Senate rejects escape valve for US ethanol use
The Senate refused to give states an escape valve from a proposed requirement to use more ethanol, the third lopsided vote in two days against watering down a so-called renewable fuels standard.
The Senate refused to give states an escape valve from a proposed requirement to use more ethanol, the third lopsided vote in two days against watering down a so-called renewable fuels standard.
Ahmedabad city covers around 190.94 sq km area with a population of around 45 lakh. As per the figures of Regional Transport Office (RTO) till November 2002 there are approximately 14 lakh vehicles
Water in Ahmedabad seems to have an ominous future, with groundwater levels depleting at the rate of 6-8 feet a year.In the 195 sq kms of area covered by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC),
2001 may be the second warmest year
Providing energy to the poor does not make good business. Take electricity. Connecting the 2 billion in the world who do not have access to large fossil fuel powered stations requires large investments in setting up grids. Moreover, the poor are not attra
The ESCAP/UNISDR Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2012, Reducing Vulnerability and Exposure to Disasters provides an analysis of the impact of disasters on Asian and Pacific countries between 1970 to 2011,
officials of London's Luton airport have decided to charge a fee from passengers to combat the detrimental impact of their flights on the atmosphere. Those boarding their flight from the
new zealand's carbon dioxide emissions grew by two per cent between 1999 and 2000, indicates the latest annual report on the country's energy sector. "This data represents the size of
Choking and pollution of the Great Lakes in Africa has affected breeding of unique fish species
The recently-released annual global energy trend tracker, World Energy Outlook (WEO), 2007 of the International Energy Agency, has sounded the alert on India crossing the tipping point of per capita GDP
the European Union (eu) is mulling a "controversial' greenhouse gas reduction plan, through which it will impose a carbon tax on goods imported from countries with no emission curbs under the
This study, conducted with the appreciated and committed participation of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Mr Jean Ziegler, illustrates, in the context of the 16th and 17th session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, how human rights can and must be mainstreamed in sustainable development issues. It contains a reflection offered
This report presents a conceptual framework that can be used by stakeholders concerned by the development and management of shared freshwater resources. The objective is to promote the sustainable and equitable use of transboundary water resources,
Arbovirus diseases have emerged as a global public health concern. However, the impact of climatic, social, and environmental variability on the transmission of arbovirus diseases remains to be determined.
Close collaboration between scientists in China, India, Italy, Switzerland, and IIASA has resulted in a tool to help policymakers in China and India make sense of the complexities of air pollutant controls and greenhouse gas mitigation.
There is a seamless link between research and assessments. The development of a science agenda should stimulate the science community to conduct additional research to address key issues in linking ecosystem services and human well-being. This is still a new area of research.
The purpose of the small-scale A/R CDM project activity are: to earn carbon credits from growing of trees to be planted, under the CDM provisions of Kyoto Protocol; to help in mitigation of global warming by planting trees for sequestration of atmospheric
There is growing support for characterizing ecosystem services in order to link conservation and human well-being. However, few studies have explicitly included ecosystem services within systematic conservation
Gases blamed for global warming reached record levels in the atmosphere last year, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday. Concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O) touched new highs after more steady rises in 2007, and methane had its largest annual increase in a decade, the World Meteorological Organisation said.
A ballooning global supply of carbon offsets could flood the European Union's emissions market and dent prices, according to a report to be published next month by Britain's Carbon Trust. EU member states, lawmakers and the EU executive Commission are in negotiations now to revamp the bloc's emissions trading scheme (ETS) from 2013-2020, and face a mid-December deadline.