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The Copenhagen Accord asked the Annex I countries to define their emissions reduction goals for 2020 by 31 January 2010. Non-Annex I countries have been invited to send in their mitigation actions. Two major nations — Mexico and Russia - had not submitted pl ...>>

Fraudsters used fake emails to steal passwords of the German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt). Certificates were then transferred to other participating countries and then sold. Some sources report losses of millions of Euros. The certificates have u ...>>

Danish design company Diffus has come up with an LED-equipped Climate Dress that responds to the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by glowing accordingly. The dress is powered by an Arduino Lilypad microprocessor and a carbon dioxide detector ...>>

Earlier this month the European Environment Agency (EEA) gave access to information on emissions from European industrial facilities. Included are annual data for 91 substances and more than 24 000 facilities in 65 economic activities. The around 3600 g ...>>

Ever wondered how something as little as a molecule of C02 can change the world? But more is different: CO2 turned Venus into a overheated hostile planet and without greenhouse gases Earth would be a snowball. This post collects - without any special order ...>>

Nearly any activity consumes energy and therefore forces emissions of CO2. Of course using green energy is different. However, it is useful to know the emissions generated by different goods or activities. Kick the Habit is a excellent guide to climate ...>>

I was quite excited while visiting this UN site: data.un.org. You'll find a huge amount of figures provided by different UN agencies. The data is free to use, ready to download and presented by a slick WEB2.0 interface. Of cource data from the UNFCCC is ther ...>>

G20 is officially referred to as “The 4th Ministerial Meeting of G8 Gleneagles Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development”, and was set up as a result of an agreement at the Gleneagles G8 Summit held in the United Kingdom in 2 ...>>

Just for reference: not only carbon dioxyde has the capabilitiy to heat up our planet. E.g. a massive amount of Methane reside frozen in the oceans and the siberian permafrost soil. Greenhouse gas Formula GW Potential Carbon Dioxide CO2 1 ...>>

1 liter gasoline/petrol - burnt in a car - emitts about 2.3 kilogramm carbon dioxyde. Diesel even more: 2.6 kg CO2. Only 10 per cent of the fuels energy are effectively used to transport you. The rest is wasted for moving iron , tires and oil. Of course ca ...>>

Latest GEO Year Book 2007 reveals the imbalance of CO2 emissions per capita from different regions. An average person in North America produces nearly same amount of greenhouse gas as twenty people from Africa. In comparison C02 emissions per capita have ...>>

Nearly a year after its launch, 28 April 2006, the French - U.S.A. mission CALIPSO collected numerous measurements of the structure of Earth's atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Equiped with a sort of optical radar, Calipso is designed to identify the imp ...>>

The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) analyzes, documents and promotes market-based trading systems to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 'ETA's 2006 Greenhouse Gas Market Report - Moving to Action' breaks down the flexible instruments imple ...>>

UK based World Development Movement (WDM) tackles the underlying causes of poverty and forces decision makers to change the policies that keep people poor. WDM defines itself as a democratic membership organisation of individuals and local groups. The C ...>>

Aviation contributes to global climate change, and its contribution is increasing. While the EU's total greenhouse gas emissions fell by 3 % from 1990 to 2002, emissions from international aviation increased by almost 70 %. In spite of significant improv ...>>

Earlier this month german government announced, it will be assisted during its presidencies of the EU and G8 by two climate change experts, Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and Lars Göran Josefsson the president of Swedish energy giant Vattenfall. Schel ...>>

Yesterday the EU Commisions accepted the NAPs, but reduced annual allocation of all except UK. Comparison of proposed vs. approved caps for 2008 to 2012 in million tonnes: Member State Proposed cap Allowed cap Germany482453.1 Greece75.569.1 ...>>

Car buyers now have a simple way to compare the "greenness" of their automotive choices. Environmental Defense has partnered with Yahoo!Autos to make Green Ratings widely available to consumers—right next to vehicle prices and other common car specs anyon ...>>