The Gillard government has set a price on carbon emissions at AUD$23 a tonne, with increases of 5% a year before moving to a market dictated price in three years.
The EUCAARI (European Integrated project on Aerosol Cloud Climate and Air Quality Interaction) project has concluded its study and submitted its report saying that atmospheric aerosol particles (also known as particulate matter) are concealing the true level of global warming induced by greenhouse gas emissions.
A study performed by the researchers Jukka Heinonen and Professor Seppo Junnila at Finland located Aalto University has dispelled the fact that people living in cities will leave a lesser carbon footprint than those who live in the country side and found that the carbon emissions remain the same in the country side and city areas.
Recently, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has declared that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are the main causes for changes in the climate all over the world.
Businesses with great ideas for tackling climate change are being encouraged to enter a national competition that could see Australian innovation become a global success.
A research report published in the web by Nature Geoscience in June indicates that building of carbon dioxide over atmosphere will not bring in sudden changes in climate.
The aim of the newly formed “Tri4CCS Alliance” in capturing, transporting and storing of CO2 (CCS) cost-effectively and safely will be further strengthened through collaboration of research institutes such as Norway-based SINTEF, Netherlands-based TNO and France-based IFP Energies nouvelles.
Encos, a UK-based manufacturer of carbon negative green materials for use in the construction industry will participate in a meeting on sustainable building technologies being organized by the Beijing Commission sustainable development centre and Innovation China UK (ICUK) in China between 21 – 24 June.
The doctoral thesis titled ‘Urban Climate and Air Pollution in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso’ submitted by Jenny Lindén from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Gothenburg demonstrates that climate conditions of a city lend to increased levels of pollution. It also claims that improved awareness about pollution assists in controlling and restoring climate conditions.
UC San Diego and the UC Office of the President have succeeded in their attempts to convince the state regulators to drop a prerequisite on the use of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) gas, a greenhouse gas, in the safety tests of newly installed laboratory fume hoods.
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