It’s very gratifying to see the world’s leading financial daily underlining points which European Wind Energy Association and many others have been making for years: the Emissions Trading System (ETS) urgently needs to be fixed. Thankfully the European Commission has proposed an important first step: to delay the auctioning of yet more carbon allowances. This now … Continue reading European leaders need to set tougher emissions targets
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Greenland’s massive ice sheet melts
» By Chris Rose As the world’s media attention turned this week to the Summer Olympics in London, a somewhat downplayed story of astonishing implications was emerging from the world’s biggest island: almost 97% of Greenland’s ice sheet experienced melting during early to mid-July. In a normal summer period, according to the National Aeronautics and … Continue reading Greenland’s massive ice sheet melts
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Geological Survey researchers and their U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service colleagues are working together to help provide solutions for reducing harmful effects of wind turbines on bats.
Continue readingConferencia de la ONU de Copenhague: Un tratado congelado por Antonio Cerrillo
La alianza EE UU-China ralentizará las acciones contra el calentamiento. Ni los peores pronósticos podían imaginar unos acuerdos tan tibios e insuficientes como los obtenidos en la conferencia de la ONU de Copenhague.
Continue readingCophenague acaba en fracaso
La Conferencia sobre el clima de Copenhague concluyó con un acuerdo de mínimos promovido por EE UU y China que aplazó los grandes objetivos y chocó con el desacuerdo de los países pobres. Mucho ruido y pocas nueces.
Continue readingLa energía eólica evitirá el 65% de la reducción de emisiones de CO2 previstas para 2020
La energía eólica evitó en 2008 la emisión de 20 millones de toneladas de CO2 en España, y evitará 50 millones de toneladas de CO2 en 2020, si se alcanzan los 45.000 MW previstos.
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