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Current Winter: Coldest Since 2001
2008-03-19 02:57:00 Accouding to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) the 2007-2008 winter is the coolest since 2001. The complete analysis is available here, but here are some highlights: In the contiguous United States, the average winter temperature was 33.2°F (0.6°C), which was 0.2°F (0.1°C) above the 20th century average ? yet still ranks as the ...
By: Dreadnaught
Some Cities Embrace Kyoto Protocol
2008-03-02 21:54:00 Summary: Mayor John Rayson saw that provide powerful the storm winds to throw his boat in the trees. It is noted that the fish fishery are smaller and less abundant. He was concerned to be a house perched just above sea level while the ocean levels rise. And so it will go before the city commission and demand changes in the building code that would provide incentives to put up structures in the environment friendly and reduces the amount of greenhouse gases that warm this city of 100,000 emits . She is one of a number of earth-friendly measures being here, lawns and parks reused for irrigation water, a new library operated by renewable energy. As Rayson puts it: "I want to see that the city make his party." The local politicians as Rayson abound across the country, trying to embrace the measures of the Kyoto Protocol - which called for mandatory reductions of greenhouse gases hot among the nations signing - even while the federal government refuses.
JAPAN: Rich nations need 80 pct emission cuts
2008-02-26 00:13:00 Japan, the European Union and the United States would each need to cut greenhouse gasses by more than 80 percent for the world to meet a goal of halving emissions by 2050, Japanese scientists said Thursday.A summit last year of the Group of Eight rich nations agreed to "seriously consider" halving global emissions by 2050 in hopes of halting global warming.To achieve such a goal, Japan -- which is already far behind in meeting its current commitments -- would need to cut emissions by 85 percent by 2050 from 1990 levels, said Norichika Kanie, assistant professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.His joint research with Yasuaki Hijioka, researcher at the National Institute of Environmental Studies, found that the United States would need to cut emissions by 88 percent and the European Union by 83 percent.He made the calculations on the premise that all countries will emit at the same level on a per capita basis by 2050.The United States has rejected the Kyoto Protocol, the landmark...
THE AMERICAS: Global Clean Energy Holdings Tests Crude Jatropha Oil With Al
2008-02-25 22:58:00 Global Clean Energy Holdings has delivered its first test shipment of Crude Jatropha Oil to Allegro Biodiesel Corporation's biodiesel production facility in Pollock Louisiana for processing into biodiesel fuel. Global Clean Energy Holdings is developing Jatropha plantations in Latin America.The two companies have entered into a testing and processing agreement to convert Jatropha Oil into biodiesel fuel that meets all relevant ASTM and EU specifications."This is a very strategic agreement with Allegro. They are a very well respected processor and distributor of Specification Grade biodiesel and have considerable experience in utilizing a wide range of different feedstocks in their production process. They are logistically well located in Louisiana and can accept large shipments of Jatropha oil from us through various Gulf of Mexico ports," said Richard Palmer, Global Clean Energy's President and Chief Executive Officer.The processing agreement provides for Global Clean Energy to s...
This Day In History - Kyoto Protocol Comes into Force
2008-02-16 21:24:00 - - The 1992 Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, produced a treaty aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in order to combat global warming, but it failed to establish mandatory limits or enforcement provisions. The Kyoto Protocol is an amendment to the agreement that establishes these limits. Countries that ratify this treaty ...
By: Top Dollar Blog
ASIA: Japan to launch G8 energy-saving talks
2008-01-09 15:56:00 Japan will host a series of meetings on energy-saving ahead of this year's Group of Eight summit where climate change will be high on the agenda, officials said Tuesday. Talks will be held in Tokyo on January 22 and 23 to prepare for a meeting of energy ministers from the eight nations in June in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: ENERGY BLOG
Global Warming Slow To Hit California
2008-01-05 06:09:00 The storm could also dump more than 10 feet of snow on California mountains by Sunday. Blizzard warnings were in effect for mountainous areas. It appears that climate change and global warming have not arrived in California. yojoe out P.S. The CNN story mentions the song “California Dreamin’” While growing up in the Sierras I would always ...
By: Dreadnaught
Sweden Beating Kyoto Protocol
2007-12-30 16:33:00 In an article that ran earlier this month, I learn the Swedish government have announced they are beating emissions targets as laid out by the Kyoto Protocol. “Sweden was allowed to increase...
By: Green Options
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
2007-12-25 08:23:00 The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the international Framework Convention on Climate Change with the objective of reducing Greenhouse gases that cause climate change. It was agreed on 11 December 1997 at the 3rd Conference of the Parties to the treaty when they met in Kyoto, and entered into force on 16 February 2005.As of November 2007, 174 parties have ratified the protocol. Of these, 36 developed countries (plus the EU as a party in its own right) are required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the levels specified for each of them in the treaty (representing over 61.6% of emissions from Annex I countries) [1] [2], with three more countries intending to participate[3]. One hundred and thirty-seven (137) developing countries have ratified the protocol, including Brazil, China and India, but have no obligation beyond monitoring and reporting emissions.for the full article and more details... check out Wikipedia:http://www.en.wikiped-ia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocolpictu-re:- countries ...
CLIMATE CHANGE: Consigue conferencia de Bali un acuerdo final
2007-12-15 16:06:00 La Conferencia de la ONU sobre Cambio Climático que se celebra en la isla de Bali (Indonesia) alcanzó hoy un acuerdo final, después de que Estados Unidos cediera a las demandas de los países pobres.El consenso abre el camino para negociar un nuevo acuerdo sobre cambio climático más ambicioso que sustituya al Protocolo de Kioto.Via: El UniversalFound this post useful? Consider subscribing to Sustainable Affairs Feed/RSS.SI NECESITAS UN AMPLIO CONTENIDO SOBRE ASUNTOS ENERGETICOS: www.BajaenergyBlog.com
Fix Environment Without U.S., Gore Tells Climate Change Summit
2007-12-15 09:29:00 Here is a sad item that was published on Canada.com December 14, 2007: NUSA DUA, Indonesia -The Bush administration is the main obstacle to progress in international efforts to fight global warming, but the rest of the world should move on without it, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said Thursday night during a special ...
By: What's Going On
BRASIL: The southamerican country lashes out at US-EU 'green' trade plan
2007-12-12 18:16:00 Senior trade officials from the United States and Brazil clashed Sunday over a US-EU proposal for fewer tariffs and trade barriers on environmentally-friendly goods and services. Celso Amorim, Brazil's minister of foreign relations, said there was "no agreement" on the proposal when it was... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: ENERGY BLOG
Backgrounder: The Kyoto Protocol
2007-12-11 08:59:00 The Kyoto Protocol celebrated its 10th birthday on Dec. 11, 2007. The following are facts about the Protocol: The Kyoto Protocol was adopted at the third Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (COP 3) in Kyoto, Japan on Dec. 11, 1997. The Protocol shares the objective and institutions of the UNFCCC. The major distinction between the two, however, is that while the Convention encouraged industrialized countries to stabilize green house gas (GHG) emissions, the Protocol commits them to do so. The detailed rules for its implementation were adopted at COP 7 in Marrakesh in 2001, and are called the"Marrakesh Accords." The Protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations under the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities." The Kyoto Protocol entered into force on Feb. 16, 2005. 176 Parties have ratified the treaty to date. Under the Protocol, 36 industrialized countries and the European community have comm...
ALASKA: Greenpeace calls BP's oil sands plan an environmental crime
2007-12-10 11:01:00 BP will be involved in the "greatest climate crime" in history by backing tar sands projects to extract oil in Canada and is likely to face direct action, Greenpeace warned last night.The threat came as state officials in Alaska confirmed they were preparing a civil law suit against BP for the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: ENERGY BLOG
RUSSIA: British Foreign Office emissary talks about Russia's participating
2007-12-07 10:44:00 British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Special Representative for Climate Change John Ashton came to Moscow on Tuesday for a one-day visit. He told Kommersant correspondent Alexander Gabuev about how Europe is combating global warming and whether Gazprom's export plans threaten those plans. ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: ENERGY BLOG
WESTERN HEMISPHERE: United States refuses to set CO2 cut target
2007-12-06 16:55:00 The United States has refused to set a specific target for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions at a UN climate conference in Bali. The US says it will host a separate dialogue of the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters in 2008, at which clear numbers could be discussed. The European Union... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: ENERGY BLOG
CLIMATE CHANGE: United Nations Kicks Off Global Warming Conference to Build
2007-12-04 01:58:00 Faced with melting polar ice caps and worsening droughts, climate experts at a massive United Nations conference Monday urged quick action toward a new international pact stemming an increasingly destructive rise in world temperatures.A key goal of the two-week conference, which opened with delegates from nearly 190 countries in attendance, will be to draw a skeptical United States into an agreement to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases.While the U.S. delegation declared it would not be a "roadblock" to a new agreement, Washington remains opposed to steps many other countries support, such as mandatory emissions cuts by rich nations and a target for limiting the rise in global temperatures.The American position suffered a blow Monday when the new Australian prime minister signed papers to ratify the Kyoto Protocol climate pact. The move leaves the U.S. the world's top emitter of greenhouse gases as the sole industrial power not to have joined.Confe...
Australia ratifies Kyoto Protocol
2007-12-03 11:57:00 The newly sworn in Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has signed the Instrument of Ratification for the UN Kyoto Protocol as his first official act as leader of the Australian Government.
By: Bored of Science
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
2007-11-28 01:02:00 Delegates from about 190 nations will meet in Bali, Indonesia, from Dec. 3-14 to launch negotiations on a new UN pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012.Here are some frequently asked questions about Kyoto:* WHAT IS THE KYOTO PROTOCOL?-- It is a pact agreed by governments at a 1997 UN conference in Kyoto, Japan, to reduce greenhouse gases emitted by developed countries to at least 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-12. A total of 174 nations have ratified the pact.* IS IT THE FIRST AGREEMENT OF ITS KIND?-- Governments agreed to tackle climate change at an "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 with non-binding targets. Kyoto is the follow-up.* SO IT IS LEGALLY BINDING?-- Kyoto has legal force from Feb. 16, 2005. It represents 61.6 percent of developed nations' total emissions. The United States, the world's biggest source of emissions, came out against the pact in 2001, reckoning it would be too expensive and wrongly omits developing nations from a first round of targets...
[POLL] Should Australia Sign the Kyoto Protocol?
2007-11-25 23:47:00 Should Australia Sign the Kyoto Protocol?free polls
KYOTO PROTOCOL TO THE
2007-10-19 00:07:00 UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGEThe Parties to this Protocol,Being Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, hereinafter referred to as "the Convention",In pursuit of the ultimate objective of the Convention as stated in its Article 2,Recalling the provisions of the Convention,Being guided by Article 3 of the Convention,Pursuant to the Berlin Mandate adopted by decision 1/CP.1 of theConference of the Parties to the Convention at its first session,Have agreed as follows:Article 1 For the purposes of this Protocol, the definitions contained in Article 1 of the Convention shall apply. In addition:1. "Conference of the Parties" means the Conference of the Parties to the Convention.2. "Convention" means the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, adopted in New York on 9 May 1992.3. "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" means the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change established in 1988 jointly by the World Meteoro...
Kyoto protocol as ecological Big Brother - global warming on spotlight part
2007-10-12 12:45:00 There are no enumerated sources of carbonic dioxide in Western Europe. But to distinguish natural origin carbon from the anthropogenic, science, in specific case, can only according to the results of the expensive isotopic analysis. Conducting of such analyses is not provided by The Kyoto protocol. The Kyoto protocol will become an axiomatic example of that how it is possible to force the country to pay for air. Theoretically, Russia could not pay for air of its enormous spaces, but itself extract profit from it. For example, Russian required quota for the countries oxygen intake, considering the possibilities of air restoration. Then Russia would be taken from Europe compensation . Indeed precisely Russian forests and the permafrost swamps, where all processes of rotting are extremely retarded, are the main suppliers of oxygen in the atmosphere of planet. Owing to them air in the territory of Russia is noted the highest oxygen content on the Earth. Atmosphere circulation rapidly...
By: Global Warming
Kyoto protocol as ecological Big Brother - global warming on spotlight
2007-10-11 13:29:00 The heat in Europe or frost in Africa, snowfalls in India - all is today explained by global warming. In the last 100 years the average temperature of air on the earth’s surface in fact increased from 0.3 to 0.7 degrees on Celsius scale. Last two decades actually proved to be warmest since ...
By: Global Warming
EUROPE: The New Europe and its Kyoto Protocol
2007-09-19 04:15:00 On December 11th 1997, in Kyoto, a good number of the developed countries took the compromise of reducing the greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, in order to fight against the effects of the climate change. The agreed reduction was an average of 5,2 per 100 between 2008 and 2012, with the basis of the emissions of 1990. This agreement, known world around as the Kyoto Protocol, entered into force in February 16th 2005 for those 141 that did ratify it. Nevertheless, in an effort to have an additional contribution to the reduction of the emission of greenhouse gas emissions, the European Union decided to bring forward the agreement for its Member States to the period 2005-2008. Once that more than one and a half year has already passed since this obligation entered into force for the European countries, it’s time to analyze the present situation and to try to go ahead what the future may bring us, specially for the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol at a world leve...
The Kyoto Protocol Loophole
2007-07-08 18:04:00 We all hear about various movements that can totally help the environment and the green efforts from consolidated groups such as the United Nations. The Kyoto Protocol is one treaty designed to address the greenhouse gases emission problem. However due to lack of long-term environmental benefits, it was not ratified. Here is a video that illustrates ...
Myanmar: Cashing in on Kyoto Protocol
2007-06-04 20:45:00 Dawn describes the revenue model of the new company she just joined. “Our company is just a newly formed company and we focus on gaining profits through CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) projects that will reduce global warming by projects that will reduce Greenhouse Gases (GHG). It’s a brand new concept that hasn’t yet been ...
ALERT: Call for Fast Tracking of New Strengthened Kyoto II Agreement
2007-05-08 07:25:00 TAKE ACTION: Given the science and evident abrupt climate changes, Kyoto successor agreement must be negotiated now that includes mandatory emissions reductions for all major emitting economies More than 1,000 government delegates are now meeting in Bonn to try to break gridlock in international climate change negotiations amid widening public concern and widely evident global warming ...
Al Franken: Kyoto Protocols Great for Economy
2007-04-04 13:43:00 Failed radio mouth and Senatorial candidate from Minnesota, Al Franken, told David Letterman on the set of the “Late Show” that the USA should reconsider approving the Kyoto Protocols because the treaty is good for the economy — Despite that the ruinous treaty was voted down by a unanimous Senate vote in 1997 for the ...
Al Franken on Letterman: Kyoto Protocols Great for Economy
2007-04-03 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Failed radio mouth and Senatorial candidate from Minnesota, Al Franken, told David Letterman on the set of the "Late Show" that the USA should reconsider approving the Kyoto Protocols because the treaty is good for the economy -- Despite that the ruinous treaty was voted down by ...
By: Publius Forum
Kyoto Protocol is leading to ridiculous profits for a few...
2007-03-18 00:00:00 A recent article in the NY Times, "Outsize Profits, and Questions, in Effort to Cut Warming Gases," details an unhealthy outgrowth of the Kyoto Protocol: Under an obscure UN-backed program, businesses in wealthier nations of Europe and in Japan help...
Kyoto Protocol And Wood Pellets In Search Of Clean Projects
1969-12-31 19:00:00 Known as CDM or clean development mechanism, entities who have signed this protocol are required to adhere to its standards and regulations. What it means The ultimate objective of the Kyoto protocol is to facilitate the reduction in emissions and ensure sustainable developmental projects in every country across the globe. Most CDM projects undertaken have resulted in ...
Kyoto Protocol And Wood Pellets In Search Of Clean Projects
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Known as CDM or clean development mechanism, entities who have signed this protocol are required to adhere to its standards and regulations. What it means The ultimate objective of the Kyoto protocol is to facilitate the reduction in emissions and ensure sustainable developmental projects in every country across the globe. Most CDM projects undertaken have resulted in ...
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