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China has invited key developing country partners on November 27 for talks on climate change ahead of the U.N. negotiations that commence in Copenhagen on December 7. Related Reading: Italy’s total capacity of the photovoltaic (PV) installations that turn sunlight into power has risen to 700.7 megawatts from 650 MW a month ago, the state-run energy management agency GSE said on Thursday. Related Reading: Actress Cate Blanchett and Copenhagen Climate Council Chairman Tim Flannery have launched an eleventh-hour appeal to global citizens to join them in pushing for the strongest possible outcome at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which opens in less than two weeks. Related Reading: The phrase “catching a few rays” might conjure up images of lying on a sunny beach. But Germany’s Renewable Energy Act has given that phrase a whole new meaning. I’ve discovered that you can get paid for capturing the sun’s energy on your roof, converting it into CO2-free electricity with the help of special equipment, and feeding it into the grid — [...] – John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own – Energy efficiency will have to make the single most-important contribution if policymakers are serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions and dampening growing demand for fossil fuels. Energy efficiency will not remove the need to invest in large volumes of wind, solar and nuclear [...] A report by a group of leading scientists that global warming is accelerating and that world sea levels could rise at worst by 2 metres by 2100* is grim reading. But sceptics are using a flood of leaked e-mails from a British University — dubbed “Climategate” – to question the findings. You can read the Copenhagen Diagnosis here, by 26 researchers worldwide. It says [...] A three-week tour from the Colorado Rockies to the Arctic Ocean, the tropics, Antarctica and then back again to the Arctic again can give a new perspective of the world. “You get a feeling of how small the earth is,” said Pavel Romashkin, project manager for a scientific mission that just completed such a trek. “All [...] -Susanne Charlesworth is a member of SUDS – Sustainable Drainage Applied Research Group, Coventry University. The opinions expressed are her own.- The scenes of flooding in Cumbria are a shocking illustration of how Britain’s ageing drainage infrastructure is failing. The function of the majority of drainage structures is to remove water from inhabited areas as soon as [...] |
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