November 30 2009: Will New Emissions Cut Proposals From the U.S. And China Reinvigorate Copenhagen?
China and the U.S. — the world’s two largest emitters of greenhouse gases — have agreed to bring specific emissions reduction targets to Copenhagen, which could “reignite stalled progress for a global climate agreement” argues a piece at Bloomberg. But others say the targets amount to nothing more than business as usual.
An agreement among the world’s wealthiest nations to contribute at least $10 billion annually to help poorer nations combat the effects of global warming would go a long way toward making climate talks in Copenhagen end in success, said U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer.
Grist’s Copenhagen Central supplies a wealth of background information on the climate talks, as well as up to the minute twitter coverage of related news.
A series of studies published in British medical journal The Lancet found that cutting greenhouse gas emissions could save millions of lives each year.
The world’s largest corporations are investing 3-5 percent of their annual revenues in clean technologies. SolveClimate looks at how investment is spurring green job growth.
With climate legislation once again on the Congressional back burner, a Senate jobs bill may be an “interim opportunity to get some solid green jobs legislation passed,” according to Its Getting Hot In Here.
Researchers at M.I.T. believe they’ve developed a way to harness gadgets’ waste heat for energy use.
Local Green: A new solar panel manufacturing plant in Philadelphia could create 400 to 500 new jobs.
California regulators approved a new transmission line that will carry solar energy from the inland desert to the state’s coast.
–Christopher Greenspan
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