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To the pictures taken by satellites the annual rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest have dropped by no less than 46 percent this year. If these figures were confirmed by ground data this would prove significant. These figures are the lowest since record keeping begun 21 years ago and can be explained by the […]
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The Indian government announced it on last week and the news spread around the world as to their analyses the country’s greenhouse gases emissions are due to at least triple by the next twenty years. One might think this is huge, but not that much as the country’s emissions are accounting for five percent of
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My post on the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan in July was short, way too short for such a news as a major economy is committing itself to cut its greenhouse gases emissions by 34 percent by 2020 compared to 1990 levels. Using all means at its disposal – energy efficiency, renewables, nuclear, electric cars,
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This week no less than three news about the arctic hit my aggregator. First and foremost the WWF released a new report on how the melting of the pole could threaten no less than a quarter of the human population. The second one is about Mr. Ban Ki-moon – the UN secretary general – who
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Some might say that this year the cuts in greenhouse gases emissions are due to the recession. It might be the case, but here the news nonetheless: the European Union decreased its emissions for the fourth year in a row in 2008. But there is more to it : the European Union and its 27
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For World Environment Day the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) started a great initiative to raise awareness on the absolute necessity of sealing a deal in Copenhagen at the end of the year. What our elected representatives will sign then is the beginning of the Kyoto Protocol successor but also one of the most important
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It is a well known fact, US gasoline tax is ridiculously low compared to many countries in the European Union and other nations. The table on the left brings data from the OECD on this. US drivers pay less than 10 euro cents per liter of tax when their German, British, Italian, French or Turkish
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To a new study presented by a US non-governmental organization, the European cap and trade system – called Emission Trading System or ETS – seems to finally work after a much difficult start. To TreeHugger: The trading system has created a healthy carbon market now worth 56 billion US dollars, and (…) has been responsible
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It is no news if you have been reading this blog as China – alongside with other nations – has been calling the richest nations to cut drastically their GHG emissions by 2020 in order to prevent the worse from occurring. Now the 49 least developed countries are calling the G8 to cut their greenhouse
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We have seen last year that CO2 emissions rose by 3.1 percent in 2007. According to the International Economic Platform for Renewable Energies (IWR) they rose in 2008 by 1.94 percent to reach no less than 31.5 billion metric tons. The document released by this institution in interesting as it provides data by country. This
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