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Earth Day Enemies: Greenpeace Slams Apple, Facebook, Google Data Centers
Environmental activist organization Greenpeace emphasized the environmental effects of cloud computing this Earth Day, releasing a report that assigns grades to 10 prominent technology companies based on how they power data centers. According to the report , computer servers in data centers account for about 2% of global energy demand and are growing their energy consumption at a rate of about 12% per year. About half of the companies studied, which include Google, Facebook and Apple, used coal to meet 50% to 80% of their energy needs instead of renewable energy resources like wind and solar. “Many IT brands at the vanguard of this 21st century technological shift are perpetuating our addiction to dirty energy technologies of the last two centuries,” reads the report’s executive summary.
You’re going to get a lot of these year-in-review posts over the next two weeks until the Snooki-filled ball drops , closing out 2010. Since influencers are what makes the greentech industry world go round, we thought we’d bring you the 10 individuals we think had the biggest effect on the greentech sector this year. Some are obvious, and some may be surprising, but here’s who we thought changed the landscape for better or for worse: 1. DOE Secretary Steven Chu. An obvious one, but Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu had arguably the biggest influence on the greentech sector in 2010.
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Communicating climate change presents us with a fundamental challenge. Climate change threatens all countries on Earth, regardless of their degree of development. However, telling the story of climate change, its causes and effects, and the ways in which we can contribute in the fight against it, remains a difficult task for any party involved, including the scientific community, governments, the media or nongovernmental organizations. Efforts to communicate climate change in a simple, clear and persuasive manner have not been totally successful. Moreover, competing positions still exist regarding the severity of the phenomenon and the appropriate collective response.
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The poor are disproportionately affected by environmental degradation and lack of access to clean, affordable energy services. UNDP helps countries strengthen their capacity to address these challenges at the global, national and community levels, seeking out and sharing best practices, providing innovative policy advice and linking partners through pilot projects. Our Goals UNDP strengthens national capacity to manage the environment in a sustainable manner to advance poverty reduction efforts. Through our country teams in 135 developing countries, we help our partners build their capacity to integrate environmental considerations into development plans and strategies, establish effective partnerships, secure resources, and implement programmes to support sustainable, low-carbon, climate-resilient development pathways. moreCarbon credit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article deals with carbon credits for international trading. A carbon credit is a generic term for any tradable certificate or permit representing the right to emit one tonne of carbon dioxide or the mass of another greenhouse gas with a carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO 2 e) equivalent to one tonne of carbon dioxide. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Carbon credits and carbon markets are a component of national and international attempts to mitigate the growth in concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs). One carbon credit is equal to one metric tonne of carbon dioxide, or in some markets, carbon dioxide equivalent gases. Carbon trading is an application of an emissions trading approach. Greenhouse gas emissions are capped and then markets are used to allocate the emissions among the group of regulated sources.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC or FCCC ) is an international environmental treaty produced at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit , held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to 14, 1992. The objective of the treaty is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. [ 1 ]
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By Stephen Leahy Paying the poor to conserve forests through a market scheme is the new star among initiatives in climate talks. UXBRIDGE, Canada, Dec 15 ( Tierramérica ).- Climate experts meeting in Poznan , Poland, promised to create a new pot of carbon-credit gold for the rural poor as guardians of rural lands and forests. But there are many who warn that the gold will flow only to corporate interests. One of the most effective ways to combat climate change, caused by gases like carbon dioxide that trap heat in the atmosphere, is through biological sequestration of carbon in plants, trees and soils.
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What is it? Carbon Project Manager North America is Point Carbon’s web-based trading analytics package for players active in the North American (NA) pre-compliance, compliance, and voluntary offset markets. It provides continuous updates and analysis of the key factors that affect the price of NA pre-compliance, compliance, domestic and international voluntary offsets.
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The Plantar Project - the first Brazilian pig iron producer to rely solely on sustainable charcoal from certified fuelwood, reducing the pressure on native forests and earning carbon credits. More >> Carbon finance facilitates the financial reward through carbon credits for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by emitters in developing countries. Activities of the World Bank Carbon Finance Unit (CFU) are part of the larger global effort to combat climate change, and are aligned with the World Bank and its Environment Department's mission to reduce poverty and improve living standards in the developing world.
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The 36th sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), the fifteenth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA), the seventeenth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) and the first session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) will take place concurrently from 14 to 25 May. All sessions will be held at the Maritim Hotel in Bonn. New! Overview of plenary meetings for the May sessions (18 kB)Latin America could help reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 55 million tons through the sale of carbon credits. But this strategy doesn't convince the critics, who ask if the region would foment clean and renewable energy sources or would merely sell cheap carbon credits to the highest bidder from the industrialized North. MEXICO CITY - Latin America is a big player in the world's carbon market: the region has already negotiated 210.6 million dollars of carbon emissions trading in the context of the Kyoto Protocol, which is to take effect in February 2005 and has rekindled the debate about how to fight global warming. The region's countries presented 46 projects under the treaty's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which could reduce emissions of around 55 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main greenhouse gas, produced from the combustion of fossil fuels.