Welcome to Eco. This section is dedicated to our many environments around the globe. Ever changing contributions, reverence and demands. Observing and managing our "home."
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Article Source: Telegraph.co.uk
Global greenhouse gas emissions will be 9 per cent below what they were expected to be in 2012 as a result of the recession, researchers said today.
But the lower levels will delay by just 21 months the moment the world reaches the temperature rises predicted to cause ''dangerous'' climate change if ''business as usual'' emissions resume after economic recovery, they warned.
The researchers at the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) centre for climate change economics and policy said that if the downturn deteriorates into a depression as bad as the one seen in the 1930s, emissions will be 23 per cent lower than they would have been without the recession.
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Article Source: Bloomberg.com
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Power generation using giant mirrors and solar panels to concentrate the sun’s rays and turn turbines will expand more than 100-fold over the next two decades, according to the International Energy Agency.Solar thermal production will increase to 124 terawatt hours of energy in 2030 from less than 1 TWh in 2007, the Paris- based group said today in its annual energy outlook report.
Commercial interest in “concentrated” solar power is growing, allowing regions such as the U.S. Southwest, southern Europe and northern Africa to use the sun’s energy in some of the driest regions. Solar production has the most potential of all renewable sources to provide more of the growing world’s power needs, energy experts say.
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Article Source: InterPress Service
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 28 - The world's forests and jungles are much more than carbon storage sites and compensation for greenhouse emissions, experts and activists point out to governments that are negotiating a new global climate change treaty.
This was one of the main conclusions reached by the 13th World Forestry Congress, held Oct. 18-23 in Buenos Aires, which drew more than 4,000 academics, experts, business leaders, government and multilateral officials and representatives of a broad range of non-governmental organisations.
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Article Source: CS Monitor
New study finds that trees cover a significant portion of the world’s farmlands.
People often blame agriculture for deforestation: Farmers, the thinking goes, clear trees to plant their crops.
But a new study by scientists at the World Agroforestry Centre, whose headquarters is in Nairobi, Kenya, casts doubt on this paradigm.Satellite imagery reveals that trees cover a significant portion of the world’s agricultural lands – more than 247 million acres in all.
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Article Source: Telegraph.co.uk
Engineers have performed their magic once again. The world is not going to run short of energy as soon as feared.
America is not going to bleed its wealth importing fuel. Russia's grip on Europe's gas will weaken. Improvident Britain may avoid paralysing blackouts by mid-decade after all.
The World Gas Conference in Buenos Aires last week was one of those events that shatter assumptions. Advances in technology for extracting gas from shale and methane beds have quickened dramatically, altering the global balance of energy faster than almost anybody expected.
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