In the Headlines
Global carbon emissions rising rapidly • Dell pledges greener laptops • Western states launch Western Climate Initiative • Brussels: EU must keep climate plans despite economic crisis • Companies must lead climate change fight: consumers • CDP Report: Major corporations request clarity on climate change regulation • UK business chiefs urge action on climate change • Australia to fund carbon capture institute • China considers green tax to help cut emissions • European car manufacturers curb emissions
September 26, Global carbon emissions rising rapidly
Bloomberg
Burning fossil fuels, making cement and changing land use together produced 9.94 billion metric tons of carbon compared with 9.7 billion tons in 2006, the Canberra, Australia-based Global Carbon Project reported today. Average annual growth since 2000 is about four times the mean in the 1990s…
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September 25, Dell pledges greener laptops
IT News
Dell has made a commitment to switch its entire laptop range to LED screens by 2010. LED screens both use less power than traditional laptop screens and...are also easier to recycle…
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September 24, Western Climate Initiative: Western states & provinces pitch plan to reduce GHG emissions
Los Angeles Times
The Western Climate Initiative, endorsed by seven Western states and four Canadian provinces aims to slash regional greenhouse gas pollutants by about 15% below 2005 levels in the next 12 years…
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September 24, Brussels: EU must keep climate plans despite economic crisis
Yahoo!
Europe must not water down its plans to tackle global warming despite the current financial crisis, EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said on Wednesday: “There is an economic crisis, a financial crisis, an energy crisis and there is a climate crisis...The climate crisis is permanent. All the other crises today, tomorrow, I hope will pass but the climate crisis is a permanent threat for the globe.”..
September 23, Companies must lead climate change fight: consumers
Reuters
Most consumers want companies to do more to protect the environment and reckon that firms should play a leading role in fighting global warming, a worldwide survey showed Tuesday. The poll, of 28,000 Internet users in 51 nations by The Nielsen Company, showed that corporate commitment to green ethics is playing “an increasingly influential role in consumers’ purchasing behavior,” Nielsen said…
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September 22, Carbon Disclosure Project announces Global 500 and S&P 500 results
Carbon Disclosure Project
Global corporations view climate change as a driver of risk and opportunity and have cited clear regulation as key to managing the impacts, in this year’s findings from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), which includes exclusive data from 1550 of the world’s major companies on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change related strategies…
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September 19, UK business chiefs urge action on climate change
The Guardian
Business leaders including directors at Tesco, Lloyds TSB and other top high street names have urged Gordon Brown to drop his slowly, slowly approach to tackling global warming and go for “transformational change”, saying the prime minister should not be held back by fears over the current financial crisis....
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September 19, Australia to fund carbon capture institute
The Age
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has committed the government to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a global clean coal institute and has told industry it must do more to help develop the technology. “Australia’s the world’s largest coal exporting country, therefore this is core business for Australia to provide global leadership on carbon capture and storage,” Mr Rudd said…
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September 13, China considers green tax to help cut emissions
China Daily
Chinese authorities have started researching an environmental tax for polluters to cut their emissions. Several government agencies have organized an inter-ministerial team and brought together experts to come up with a research paper on environmental taxes, Pan Yue, deputy minister of environment protection, said…
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August 28, European car manufacturers curb emissions, Germans lead
Business Week
Cars sold in Europe last year reduced carbon emissions slightly, with manufacturers managing to achieve an average improvement of 1.7 percent, according to a new report by green campaign group Transport & Environment…
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