Thomas Rodengen is a PhD student in Resource and Environmental Management and a teacher at the School of Environmental Science. Rodengen’s research is focused on carbon storage and fluxes in Canada’s parks as part of a Parks Canada initiative to collect information for potential future climate control solutions. Duration : 0:2:32 addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carbonneutralaustralia.com%2Fblog%2Fcarbon-management%2Fthomas-rodengen-school-of-resource-and-environmental-management-sfu’; addthis_title [...]
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The Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (SRMGI) is a partnership between the Royal Society and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). The project report, launched on 1 December 2011, reviews the progress made by the Initiative to date, covering the international SRMGI conference held in March 2011. [...]
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The Rio Ceramics project has enabled three factories in Brazil to switch to renewable biomass as a fuel source, reducing global CO2 emissions between 12,000 and 20,000 tonnes each year. The transition has also benefit local communities by providing extra income and employment opportunities. Carbon finance has allowed the facilities to increase their contributions to [...]
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This exclusive film looks at allegations that a coal power project in central India, approved under the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism, is destroying forests and livelihoods. It is meant to be supporting ‘sustainable development’ but the UN’s flagship carbon trading scheme is failing, according to an investigation by the Ecologist Film Unit. On the eve [...]
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http://www.globalchange.com How global water shortages will be solved. Drought in Australia, America, Asia, China, Africa, Australia. Crop failures, food price rises, hunger and famine. Forest fires and other results of lack of rain. Virtual water — water used in energy production, manufacturing, agriculture, farming, food production and processing, textiles, pulp and paper industry. River management, [...]
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http://www.globalchange.com Energy saving using heat recovery, carbon recycling and capture in plants, new street lamps, better heating and cooling, building controls. Example of green technology innovation in British Sugar, using carbon dioxide exhaust gas from a gas turbine to grow tomatoes. Part of keynote on the $40 trillion green tech revolution which could transform the [...]
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http://www.globalchange.com The $40 trillion green tech revolution could transform the future of our planet, with innovations that will provide answers to global warming if rolled out on a large enough scale. Impact of technologies already available in energy industry, water conservation, carbon reduction, recycling, power transmission over long distances, alternative power generation, buildings management. Conference [...]
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U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu speaks with BBC on America’s proposal of 4 percent carbon reductions, which is greatly lower than other nations have suggested. Duration : 0:5:2 addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carbonneutralaustralia.com%2Fblog%2Fcarbon-reduction%2Fu-s-to-reduce-carbon-emissons-by-only-4-percent’; addthis_title = ‘U.S.+to+reduce+carbon+emissons+by+only+4+percent’; addthis_pub = ”; Technorati Tags: America, carbon, change, Chu, climate, effect, Emission, Energy, global, greenhouse, industry, pollution, reduction, Secretary, warming
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Gottfried Härle runs the first eco-friendly brewery in Germany. At first, people laughed at him. But now, visitors from around the world come to the town of Leutkirch to have a look and learn how he makes tasty beer without releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Härle won the German Sustainability Prize last year for [...]
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The effect of climate change is creating new risks and new opportunities for local governments and markets. Local governments and road makers are responding and investigating on-going management of carbon emissions, water use and local environmental damage. Unsealed road maintenance contributes heavily to this list. PolyCom Stabilising Aid is a new approach to the maintenance [...]
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