Climate Summit to host 40 heads of state
Potential for 1.9 Million Renewable Energy Jobs Three universities of the USA have conducted studies related to renewable sources of energy and it has produced some interesting facts. The first and most important one is that renewable energy policies will lead to employment opportunities. Secondly, it will increase the consumers income and thirdly, it will have positive effect on the US [.]Posted in: Economy, Future Energy, Industry |
| Copenhagen climate talks: US refusal to rush gives Obama time to get Senate onside. Barack Obama’s admission that next month’s crucial climate talks in Copenhagen will not provide a legally binding treaty is the best thing EUR and the worst thing EUR the world needed to hear. |
| Climate Summit to host 40 heads of state Some 40 heads of state plan to attend a U.N. meeting in December in Copenhagen meant to agree a global warming deal, the U.N. climate chief said on Friday. |
| Paying extra for green power, and getting ads instead. The amount of electricity sold through “green power certificates” has nearly tripled since 2005, amid rising concern about climate change and energy security. But the participants are in a distinct minority, with a sign-up rate of only about 2 percent in programs run by utilities. |
| Emissions cut needed to save Barrier Reef. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has only a 50 percent chance of survival if global CO2 emissions are not reduced at least 25 per cent by 2020, a coalition of Australia’s top reef and climate scientists said today. |
| Poisoning the Poor with eWaste in Ghana Green issues are sometimes complex. We need to recycle many things, like electronics, but we certainly don’t want to poison others in the process. Efforts to protect the environment and conserve valuable resources must be coupled with proper health and safety procedures. Unfortunately, just saying this doesn’t make it happen. Developing countries are becoming a dumping ground for much toxic waste and proper environmental health and safety is being ignored, both by local opportunists and suppliers of e-Waste from developed nations.  |
| Hurricane Ida Approaches US Gulf Coast Hurricane Ida continues to move north towards the US Gulf Coast this morning. At 3am it was in the central part of the Gulf of Mexico, moving north-northeastward at 16 mph. |