The Nature Conservancy in collaboration with Blue Source launched a unique forest conservation program. The conservation program, Working Woodlands, aspires to fight climate change and protect forests. This program aims to reward landowners who show good ability to manage their forest effectively with market-based incentives.
Anheuser-Busch, a leading American brewer, has promised to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions at its operations and breweries by 5% from the year, 2005 through the year 2010. Anheuser-Busch had given this commitment in the year 2007 at the time of joining EPA’s Climate Leaders program. Anheuser-Busch has met its goal to reduce the emissions one year ahead of schedule. This achievement was commended at the Climate Leaders Partners’ annual meeting on December 2, 2008.
Royal DSM N.V., the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, scores highest in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) of the fifty largest companies listed at Euronext Amsterdam for its approach to climate change disclosure. The CDP represents 475 global institutional investors with USD 55 trillion in assets under management.
In the long term, the Earth’s temperature may be 30-50% more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide than has previously been estimated, reports a new study published in Nature Geoscience this week.
The FTTH Council Europe has stated that Green Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Technologies will help in connecting the UN Climate Change Conference to the world. The Highest FTTH Penetration Rates are found in Denmark, which is considered as a Leading European Country in terms of its Sustainable Innovation. The Climate Change conference will offer the possibilities of remote participation besides being connected by the fiber-to-the-home technology. Efficient developments and high-speed access will be obtained from the Copenhagen Bella Conference Center and from the broadband connections in Denmark.
Harris Interactive has conducted an online survey of 2,303 adults, between November 2 and 11, 2009, which revealed a sharp reduction of people who believe that emission of carbon-di-oxide and other gases will lead to global warming. Two years ago, 71% of people believed that global warming is due to emission of greenhouse gases and that percentage has dropped to 51% according the poll. The poll results also reveal an increase of people from 23% to 29% who do not believe that global warming is due to carbon-di-oxide emissions since 2007.
Grameen Foundation and Oxfam America have released a report that analyzes the role played by Microfinance institutions in controlling the impacts brought about by climate change on the poor people. The report titled “Climate Change and Microfinance” was written by Asif Dowla, a Professor of Economics and an expert in Microfinance from St. Mary’s College. This report highlights the most important poverty related issues that are to be discussed at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in Copenhagen next week.
The Sherwin-Williams Company has guaranteed to reduce its overall emissions of US greenhouse gas from the year 2007 to 2010. The company aims in achieving a reduction of 4% in greenhouse gas emissions by joining with the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Climate Leader program. The Sherwin-Williams Company joined this program in the year 2007.
Recently, the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) has released an analysis of the U.S. economic growth. Even if the U.S. government adopts various legislations to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases for sustainable environment, the analysis reveals that the economic growth of the country will be about 70% through the year, 2030.
Mercy Corps has implemented an Indonesian Cities Project, with the support from the Urban and Regional Development Institute (URDI). This one year project has received a grant of $525,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation. Mercy corps is involved in preparing and recovering the urban slum dwellers in Indonesia from the impacts brought about by global warming. This is quite similar to the Copenhagen conference that aims in fighting against various climate change issues. This project is a part of the Asian Cities Change Resilience Network that was established by the Rockefeller Foundation.
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