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Climate Scientists Alleged to Have Manipulated Data

Thousands of sensitive documents and emails including some climate change docs dating back a decade ago that indicate scientists may be overstating the case for global ...

Rising Sea Levels Would Hit U.S. East Coast Hardest

Miami would become an island city - and Miami Beach an underwater reef - if climate change projections of a one-meter rise in sea ...

UN: Even With Emissions Cuts, Planet to Warm 6.3 Degrees by 2100

Climate researchers now project the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if industrialized and developing countries meet their most ambitious ...

San Fran Fliers Can Offset Emissions at Climate Passport Kiosks

New kiosks at San Francisco International Airport will allow fliers to offset the carbon footprint of their flights. Three credit-card operated kiosks ...

Researcher Says Global Forest Destruction is Overestimated

Hoping to affect global climate negotiations, a Brazilian researcher says that deforestation results in less than the 20 percent of global carbon emissions, which is a ...

UN: Lack of ‘Strong’ CO2 Goals May Hurt Climate Talks

If before the Copenhagen talks there aren't strong commitments from rich nations to curb their 2020 CO2 emissions, the global climate treaty will be crippled, according ...

Think Big, Long-term For Sustainability Success

Firms should develop long-term sustainability strategies that rely on innovation and big goals that tie into government partnerships, according to a new report from BSR. BSR, ...

European Investors Call for Changes in Carbon Trading

The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), the European investors' forum for collaboration on climate change, is calling for key changes in the carbon markets ...

Building Sector Needs to Reduce Energy Use 60% by 2050

A new study on energy efficiency in buildings (EEB) indicates that the global building sector needs to cut energy consumption in buildings 60 percent by 2050 to ...

UN: Construction Sector Fails to Realize Potential Emissions Cuts

Even though many surveys show that up to 30 percent cut in emissions from residential and commercial buildings can be achieved by 2030 at a net negative cost, the construction sector has ...

CO2 Climbing Regardless Of Economic Downturn

Although scientists thought an economic downturn would slow energy use, carbon dioxide emissions climbed 3 percent from 2006 to 2007, according to the Global Carbon Project's latest research, AP reports. U.S. ...

UK Farmers Try Special Diet To Reduce GHG Emissions From Cows

In a move to be more environmentally friendly, some UK farmers have put their cows on a special diet in order to reduce GHG emissions. According to “Green and White,” released by ...

Google, IBM, Nike Make List Of Businesses Bettering The Planet

Plenty Magazine awards 20 businesses for bettering the planet in innovative ways: A123 System – for making a nanotech breakthrough with a battery that charges faster, holds more power, and is ...

BT Pledges 80% Emissions Cut, Links Financial And Environmental Performance

BT has announced plans to cut its carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2020 and published a "Climate Stabilization Intensity Target," that creates a relationship between BT’s CO2 emissions and its financial ...

Business Leaders’ Bali Communique Seeks Binding Emission Targets

On the eve of the UN negotiations in Bali, business leaders of 150 global companies, including Coca-Cola, Dupont, Gap, GE, and Johnson and Johnson, have sent a communique to the 130 Environment Ministers ...

IPCC Report: Urgent Action On Climate Change Needed, Or Else

The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued its fourth report (video, audio, and slides here) saying that worldwide carbon emissions must stop increasing within seven years and greenhouse gas ...

Governors Sign GHG Accord, Ready TV Campaign

Nine Midwestern governors and the premier of Manitoba have signed the Midwestern Regional Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord. The agreement, signed at the Midwestern Governors Association Energy Security and Climate Change Summit held in Milwaukee, ...

Gore, IPCC Win Nobel For Global Warming Work

Al Gore and to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Prize for its work to alert the world to the threat of global warming, The New York Times reports. Gore “is ...

IPCC Report Says Global Warming Already Affecting Earth

The latest report (PDF of summary) from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finds that the earth’s climate and ecosystems are already being affected, for better and mostly for worse, by greenhouse gases, The New York ...

Illinois, New Jersey Set Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goals

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich announced a statewide goal yesterday to slash the production of heat-trapping greenhouse gases (to 1990 levels by 2020 and 60 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. On the same day, New ...

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