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Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online As a second week of climate talks begin at the Doha Summit in Qatar, the nearly 200 countries gathered there are no closer to a climate deal than when the last summit ended in Durban, South Africa in 2011. In fact, a rift that is continuing between wealthy nations and developing economies has led at least one country to back out of the talks altogether, saying it’s an outdated response to global warming. While New Zealand’s...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Greenhouse gas emissions originating from drained wetlands are roughly equal to that given off by industrial factories, a team of Swedish researchers claim in a new study. Experts from the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) were commissioned by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency to analyze and compile a report about the amount of greenhouse gases given off by forests and...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A newly released report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) is warning that Europe is on the verge of catastrophic climate change if it does not act on commitments made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That report joins another from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) stating that the cuts needed to curb global warming has widened as there is now one-fifth more carbon in the atmosphere than there was in 2000....
EVEN YEHUDA, Israel, November 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Sphere Corp. (OTCBB: BLSP) (the "Company" or "Blue Sphere"), a company in the Cleantech and Waste to Energy sectors as a project integrator, is pleased to announce that each of its two waste to energy projects - a 5.2 MW plant in North Carolina and a 3.2 MW plant in Rhode Island - has signed a letter of intent with an international compost manufacturing and marketing company at prices of up to $20 per ton of compost....
XI'AN, China, Nov. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China Recycling Energy Corp. (NASDAQ: CREG; "CREG" or "the Company"), a leading industrial waste-to-energy solution provider in China, today announced that its subsidiary, Erdos TCH Energy Saving Co., Ltd., has recently completed the registration of a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project entitled, "Inner Mongolia Erdos Metallurgy Co., Ltd. Electric Furnaces Waste Energy Utilization for Power Generation Project (Phase One)". The CDM...
The structure and processes of United Nations climate negotiations are "antiquated", unfair and obstruct attempts to reach agreements, according to research published today. The findings come ahead of the 18th UN Climate Change Summit, which starts in Doha on November 26. The study, led by Dr Heike Schroeder from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, argues that the consensus-based decision making used by the United Nations Framework...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the Environmental Investigation Agency: As the Montreal Protocol celebrates its 25(th) anniversary this week in Geneva, Switzerland, it stands as proof that coordinated global action can solve complex international environmental issues. By successfully phasing out the use of 98% of the chemicals that destroy the ozone layer, the Montreal Protocol put the ozone layer on the road to recovery and...
[ Watch the Video: Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions ] Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Google may have provided a street level view of America, but researchers from Arizona State University are looking at what many of us don’t see at street level; namely the carbon dioxide emissions from individual buildings. The climate scientists have created Hestia (named for the Greek goddess of hearth and home) a software based on three-dimensional maps that will detail...
SANTA ANA, Calif., Sept. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SaviCorp® (Pinksheets: SVMI) SaviCorp, maker of the DynoValve, today announced that Steve Sperrazza has been named National Sales Manager, effective immediately. In his position, Steve will be responsible for driving fleet sales and retail sales distribution, as well as hiring and training a national sales team to support these revenue-generating initiatives. Sperrazza has over 15 years of financial experience as a Wall Street...
Ship engine exhaust emissions make up more than a quarter of nitrogen oxide emissions generated in the Australian region according to a recently-published study by CSIRO and the Australian Maritime College in Launceston. Nitrogen oxide is a non-greenhouse gas, unlike similarly named nitrous oxide. The remainder comes from road and air transport, energy generation, and industrial processes. Global studies indicate that shipping emissions of nitrogen oxide and sulphur contribute to the...
