photo: Kevin Dooley / Creative Commons The California Air Resources Board yesterday passed a statewide cap and trade bill for greenhouse gas emissions , creating the second-largest emissions trading scheme in the world after Europe’s. A 9-to-1 vote brings into effect what CARB chairman Mary Nichols calls the capstone of… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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California Passes Cap & Trade Bill – Creates World’s Second Largest Emission Trading Scheme
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photo: Antonio Rojas This following is a guest post from author, barrister and international environmental lawyer Polly Higgins. TreeHugger recently reviewed Higgins’ newest book book Eradicating Ecocide . Colonialism by the Sea It was a surreal setting for the latest episode of the world’s climate negotiations: mega-all-inclusive exclusive hotels stretching the whole way along a 3 kilometre-long promontory, promoting themselves and their private stretches o… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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COP16: Cancun – Corporate and Complicit
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Oliver Foster’s Vertical Farm The Economist does a good summary of the strengths and weaknesses of vertical farming . They note that “The necessary technology already exists. The glasshouse industry has more than a century’s experience of growing crops indoors in large quantities”, and that “The technology of hydroponics allows almost any kind of plant to be grown in nutrient-rich water, from root crops like radishes and potatoes to fruit such as melons and even cereals like maize.” But does it make sens… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Economist Looks At Vertical Farming and Asks: Does It Stack Up?
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photo: IRRI Images / Creative Commons With COP16 just ended and some hope of multilateral action on climate revived a new report from Friends of the Earth highlights an important point in all these discussions: Current official calculations on emission reductions only give us a 50% chance of keeping temperature rise below 2°C. That’s not what nations have pledged to do mind you, which certainly won’t keep temperature rise below that critical thr… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Official Emission Reduction Calculations Only Give 50-50 Chance of Avoiding Climate Catastrophe
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photo: IRRI Images / Creative Commons With COP16 just ended and some hope of multilateral action on climate revived a new report from Friends of the Earth highlights an important point in all these discussions: Current official calculations on emission reductions only give us a 50% chance of keeping temperature rise below 2°C. That’s not what nations have pledged to do mind you, which certainly won’t keep temperature rise below that critical thr… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Official Emission Reduction Calculations Only Give 50-50 Chance of Avoiding Climate Catastrophe
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In the plenary hall at COP16 last night… video: Adopt a Negotiator That title is a paraphrase of Greenpeace International’s climate policy director Wendel T… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Cancun Climate Agreement Saves UN Process But Not The Climate
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In the plenary hall at COP16 last night… video: Adopt a Negotiator That title is a paraphrase of Greenpeace International’s climate policy director Wendel T… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Cancun Climate Agreement Saves UN Process But Not The Climate
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A still from a video about trash pickers in Turkey. Image: ‘ Turkey’s Changemakers ‘ Before there were municipal sanitation workers emptying dumpsters into their big blue trucks , other garbage men gathered trash in Istanbul neighborhoods, picking out scraps of paper or empty bottles to resell. Those that continue plying their trade toda… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Street Recyclers Demand a Say in Climate Talks
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Photo: BLM , Creative Commons A consensus seems to be growing that since comprehensive energy reform is now a long ways off in the US, the least we can do is get rid of subsidies and handouts for fossil fuel companies. And this new report from the USC Marshall School of Business illustrates why: Worldwide, fossil fuels receive a staggering 12 times the amount in subsidies that clean energy does…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Worldwide, Fossil Fuels Get 12 Times the Subsidies as Clean Energy
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photo: Jason McHuff / Creative Commons For months now, indeed for nearly all of 2010, the hopes for a global climate deal coming out of COP16, now underway in Cancun, Mexico, have been downplayed again and again. In fact, on the second day of talks Marc Gunther over at GreenBiz produced a list of
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COP16 May Fail to Stop Climate Change, But An Abolitionist Shift Will
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