GHG

China says rich nation CO2 cuts key to Copenhagen

July 30, 2009

BEIJING (Reuters) – Rich nations must agree to large, measurable cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions, if the world is to set a framework to tackle global warming at U.N.-led talks in December, a senior Chinese official said Wednesday.
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Greenpeace report highlights CO2 emissions of Chinese power firms

July 30, 2009

| Sourced From Irishtimes.com |
CHINA’S THREE largest power firms produced more greenhouse gas emissions last year than Britain, according to a Greenpeace report released yesterday.
While China’s emissions per head remain far below those of developed countries, as a whole it has surpassed the US to become the world’s largest emitter.
Greenpeace said the top 10 companies, [...]

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PMI Ash Technologies awarded CO2 Credits for Fly Ash Processed and Recycled at Chesapeake CBO Facility

July 30, 2009

| Sourced From Earthtimes.org |
CARY, N.C. – (Business Wire) The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) has approved PMI Ash Technologies (PMI) Application for Certification of GHG Credits. MassDEP also approved PMI’s Application for Verification of GHG Credits. These approvals create 137,884 verified GHG (CO2) Credits for emission reductions that occurred in 2007 and 2008 [...]

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ANALYSIS-Europe’s CO2 war has room for electrics, hybrid cars

July 29, 2009

* Nissan, Renault push electric vehicles
* Analysts see electric, hybrid car mix as ideal solution
PARIS, July 27 (Reuters) – European carmakers are likely to rely on a mix of clean car technologies to achieve big emission cuts even as they gear up for fully electric cars, battling to put infrastructure in place and convince wary [...]

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Green grilling: Food, wine, carbon

July 21, 2009

| Sourced From MNN.com |
Just in case we really are what we eat, we’d rather eat a chicken that had a fowl, not foul, life. So our mixed grill will serve humanely raised poultry and meat, and pesticide-free veggies this summer. And while we grill, we’ll chill with superb organic wines from Natural Merchants, available [...]

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Zero Carbon option for Solihull home

July 21, 2009

| Sourced From Birminghampost.net |
Martin and Lisa Wilson searched for a home, couldn’t find one, built one instead and plan to go a step further, as they tell Patrice John.
What Martin Wilson does not know about building green homes is not worth knowing.
The married father-of-two knows all there is to know about creating eco-chic homes [...]

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U.N. shipping body agrees to CO2-cutting proposals

July 20, 2009

LONDON (Reuters) – The United Nations shipping agency on Friday agreed to voluntary proposals aimed at cutting carbon emissions, delegates said.
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Concentrating on Carbon Dioxide

July 19, 2009

| Sourced From Good.is |
How low can you go? That’s the question environmentalists will be asking world leaders when they gather in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December to hash out a new global climate treaty mandating how drastically countries will slash their greenhouse gas emissions. Galvanized by NASA scientist James Hansen, a growing number of advocates [...]

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Fresh blueprint for the low carbon economy

July 13, 2009

| Sourced From Business.timesonline.co.uk |
MINISTERS will this week make their third attempt in five years to map out a low-carbon future for the UK by publishing detailed proposals to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The low carbon transition plan will outline how the country will meet the legally binding limits on emissions set in the Climate Change [...]

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What is a carbon footprint?

July 12, 2009

| Sourced From Seattlepi.com |
What the term means: It’s a measure of the total amount of harmful greenhouse-gas emissions that people produce, either directly or indirectly. These gases warm the atmosphere by absorbing heat that’s radiated by the earth, then releasing only a portion of that heat into space. The most dangerous, long-lasting greenhouse gases [...]