The World Prepares To Participate in WWFs Earth Hour

On Saturday, March 27th at 8:30 p.m. local time, the largest ever public demonstration for action on climate change will take place as lights are symbolically turned off for one hour in homes, office buildings, iconic landmarks, government buildings and retail establishments across the globe for Earth Hour.
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Tags: 2010, climate change, climate crunch, earth hour, global warming, march, world wildlife fund, wwf

Winter Olympics: the First Ever Carbon Neutral Olympic Games

The Vancouver Olympics are the first Olympic games to aspire to be carbon-neutral. According to the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) the games will achieve Carbon Neutral status through the following four steps: 1. Knowing how much carbon the games emits and publicly tracking and reporting on it; 2. Reducing emissions wherever possible; 3. Offsetting direct carbon emissions that cannot be reduced or eliminated; and 4. Enabling and inspiring further action.
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Tags: carbon neutral, climate change, climate mama, global warming, olmpics, winter olympics

Environmental Literacy Included in Obama’s New Education Budget: Historic First

Environmental Literacy included in Obama’s new Education Budget: Historic First

Together with their legislative sponsors, the No Child Left Inside Coalition today cheered President Obama’s budget as a historic moment, noting that environmental literacy has been included in the U.S. Department of Education budget for the very first time.
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Tags: budget, career, climate change.global warming, college, education, eductaion, environmental literacy, no child left inside, obama, school

polar bears set to sink predicts bookie

Ireland’s largest bookmaker Paddy Power are taking bets on the estimated global polar bear population on 31 December 2011 according to the world’s largest independent conservation organization, the WWF.

The current WWF estimate places the polar bear population between 20,000 and 25,000 however Paddy Power’s odds predict a sharp decline in their population over the next two years and are offering odds of 13/8 that the number dips between 15,000 to 20,000.
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Copenhagen climate deal

COPENHAGEN CLIMATE DEAL HEADED FOR 3.5°C GLOBAL WARMING AND CLOSE TO 800 PPM CO2 EQUIVALENT GHG CONCENTRATIONS.

A sobering new assessment by the “Climate Action Tracker” (http://www.climateactiontracker.org) of the emission commitments and pledges put forward by industrialized and developing countries for the Copenhagen climate negotiations shows that the world is headed for a global warming of well over 3°C by 2100. Carbon dioxide concentrations are projected to be over 650 ppm, with total GHG concentrations close to 800 ppm CO2 equivalent.
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Tags: cabon, climate change, cop15, copenhagen, deforestation, emssions, global warming, greenhouse gas, ipcc, leaders, political

£50 million climate network to link over 60 developing countries

The UK today committed £50 million to help over 60 of the world’s poorest countries access the latest climate research, helping them understand how best to tackle climate change in the years following December’s Copenhagen negotiations.

The Climate and Development Knowledge Network, funded by the Department for International Development (DFID), will link developing countries with leading climate experts, allowing them to commission and share knowledge on how best to tackle the potentially devastating effects of climate change.
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Tags: climate change, cop15, copenhagen, developing countries, dfid, finance, funding, knowledge, money, network, research

Will the GGF Proposed National Scrappage Scheme Save our planet?

The Glass & Glazing Federation (GGF) has recently petitioned the government to introduce a National Window Scrappage Scheme. The GGF is the recognised leading authority for employers and companies within the flat glass, glazing, window, home improvement, plastics and window film industries and is the primary trade association for companies that make, supply or fit flat glass and related products representing more than 60% of the industry’s turnover.

The GGF also provides information for homeowners, professional specifiers and anyone seeking professional and unbiased information on any aspect of glass and glazing in the UK. The GGF is a great promoter of energy efficient glazing and the GGF’s Carbon Calculator enables homeowners and others to see how much money and carbon can be saved by installing new Energy Efficient Windows.
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Tags: doors, energy efficient windows, federation, flat glass, ggf, glass, glazing, grant, home improvement, households, plastics, pvc, saving, scrappage scheme, window, window film

Barcelona wakes up climate negotiations

One thousand alarm clocks rang at 8.30 yesterday morning to welcome delegates to the last international climate meeting before the major summit begins in Copenhagen in December.

The TckTckTck campaign – an unprecedented global alliance which represents more than 200 development, humanitarian and environment organizations – brought together hundreds of Barcelona residents and conference observers to provide a “wake up” call to the government negotiators attending the meeting.
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Tags: Barcelona, climate, climate change, copenhagen, emissions, government, summit, TckTckTck

Blog Action Day – Climate change

Today is Blog Action Day an annual event that enables anybody from around the internet to write about the same topic, this year Climate Change.

Climate change is and will continue to effect everything on this planet.  Which ever way you look at the evidence the the climate on the planet is changing and causing more adverse weather effects, flooding and the polar ice caps are very much disappearing.  There are many cynics, that believe it is just some propaganda from governments and scientists to force us the public into changing the way we live our lives, forcing us to buy eco efficient cars or not drive at all, maybe provide our own solar or wind power sources, change the way we shop and the like but above all there are many that think this is a ruse to make us spend more money and pay more taxes. The majority of people however either don’t believe in climate change or basically don’t care.
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Tags: bad09, blog action day, climate change, climatecrunch, earth, eco, electric cars, Energy, environment, humans, plent, solar, Transport, wind

Is London Heading For a Water Crunch?

The warning comes from sustainability experts Envirowise and follows research which found that 70% of sustainability specialists consider the threat of dwindling water supplies to be equal to the impact of carbon emissions, while 54% believe the world will run out of water before it runs out of fuel.

It is predicted that UK groundwater will begin to decrease by 2025, with the overall amount of water available in English and Welsh rivers reducing by 15 per cent by 2050.
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Tags: carbon emissions, defra, environment agency, envirowise, london, reuse, water, water crunch