'Greening' lowers operational costs for enterprises, while reducing carbon emission The 'go green' message is slowly touching the heart of enterprises' it infrastructure - the data centre.

The energy industry has warned that an effective emissions trading scheme could drive up the price of energy by almost a quarter in inflation-adjusted dollars by 2020.

Higher retail prices would be driven by changes to the energy sector. Cutting carbon emissions 10% by 2020 would push up the cost of emissions permits to $45 per tonne of carbon dioxide, adjusted for inflation, according to a report commissioned by the Energy Supply Association of Australia.

Your happiness matters to earth
Moises Velasquez-Manoff

Overall, people around the world have grown happier during the past 25 years, according to the most recent World Values Survey (WVS), a periodic assessment of happiness in 97 nations. But the survey, based at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research in Ann Arbor, also underscore that, beyond a certain point, material wealth doesn't boost happiness.

The famous tribute to 18th century philosopher Voltaire - "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - is as apt today as ever before.

Freedom of expression is one of the principles that underpin the health of liberal democracies the world over. It is also normal and indeed essential for scientific research to be subjected to scrutiny and to be challenged.

That is why there is cause for concern about aspects of the current debate about climate change.

Washington: Scientists claim to have found a workable way of reducing CO

In the end, global warming is what could get us the N-deal soon

British state schools are to be included under the government's new domestic carbon emissions trading scheme from April 2010, the environment minister said on Wednesday.

Energy use in schools will be measured and count toward the emissions permit quotas of local authorities, which in turn will be encouraged to advise schools on energy efficiency, Hilary Benn said. "Young people stand to gain most tomorrow from the action we take on climate change today. That's why schools should be included in the shift to a low carbon economy,' Benn said in a statement.

It's almost a point of pride with climatologists. Whenever someplace is hit with a heat wave, drought, killer storm or other extreme weather, scientists trip over themselves to absolve global warming. No particular weather event, goes the mantra, can be blamed on something so general.

A much sounder approach than Kyoto and its successor would be to invest more in research and development of zero-carbon energy technologies

The government is working on an exhaustive set of norms, which would include tax concessions for the industry, to reduce carbon emissions. The ministry of science & technology would submit a report on norms for reduction of carbon emissions to PM's Council on Climate Change in November this year. "The norms would include tax concessions and legislative framework to motivate India Inc to effectively undertake carbon emissions' reduction programme,' said minister of science and technology Kapil Sibal.