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Beyond Stern - Driving Finance to Large Scale Mitigation Efforts
03/13/2007 | Tags: Energy + Climate Green Business + Investment carbon climate energy sustainable tyndall_centreHow to direct the continuing investments that will be necessary in buildings, transport, industrial processes and energy systems towards low carbon technologies?
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UK Takes Lead on Climate Change
03/14/2007 | Tags: Energy + Climate carbon climate european Kyoto trading UK unionHard climate targets with firm dates
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Kyoto as Cliche
03/14/2007 | Tags: Energy + Climate carbon climate_change global_warming Kyoto management riskTim Flannery nailed it when he reflected that one of the obstacles to decisive action on climate change is that the whole idea of global warming has become a cliché even before it has been understood.
There are many ways to interpret this, ...
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SUVs as Cliché
03/21/2007 | Tags: Technology + Design carbon climate_change energy geothermal hybrid SUVIn my last entry I took a page from the Weather Makers, and cited Tim Flannery’s observation that one of the obstacles to decisive action on climate change is that the whole idea of global warming has become a cliché even before it has been understood.
My example of a cliché was the Kyoto protocol, which people talk about without really paying attention to. Kyoto is largely just a symbol of our feelings about global warming, rather than an indication that we’re ...
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European Appliance Manufacturers reject voluntary efficiency standards, call for binding legislation
03/23/2007 | Tags: Energy + Climate appliances carbon efficiency energy EUPoor national enforcement of energy labelling and other product rules facilitates “free-riders” and undermines the voluntary approach.
- Positive incentives needed to promote consumer uptake of state-of-the-art products to realise huge energy-efficiency potential and help cut CO2 emissions.
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EU Slashes Polish, Czech Emissions Plans
03/27/2007 | Tags: Energy + Climate carbon climate emissions_trading energy EU-ETS policyThe European Commission slashed Poland’s proposed limit on carbon dioxide (CO2) emission permits for 2008-2012 by more than a quarter on Monday, setting up a battle with Warsaw over its plan to fight climate change.
The European Union executive also cut the Czech Republic’s proposed cap by 14.8 percent, while it accepted the emissions limits proposed by France.
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Green Labels May Transform Food Consumption -Tesco
03/28/2007 | Tags: Food + Agriculture Energy + Climate carbon climate food labeling tesco UKGreen labelling of food to show the impact of its production on the environment could lead to major changes in consumption, Lucy Neville-Rolfe of British retailer Tesco said on Tuesday.
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Getting It Right Before It’s Too Late
03/28/2007 | Tags: Technology + Design carbon climate_change CSR design sustainabilityNo one can have failed to notice the shift in public perception of climate change in the past few months: the scientific debate, dangerously prolonged, is truly over. But this is not in itself a victory for those who are struggling to avert planetary disaster (as I’m sure most readers are well aware). Before there is anything to celebrate, we’ll ...
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UN panel to hammer out consensus on global-warming impact
04/03/2007 | Tags: carbon climate emissions IPCCScientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are meeting in Brussels this week to chart the consequences of global warming on populations and ecosystems worldwide and agree possible measures to tackle it.
Melting glaciers, rising sea levels, heatwaves, droughts – the effects of rising global temperatures are already widely felt around the world.
But the poorest nations are set to suffer more, and are the least prepared to cope with the expected consequences, climate scientists will warn on 6 April 2007.
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EU Confirms to Release 2006 CO2 Data on Monday
04/03/2007 | Tags: Energy + Climate carbon emissions EU_ETS tradingThe European Commission will release 2006 carbon emissions data from companies involved in the EU’s emissions trading scheme at midday central European time (1000 GMT) on Monday, the Commission confirmed.