Зміни клімату мають людське обличчя
Зміни клімату мають людське обличчя

У День Кліматичних Наслідків учасники акцій з'єднали точки між змінами клімату та екстремальною погодою

5 травня 2012 - Палаючі ліси Сибіру, ​​танення льодовиків Паміру та зсуви ґрунту у горах Азербайджану - ці та інші небезпечні наслідки змін клімату змусили людей по всьому світу висловити свою тривогу. Яскраві і несподівані акції пройшли практично у всіх країнах світу, щоб підкреслити, що кліматична криза загрожує нашому благополуччю вже зараз.

Творчі демонстрації в Росії, Україні, Грузії, Азербайджані, Казахстані, Киргизстані і Таджикистані стали частиною глобального Дня Кліматичних Наслідків, або Connect the Dots, спільного проекту з ініціативи міжнародного кліматичного руху 350.org. День об'єднав понад 1000 заходів в 150 країнах в спробі "з'єднати точки" між локальними змінами, такими як екстремальні погодні явища, і глобальною кліматичною кризою.

КліматІнфо | Економіка, енергетика та їх зв'язок зі зміною клімату

Moving Planet action in Kyiv
The youth is MOVING THE PLANET in Kyiv

About 100 boys and girls participated in the MOVING PLANET flash-dance  with the demand to STOP THE RISE OF CO2 emissions

24th of September, Kyiv. The largest ecological flash-dance ever seen in Ukraine just happened at the People's Friendship Arch. About 100 participants – environmentally aware schoolchildren and youth – were dancing  in order to attract attention to the problem of climate change. They demand from the authorities of the country to stop the rise of CO2 emissions and to implement practical environmental solutions.

Detox campaign
Greenpeace research reveals toxic chemicals in biggest clothing brands

]]>Our latest research]]> reveals that the clothes you are wearing may contain nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs) - chemicals that are effectively banned in clothing manufacturing in Europe - which can break down in water to form nonylphenol (NP), a toxic, persistent and hormone-disrupting substance. 52 out of 78 garments from 14 global clothing, brands sold in the UK and the continent, tested positive for NPEs, including four Adidas articles.

Farmers working in a padi field at Khokana village.
Methane may be more important than CO2 in warming

Atmospheric levels of methane, 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide (CO2) at trapping heat, stayed steady for two decades to 2006 on wider fertilizer use to grow rice or a surge in natural gas demand, according to two separate studies in the journal Nature.

tonnes of plastic pollute the ocean
Measuring Your Plastic Footprint

With climate change and carbon dioxide emissions dominating the environmental conversation much of the time, the issue of plastic pollution tends to get short shrift. Still, the problem is worrying enough to be stirring serious concern among environmental and scientific experts, especially when it comes to plastic that ends up in the oceans, where it never quite biodegrades and can form a swelling gyre of sludge.

Ecopreneurs and carbon capitalists

We are now in the age of the 'ecopreneuer' - the entrepreneur who builds a business around ecology and the environment, the carbon capitalist who sees climate change and the environment as a business opportunity.

Biogas Climate Benefit Greater Than Previously Thought
SWEDEN - Biogas from refuse produces 95 per cent less greenhouse gas emissions than petrol, according to a new research report.With a few simple improvements to the biogas plants, the figure can rise to 120 per cent – i.e. biogas becomes more than climate neutral. This can be compared with the standard figures used today, which indicate that biogas produces 80 per cent lower emissions than petrol.
Emissions trading: public consultation on future EU ETS auctioning rules launched

A public consultation on rules to govern the future auctioning of emission allowances under the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) has been launched by consultants working for the European Commission. The consultation forms part of the Commission's preparation of a Regulation on auctioning of allowances with respect to the third and later trading periods. In accordance with the revision of the Emissions Trading Directive agreed as part of the EU climate and energy package in December last year, the Commission has to adopt a Regulation by 30 June 2010 to ensure that auctioning is conducted in an open, transparent, harmonised and non-discriminatory manner.