Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), considered the main cause of global warming, increased by 3% last year, reaching an all-time high of 34 billion tons in 2011.
China, the world’s most populous country, also leads the world in greenhouse gas emissions with...
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Friday, July 20, 2012
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is to introduce mandatory green house gas (GHG) reporting for quoted companies from April 2013.
It will be part of directors’ reports, which in turn form part of companies’ annual reports.
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Monday, June 4, 2012
Could become 'cash cow' in carbon credits
A New Brunswick cattle rancher is measuring the amount of greenhouse gas emitted by dairy farms across the province, looking at ways to reduce those amounts and exploring the idea of selling the improved...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Minister offers contradictory rationale for shutting down advisory panel
The federal government has confirmed what the rumour mill suspected: it shut down an arm's length, independent advisory group because it didn't like the advice it was getting on...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
While the vast majority of B.C. consumers say they decide where to shop based on how green they perceive a retailer to be, an environmental group urges shoppers to look closely at corporate environmental claims.
Seventy-one per cent of respondents said retailers' activities in helping...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Subsidies favour fossil fuels
BY MIKE DE SOUZA, POSTMEDIA NEWS
Governments around the world must "level the playing field" to ensure clean energy technologies grow fast enough to prevent dangerous levels of global warming, the... -
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
As of this ski season, the CMH Galena Lodge’s micro-hydro plant has fully paid for its installation cost - as well as saved about...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
As countries struggle with the immediate challenges of stretched public finances and high unemployment, they must not neglect the longer term. Action needs to be taken now to prevent irreversible damage to the environment.
“Greener sources of growth can help governments today as...
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Monday, March 19, 2012
The Jevons Paradox states that energy efficient technologies don't actually
reduce total energy use; instead, for the same cost of use, people buy more gadgets and
bigger televisions, cars and homes. Nevertheless, the assumption that each unit of renewable
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Thursday, March 15, 2012Countries must work together under the umbrella of the U.N. to establish a global carbon market capable of channeling billions of dollars in climate fi nance to the world’s poorest countries, a UNFCCC offi cial said. “To move towards a unifi ed carbon market and...
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