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Article Source: BBC
A UK Royal Society study has concluded that many engineering proposals to reduce the impact of climate change are "technically possible".Such approaches could be effective, the authors said in their report.
But they also stressed that the potential of geo-engineering should not divert governments away from their efforts to reduce carbon emissions.Such engineering projects could either remove carbon dioxide or reflect the Sun's rays away from the planet.
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Article Source: Bloomberg.com
Written by - Tina Seely - August 26th, 2009
Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The Energy Department plans $300 million in grants to encourage the use of alternative-fuel buses, trucks and taxis in American cities.
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Article Source: InterPress Service
Written by - Thalif Deen - August 13th, 2009
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 13 (IPS) - The growing commercialisation of water - and the widespread influence of the bottling industry worldwide - is triggering a rising demand for the legal classification of one of the basic necessities of life as a human right.
"We definitely need a covenant or [an international] treaty on the right to water so as to establish once and for all that no one on earth must be denied water because of inability to pay," says Maude Barlow, a senior adviser to the President of the U.N. General Assembly, on water issues.
Barlow, the senior U.N. adviser on water issues, said: "We are winning some of the battle against the global corporate theft of water.In my country [Canada], for instance, 53 municipalities - some of them big cities such as Vancouver and Toronto - have banned bottled water, and bottled water sales have dropped dramatically globally."
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Article Source: InterPress Service
Written by - Humberto Márquez - August 8th, 2009
CARACAS, Aug 8 (Tierramérica) - The Ecosystems Map of the Northern and Central Andes could serve as a guide for environmental conservation of this South American area covering 1.5 million square kilometres and holding the world's highest concentration of biodiversity.
The tropical Andes, the stretch of the mountain range that includes the Central Andes (Bolivia and Peru) and Northern Andes (Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela), were dubbed the "global epicentre of biodiversity" by British ecologist Norman Myers.
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Article Source: Worldwatch Institute
Written by - Ben Block - July 31st, 2009
The potential for energy-efficiency improvements throughout the U.S. economy is huge and entirely within reach if annual investments increase fivefold, according to a new McKinsey & Company report.
The global consulting firm estimates that $520 billion in investments would reduce U.S. non-transportation energy usage by 9.1 quadrillion BTUs by 2020 - roughly 23 percent of projected demand. As a result, the U.S. economy would save more than $1.2 trillion and avoid the release of some 1.1 gigatons of annual greenhouse gases, an amount equal to replacing 1,000 conventional 500-megawatt coal-fired power plants with renewable energy.
"There's more potential for energy efficiency in this country than anywhere else in the world," said Kenneth Ostrowski, a senior partner at McKinsey. "If we do nothing, we will waste $1.2 trillion."
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