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 Beyond climate change: David Cameron calls for ‘second front in green revoluti

Announcements“For the past year, we have been pressing the Government to go further and faster on climate change – both domestically and through leadership at the international level.
Our efforts are bearing fruit. 
 
This afternoon, the House of Commons will hear from the Prime Minister about last week’s EU agreement to cut carbon emissions by 20% by 2020. 
 
Tomorrow we see the publication of the Government’s Climate Change Bill.
 
These are welcome steps in the right direction. 
 
But let’s not celebrate too soon. 
 
We’ve had announcements like this before and they haven’t worked. 
 
We must make sure that the measures announced by the Government have real bite – that they’re not just greenwash. 
 
 That means passing five tests.

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 Q&A: The Carbon Trade

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With climate change now an increasingly important concern for policy-makers, carbon trading is riding high on the agenda.

What is the idea behind carbon trading?
 
Carbon trading is a market mechanism that derives from the Kyoto Protocol as a means to tackle global warming.
 
Under the Kyoto treaty - which came into force in February 2005 - industrialised countries must reduce total greenhouse gas emissions by an average 5.2% compared with 1990 levels between 2008-2012. 

The most important greenhouse gas contributing to global warming is carbon dioxide, which is mainly emitted by burning fossil fuels.  Under Kyoto, each participating government has its own national target for reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
 
Other reduction initiatives, (deriving from but not part of Kyoto), include company-based schemes, which also have specific targets.
 
The key idea behind carbon trading is that, from the planet's point of view, where carbon dioxide comes from is far less important than total amounts.
 

 Posted by michaellunn on Wednesday, April 26 @ 05:49:20 EST
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 Climate scientists issue dire warning

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The Earth's temperature could rise under the impact of global warming to levels far higher than previously predicted, according to the United Nations' team of climate experts.

A draft of the next influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report will tell politicians that scientists are now unable to place a reliable upper limit on how quickly the atmosphere will warm as carbon dioxide levels increase. The report draws together research over the past five years and will be presented to national governments in April and made public next year. It raises the possibility of the Earth's temperature rising well above the ceiling quoted in earlier accounts.


 

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 Greenhouse critic says views cost him his job

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A FORMER CSIRO division chief and world expert on climate change says he was reprimanded and encouraged to take redundancy after joining a group of scientists urging action to cut greenhouse gases.

Graeme Pearman says he fell out with the CSIRO hierarchy after joining the Australian Climate Group, which was convened by the Insurance Australia Group and the World Wildlife Fund in 2004. It worked to encourage political leaders to consider carbon trading and other measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Government has said it will not pursue carbon trading at this stage.
 
Dr Pearman, who headed the division of atmospheric research for 10 years until 2002, said he was admonished by his Canberra superiors for "making public expressions of what I believed were scientific views on the basis that they were deemed to be political views. In 33 years [with the CSIRO], I don't think I had ever felt I was political in that sense."
 
He said he believed his involvement with the group may have been a factor in his being offered redundancy.
 

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 Ten new green energy projects have been named as best in the UK

AnnouncementsThe schemes, which began operation in 2005, were exciting and innovative, the Department of Trade and Industry said. They include offshore turbines in Kent, the solar-powered CIS tower in Manchester and a wave buoy in Cornwall. A target of supplying 10% of the UK's electricity from renewable energy by 2010 has been set by the government. Energy minister Malcolm Wicks said: "The projects highlighted have certainly made their contribution to reducing carbon emissions and increasing the megawatt capacity that comes from green sources."

'Considerable progress'
He said they had also helped people understand "what renewable energy is and where it comes from", and added it was essential for the UK to make "considerable year on year progress" if the 2010 renewable energy target was to be met.

The list includes three wind farms, three solar-power projects, and two examples of microgeneration, or projects with lower outputs.

According to the government, the 30-turbine Kentish Flats wind farm has been described as "the Ferrari of the turbine world".

Black Law A in South Lanarkshire was one of the largest wind farms approved in the UK, and the Cefn Croes project near Aberystwyth the most powerful when it opened in June.

The CIS tower in Manchester - the city's tallest building - was on course to be the biggest user of solar panels in the UK.


 Posted by michaellunn on Wednesday, January 04 @ 23:56:01 EST
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