Atlantic Provinces Urged to Increase Climate Change Action
... Brunswick, and the Environmental Coalition of Prince Edward Island. “The NEG-ECP Climate Change Action Plan has provided the framework for the region’s provincial and state policies on energy and climate change over the past decade,” explains Catherine Abreu, ACSEC’s Regional Facilitator. Each of th ...
... Brunswick, and the Environmental Coalition of Prince Edward Island. “The NEG-ECP Climate Change Action Plan has provided the framework for the region’s provincial and state policies on energy and climate change over the past decade,” explains Catherine Abreu, ACSEC’s Regional Facilitator. Each of th ...
Working for a low-carbon and energy efficient economy
... beginning in 1999, has focused on the industry’s major sustainability challenges. This is exactly the kind of large-scale project that we see as having a place within a new global climate agreement. In 2002, CEOs from some of the world’s largest cement producers pledged to take action in areas such ...
... beginning in 1999, has focused on the industry’s major sustainability challenges. This is exactly the kind of large-scale project that we see as having a place within a new global climate agreement. In 2002, CEOs from some of the world’s largest cement producers pledged to take action in areas such ...
Carbon neutral - Department of Premier and Cabinet
... GreenPower: GreenPower is a government accreditation program for ‘new’ renewable energy; that is, renewable energy that was not already being generated prior to the commencement of the scheme. To sell accredited GreenPower, energy providers must buy accredited renewable energy from renewable energy ...
... GreenPower: GreenPower is a government accreditation program for ‘new’ renewable energy; that is, renewable energy that was not already being generated prior to the commencement of the scheme. To sell accredited GreenPower, energy providers must buy accredited renewable energy from renewable energy ...
Impossible Futures - Part 1
... delusions and wishful thinking – errors in which you (and perhaps your group) have an emotional investment which are thus difficult to shift denials – things which are too painful to know so you ignore information that confirms them informational assymetry – unknowns for some people that are known t ...
... delusions and wishful thinking – errors in which you (and perhaps your group) have an emotional investment which are thus difficult to shift denials – things which are too painful to know so you ignore information that confirms them informational assymetry – unknowns for some people that are known t ...
Rapid accumulation of committed sea-level rise from global warming
... 10 times the rate of observed contemporary sea-level rise (5). By midcentury, the central estimate of commitment would rise to >3.1 m assuming today’s trends continue or to 2.1 m under an aggressive emissions cutting and atmospheric carbon dioxide removal scenario. Both scenarios threaten the future ...
... 10 times the rate of observed contemporary sea-level rise (5). By midcentury, the central estimate of commitment would rise to >3.1 m assuming today’s trends continue or to 2.1 m under an aggressive emissions cutting and atmospheric carbon dioxide removal scenario. Both scenarios threaten the future ...
--- Environment and Climate Change Canada Let`s Talk Climate
... Biofuels are a “here and now” solution to GHGs. GHG emissions in Canada have never declined. In fact, they have been rising for decades. In 2014, Canada's transportation sector accounted for almost 25% of total emissions, second only to the oil and gas sector. If we are going to win the fight agains ...
... Biofuels are a “here and now” solution to GHGs. GHG emissions in Canada have never declined. In fact, they have been rising for decades. In 2014, Canada's transportation sector accounted for almost 25% of total emissions, second only to the oil and gas sector. If we are going to win the fight agains ...
NEW SEMINAR - IUCN Academy of Environmental Law
... knowledge about the course subjects, students will also gain experience in making verbal presentations. The classes will be conducted under the assumption that all students will have read and studied the assigned material before the class for which it is assigned. Turn off cell-phones before you ent ...
... knowledge about the course subjects, students will also gain experience in making verbal presentations. The classes will be conducted under the assumption that all students will have read and studied the assigned material before the class for which it is assigned. Turn off cell-phones before you ent ...
Environmental Ethics: Whose Planet is it Anyway?
... Ireland the vast majority of our energy is generated from fossil fuels: in electricity generation e.g. in peat and gas fired power stations; in transport and in heating e.g. gas fired central heating. Furthermore, energy usage in Ireland is high with greenhouse gas emissions currently 12% above the ...
... Ireland the vast majority of our energy is generated from fossil fuels: in electricity generation e.g. in peat and gas fired power stations; in transport and in heating e.g. gas fired central heating. Furthermore, energy usage in Ireland is high with greenhouse gas emissions currently 12% above the ...
Climate Changes
... eruptions, known as large igneous (vulkaniskas) provinces, occur only a few times every hundred million years, but may cause global warming and mass extinctions. Volcanoes are also part of the extended carbon cycle. Over very long (geological) time periods, they release carbon dioxide from the Earth ...
... eruptions, known as large igneous (vulkaniskas) provinces, occur only a few times every hundred million years, but may cause global warming and mass extinctions. Volcanoes are also part of the extended carbon cycle. Over very long (geological) time periods, they release carbon dioxide from the Earth ...
Carbon dioxide emissions
... Ocean acidification is not the only environmental disease that CO2 emissions have been causing over the years. The carbon cycle is a complex two-way process in which both oceans and the atmosphere absorb and release an enormous quantity of CO2. Therefore, the increasing quantities of carbon dioxide, ...
... Ocean acidification is not the only environmental disease that CO2 emissions have been causing over the years. The carbon cycle is a complex two-way process in which both oceans and the atmosphere absorb and release an enormous quantity of CO2. Therefore, the increasing quantities of carbon dioxide, ...
- Sustainable Loudoun
... in order to maximize profit. Obviously these people were not being paid to tell the truth. Unsurprisingly ExxonMobil’s dishonesty has had a steep cost which we can show graphically. Figure 1 shows human carbon dioxide emissions from all fossil fuel sources and cement manufacture since 1750 [8]. Land ...
... in order to maximize profit. Obviously these people were not being paid to tell the truth. Unsurprisingly ExxonMobil’s dishonesty has had a steep cost which we can show graphically. Figure 1 shows human carbon dioxide emissions from all fossil fuel sources and cement manufacture since 1750 [8]. Land ...
Calculating Greenhouse Gas Emissions
... environmental responsibility with business success. It provides hands-on tools, action steps and other resources companies can use to understand the underlying issues, assess their climate footprint, and devise and implement a plan to significantly reduce their climate impacts throughout operations ...
... environmental responsibility with business success. It provides hands-on tools, action steps and other resources companies can use to understand the underlying issues, assess their climate footprint, and devise and implement a plan to significantly reduce their climate impacts throughout operations ...
Press release - Mission 2020
... Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science and President of the British Academy: “This report correctly identifies 2020 as a key milestone which will indicate whether we are on ...
... Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science and President of the British Academy: “This report correctly identifies 2020 as a key milestone which will indicate whether we are on ...
Towards a Global Deal on Climate Change
... for sustainability, they are also in the short and medium term in India’s self-interest. Challenge is to align individual incentives with India’s self-interest. ...
... for sustainability, they are also in the short and medium term in India’s self-interest. Challenge is to align individual incentives with India’s self-interest. ...