emissions

Emissions: links

* Global CO2 emissions from CDIAC * Global, Regional, and National Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions from Online Trends by CDIAC: emissions broken down by region and country (to 2002).

Articles on China overtaking US as biggest polluter

Last year's study: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/jun/19/china.usnews - Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

This year: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7347638.stm - The University of California team will report their work in the Journal of Environment Economics and Management.

Climate target is not radical enough - Hansen

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/07/climatechange.carbonem...

Climate target is not radical enough - study
Nasa scientist warns the world must urgently make huge CO2 reductions

[and I suggest that C02, 6C and 3C (sic all, see below) are indeed radical, or rather free radical species of gasified carbon, 'scuse the black humour ------------------ or maybe it's colourless...]

Inside Story: Advertising environmentalism - Is it just greenwash?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/inside-story-advertising-environ...

Inside Story: Advertising environmentalism - Is it just greenwash?

Last week the Advertising Standards Authority ordered car-maker Renault to stop a campaign that made false environmental claims. Ben Stewart, Greenpeace's director of communications, puts to the test other examples of products claiming to have ecological benefits

Volkswagen's 'High performance - low emissions' advertisement

Monday, 31 March 2008

VOLKSWAGEN

Shift begins away from global warming potentials

The debate reported in the following article marks a major step out of thinking in terms of global warming potentials i.e. warming effect to a 100-year horizon, since CO2 and N2O have long half-lives and each unit continues to contribute to warming beyond such a horizon.

A further degree of complexity arises because shorter-life forcing emissions interplay in different ways with human behaviour.

The Story of Stuff

Hi All

Here’s a link to a great little film: “The Story of Stuff”. http://www.storyofstuff.com/index.html
It’s from Free Range Studios, makers of the acclaimed “The Meatrix”.

LSESU Climate Change Action Week - featuring Aubrey Meyer, Phill Thornhill and many more!

During Week 9 of term at LSE, world leaders will meet in Bali to discuss reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and the LSESU will be running a week of events - free and open to all - in the run up to the Saturday 8th December worldwide climate change demonstrations to raise awareness of and promote action for a low carbon world!

Clean coal developers claim investments

http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,,2190587,00.html

Centrica will challenge decision on coal plant

Tim Webb
Sunday October 14, 2007
The Observer

Centrica is considering calling for a judicial review to overturn a government decision which excludes most energy companies from the contest to build the world's first green coal plant.

John Hutton, the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (Berr), last week barred most companies' existing designs by unexpectedly favouring an alternative clean coal technology.

Cement Industry: want us displaced to China?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/oct/12/climatechange

Global warming
The unheralded polluter: cement industry comes clean on its impact
· Plants release over 5% of carbon dioxide emissions
· Industry sees no chance of green-friendly future

Tim Yeo: Remember Neville Chamberlain. And don't forget Kyoto

http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article2640334.ece

The G8 summit's inability to agree targets to cut emissions represents a failure of leadership

Published: 10 June 2007