UN Foundation Report: Realizing the Potential of Energy Efficiency

November 14, 2007 at 5:29 pm | Posted in Canada, Energy efficiency, Executive Summary, France, G8, Germany, Italy, Japan, Reduce energy costs, Reduce energy waste, Reports, Russia, UK, UN, UN Foundation, United Nations, US | Leave a comment

Leading Industrial Countries Could Reduce Global Warming Carbon Levels to Near What is Needed, Simply by Cutting Energy Waste Continue Reading UN Foundation Report: Realizing the Potential of Energy Efficiency…

Congratulations IPCC et Al

October 12, 2007 at 3:09 am | Posted in Awards, Climate change, Climate science, IPCC, Nobel, Peace Prize, UN | 4 Comments

Climate change campaigner Al Gore and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Climate “deadlines are conditioned by the Earth’s response to human activity, not by humans”

October 9, 2007 at 10:16 am | Posted in Ashton, Climate change, Deadlines, EU, Grateful Dead, IPCC, MEPs, UN | 2 Comments
  • With the Kyoto limits on greenhouse gases due to expire in 2012, the debate on what should replace them came to Parliament’s Climate Change Committee on Thursday 4 October.
  • A panel of experts from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as representatives from the US, China and Japan set out their views on how to deal with the problem.
  • The UN experts told MEPs that to avert catastrophic climate change temperature increases must not rise by more than 2 degrees.

From last week’s European Parliament News, MEPs told “no rewind button Rewind button ” on climate change ahead of post Kyoto talks.

John Ashton is clear on climate change key points for policymakers, as in this excerpt: Continue Reading Climate “deadlines are conditioned by the Earth’s response to human activity, not by humans”…

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