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Don’t blame cities for emissions, see them as solutions
Cities are being unfairly blamed for most of humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions and this threatens efforts to tackle climate change, warns a study in the October 2008 issue of the journal Environment and Urbanization.
Clogged Beijing unveils new traffic controls
BEIJING (Reuters) - Flushed with the success of Olympic traffic controls and struck by the painful return to congested normality, Beijing on Saturday unveiled plans for smaller-scale but permanent controls on its drivers.
Tar sands – the new toxic investment
Shell and BP have been warned by investors that their involvement in unconventional energy production such as Canada’s oil sands could turn out to be the industry’s equivalent of the sub-prime lending that poisoned the banking sector and triggered the current financial crisis.
Why green charcoal is in
Filipinos may have found an answer to the rising cost of cooking fuel, claimed Gonzalo Catan, Jr., executive vice president of Mapecon Philippines, Inc.
Will saving a forest save us money?
How much is a forest worth?
Congress approves Great Lakes clean-up bill
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress is sending President Bush a bill that would extend for two years a federal program to clean up areas of pollution and contaminated sediment around the Great Lakes.
How green is your college?
Last week, the Sustainable Endowments Institute released its 2009 Green Report Card.
No more plastic bags
Westport, Connecticut, this month became the latest of a handful of communities to ban some plastic bags.
Exhausting war on emissions
Oslo – In 1991, Norway became one of the first countries in the world to impose a stiff tax on harmful greenhouse gas emissions. Since then, the country’s emissions should have dropped. Instead, they have risen by 15%.
Joint LGU initiatives
Some of the world’s most vulnerable and threatened animal species found in Davao Gulf are being pushed further to the brink by the lack of concerted initiatives to address environmental concerns in this key biodiversity area (KBA) in the Philippines, listed as one of the world’s 34 biodiversity hotspots.
UN 2010 biodiversity target in the balance
The biggest ever United Nations conference held to tackle worldwide biodiversity loss closed today without producing a clear roadmap to achieve the 2010 target to substantially reduce biodiversity loss, WWF said.
Ecosystems affected by corporations
Corporations affect ecosystems and the services they provide while at the same time relying on them.
Nations protect land better than seas
With just over a year to go for countries to meet internationally agreed biodiversity protection targets, the world’s nations are showing themselves much more adept at protecting land areas than territorial seas.
Seminar for pollution control officers set
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources- Environmental Management Bureau-NCR and the Water Environment Association of the Philippines (WEAP) will conduct a basis training course for new pollution control officers (PCO) on Oct. 21-23 at the Great Eastern Hotel on Quezon Avenue, Quezon City.
Climate change’s cause matters? Not to Palin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Joe Biden and Sarah Palin agreed that climate change is real, but differed on whether human activity was its root cause in Thursday’s US vice presidential debate.
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