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...passengers, that an "open skies" aviation deal aimed at liberalizing transatlantic travel could deliver over the next five years 3.5 million Estimated tons of additional CO2 emissions the "open skies" deal would create annually. Weeks before agreeing to the airline deal, European leaders had pledged to cut overall greenhouse-gas emissions...
...advocates also say it strengthens regulations when warranted. Ernst & Young's index of AIM's oil and gas companies - around 7% of AIM's list - slid by 6% in 2006, a lingering reverberation from a series of shock announcements from energy firms that their reserves were dry. Last year the LSE began requesting such firms submit independent annual reports on their reserves...
When climate scientists use the word adaptation, they are referring to actions intended to safeguard a person, community, business or country against the effects of climate change. Its complement is mitigation--any measure that will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, such as drawing power from a wind turbine rather than a coal-fired power plant. Mitigation addresses, if you will, the front end of the global-warming problem; by cutting emissions, it aims to slow rising temperatures. Adaptation is the back end of the problem--trying to live with the changes in the environment and the economy that global warming...
...adaptation is rooted in the unhappy fact that we can't turn global warming off, at least not anytime soon. The momentum of the climate system--carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphere for decades, while oceans store heat for centuries--ensures that no matter how much humanity cuts greenhouse-gas emissions, our previous emissions will keep warming the planet for decades. Even if we were to magically stop all emissions today, "temperatures will keep rising, and all the impacts will keep changing for about 25 years," says Sir David King, chief science adviser to the British government. So while...
Change, of course, begins at home, and Faust enters her term with momentum already waiting for her. The Harvard undergraduate body voted in December by an 88 percent vote that the University ought to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 89 percent of 1990 levels by 2020; the student council of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences agreed. The University already runs its own Green Campus Initiative, which has done tremendous work in bringing our campus up to the latest environmental standards, investing over six million dollars in 85 environmental projects and $100,000 in renewable energy research...