Emissions in Australia are rising, and experts warn that the current government has no policies to stop them.
… Australia's emissions rise Natalie Sauer Climate Home News | 11th June 2019 News Australia Emissions Thought Leaders woodland-australia-cut.jpg Emissions in Australia are rising, and experts …
We are all aware that the weather is never quite the same from one year to the next. That is all part of the natural variability of climate. It is the task of climatologists to tease out any change to climate, such as global warming, from all that variability.
… Panel on Climate Change estimated that global emissions must immediately be reduced by over … ‘safe’ level. Since 1990, however, global emissions have risen by 10 per cent. Unless … taken to massively reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, the world will not be habitable for …
It takes no more than a gentle nudge to push a man over the edge of a cliff, but it is almost impossible to haul him back before he hits the ground. Given that we show no sign of putting a stop to global warming, Peter Bunyard takes a look at what the future might hold
… are now certain that it is our greenhouse gas emissions that have led to global warming, we … know what will happen if we fail to curb our emissions or, worse, continue to add to them. … scenarios of fossil fuel use. If CO2 emissions remain the same as they are today – …
Well, now we have it; nuclear power is once again going to save the day. In the past it helped save us from coal, now it is going to save us, if the rest of the world follows our example, from global warming.
… necessarily results in low greenhouse gas emissions. As William Keepin, energy analyst … by 2010, would bring carbon dioxide emissions down by 7 per cent at best in those … attempts, so far feeble, to reduce carbon emissions, in the context of the overwhelming …
Fatih Birol of the International Energy Agency says trucks, petrochemicals and air travel driving global oil use.
… Natalie Sauer | 25th January 2019 News GLOBAL EMISSIONS WORLD ECONOMIC FORM Thought Leaders … they are doing little to curb rising carbon emissions and oil demand, the head of the … generation system, the impact in terms of CO2 emissions is less than 1% – nothing. If you …
As US climatologists and scientists are urging the world that greenhouse gas emissions be curbed rapidly to prevent runaway global warming, the UK Met Office appears to be back pedalling on human induced climate change. Peter Bunyard reports on some mixed messages
… are urging the world that greenhouse gas emissions be curbed rapidly to prevent runaway … we have very little time left to curb our emissions of greenhouse gases if we want to … dangers we face from a ‘business-as-usual’ emissions scenario. “Higher temperatures,” he …
Confusion reigns as UN Environment publishes, then retracts, an article criticising the use of carbon credits to make up for polluting activities.
… concept of polluters paying others to cut emissions on their behalf. Contacted by … to gain carbon credits by investing in emission reduction projects in the developing … lifestyle as long as they offset their emissions. It was taken down after a backlash. …
Warming beyond 1.5C will unleash a frightening set of consequences and scientists say only a global transformation, beginning now, can avoid it.
… | 9th October 2018 News Climate Change Co2 Emissions Paris Agreement x Warming beyond … increasing our efforts to cut the emissions responsible for the crisis.” What … 35-65% of all transport will be low- or no-emissions. To pay for this transformation, the …
Scientists mapping the effects of deforestation in the Amazon are increasingly concerned that we are reaching a tipping point – when the forest will start to die back of its own accord and rain, currently generated by the Amazon forests, will stop falling, not just in neighbouring countries but as far afield as the United States and South Africa.
… furnaces for making pig iron. In terms of emissions per capita, the quantity of … greenhouse gases, including methane. From the emissions point of view, a large hydro scheme … pace of destruction is leading to carbon emissions that exceed the absorption by the …
Jean-Claude Junker said he does not support raising the bloc’s 2030 climate goal, days before EU leaders are expected to discuss climate ambition.
… 2019 News EU Junker Climate Change Carbon Emissions Thought Leaders … said the bloc should keep its policy to cut emissions to 40 percent of their 1990 level by …
Japan's climate legislation is heavy on tech, and light on any plans to tackle its coal dependency.
… Home News | 13th June 2019 News Japan Carbon Emissions Change Makers … strategy builds upon a 2016 pledge to slash emissions by 80 percent by 2050 on the base of …
Chile plans to use this year’s UN climate talks to focus attention on the world’s most important carbon sponge – the oceans.
… should count and cut their shipping emissions, which account for 2.5 percent of global emissions, according to the latest … negotiations. An emphasis on offsetting emissions through blue carbon, or the carbon …
The Severn Estuary, earmarked as a potentially huge source of energy, has been met with increasing concerns over serious environmental damage. A report from 2008 by Frontier Economics found that justification for the Severn Barrage is slim - both economically speaking and on environmental grounds. Peter Bunyard takes a look at an innovative solution that has similarities with a tidal reef.
… mix, given concerns that greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels in …
The main opposition party will treat air pollution as a national emergency and tackle climate change impacts if elected, it promises as India goes to the polls.
… the National Clean Air Programme” and impose emissions standards across industrial sectors, …
A man of extraordinary humanity - as comfortable discussing farming with labourers as he was holding forth on the very nature of life itself. Peter Bunyard pays tribute to the rich life of Edward Goldsmith
… the changes caused through greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. As with so many …
An encounter with a Colombian shaman led Peter Bunyard on a spiritual journey into and beyond the living, breathing, transpiring Amazon rainforest, providing key insights into the essential role of the great tropical forests in the workings of Gaia. He emerged re-energised from his visions - and inspired to redouble his efforts to save our wondrous planet.
… put climate change down to the greenhouse emissions from our cars, factories, homes and …
Mainstream climatologists predict a 15% fall in rainfall over the Amazon if it is stripped of its rainforest. But the 'biotic pump' theory, rooted in conventional physics and recently confirmed by experiment, shows that the interior of a forest-free Amazon will be as dry as the Negev desert. We must save the Amazon before it enters a permanent and irreversible dessication.
… far more important than greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the same …