Climate Change

BY Victoria Reynal - 04/13/2010

C40 Cities: large cities and climate change

C40 Cities is a collaborative effort of large cities to tackle climate change. Through C40, large cities around the world share information and work together to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increase energy efficiency. In partnership with the Clinton [...]

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BY Ignacio Marini - 01/13/2010

LEAD: For a sustainable livestock production

Livestock production is one of the major causes of the world’s most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution and loss of biodiversity. Using a methodology that considers the entire commodity chain, it is estimated [...]

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BY Victoria Reynal - 01/11/2010

B9 cargo ship: making sea transportation more sustainable

To solve the environmental crisis we are in, we need to work in different areas, from transportation, to education, to politics, to industrial production and agriculture. An innovation in one particular area means we are moving along in our quest [...]

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BY Ignacio Marini - 12/22/2009

Dividing the problem, the greenhouse gases

The atmosphere is made up of numerous gases. The ones in larger quantities are nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%).  This leaves around only 1% for other gases such as carbon dioxide (the famous CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), [...]

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BY Victoria Reynal - 11/20/2009

The M2M Partnership seeks to lower methane emissions

The Methane to Markets Partnership is an international initiative that works to investigate and foster cost-effective methods to avoid methane leaks, and to use it as a clean energy source. This task is an important one. Why? Because methane accounts [...]

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