Are the Government’s current energy reductions strategies doing enough to reduce the UK’s carbon footprint?
Total Environmental Management (TEM), consultants responsible for energy management at the 02 Arena, is conducting a survey covering opinions of UK businesses on a range of energy related issues.
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THE WORLDS 500 largest companies are responsible for more than 10 per cent of global emissions, new research by the Carbon Disclosure Project has found.
Alberta’s biggest greenhouse-gas producers paid the provincial government about $63 million last year to cover failures to meet carbon-reduction targets.
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At the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Indigenous participants are increasingly concerned about REDD.
REDD stands for
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IRU, representing truck, bus, coach and taxi operators in 74 countries spanning the 5 continents, commits to achieve a 30% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2030.
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Calling it a Carbon Chasm, the Carbon Disclosure Project reports that the world’s largest companies need to double the pace of their carbon emissions reduction efforts if catastrophic climate change is to be avoided:
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Majority of firms have reduction goals to 2012 only, indicating need for government leadership
Based on current reduction targets, the world’s largest companies are on track to reach the scientifically-recommended level of greenhouse gas cuts by 2089
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Analysts today warned that the UK is set to miss 2020 goals for deep cuts in carbon dioxide.
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The greatest risk embedded in carbon credits isn’t that governments won’t agree on long-term reduction targets, but that they won’t have the backbone to enforce those targets once agreed on. Now two founding members of the London Accord have proposed a hedging instrument that forces government to put their money where their mouths are.
CANBERRA (Reuters) – The Australian government on Monday ruled out following Britain with a tougher target for carbon emissions by 2050, saying business needed certainty over targets in the run-up to carbon trading.
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said Australia had set an ambitious target to cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent by 2050, and the target would not change.
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