Climate change

Dispatch from Brazil: climate change

July 27, 2010

Mild-mannered and soft-spoken Sérgio Serra has a tough job in his hands. He is the Brazilian Climate Change Ambassador, the representative of a country that emerged from the COP15 meeting in Copenhagen last October with one of the most ambitious emissions targets (around 37% by 2020), which was signed into law. Serra became a mouthpiece [...]

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Brazil supports forest protection initiative

May 27, 2010

Brazil today signed the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) Partnership at the Oslo Forest and Climate Conference in Norway. The event was attended by representatives of 52 countries. The objective of the agreement is to scale up REDD Plus actions and financing. Technorati Tags: Brazil, Climate change, environment, Food and Agriculture Organization, National [...]

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Seattle turns waste into renewable energy

January 22, 2010

Image via Wikipedia We have written before about cities that convert waste to electricity, which is a very smart way for municipalities to achieve their carbon reduction goals. Seattle is one of the cities working on that and since last October, wrote Seattle Times, the city has been producing an average of 5.7 megawatts of [...]

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Renewable energy summit opens in the Middle East

January 19, 2010

More than 3,000 people yesterday attended the opening ceremony of the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi. The objective of the event is to “identify practical and sustainable solutions for today’s energy security, environment and climate change challenges.” Technorati Tags: Abu Dhabi, Add new tag, Climate change, Energy, Energy security, Renewable energy, Sustainable Development, [...]

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Renewable energy: perspectives

December 31, 2009

Image via Wikipedia As the year and the decade comes to an end today, renewable energy seems to set to enjoy growth in the next few year while it will also be necessary to overcome enormous technological obstacles currently in the way of a clean energy-powered world. Technorati Tags: California, Climate change, Renewable energy, Solar [...]

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