A study by the World bank estimates that it would cost $75-$100bn to adapt to climate change per year for developing countries starting from 2010.
Major costs would come from improving coastal protection and protecting transport links. The costing is based on the assumption that temperatures rise by 2C (3.6F).In fact as the temperature rises more than 2C, so will the costing.
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The popular Free Runners who leap, vault and roll have started a climate campaign urging global leaders to take action in the upcoming Copenhagen summit in December.
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The Global Wake-up Call consisted of 2682 events in 134 countries and Avaaz received some over 3400 photos in their Flickr account. This just shows how many people are really doing something and now its your turn to participate. There are still some 74 days for the COP-15.
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Algaeus (Algae+ Prius) has completed a 3750 mile cross-country tour which started in San Francisco and ended in New York. A 2008 Toyota Prius, a modified plug-in hybrid had been altered to run on algae-power gasoline fuel without any modification done on the engine.
This model had an average of 147mpg PHEV( plug-in electric hybrid) mode and 52mpg highway in hybrid mode. The use of algae in fuel has been much talked as it comes from the environment being abundant , but its addition to crude oil making it Green Crude.
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Today is the big day, the Global Wake-Up Call. Owing to the festive season of Eid-ul-Fitr I am sure most of you are busy. But those of you who are connected in Twitter follow them at Tcktcktck. I was catch-up on the action when I am back.
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Eid Mubarak to all of you and best wishes!
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The Scarlet, located at Mawgan Porth Cornwall is called a luxury eco hotel based on completely being green. You’re wondering, a green hotel, it could be boring possibly not luxurious but it looks quite luxurious.
Why is it green? Well the heating comes from a biomass boiler, using timber chips as biomass taken from a local timber firm. The pool is heated by solar panels. The power comes from Ecotricity, generating 100% wind power. So far so good. Read the full review here.
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Australia has become the largest carbon emitter per person of carbon dioxide passing USA. It was evident that China was to take this position however, Australia beat them to it. It is obvious with Australia depending on coal, and coal is known for causing more carbon dioxide emissions.
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Reuters.com held a Global Climate and Alternative Energy Summit from September 8-10 2009. A lot has been discussed in the summit including the upcoming COP15. Google has also proposed about there Solar Project in the summit. Other news during the summit was India’s policy to cut renewable costs, Suzlon receiving new orders of 400-500MW.
Update yourself about the summit.
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A way to prove and stand your ground. Seriously I think most people are still in denial about this. I am glad I found this. Its not only if your date says it, it could be your friends, peers, neighbors, you name it. Go through it.
Courtesy: Planetgreen
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Google has come with the idea of custom solar technology that will hopefully reduce costs of the solar technology by 60%. As there was a lack of innovation in this field, Google decided to take this on.
They are focused on the solar thermal concept. This concept is being under development by China. It is still not sure if they will eventually go through with this but they are looking into alternatives such as gas turbine run by solar energy rather than gas.
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Maldives is the first country to face the affects of climate change quite literally with the country sinking under water every year. When ever there is a global summit about climate change, you would always notice a Maldives representative to be there. However this time, its different.
With the Copenhagen summit nearby, Maldives president will be unable to attend the summit as the country is broke. The country’s population is already termed as climate refugees, as most of them are forced to evacuate the island.
Latest update- Denmark will finance the trip of Maldives representatives.
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Age of Stupid ,a new cinema documentary starring Oscar nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in 2055, a world devastated and watching an archive footage of 2008 and wondering why we did not stop climate change while we had the chance?
The movie focuses on climate change, oil, war politics, consumerism and human stupidity. The budget of this movie has been raised by crowd-funding and the fund-raising started on November 2004. This movie will have its Global Premiere on September 21, the Global Wake-Up Call, so start getting your tickets now.
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September 21st, is going to be an interesting day. The day is a Global Wake-Up call for world leaders to understand “Climate Change.” As Copenhagen approaches, crucial climate decisions have to be taken. Tcktcktck, have come up with the Global Wake-up Call, a channel through which people can stand united about Climate Change and take action.
So far from their site, there are roughly 1,004,352 global citizens who have pledged for Climate Action and still increasing by the second. They intend to reach the 2,000,000 mark. Tcktcktck have some major partners supporting them in their cause and they are big names some are WWF, Avaaz.org, Christian Aid, GREENPEACE, Global Humanitarian Forum and so on. Get involved and add your name to the petition. A lot of countries are doing different things to start something, so add yourself and find your country and be part of this movement.
They have also started a countdown towards 7th December for the Copenhagen Summit with only 88 days left, things are heating up.
All eyes will be on New York City on September 21st, The world is ready, the time is now!
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In the latest inventions of renewable energy, NovoThink has come up with a solution of charging your Ipods and Iphone via a skin which contains solar cells, so you basically use the Sun's energy to charge your Ipods and Iphone devices.
This brings Apple closer to protecting the environment. They have started giving estimates to customers,telling them how much carbon is used in producing each of their products and how efficiently they produce. They have also removed elements from their products that were present in their previous models.
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A question arises, it is feasible and if so is it sustainable? True that by electrifying highways, you wont need electric batteries for your car, so you save space in the car and could utilize it to increase your leg room. However just imagine the amount of electricity that has to be generated to sustain the vast number of cars on the roads especially at this present day.
Also if for some reason the electric grid fails in one sector, cars would completely stall in the middle of the road. So your going at 100mph and the electric grid fails, your engine loses power and you cant brake properly because the car’s electrics depend on electricity and in modern cars everything is electric. But I am sure there is a backup energy source in case if something was to happen.
Its sound like a good idea, but by increasing the electric consumption, there is a risk of polluting more in the process.
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The Himalayan Glaciers, the largest water source compared to the polar ice caps, and the seven great Asian rivers, is melting fast. What makes it different from the polar ice caps, its a major source of drinking water within the regions surrounding the Himalayan. As a result, lack of fresh drinking water will pose a major health risk in the near future, and not only that, with the glaciers melting fast, raising sea levels will be some of the issues that will be faced in the near future.
As the water level declines (of course after decades), chances of drought happening is for sure, which will have a large affect to the agricultural sectors. Countries surrounding the Himalayan, China, India, Nepal as well as the people far away from this region depend on agricultural, so you get the picture as too why this is serious.
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As discussions go on about climate change and with the Copenhagen Summit nearby tension is building as to what the summit could solve, whether if there will be quick decisions made and implemented.
A study by the UK Royal Society indicated that constructing engineering marvels could become the last resort and that such feats are feasible. At this point geo-engineering, engineering the environment we live in is the solution to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Projects like using scrubbers to clean the atmosphere, or using mirrors in space to deflect the Sun's rays from entering the atmosphere.
There were talks and I think it is in the implementation stage of trapping CO2 underground. The projects suggested are technically possible already would require decades to get them up but it is feasible.
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