Climate Change
Obama has faith in Copenhagen, even without a climate bill
US president Barack Obama has announced he will be attending the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference next month, and will do his best to make a treaty happen. We were talking yesterday about the importance the US has for the Copenhagen [...]
Excellent TED Video on the work behind Climate Scientific Papers
In 4 minutes, atmospheric chemist Rachel Pike provides a glimpse of the massive scientific effort behind the bold headlines on climate change, with her team — one of thousands who contributed — taking a risky flight over the rainforest in [...]
Some facts on the US Climate Bill
Many say Copenhagen is our last chance. That if we want to avoid major climatic catastrophe, we need to reach a transcendent treaty, through which countries decide on how global warming will be controlled. As usual, political will is a [...]
Soros will invest more than $1 billion in clean energy and policy initiatives
George Soros, who is among the 30 richest people alive, will invest part of his fortune in fostering clean energy technology and policy. 79 years old, Soros has, up to now, been promoting open and democratic societies, by helping to [...]
Final talks before Copenhagen
This week, negotiators from around 180 countries are gathered in Barcelona, Spain with the aim of preparing a manageable proposal of a treaty, to be discussed and signed in December, in the Copenhagen Conference. They are in charge of a [...]
New York Takes a Strong Stance on Climate Change
It is comforting to see that New York (NY), already one of the US’s greenest cities, is taking a strong stance on climate change. In December 2006 New Yorkers were challenged by their Mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, to come up [...]
A zero-emissions bus presented in Washington DC
Two North American companies, Altair Nanotechnologies and Proterra LLC designed and put together a bus that generates near zero greenhouse gas emissions. The bus has transported Congressmen this past week, as a way of being introduced to DC. Among its [...]
100 World Legislators Pre-empt Copenhagen
On October 26, 2009, legislators from sixteen of the world’s major economies agreed on key principles to enact climate change legislation in their own countries and advanced towards a global low carbon economy. This agreement is particularly important because it [...]
A non-polluting, ecological cement that absorbs greenhouse gases
A British company has developed a kind of cement that can absorb carbon dioxide. This is a very interesting development for the sustainable architecture movement, since carbon dioxide is the main gas that causes the greenhouse effect on our planet, [...]
Enriching discussions at the World Forestry Congress, in Argentina
The 13th World Forestry Congress has taken place this past week in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This Congress is organized every six years, in different cities of the world, and is attended by around 6000 people from more than 160 countries. [...]
Al Gore called for change in a conference in Buenos Aires
The former vice president of the US, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, presented a Conference on Climate Change, last week, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It’s been years since Gore has been struggling to spread awareness [...]
