Bush administration officials have complained that the treaty is bad for American businesses, lets developing countries off the hook, and hardly makes a dent in global emissions. Indeed, according to UN estimates, the Kyoto treaty, if fully implemented, would reduce the projected temperature rise of 1.4 to 5.8 degrees Celsius by only 0.1 degree over [...]
Although more renewable energy is now coming onstrea?, 85 percent of the world?s energy needs are still derived from climate-changing fossil fuels and we?re a long way off from kicking the carbon habit. According to Einar Haandlkken from the Oslo-based environmental group Zero, time is something that we just don?t have. ?Reducing the world?s dependency [...]
WASHINGTON, January 27, 2005- The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$1 billion adaptable program loan (APL) facility to support the Energy Community of South East Europe program (ECSEE) – a program aimed at integrating energy systems in South East European countries into the internal energy market of the European Union. The [...]
Ottawa says that by 2010 it wants car makers to cut emissions by 25 percent from 1995 levels. But major automobile manufacturers say it would be hard to introduce new technologies at such short notice to meet Ottawa’s demands and the two sides have yet to reach a deal. Environment Minister Stephane Dion threatened on [...]
France’s Court of Accounts, which oversees the finances of public bodies and state-owned enterprises, said in a controversial report published on Wednesday that debt- laden EDF had only what it termed an "embryo" of the money needed to keep nuclear sites safe once they are taken out of service in future decades. EDF is the [...]
"We need to do something that even dwarfs the Manhattan project," Frist told the World Economic Forum in Davos. The Manhattan project was the codename for the United States’s World War Two effort to devise an atomic weapon. "The greatest existential threat we have in the world today is biological. Why? Because unlike any other [...]
Researchers at the CEA research centre in France have estimated that a person would have to eat 5 grams (0.2 ounce) of tainted tissue from an animal showing clear signs of the disease to be at risk of developing Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). "It is almost impossible now with the measures that have been taken to [...]
The grant is funded through the Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund and financed by the Government of the UK. "The potential for solar energy development is huge, not only generating electricity but also for water pumping for water supply and small scale irrigation, provision of potable water, hot water for homes, hospitals, and other buildings," said [...]
With consumer natural gas prices more than doubling in the past four years, 650 New Mexicans have joined 50,000 other Americans in pressing Senator Pete Domenici (R-N.M) to reduce gas prices by increasing development of renewable energy sources like wind and solar power. Senator Domenici, Chair of the Senate Energy Committee, held a hearing on [...]
Total new additions were down sharply from the highs in the boom years of 2001, 1,696 MW, and 2003, 1,687 MW. But at year’s end, the trade group said, utility-scale wind installations in 30 states across the country totaled 6,740 MW, enough to serve more than 1.6 million households. The small but burgeoning industry is [...]
