Article from: The Courier-Mail, By Greg Stolz | October 31, 2008 Flannery pessimistic about ETS Predicts catastrophe within a decade Impact will be unexpected AN emissions trading scheme will not be enough to stop a potential climatic catastrophe on the same scale as the global financial crisis within 10 years, Australian scientist Tim Flannery has [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2008’
Air Quality Targets Dangerously Inadequate For Public Health
SCMP – Updated on Oct 31, 2008 We agree with views expressed by Anthony J. Hedley and Wong Chit-ming, of the University of Hong Kong (“New air quality measures inadequate“, October 25). We are extremely concerned that the government is proposing to use the very lowest tier of the WHO air quality targets as our [...]
Methane Emissions On The Rise
The Australian | October 30, 2008 EMISSIONS of the potent greenhouse gas methane are on the rise again – but this time it’s nothing to do with farting cows. Scientists have warned climbing methane levels may speed up global warming. Levels of methane, the second-worst greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, had plateaued but recently started [...]
HK And Guangdong Air Quality Shows Slight Decline On Last Year
Joyce Ng – SCMP | Updated on Oct 30, 2008 Air quality in Guangdong and Hong Kong in the first half of the year was marginally worse than a year earlier, data from a regional network of monitoring stations shows. Only three stations showed improvements over the same period last year, and pollution levels at [...]
Emissions At Least On Par With US: Beijing Admits It May Be World’s Top Polluter
Shi Jiangtao in Beijing – SCMP | Updated on Oct 30, 2008 A top climate official has admitted the mainland’s greenhouse gas emissions are at least on a par with those of the United States, but said the unfolding financial crisis was presenting new economic and technological opportunities to restructure the international campaign against global [...]
A Good Starting Point For UN Climate Change Talks
SCMP – Updated on Oct 30, 2008 In releasing its position paper on climate change, China has spelled out two national imperatives that appear to conflict. The nation’s leaders recognise the urgent need to combat climate change and reverse environmental degradation caused by rapid industrialisation. But they have also vowed not to let such efforts [...]
China Says Greenhouse Gases Catch Up With U.S.
Emma Graham-Harrison and Chris Buckley – Reuters | 29 Oct 2008 BEIJING, Oct 29 (Reuters) – China’s greenhouse gas emissions have caught up with the United States and will not fall any time soon, a top Chinese official said on Wednesday, while warning of a huge economic blow from global warming. The comments from Xie [...]
Report Announced By Pearl River Delta Regional Air Quality Monitoring Network
Media-Newswire.com | 29 Oct 08 The Environmental Protection Department ( EPD ) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Environmental Protection Bureau of Guangdong Province ( GDEPB ) today ( October 29 ) announced the report on the monitoring results of four major air pollutants ( sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, [...]
Black Cloud Has Silver Lining
SCMP | Updated on Oct 28, 2008 The global slowdown has resulted in the closure of a number of factories. As many of these factories were polluters, this has meant cleaner air. Also, as the credit crunch affects individuals, many have stopped driving to save money and are using public transport. This has led to [...]
Pollution-Reduction Goals Still Far Away, Admits Official
Agence France-Presse in Beijing, Updated on Oct 29, 2008 Mainland is having trouble meeting energy efficiency and pollution-reduction goals, but the government remains determined to reach the targets, a top official said on Wednesday. Vice-Minister of Planning Xie Zhenhua also said Beijing will consider controls on the greenhouse gas emissions of its worst polluting industries [...]