and Antarctica are one of the main components of the phenomenon. Even if the Arctic is quite well documented, Antarctica is not that well known. 25 times bigger than France and weighting billions
What if Antarctica’s ice melt ? Read More »
The economic capital city of Brazil is willing to act strongly on global warming. To do so, a law might be passed to cut its greenhouse gases emissions by up to 30 percent by 2012. This is a brilliant thing. It occurs as rich nations are wondering if they could slash their own emissions by
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By browsing TreeHugger and other sites, I came across a news on how Japan plans to put 4 billion USD (2.80 billion euros) in its climate change mitigation schemes. This occurs as the country see its greenhouse gases emissions increase and is far from achieving its Kyoto Protocol goals, and this even with the efforts
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Last summer I wrote about how the WWF wanted partakers to the Beijing Olympics to offset their emissions as they traveled. I didn’t think about offsets anymore until today. But several things including a lengthy reflection, a post in the Business of Green blog and a comic strip from Climate Change Action drove me to
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After my post on the scientific research behind rising sea levels and the one on their dramatic consequences worldwide, I would like to conclude this series with my home country, France. Even if it won’t be the most stricken by the phenomenon, it would suffer from dire consequences of rising sea levels provoked by a
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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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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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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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