Green Numbers round-up 10/09/2009

• U.S. companies may look abroad to fight global warming — latimes.com

  “U.S. companies could save tens of billions of dollars by investing in efforts to combat deforestation in developing nations instead of cleaning up their own domestic carbon dioxide emissions, according to a report released Wednesday.”

  tags: co2 emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, greennumbers

• Carbon emissions will fall 3% due to recession, say world energy analysts | Environment | guardian.co.uk

  “Man-made greenhouse gas emissions will drop 3% in 2009 largely because of the worldwide financial crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said today.

  Three-quarters of the reduction has been the result of less industrial activity, with the rest coming from countries turning to renewable energy and nuclear power.”

  tags: greenhouse gas emissions, greennumbers, iea

• Obama Orders Agencies to Set 2020 Emissions Goals

  “U.S. President Barack Obama signed an executive order Monday ordering federal agencies to set goals within 90 days for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. “

  tags: obama, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, greennumbers, greenhouse gas emissions

• constructireland.ie – Ireland ranked fourth in the world for wind power

  “Ireland now ranks fourth in the world for the contribution of wind energy to electricity use, according to the International Energy Agency’s 2008 Wind Energy Annual Report.

  Ireland, which supplies 8.7% of electricity demand from wind, is only behind Denmark (19.3%), Spain (11.7%) and Portugal (11.3%).”

  tags: ireland, wind energy, iea, greennumbers, greenmonktv

• Hidden Costs – the destruction of the future

  “For a scientist it is hard to observe how each day we fail to twist development towards a low-carbon society, and how the damage to the planet become more severe. Our messages to policy makers are explicit, but the gap between the need for action and the climate policy the world leaders put in place is steadily increasing.”

  tags: low carbon society, climate change, greennumbers

• Redd in Africa: ‘how we can earn money from air by harvesting carbon’

  “UN plan to preserve the world’s forests by allowing owners to trade the carbon stored in endangered forests on condition the trees are not felled. The plan aims to slash the 20% of all greenhouse gas emissions that come from deforestation and is one of the few aspects of a global deal to fight climate change that looks on track to be settled”

  tags: redd, deforestation, carbon, climate change, Reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries, carbon farming, greennumbers

• IEA – CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion: Highlights

  “In the lead-up to the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen, the latest information on the level and growth of CO2 emissions, their source and geographic distribution will be essential to lay the foundation for a global agreement. To provide input to and support for the UN process the IEA is making available — both earlier and for free download — the Highlights version of CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion. “

  tags: copenhagen, UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen, co2 emissions, IEA, greennumbers

• Cost of climate change: Pay now, or pay a lot more later – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

  “The costs of a vigorous, immediate effort to rebuild the world economy around carbon-free technologies are in the range of one to three percent of global GDP per year, a new study says.”

  tags: climate change, climate change costs, Economics for Equity and the Environment, greennumbers

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