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The Brazilian government is willing to use a good relationship with the Chinese during the 16th Conference of Parties to the Convention United Nations Framework on Climate Change (COP-16), in Cancun, Mexico, in order to further discuss ways to measuring emissions of greenhouse gases in each country. China is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases [...]

A climate change that occurred in the past is a ‘particularly important guide to present-day concerns: a dramatic warming event that took place 55 million years ago (55 Ma). Comparison of the volume of carbon released to the atmosphere at 55 Ma and the volume we are now releasing ourselves strongly suggests that we are indeed facing a major global [...]

The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, more popularly called as the Copenhagen Climate Conference scheduled to be held from December 7-18 2009 is a much-awaited event where the representatives of the global community will sit, talk, negotiate a deal, and hopefully sign the deal on how to save our warming planet. These are some [...]

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 [...]

As found by some top international climate experts, there is a ‘critical, but fixable, error in the accounting method used to measure compliance with carbon limits.’ The flaw involves ‘the measurement of CO2 emissions from the use of bioenergy.’ If the said flaw remains uncorrected, the measures by which to meet the rightful goals towards greenhouse [...]

The Kyoto Protocol which did not achieve general success is about to expire. To replace it is the new climate treaty that will be forged in Copenhagen this December. More than thought of as a historic global agreement, the Copenhagen treaty is ‘the culmination of a 20-year process,’ and is ‘the last chance to save the planet from a temperature [...]

Many find the global discussion of deforestation a tired one, most especially with those who cannot directly relate to this particular environmental malaise. Much less is their capacity to correlate deforestation with worldwide carbon emissions. Fact is ‘deforestation accounts for 20%-25% of worldwide carbon emissions, whereas the global transportation [...]

Al Gore, the biggest and noisiest pusher, mover, and shaker of global warming politics repeatedly claims that 98 percent of scientists agree with him. He also urges media to ignore the climate skeptics. Cynical politics may be redundant, but it’s hard to imagine a more cynical political issue than global warming. The underlying agenda of the [...]

Representatives from the US and the European Union (EU) were optimistic about the possibility of reaching a global agreement to combat climate change, but stated that the negotiations for a new climate treaty will be anything but easy. After two days of meetings of the 17 largest and emerging economies in the world, there is more optimism about [...]

Forest fires that cause deforestation and habitat loss are also responsible for 20% of carbon dioxide emissions. It is a phenomenon that feeds global warming. Fire and climate are a tandem that goes back at least 400 million years, since plants began to colonize the Earth. It used to be that forest fires resulted from natural phenomena such as lightning [...]