Wed 6 May 2009
Weekly Sustainability Notes 5/4
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Story of the Week: Nature on climate and Copenhagen
This week’s Nature is devoted to climate in anticipation of the next UNFCCC (that’s the United Nations Framework Conventions on Climate Change) meeting in Copenhagen in December. In the run up to that important meeting, Nature has started collecting all their climate change coverage here.
Most of the content is subscription-only so we’re working to get a copy we can distribute among the team. Meanwhile, there are a two interesting articles online.
A burden beyond bearing: talks about the difference between 350 and 450 ppm and Jim Hanson’s crusade.
Time to act: this Nature editorial urges political action but also says we must look at controversial adaptation technologies.
Nature’s Climate Feedback summarizes the rest of the issue.
And Climate Progress weighs in with a lengthy critique.
As an aside, this is also a very interesting story that’s touched upon in Nature as it puts the whole “what to aim for” debate in a totally different light:
New Scientist: Humanity’s carbon budget running out fast
Also of Note:
Sustainability:
Reuters: Ban gasoline cars from 2015: Norway Finance Minister
Economist: Transport / Two Wheels Good
Reuters: Five to watch in the Business of Green
The Globe and Mail: Ottawa takes aim at coal power
NYT: Bringing Efficiency to the Infrastructure
Treehugger: How Obama & EPA Could Use Clean Air Act to Enact Cap-and-Trade Without Congress
Climate:
AP: Clinton tells nations, US acting on climate change
Guardian: Arctic CO2 levels growing at an ‘unprecedented rate’, say scientists
WSJ: Specter: What Will Pa. Senator’s Defection Mean for Climate Legislation?
