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Category Archives: Climate Change
Energy Efficiency: Putting the Brakes on Waste?
Energy is the cornerstone to proper working order, development, growth, and well-being of all industrialized societies. And as societies progress,their expenditure on energy sources and materials goes up. In Spain, for example, primary energy consumption increased by 95% between 1980 … Continue reading
Conclusions from the Cancun Summit
Following the conclusion of the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held last month in Cancun, international confidence has been restored in UN capacity to reach
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Tagged Cancún, Climate, CO2 Emissions, Copenhagen agreement, Enviroment, Kyoto Protocol, United Nations
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Cancun: Climate Change and People
Climate change is an unquestionable reality. The 0.8ºC rise in average global temperature over the last century may lead to the death of around 300,000 people each year and the suffering of millions more. The deafening silence surrounding this cr
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Tagged Climate, climate change, emissions, Enviroment, International
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Could Brazil be the Persian Gulf of the Future?
In recent years, concern for the environment and alarm over global warming triggered by the rise in greenhouse gas emissions have stirred interest in renewable energy sources from all sectors of society. Both Europe and the United States are in … Continue reading
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Tagged bioethanol, Biofuel, Brasil, Electrical energy, Enviroment, sugar cane
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Deforestation: The Vulnerability of Trees
Forests constitute one of the most valuable ecosystems on Earth because of their tremendous biodiversity. However, their vulnerability to human action has led to their being wiped out in many different regions of the planet; this is what is referr
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Tagged CO2 Emissions, Deforestation, Enviroment, Greenhouse effect
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Climate Change and the Economy
On March 20, 2010 a thunderous roar broke the nocturnal silence in the Fimmvörðuháls region of Iceland. The frozen waterfalls of the Skógar route, popular for its beauty among the thousands of hikers who follow the trail during the summer … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate, CO2 Emissions, Enviroment, Green economy, Volcano
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Globalization and Climate Change
Is there any connection between globalization and climate change? There has been a great deal of discussion about climate change in previous blog articles, so there is no need to go into this issue further here. Nevertheless, I think we … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate, Globalization, Green economy, Kyoto Protocol
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How to reduce energy consumption in transportation
In Spain, transportation accounts for nearly 40 percent of the total amount of energy consumed. And within the transportation segment, highway transport represents close to 80 percent. Global figures are quite similar: 30 percent of energy consump
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Tagged Biofuel, CO2 Emissions, Petroleum, Responsible Comsuption
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Green is the New Big Deal [1]
The world economy is presently facing three major challenges: the financial crisis due to credit shrinkage, the high cost of energy, and climate change. These three facts put together could potentially lead to a global recession that may be sustai
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Tagged Copenhagen agreement, Ecology, Enviroment, Green economy, Greenhouse effect, New Deal
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Everything you always wanted to know about ozone but were afraid to ask
At the end of the 70’s people began to talk about ozone beyond the confines of science. It had been discovered that there was a hole in the upper layer of the atmosphere through which the sun’s most harmful rays … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate, CO2 Emissions, Enviroment, Greenhouse effect, ozone
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