As momentum builds in the weeks before December’s climate negotiations in Copenhagen, our planets rainforests are firmly in the spotlight with UN backed REDD forestry schemes the driving force behind rainforest conservation. (more…)
Category : Forestry
On Monday this week, KLM became the first airline to run a passenger flight partially using biokerosene. The 1.5hr flight over the Netherlands, had one engine running on a 50:50 mix of sustainable biofuel and kerosene, whilst the other 3 engines ran on 100% normal kerosene. The biofuel used reduced CO2 emissions by up to 80% compared to convential kerosene according to KLM Chief Executive Peter Hartman. (more…)
Category : Biofuels
The BBC News website highlighted a combined pilot project between American Electric Power and BP alongside environmental groups such as the Nature Conservancy to find out if investing in tracts of rainforests to protect them against deforestation and in compensation for their own pollution. (more…)
Category : Green Talk
The burning of tropical forests emits more carbon dioxide every year than all the cars, planes, and boats on the planet – between 15 and 20% of global emissions.
Source: BBC News
Category : Green Numbers
Climate Change
THE EARLY DAYS:
Scientists have long been aware of the Earth’s extreme temperature variations, with the last major ice age ending about 10,000 years ago. However, in 1824 Jean- Baptiste Fourier discovered a global warming (or greenhouse) effect and, in1861, the Irish physicist John Tyndall carried out key research on carbon dioxide (CO2) and heat absorption. (more…)
Category : Green Basics