Posted on June 9th 2007
Biofuel production may raise price of food15:04 09 May 2007NewScientist.com news serviceNew Scientist Environment and ReutersThe emerging biofuels industry risks raising the price of food, the United Nations has warned.UN-Energy released its guidelines on the rapidly growing bioenergy industry, entitled Sustainable Energy: A Framework for Decision Makers, on 8 May. According to the report, biofuel […]
Posted on June 9th 2007
GLOBAL NIELSEN SURVEY: CONSUMERS LOOK TO GOVERNMENTS TO ACT ON CLIMATE CHANGESURVEY SHOWS SURGE IN CONSUMER CONCERN OVER GLOBAL WARMING IN PAST SIX MONTHS:TWO IN FIVE CONSUMERS WANT GOVERNMENTS TO RESTRICT CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS AND INVEST IN ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY SOLUTIONSJune, 5, London, UK — Ahead of the G8 Summit on Wednesday this week, where climate […]
Posted on April 27th 2007
NewScientist.com news serviceStephen BattersbyThe volcanic eruptions that created Iceland might also have triggered one of the most catastrophic episodes of global warming ever seen on Earth, a new study suggests.Michael Storey at Roskilde University in Denmark and colleagues have found evidence that a huge volcanic eruption, 55 million years ago, unleashed so much greenhouse gas […]
Posted on March 2nd 2007
Climate change is perhaps the greatest example of market failure ever seen - but by providing a strong policy framework to overcome that the failure, governments can harness the tremendous power of markets to find creative and cost-effective responses to the challenge. There are three dimensions to mitigation policy - carbon pricing, technology policy and […]