Category Archives: climate change
US shale gas production boom, Europe glut to alter the energy and oil landscape
Business Features 20 May 2012. Henning Gloystein London A boom in North American shale gas production in the past five years has resulted in sharp falls in domestic power and gas prices there and could turn North America from a … Continue reading
Alert: there’s no spare planet for greed
Cape Times, Melanie Gosling 17 May 2012. THE bad news is that we are using up 50 percent more resources than the planet can provide, eating into our natural capital instead of living off the interest. The good news is … Continue reading
Club of Rome sees 2 degree Celsius rise in 40 years
Reuters 8 May 2012. Rising carbon dioxide emissions will cause a global average temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius by 2052 and a 2.8 degree rise by 2080, as governments and markets are unlikely to do enough against climate change, … Continue reading
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EU dithers over climate fund
Cape Times 8 May 2012. EU nations are dithering over how to fill a multibillion-euro fund to help tackle climate change, just as the region’s executive body hosts talks with countries likely to bear the brunt of extreme weather. The … Continue reading
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Atomic ambitions race the clock
Mail and Guardian 4 May 2012. The South African government’s players have yet to reach consensus on key decisions around powering South Africa. A standoff is brewing in the government over whether South Africa can pull off its new nuclear ambitions … Continue reading
Eating Less Meat Is World’s Best Chance For Timely Climate Change, Say Experts
Forbes.com 28 April 2012. (Editorial note: Reduces GHG emissions, saves water and energy and makes us more healthy – sounds good!) Shifting the world’s reliance on fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is important, certainly. But the world’s best chance for achieving … Continue reading
Darling wind farm gets green light, but farmers are divided
IOL Property 19 April 2012. (Editorial comment: This is the full version of a previous post – thank Frank! It is interesting in that it highlights the conflicts between clean energy and aesthetics that are arising in South Africa and … Continue reading
Analysing COP17 (April 2012)
CPLO 18 April 2012. From 28th November to 9th December 2011 South Africa hosted ‘COP17 – CMP7’ the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The term ‘parties’ refers to the … Continue reading
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International Energy Workshop (IEW) at UCT 19-21 June 2012
UCT 13 April 2012. The IEW (www.internationalenergyworkshop.org) is a leading conference for the international energy modeling community. In a world of environmental and economic constraints, energy modeling is an increasingly important tool for addressing the complexity of energy planning and … Continue reading
I’m melting – 350.org – Join the dots event 5 May 2012
Bill McKibben 350.org 30 March 2012. Dear friends, Imagine one of the largest banners the world has ever seen, staked down on a California glacier with a simple message: ‘I’m Melting!’ Now imagine, at the same moment, activists in Ho … Continue reading
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