Saving Earth

In a surprising new research, scientists have said that although the hole in the ozone layer is now steadily closing, but its repair could actually increase global warming in the southern hemisphere.
The Antarctic ozone hole was once regarded as one of the biggest environmental threats, but the discovery of a previously undiscovered feedback shows that [...]

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Tuesday signed a law requiring that Brazil cut greenhouse gas emissions by 39 percent by 2020, meeting a commitment made at the Copenhagen climate change summit.
The new law, however, is subject to several decrees setting out responsibilities and regulations for the farming, industrial, energy and environmental sectors.
Lula [...]

Copenhagen: UN climate talks avoided a total collapse on Saturday by skirting bitter opposition from several nations to a deal championed by the US President Barack Obama and five emerging economies including China.“Finally we sealed a deal,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. “The ‘Copenhagen Accord’ may not be everything everyone had hoped for, but this [...]

European Union leaders have agreed to offer around €7.2 billion to help developing countries deal with the effects of climate change over the next three years.
After a hard push by the Swedish presidency of the EU at a summit of the bloc’s premiers and presidents in Brussels on Friday to get every single member state [...]

16,500… people will fly in to attend the summit.
75… heads of state and other VIPs are expected to turn up, including Barack Obama.
200,000… cups of (organic) coffee will be served to delegates.
2,500… meetings will be held during the two week conference, across 38 rooms at the Bella Center.
192… lines are included in [...]

The Copenhagen climate change summit kicks off today in what will be a two-week marathon set of negotiations involving 15,000 delegates from 192 nations. The run-up to the talks saw a series of announcements by several of the world’s largest polluters pledging all sorts of commitments to reducing carbon emissions, but it has been China [...]

China will reduce the intensity of its carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020 by 40 to 45 percent of the 2005 level, a ”voluntary action” which its State Council described as Beijing’s “major contribution to the global effort in tackling climate change.”
The State Council’s decision was relayed to the [...]