Climate Change

Organic farming and climate change

Study focusing on organic agriculture and mitigation and adaptation to predictable and unpredictable impacts of climate change - looks at the general contribution of agriculture to climate change; discusses the considerable potential of organic agriculture for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, and its contribution to sequestration of CO2 in the soil; outlines weaknesses of organic agricultur

Publication Date: 
01/01/2007
Urs Niggli, Heinz Schmid, Andreas Fliessbach
International Trade Centre
Tags:
Agriculture, Organic Farming, Food Supply, Oxides Of Nitrogen (NOx), Climate Change, IPCC, Green House Gases, Global Warming, Floods, Extreme Weather Events, Climate Mitigation, Carbon Sequestration, Drought, Food Security
Energy

The future of coal: an interdisciplinary MIT study

This MIT study examines the role of coal as an energy source in a world where constraints on carbon emissions are adopted to mitigate global warming. The study’s particular emphasis is to compare the performance and cost of different coal combustion technologies when combined with an integrated system for CO2 capture and sequestration.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2007
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tags:
Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Tax, Green House Gases, Coal, Carbon Sequestration, Electricity, China, India
Forests

Do trees grow on money? the implications of deforestation research for policies to promote REDD

This report summarizes the key drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, and the key policy options available to reduce the resulting carbon emissions. It reviews current deforestation rates and the associated issues related to monitoring forest-based carbon emissions and establishing baselines. The findings of research into the direct and underlying causes of deforestation and degradation provide a basis for outlining REDD policy options, while highlighting the associated challenges.

Publication Date: 
Dec 2006
Markku Kanninen, Daniel Murdiyarso, Frances Seymour
Center for International Forestry Research
Tags:
Forest Policy, Forest Research, Deforestation, Climate Change, Carbon Sequestration, Africa, Asia, South America
Climate Change

 Climate change conference World leaders fail to act again

The 12th Conference of Parties to the UN climate convention saw the setting up of an adaptation fund to help poor countries. Ritu Gupta reports from Nairobi

Publication Date: 
14/12/2006
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Environment Economics, Carbon Dioxide, Global Warming, Emissions Trading, Carbon Sequestration, Finance, UN, Kenya, China, India, Developing Countries, Statistics, Climate Change
Industry

 Norway, Statoil to capture, store CO<sub>2</sub> emissions

The Norwegian government and the oil company Statoil have reached an agreement to establish the world's largest facility to capture and store co2 emissions. During its recent budget announcement,

Publication Date: 
14/11/2006
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, Petrochemical Industry, Norway
Industry

 Companies, business associations effective agents to counter climate change

Climate Change

Publication Date: 
14/10/2006
Down to Earth
Tags:
Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, Renewable Energy, Emissions Trading, Carbon Sequestration, Industry, Private Sector, Media, Global
Energy

 Hydropower back in World Bank's good books

Big hydropower projects are poised to re-enter the good books of the World Bank (wb) and the Asian Development Bank (adb). In the early 1990s, the wb had stopped funding the Sardar Sarovar Project

Publication Date: 
14/10/2006
Ritu Gupta
Down to Earth
Tags:
Dams, Reservoirs, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Nuclear Power, Hydroelectricity, Carbon Sequestration, Energy, Finance, World Bank, Global
Agriculture

 Carbon dioxide lake discovered off Taiwan

A team of scientists based in Japan and Germany has found an unusual lake of liquid co2 beneath the seabed, says a recent National Geographic report. The co2 lake, discovered by Fumio

Publication Date: 
29/09/2006
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Marine Ecosystems, Lakes, East China Sea, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, Japan, Germany
Climate Change

 Companies for carbon sequestration undersea for more oil

british and Norwegian oil companies have announced plans to bury carbon dioxide under the bed of the North Sea. Though they claim they are trying to inhibit climate change, the actual purpose is

Publication Date: 
29/09/2006
Ritu Gupta
Down to Earth
Tags:
Marine Ecosystems, North Sea, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Carbon Sequestration, Oil Exploration, Petrochemical Industry, Norway, United Kingdom (UK)
Climate Change

Albedo enhancement by stratospheric sulfur injections: A contribution to resolve a policy dilemma?

Fossil fuel burning releases about 25 Pg of CO2 per year into the atmosphere, which leads to global warming (Prentice et al., 2001). However, it also emits 55 Tg S as SO2 per year (Stern, 2005), about half of which is converted to sub-micrometer size
sulfate particles, the remainder being dry deposited. Recent research has shown that the warming of earth by the increasing concentrations of CO2 and other greenhouse gases is partially countered by some backscattering to space of solar radiation by

Publication Date: 
01/08/2006
Paul J. Crutzen
Climatic Change
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3-4
211–219
Tags:
Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Green House Gases, Solar Radiation, Rainfall Pattern, Health Effects, Oceans and Seas, Carbon Sequestration, Atmosphere And Ozone Layer

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