As reported over at Treehugger.com, UN climate negotiator Yvo de Boe has gone on record as saying that he doesn’t expect any new treaty to be agreed upon at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December. Great. Another giant conference, which everyone in attendance will be spewing carbon emissions into the air to get [...]
Well, that’s good news – even if it means it is still going up slowly. The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency is saying that due to high oil prices and the worldwide financial crisis, the annual increase in emissions of CO2 has been cut in half from this time last year. Emissions increased by 1.7% [...]
Some of the key points of the American Clean Energy & Security Act from Grist, since they know better than I do. You can head to their site to read the nitty gritty, but here is a general summary:
Renewable electricity standard
The bill creates a renewable electricity standard (RES) that would require large utilities in each [...]
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