Category: emissions

Monday 1 December 2008

Climate Safety

On Thursday, the Public Interest Research Centre (PIRC) presented their Climate Safety report (which can be downloaded here).  BFCS was at the well-attended report launch.
The panel of speakers was made up of Caroline Lucas (Green MEP), George Monbiot (journalist and writer), Jeremy Leggett (founder of Solar Century), Kevin Anderson (Tyndall Institute), Tim Helweg-Larsen (PIRC) and [...]

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Tuesday 18 November 2008

The latest on emissions

The UN released figures yesterday that showed greenhouse gas emissions of 40 industrialised nations rose by 2.3% between 2000 and 2006. There was a slight dip between 2005 and 2006 (0.1%), but this was too small to suggest a downward trend.
Compared to 1990 levels, emissions actually fell by about 5%. However, this pre-2000 [...]

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