Cleantech depends on energy policy. US President Obama deals with two core climate issues: meeting the larger goal of reducing carbon emissions, and finding a way of rescuing the renewables industry from Wall Street’s collapse. The benchmark of 450 ppm is a crucial figure issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. ‘Limiting concentration to [...]

The Kyoto Protocol is an obvious failure in its mandate to enjoin countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, and quite ironically, ‘global carbon-dioxide emissions have grown by 25% since the protocol was adopted in 1997.’
There are glaring reasons why the soon-to-expire Kyoto Protocol did not succeed. This treaty left out of the [...]

Cassava is touted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as the savior of Africa, being a staple food of more than half a billion of the world’s poorest people. The crop augurs well in the continent because it is basically drought-resistant. But one of the most important foods on the planet is becoming [...]

Ford goes eco-friendly with their new next-generation high-efficiency low-CO2 four-cylinder EcoBoost gasoline engine family. This was unveiled today at the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show. This is an innovative way of finding the right tune of power and economy. Ford aims to increase the power of its engines and reducing fuel consumption at the same time [...]

Perhaps to make Earth Day 2009 more significant, carbon dioxide (CO2) was officially categorized as a pollutant by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This overhauls the grand scheme of things through the climate change bill which has already survived the US House of Representatives, and is awaiting an equal approval by the US Senate. The [...]

Here is an interesting product which seems to let people know about the Carbon Di-oxide emissions. The minimalist and simple design of the cube is in contrast with the complications posed by climate change and global warming.
The block called “Dado” seems to tell people how they could reduce CO2 emissions. I doubt anything extremely technological [...]

When power plants or car engines burn fossil fuels, they emit a lethal mixture of chemicals in the form of particulate air pollution. This fine dust that enters the lungs, proceeds to the bloodstream, liver, and brain contains a deadly mixture of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), polycyclic aromatic hyrdrocarbons (PAHs), and toxic heavy metals. That [...]

In 1982, US total carbon emissions fell 5.3 percent. After nearly 30 years in 2008, the country saw its biggest CO2 emissions reduction at 2.8 percent. The reasons were mostly tied to the financial meltdown: economic slump, reduction in energy use, and high fuel prices.
Another interesting revelation is that while GDP went up 1.1 percent [...]

Climate change is the greatest threat to global health in the twenty-first century, according to a report in the medical journal The Lancet, coming from scientists who underscore the need for urgent action.
“This is not a disaster movie with a happy ending, but something real,” said Professor Anthony Costello, director of the report, who asserted [...]

The world is increasingly close to the atmospheric limit for carbon dioxide. Failure to drastically and urgently reduce CO2 emissions will very soon make it impossible to avoid an average warming of the Earth at the 2ºC threshold which is considered dangerous to life. Moreover, we have already spent half of a hypothetical budget of [...]