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...Carbon-neutral design requires extensive analysis of the regional climate and attention to minute infrastructural details, the design team of a United Arab Emirates carbon-neutral city said yesterday at a panel hosted by the Graduate School of Design. The panelists presented the details of their work designing Masdar, a planned carbon-neutral city in Abu Dhabi intended to create a model of sustainability for the rest of the world. If everyone follows the Masdar model, “one planet is more than enough” to provide the necessary resources for human life, said Khaled Awad, the director...
Environmental activist William E. McKibben ’82 implored Harvard affiliates this week to recognize the imminent dangers of climate change and push for an international cap on carbon emissions.“In this past year, this has gone from ‘This is a big problem’ to ‘This is a big freaking emergency,’” McKibben said at one of a series of campus talks. “Climate change is happening on a way faster and a much larger scale than we thought it would...
Temperature increases could destabilize carbon-rich northern peat bogs, resulting in a massive release of carbon and the acceleration of global warming trends, according to a recent Harvard study...
...Obama's green intentions, however, he can't pass carbon cap-and-trade legislation by fiat - that will require Congress. Many congressional leaders, including some Democrats from coal-heavy states, remain doubtful about the benefits of mandatory carbon caps, especially with the U.S. drowning economically. One key signal will be the outcome of the battle for leadership of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee. The contenders: Representative John Dingell of Michigan, who has defended Detroit from tougher fuel-efficiency standards and stood in the way of action on climate change, and the challenger, Henry Waxman of California, who scores...
Although Governor Schwarzenegger's summit was overwhelmed by Obama's wattage, other good news emerged. Representatives from Indonesia - the third biggest carbon emitter in the world, thanks chiefly to massive deforestation - announced that the country would accept "avoided deforestation" projects with partners in the U.S. These projects allow companies in developed countries to pay to preserve forests in rain-forest nations in exchange for the carbon credits contained within the saved trees. Indonesia has long been wary of the method, fearing that it would lose sovereignty over its sprawling forests, but the Nov. 18 announcement is a hopeful sign that...