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The UN Environment Program’s just published report Bridging the Emissions Gap shows that over the course of this century, warming will likely rise to four degrees unless we take stronger action to cut emissions.
Yet the latest evidence demonstrates that we are not acting – the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Report 2011 reveals that CO2 emissions have rebounded to a record high.
It does too little to cut global emissions, and it requires too few countries to cut their emissions growth.
Humans will have found ways of dealing with air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
Likewise, despite much rhetoric, greenhouse gas emissions are not seriously addressed until major shocks trigger political reactions.
Much innovation occurs at the local level, as major cities develop links with industry to reduce local emissions.
Cap-and-trade mechanisms that put a price on industrial CO2 emissions gain international acceptance.
These calculations indicate that a Blueprints world with CO2 capture and storage results in the least amount of climate change, provided emissions of other major manmade greenhouse gases are similarly reduced.
But the Blueprints scenario will be realized only if policymakers agree on a global approach to emissions trading and actively promote energy efficiency and new technology in four sectors: heat and power generation, industry, transport, and buildings.
Because CO2 capture and storage adds costs and yields no revenues, government support is needed to make it happen quickly on a scale large enough to affect global emissions.
Fear of FrackingCAMBRIDGE – Against all expectations, US emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, since peaking in 2007, have fallen by 12% as of 2012, back to 1995 levels.
Unlike the European Union, the US never ratified the Kyoto Protocol, in which participating countries committed to cut CO2 emissions by roughly 5%, relative to 1990 levels, by 2012.
Nor is America’s continued emissions reduction a side effect of lower economic activity: While the US economy peaked in late 2007, the same time as emissions, the recession ended in June 2009 and GDP growth since then, though inadequate, has been substantially higher than in Europe.
Yet US emissions have continued to fall, while EU emissions began to rise again after 2009.
One can virtually prove that shale gas has been the major influence driving the fall in US emissions.
Since 2010, coal dependence has risen even in Europe, where some countries are phasing out emission-free nuclear power and no natural-gas boom has materialized (though CO2 emissions remain far higher in the US than in Europe).
The substitution of natural gas for coal has put the US on track to meet the Obama administration’s international commitment to reduce CO2 emissions 17% below 2005 levels by 2020.
But the fact is that CO2 emissions cannot be reduced without cutting coal use, and shale gas is already displacing coal in the US.
A Healthy, Climate-Friendly DietBERLIN – This December, world leaders will meet in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, where they will hammer out a comprehensive agreement to reduce carbon emissions and stem global warming.
Livestock production causes almost 14.5% of global greenhouse-gas emissions and contributes significantly to water pollution.
Meat consumption actually leads to more greenhouse-gas emissions annually than the use of cars does.
Indeed, beef production requires, on average, 28 times more land and 11 times more water than the other livestock categories, while producing five times more greenhouse-gas emissions and six times more reactive nitrogen.
Taken together, schooling and family planning could translate into a 120-gigaton reduction in carbon dioxide emissions over the next three decades, as fewer people consumed fewer resources.
Nowhere is this truer than in automotive emissions, where the battle for leadership on new power trains – whether electric, hydrogen, or biofuel-based – is already upon us.
An ambitious policy framework that underpins Europe’s energy security and strengthens the single market would also support Europe’s drive towards reduced CO2 emissions and low-carbon prosperity.
First, G20 countries must acknowledge that energy, climate, and development are closely interrelated and stop subsidizing carbon emissions.
The alarm bell was first rung in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro; but over the last generation, little was done to contain emissions.
China will blame the trade imbalance on America’s ban on high-tech exports to China, deny engaging in currency manipulation, call on the US and its allies in East Asia to negotiate with North Korea without preconditions, insist on China’s entitlement as a developing country to an exemption from emissions caps on CO2, and refute criticism of its human rights record.
While the Bush Administration remains skeptical about the science behind such projections, some state and local governments are enacting measures to cut CO2 emissions.
It has also made great efforts to reduce agricultural and rural greenhouse gas emissions.
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