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'Non-greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants in China' is the subject of the next webinar from the IEA Clean Coal Centre. Dr Andrew Minchener OBE will present the findings of his latest report in a webinar on 11 July at midday (UK time). Attendance is free, but registration is reguired.
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With its close connections to the environment and climate itself, tourism is considered to be a vulnerable and highly climate-sensitive economic sector, similar to agriculture, insurance, energy, and transportation. At the same time, tourism is a contributor to Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, including emissions from transport, accommodation and activities. In 2005, tourism's contribution to...
The authors calculated the rates at which CO2 is being sequestered in two different forest types of Himalaya. For their comparative study they took the degraded and non-degraded sites of pine and oak forests in Kumaun Central Himalaya. The Van Panchayats (VPs) or Community Forests are managing the nondegraded forest sites for centuries, and from this research they have come to know...
Since the extremely dry and hot summer of 2003, the question of what effects ongoing climate change will have on hydropower in Switzerland - mainly on the amount of electricity that will be produced, but also on the safety of hydropower plants - has often arisen. Even though predictions of the potential impacts of climate change on hydropower generation are characterised by uncertainty,...
This book broadens and deepens understanding of a wide range of population-climate change linkages. Incorporating population dynamics into research, policy-making and advocacy around climate change is critical for understanding the trajectory of global greenhouse gas emissions, for developing and implementing adaptation plans and thus for global and national efforts to curtail...
Climate change and carbon financing issues have been very much hyped in contemporary debate, even more so as the world prepares for the Conference of the Parties (CoP) 15 to be held at Copenhagen in December 2009. In this process, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) has been proposed as a carbon financing mechanism and debated as an instrument within the...
Much of South Africa is already arid or semi-arid and climate change is expected to increase temperatures and droughts and add to pressure on limited water supplies. Poor people will be hardest hit. The South African government has been commendably vocal in calling for rich countries to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Yet South Africa is also part of the problem as the largest emitter of...
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