Climate Change, Green living, Nature, Politics, Oct 27th, 2010,
You may not know this, but since the 1970’s, more than 40 percent of the earth’s species (plants and animals alike) disappeared from the face of our planet. So when the UN declared 2010 the international “Year of Biodiversity” it was with a clear message: to help save what’s left of our world’s ecosystems. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated: “Biological diversity underpins ecosystem functioning… its continued loss, therefore, has major implications for current and future human well-being.” Unfortunately there are still too many people that believe that biodiversity is “a kind of washing powder”, as this article from the BBC…
Tags: 2020, access and benefit sharing, biodiversity, Nagoya, Rio de Janeiro, summit, UN, united nations
Climate Change, Politics, Science & Technology, Jul 17th, 2010,
According to the recently released yearly study Energy Revolution (conducted by Greenpeace and the EREC – European Renewable Energy Council) Europe could reduce it’s CO2 emissions with 95 percent by 2050. The results of the study show that Europe could achieve this spectacular reduction in CO2 emissions by producing up to 97 percent of its electricity and 92 percent of its total energy needs from renewable energy sources. But to achieve these numbers a real energy revolution is required. As an example, today’s plans from European countries to build new nuclear power plants needs to be set aside in favor…
Tags: 2020, 2050, co2, emissions, Energy Revolution, EREC, Europe, Greenpeace, reduction
