The world’s largest stand-alone integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) project began transmitting power to the electric grid in Shanghai on Sunday. This 6.68-megawatt ($23.6 million) solar system, which can produce 6.3 million kilowatt-hours (kwh) of electricity per year (enough power for 12,000 Shanghai…
Thank You, & Copenhagen Conclusions
To all of the people who had the goals and made the effort to bring positive change to the world in Copenhagen, here is one humungous thank you. Everybody who worked on addressing this critical issue of human-accelerated and potentially…
#2 Beijing (Peking), China: Great Bicycle City Photo Tour
“There are nine million bicycles in Beijing That’s a fact It’s a thing we can’t deny Like the fact that I will love you till I die.”
Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions Trends — 1990, 2000, 2008
Overall, global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels increased 29% between 2000 and 2008 and 41% from 1990-2008, and the current concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is now at its highest in at least 2 million years, according to a…
Is the US Climate Illiterate?
“The United States is in a sense climate illiterate still,” Hans Schellnhuber, the director of Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said earlier this week. He wasn’t just comparing the US to the EU, however. Even developing nations seem…
Safest & Least Safe Countries to Live in
A new report by Maplecroft, a world leader in global risk assesment, lists the countries at the greatest and the least risk of climate change problems. The new study examined 166 countries in total. With climate change, it is hard…
100 Days to Copenhagen Climate Conference Marked by Ice Sculptures in China and India
Yesterday, marking the 100-day countdown to the world-changing climate change conference in Copenhagen, Greenpeace presented beautiful ice sculptures in China and India to “to symbolise the ‘disappearing future‘ for the 1.3 billion people in Asia at risk of water shortage…
Future of Global Cooperation on Climate Change: From the US to India and Back
We know a bit about the current situation on climate change. We know which countries are emitting the most global warming emissions. We know that the EU is actively implementing policies to get their emissions down and are serious about…
Ice Cap to Ice Cap, Which Countries Lead the World in Global Warming Emissions?
Ever wonder who leads the world in global warming emissions? And by how much? A report released this month by the New Zealand government gives us this information.