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Europe has much bigger carbon footprint – when trade is factored in

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China’s soaring greenhouse gas emissions are significantly fueled by Western consumerism. That is the conclusion of a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
According to an article in Time magazine, ‘22.5% of the carbon emitted in China is actually exported to other countries’.
So in a way, unofficial ‘carbon markets’ [...]


Is solar power silly in countries with little sun?

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Several recent articles in the British and international media have dealt with the question of solar power and government schemes that encourage homeowners to install solar panels.

One such plan, announced yesterday by UK energy and climate change secretary, Ed Miliband is a Pay As You Save program that provides ‘green loans’ to those who install [...]


Australia and Indonesia Announce Plans to Save Sumatra’s Forests

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Sumatra: A large, Indonesian island that is home to over 200 mammal and nearly 600 bird species, including critically endangered animals such as the Sumatran tiger, rhino, and orangutan. It’s also the target of a new environmental initiative launched by Australia and Indonesia.
Yesterday, those 2 nations announced a multi-million dollar plan to reduce greenhouse gas [...]


Foreign Pollution has been Bitten by the Travel Bug

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In this day and age, the green standard is slowly becoming the norm. People expect more sustainability out of businesses and government policies. They expect their neighbors to be as eco-minded as they are and some obsessively follow every bit of news that mentions climate change, co2 emissions, cap-and-trade, and so forth.
We all have our [...]


More on methane – simpler solutions for a potent greenhouse gas?

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A new article in The Ecologist shines a light on methane, the often-ignored greenhouse gas that is produced from both natural and human sources. Methane’s contribution to the greenhouse effect is estimated to be about 18% compared to CO2’s 63%. Yet it is also 20-30 times more potent than CO2 and has only one tenth [...]


WWF study shows environmental impact of food

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In news relating to today’s previous article on the report by UK government backed initiative Forest Footprint Disclosure, the WWF and the Food Climate Research Network have released a similar study. But while Forest Footprint Disclosure covers how global businesses are driving deforestation from the rainforest floor to the cash register, the WWF and FCRN [...]


Tar sands: China invests in Canadian oil as U.S. moves out

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The Canadian province of Alberta is home to a particularly dirty kind of oil field: so called ‘Tar Sands’. The world’s largest source of bitumen – a heavy, black form of crude oil extracted by surface mining – is located in the northeastern portion of the province. Most of the oil mined from Canada’s tar [...]


The winners and losers of carbon trading

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While carbon trading may serve to limit overall emissions, how does it affect local pollution? A Time Magazine article from last December explores arguments against the UN’s carbon trading scheme, known as Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) including its susceptibility to manipulation by national or local governments. It also may outsource pollution. Take this case in [...]


Promising developments in Europe’s ‘biofuel blunder’?

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I guess that learning on the job is better than not learning at all.
According to a piece in the New York Times, European countries may rethink their biofuel policies based on a newly completed study by the European Commission. The results of this study factor in the greenhouse gas emissions of land clearing – when [...]


China’s one child policy – 30 years on

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Since 1979 China has more or less followed a government enforced policy of one child per family. It is a policy which dictates that urban couples are allowed only one child, whereas those in the countryside may have two – so long as the first child is a girl. Ethnic minorities, those with dangerous jobs [...]


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