The new to-do list: Run business, cool planet
Tags: CARBON dioxide mitigation; GREENHOUSE gas mitigation; POLLUTION prevention; BEST management practices (Pollution prevention); GLOBAL warming
Related Articles
- What's Your Food Footprint? Breslau, Karen // Newsweek;4/2/2007, Vol. 149 Issue 14, p15
The article reports that consumers will now be able to calculate the carbon cost of the food they eat. Bon Appetit, a food service company that runs corporate and collegiate cafeterias, will be testing a low-carbon diet created to reduce greenhouse gas emissions which cause global warming....
- Meeting Clean. Hatch, Sue // Corporate Meetings & Incentives;Jul2007, Vol. 26 Issue 7, p32
The article focuses on the environmental strategy adopted by several organizations to fight the problem of global warming. This strategy refers to the process of buying carbon offsets to balance the greenhouse gases produced by flying, driving, heating and cooling buildings. This is done by...
- U.S. Promises Carbon Cuts. // Pollution Engineering;Oct2007, Vol. 39 Issue 10, p15
The article reports on the promise of Harlan Watson, the senior climate negotiator for the U.S. Department of State, that the country would contribute to carbon limits that will be set during talks through 2008. It is stated that the 1997 Kyoto Protocol limits countries by 5% below 1990 emission...
- Greenhouse gas data 'inconsistent'. // Utility Week;3/21/2008, Vol. 28 Issue 21, p27
The article focuses on inconsistency in the greenhouse gas data in Great Britain, according to a report from the National Audit Office (NAO). The office cited a degree of confusion over goals of the government for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and a significant shift in the basis for the...
- Western states cut emissions. Geiselman, Bruce // Waste News;9/3/2007, Vol. 13 Issue 9, p11
The article reports that six U.S. states and two Canadian provinces have pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the West by 15 percent by 2020. The governors and premiers of the states and provinces agreed to the target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by a cumulative 15 percent by...
- Kyoto promises are nothing but hot air. Pearce, Fred // New Scientist;6/24/2006, Vol. 190 Issue 2557, p10
This article reports that many governments, including some that claim to be leading the fight against global warming, are emitting far more greenhouse gas than they say they are. This fact threatens to undermine not only the Kyoto protocol but also the new multibillion-dollar market in carbon...
- Gujarat Fluorochem corners a fifth of carbon credits. // Chemical Business;Nov2006, Vol. 20 Issue 11, p68
This article reports that one-fifth of the world's total supply of carbon credits has been cornered by Gujarat Fluorochemicals under a Kyoto Protocol trading scheme. A United Nations web site showed that a judging panel formally approved 780,000 tonnes of pollution cuts, giving the company a...
- Mitigation of Methane and Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Waste, Energy and Industry. Delhotal, K. Casey; De la Chesnaye, Francisco C.; Gardiner, Ann; Bates, Judith; Sankovski, Alexei // Energy Journal;Multi-Greenhouse Gas Mitigation, Vol. 27, p45
Traditionally, economic analyses of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation focused on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from energy sources, while non-CO2 GHGs were not incorporated into the studies, due to the lack of data on abatement costs of non-CO2 GHGs. In recent years, however, increasing attention...
- The Mining Sector and the Kyoto Protocol. Ion, Peter // Canadian Mining Journal;Jun2004, Vol. 125 Issue 3, p16
Presents information on the measurement and monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions reductions strategies of the coal mining sector as of June 2004. Amount of worldwide trading in carbon dioxide emissions in 2002; Measurement of ventilation air methane from mining activity on a global scale;...
