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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that greenhouse gases (GHGs) threaten the public health and welfare of the nation’s citizens. The finding is significant, as it makes it possible for the Obama administration to begin regulating GHGs even if the Congress doesn’t approve a climate bill.
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What will it take to start reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions in a meaningful way? Are we on the right track, or headed for global warming/peak oil doom? Join the Carbon Conversation and tell us what you think. The Carbon Conversation is Greenbang’s new poll in association
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While greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane get all the attention, the man-made chemicals we use in air conditioning and manufacturing have even greater warming potential, new research has found. In fact, compounds with fluorine show the most potential for slamming shut the so-called “atmospheric window,” an infrared frequency
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The UK government’s accounting of carbon dioxide emissions reductions are “unsatisfactory” and likely to mislead non-experts about just how much Britain has actually cut its carbon footprint, according to Sir Michael Scholar, chairman of the UK Statistics Authority. In a letter to Tim Yeo, chair of the House of
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Barely over one-third of FTSE 350 companies have disclosed their targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, significantly less than the percentage of Global 500 firms doing so, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). Just 35 per cent of the FTSE 350 disclosed emissions reduction targets, compared to 51 per
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Two British government agencies have published new guidance to measure and tackle greenhouse gas emissions for businesses and organisations. The new advice from Defra and DECC is also accompanied by a guide on what it means to be carbon neutral. Businesses produce a significant proportion of the UK’s greenhouse
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While some of today’s China-bashing might be unfair, other instances appear justified — as, for example, when a new report shows that the top three Chinese power companies last year emitted more greenhouse gases than the entire UK (PDF). The report from Greenpeace — “Polluting power: Ranking China’s power companies”
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England and Wales could slash greenhouse gas emissions and create at least 70,000 jobs if councils would help insulate homes and businesses and fit green energy to buildings, according to new research from Friends of the Earth. The research by Carbon Descent — advisors to councils on climate change — was
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Over £14 billion more in products and services could be produced in Northern Ireland’s economy each year if greenhouse gas-producing resources were used as efficiently as they are in the rest of the UK, according to researchers at Queen’s University Belfast. To calculate that figure, the Sustainability and
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Deutsche Bank’s Asset Management division has launched what it says is the world’s first scientifically valid, real-time carbon counter: a nearly 70-foot-tall digital billboard displaying the running total of long-lived greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The counter began operating in the heart of New York City, outside Madison
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The Scottish Government’s plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions calls for a massive increase in clean, green energy and full takeup of electric and alternative fuel vehicles. Scotland’s Climate Change Delivery Plan sets out a vision to meet the world-leading Climate Change Bill target to reduce greenhouse gas
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The UK remains on track to almost double its greenhouse gas reduction obligations under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, a new report to the United Nations released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) reveals today. As communities across the globe mark United Nations World Environment Day,
