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UNEP Welcomes Action On Combatting Climate Change Via Restriction of Hydrofluorocarbons

A scientific paper, highlighting the need to accelerate action over a group of gases known as Hydroflurocarbons (HFCs) as part of the climate change agenda, was today welcomed by the head of the UN Environment Programme

22 Jun 2009

Siemens Expecting Economic Stimulus Packages to Bring Them €15 Billion Including €6 Billion in Cleantech

Siemens expects to win new orders of around €15 billion in the next three fiscal years 2010 until 2012, which will be generated by government stimulus programs already announced around the world. Green technologies are expected to account for 40 percent or approximately €6 billion of this total

22 Jun 2009

UN Report Says Climate Change is Real and Happening Right Now

A new report presents the newest scientific evidence that warns that ocean temperatures, sea levels, extreme climate conditions and the retreat of the Arctic sea ice have picked up more pace than experts predicted two years ago

22 Jun 2009

Report Released on Reducing Carbon Emissions From Coal Fired Power Plants

Professor Ernest Moniz, director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and former undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, today unveiled a report on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants

22 Jun 2009

EU Delays Talks and Action on Climate Change

The European Union is delaying the ongoing climate negotiations, WWF said after the bloc’s Council once again failed to declare how much it planned to contribute to the global fight against devastating climate change

22 Jun 2009

New Study Looks At The Way Humans Respond To Climate Change

A Baylor University researcher has explored various means by which individuals and communities are responding to weather and climate change

22 Jun 2009

Climate Change Effects on the United States

For the past few years Americans have been dealing with erratic and often extreme weather conditions. And now according to a new report titled Global Change Impacts in the United States, there is evidence that these patterns are attributable to global warming

22 Jun 2009

Solar Energy Research Team Heads to Europe to Continue Their Work

A solar energy research team from Valparaiso University’s College of Engineering will return to Switzerland this summer to continue testing the potential of harnessing the sun’s energy for industrial applications

19 Jun 2009

Sports Are Playing a Growing Role in Promoting Environmental Sustainability

The crucial role played by Sports in various aspects of sustainable development was discussed by UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner in an address to the 'Forum on Productive Youth Development through Sport in Africa'

19 Jun 2009

We Can Win The Climate Change Fight But Will Need New Technologies and a Completely New Energy System by 2050

VTT just published a book entitled 'Energy Visions 2050'. The scenarios described in the book suggest that new technologies coupled with close international climate co-operation could enable us to mitigate climate change, but success will be dependent on renewal of the entire energy system by the year 2050

18 Jun 2009