Ontario universities have submitted a sustainability pledge to the Ontario government on 26 November, 2009. Through this pledge Ontario universities communicated their commitment in evolving a Greener World in the province, and the environment surrounding them. This intention of making the world a cleaner pace was supported by the Executive Heads of Ontario universities, and also by the Ontario government. Executive Heads of Ontario universities carried out the presentation of this pledge at a reception held at Queens Park.
According to WWF report, an educational webinar will be organized by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), which will focus on the possibilities of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in industries throughout the world with the usage of biotechnology. This event will take place on 3 December, 2009 between 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST.
The Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) and Pollution Probe have launched a primer on Automobile Fuel Efficiency and Emissions. Being the first of its kind, this primer focuses on reducing environmental footprint and enables drivers to save fuel by providing them with a list of fuel reduction measures. Technological and driving factors are also imparted to the drivers to educate them on fuel efficiency.
A climate conference will be conducted at Denmark tentatively during the month of December 2009, which will focus on deriving a new agreement for preventing climate change.
TransForm has released a new study that discloses that people in California can meet the greenhouse gas reduction targets by changing their car culture. The study titled, ‘Windfall For All: How Connected, Convenient Neighborhoods Can Protect Our Climate and Safeguard California’s Economy,’ has found that the people who live in Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento and the Bay Area spend less amount of money in transportation than the other communities that live in areas where public transportation facility is limited. The study finds that if people in these areas had better access to transportation, the state would be able to save as much as $31 billion annually on the cost of transportation and emit 34% less greenhouse gas emissions.
In a rather confrontational study, a scientist from the University of Utah has argued that risks from the increasing levels of carbon dioxide emissions cannot be mitigated unless the equivalent of building a new nuclear power plant daily is accomplished.
A new study of Antarctica's climate history shows that in some brief warm periods between ice ages, temperatures were up to 6oC warmer than the present day. The findings, reported this week in the journal Nature, could help us understand more about rapid climate changes.
A major survey on Australian attitudes to climate change released today by the United States Studies Centre (USSC) at the University of Sydney mirrors recent polling among Americans.
The strongest evidence yet that the rise in atmospheric CO2 emissions continues to outstrip the ability of the world's natural 'sinks' to absorb carbon is published this week in Nature Geoscience.
A large-scale 3-D walk-through exhibition about climate change and the Antarctic, which opens this Friday at the University of Sydney, is a visually sophisticated means for conveying critical information about climate change.
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