Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Two years of tense negotiations on climate change are coming to an end next week in Copenhagen. Twelve years after similar talks produced the flawed 1997 Kyoto protocol, and two decades after international efforts to tackle climate change started, governments are at last preparing to draw up a global framework …
Australia's Senate voted down a planned emissions trading scheme yesterday, dashing last-ditch efforts by Kevin Rudd, prime min-ister, to have it enshrined in law before the Copenhagen conference. The government will reintroduce the legislation to parliament for a third time in February but the defeat thwarts Mr Rudd's hopes of …
The e-mail archives stolen last month from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK, have been greeted by the climate-change-denialist fringe as a propaganda windfall. To these denialists, the scientists
When Barack Obama took office as US president in January, he thought he had a double-whammy solution for two of his most pressing challenges: tackling the economic crisis and reducing his country
When the International Energy Agency delivered its recent World Energy Outlook, one figure stood out: $500bn. This is the amount that will need to be invested each year to keep inside the limits that scientists say are needed to head off the threat of catastrophic global warming
The world's carbon trading systems are at a crossroads, facing either decline and failure or a huge explosion of investment. Which way they go will depend on what is decided at the climate change conference starting in Copenhagen next week. Rescuing the much criticised United Nations' scheme and rendering it …
If scientists are to be believed, millions of people across the world could soon be eating bread and biscuits made from -- cotton which is rich in protein. Cotton seed is inedible as it contains a poisonous substance called gossypol. Now, the scientists claim to have found a way to …
Energy markets are undergoing major change. They have to cope with a new economic environment and, at the same time, a new energy context. Indeed, on the one hand, energy markets are undergoing deregulation with the aim of opening them to competition. They are also submitted to priva-tisation policies, which …
Industrial companies operating in the US are warning that they will face a heavy regulatory burden should US Congress fail to pass climate change legislation. The companies fear that without legislation, the US Environmental Protection Agency would impose its own rules on greenhouse-gas emissions or states would introduce different carbon …
This report provides background information that is relevant to assessing the ambition levels of the major countries involved in the current international climate negotiations. The EU
With countries from around the world set to meet in Copenhagen to try to hammer out a post-2012 climate change agreement, no one would disagree that a U.S. commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions is essential to such a global pact. this paper argues that, on the U.S. side, there …
As the United States and other developed countries have enacted or are in the process of developing legislation to cap greenhouse gas emissions post-2012, their policymakers are under increasing pressure from domestic constituencies to include trade measures as part of climate policy. This working paper analyzes relevant measures in emerging …
This study evaluates rail transit benefits based on a comprehensive analysis of transportation system performance in major U.S. cities. It finds that cities with large, well established rail systems have significantly higher per capita transit ridership, lower average per capita vehicle ownership and annual mileage, less traffic congestion, lower traffic …
This PricewaterhouseCoopers analytical report reviews G20 carbon intensity levels between 2000-2008 and the distance to go to 2050, underlining case for an ambitious deal in Copenhagen and emphasises the key role of China, US, EU and India. Very few of the G20 nations are on track to live within their …
This paper reviews the disproportionate role of wealthy nations in contributing global GHG emissions, contrasted with the role of poorer nations and people. It finds extreme inequity in terms of who contributes to climate change and who benefits from GHG-intensive development patterns. The paper links the eradication of the Indigenous …
Incorporating the beneficial use of industrial by-products into the industrial ecology of an urban region as a substitute or supplement for natural aggregate can potentially reduce life cycle impacts. This article specifically looks at the utilization of industrial by-products (IBPs) (coal ash, foundry sand, and foundry slag) as aggregate for …
Combined, aviation and marine transportation are responsible for approximately 5 percent of total greenhouse (GHG) emissions in the United States and 3 percent globally and are among the fastest growing modes in the transportation sector. Controlling the growth in these emissions will be an important part of reducing emissions from …
