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Climate & Environment - Dec 8
Energy Bulletin - —
... warming. Trials are to be started in Sussex and Belize early in the new year, backed with venture capital from Silicon Valley, on techniques to take carbon from the atmosphere and bury it in the soil, where it should act as a powerful fertiliser. The plan is to scale up rapidly into a worldwide enterprise to reverse the build-up of carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming, in the atmosphere and eventually bring it back to pre-Industrial Revolution levels. (8 December 2008) George Monbiot meets ... Yvo de Boer George Monbiot, The Guardian Series: Monbiot meets ...
George Monbiot Takes On...
Celsias Expert Articles —
... In the first of a remarkable series of video interviews, Britain's leading green commentator, George Monbiot, charges the UN's leading climate change official, Yvo de Boer with lacking ambition for a global emissions deal, and takes him to task over expensive carbon offset schemes and his support for the US president, George Bush. (Note: This film includes stock footage from ...
Q&A: Copenhagen climate change summit 2009
Ecoearth.info Blog —
... "The US is no longer absent without leave," she said. However, Denmark's minister for climate and energy, Connie Hedegaard, has warned that American leadership on climate change will be undermined if the Obama administration does not pass laws swiftly to reduce carbon pollution . What does the summit hope to achieve? Officials will try to agree a new climate treaty as a successor to the Kyoto protocol , the first phase of which expires in 2012. According to Yvo de Boer , executive secretary of the UNFCCC, the four essentials needing an ...
