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8/5/2013
German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week called for a redoubling of efforts to forge a new U.N. agreement on climate change by 2015.
Speaking Monday at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, Merkel warned the representatives of 35 ...
27/4/2013
Sustainability is all the rage these days. The phrase “Sustainable Development” can be heard with equal frequency in both boardrooms and dorm rooms. That’s because it’s a phrase implying you can have your cake and eat it too.
The only ...
18/4/2013
Chevron Corp. (CVX) helped write the first-in-the-nation rule ordering reduced
carbon emissions from cars and trucks. Its biofuels chief spoke at the ceremony where California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the executive order in 2007, the ...
10/4/2013
Nascent
carbon emissions-trading exchanges in several countries are increasingly looking at options to interlink with one another, which advocates say would offer investors long-term stability, increase revenues for the development of renewable ...
7/4/2013
Developments in the United States may lead to the adoption of international
forest offsets being permitted in the EU Emissions
Trading System (ETS). California’s newly launched
carbon market is considering allowing offsets from REDD+ programs ...
20/3/2013
The Walt Disney Company has purchased $3.5 million dollars' worth of
carbon credits generated via rainforest conservation in Peru, reports Point
Carbon.
Disney bought 437,000 VCUs (verified
carbon units) issued by the Alto Mayo ...
6/3/2013
What does growth smell like? What does the biggest economic miracle of all time taste like?
In Guiyu, on the South China Sea, the smell of growth is a caustic, slightly nut-like odor emitted when a computer keyboard is placed on a ...
16/2/2013
On Sunday, Natural Resources Defense Council and Waterkeeper Alliance will join 350.org, Sierra Club and many other partners in holding the Forward on Climate Rally in Washington, D.C. This will be the largest climate rally in American history, ...
9/2/2013
Like in a desolate Edward Hopper landscape, the orangutan was clinging to the one last tree that stood next to the river in Kutai National Park in eastern Kalimantan. The joy of seeing this magnificent primate was spoiled by his destroyed habitat ...
28/1/2013
Unlike cars, hamburgers, and computers, clean drinking water is a requirement for human survival. In a bid to safeguard this essential resource, more and more nations are moving toward protecting ecosystems, such as
forests, wetlands, and ...
28/1/2013
In Indonesia, the name for the island of Borneo is Kalimantan. It is the third largest island in the world, renowned for its lush tropical rainforests, one of only two strongholds for the intelligent, endangered orangutan.
While ...
14/1/2013
Biofuel refinery in new industrial zone in Tapachula, an exporting city on the coast of Chiapas. With plans for expansion, there is a coffee plant to its left and an oil refinery being built on its right. Mexico is currently laying the foundation ...
11/1/2013
The World Bank's
forest carbon fund got a $180 million injection from Finland, Germany and Norway, reports Point
Carbon.
The bank's
Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), which is providing funding to develop and implement Reducing ...
24/12/2012
Nueva Colombia is a coffee growing hamlet straddling the border of a natural protected area within the Sierra Madres of Chiapas. A cloud
forest of incredible biodiversity, the area is the one of the few remaining homes of the Quetzal bird, ...
22/12/2012
Brazil's Attorney General Office has taken legal action against a deal signed between an Irish company and an Amazon indigenous group for the sale of
carbon credits from avoided deforestation.
A federal attorney in the Amazon Brazilian ...
21/12/2012
The year 2012 was one of extreme weather: massive floods in Australia stranded entire towns; a day of torrential rains submerged half the Philippines capital; a super-typhoon ravaged the western Pacific; and a record drought seared more than half ...
6/12/2012
Like plastic bags, coal, and SUVs, beef has few friends in the environmental community. Most environmentalists would point to beef -- in particular, beef cattle that spend their final days in confined feedlots -- as being responsible for an array ...
29/11/2012
China`s greenhouse gas emissions -- already the world`s highest -- may not peak until 2030 and by then they would amount to half of the "carbon budget" needed to limit global warming at 2 degrees Celsius.
That`s the principal finding of ...
26/11/2012
The United Nations Climate Change Conference beginning in Doha this week is turning into a farce. While negotiators are sticking to the goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, even climatologists admit that the project has ...
23/11/2012
A new World Bank report, “Turn Down the Heat”, says if the global community fails to act on climate change, the world will be four degrees Celsius warmer at the end of the century.
Laura Altinger, Senior Environmental Economist for the ...
14/11/2012
"The devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy in the United States and the Caribbean in recent weeks reminds us how destructive extreme and volatile weather can be. The costs of inaction are increasingly clear to all, as extreme weather inflicts ...
11/11/2012
A joint Kenya
Forest Service (KFS) and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report released Monday, November 5, 2012, has revealed that deforestation deprived Kenya’s economy of 6.6 billion shillings ($77million) in 2009 and 5.8 billion shillings ($68 ...
8/11/2012
Australia will sign up to the second round of Kyoto climate commitments, Climate Change Minister Greg Combet said on Friday, but the push for global emissions cuts remained divided with New Zealand joining major countries to opt out of the Kyoto ...
5/11/2012
As Americans pick up the pieces and try to move forward with their lives in the aftermath of Sandy, the media have essentially shifted their focus and moved on to the news of the day -- the 2012 elections. This is generally the case with the ...
3/11/2012
In 2001, Scott Bernstein, at the Center for Neighborhood Technology in inner-city Chicago, produced a set of maps that are still changing the way we think about our country. In these maps, remarkably, the red and the green switched places. This ...