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The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) yesterday announced the implementation of a GHG program in Brazil. The 'Brazil GHG Protocol Program' enables companies to monitor and better manage GHG emissions on a voluntary basis. It is a commendable commitment to improving environmental standards in the cooperate world; however this progressive focus towards environmental accountability should be viewed in tandem with the economic motivations of corporations.
At present, Brazil has one of the highest GHG emission rates in the world, but no official obligation to reduce these rates. The `Brazil Greenhouse Gas Protocol Program` promotes a voluntary commitment to international best practices in GHG abatement strategies.
The Protocol was created by the WBCSD and the World Research Institute for governments and businesses alike. In Brazil, the Environment Ministry, the Brazilian Council for Sustainable Development and Fundacao Getùlio Vargas partnered the aforementioned institutions to realize the formulation of the Brazil GHG Protocol Program. The WBCSD reported that there are twelve founding members of the Brazil GHG Protocol Program, including: Anglo American, Banco Do Brasil, Bradesco, CNEC, Copel, Natura, Nova Petroquímica, O Boticário, Petrobras, Sadia, Votorantim, and Wal-Mart Brasil.
There's a glaring need for pro-regulatory perspectives to be included in the cost-benefit analyses used by government regulators' decision making processes, particularly when it comes to energy and the environment, argues NYU School of Law's Richard Revesz.[read more]
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Governors and representatives of 18 U.S. states signed a Declaration on Climate Change during the Yale Conference of Governors April 17-18 commemorating the centennial of Pres. Theodore Roosevelt planting the seeds for what would grow into the conservation movement and the U.S. National Parks System. [read more]
City governments are a partner with developers in building communities within city borders. Just as with any other partner...[read more]
(By Lina Constantinovici) On Friday, April 11, 2008 at Casa Verde in the Mission, Mayor Gavin Newsom addressed his plans...[read more]
San Francisco’s Climate Action Plan aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 25% of 1990 levels by 2012. To accomplish...[read more]
Want to learn about oil dependence, make like one of our national leaders and formulate energy policy in response to a threat to global oil supplies? Check out the curriculum box set of Oil ShockWave at the Web site of the same name.[read more]
Though it’s quickly grown into a multi-billion dollar market and template for other emissions trading systems, the EU’s ETS has exhibited some significant growing pains and continues to generate debate. An interim analysis and report of the ETS Phase I trail period finds that modest emissions reductions were realized and, more importantly, the pathway to greater reductions is being paved. [read more]
Academic institutions in Georgia, Minnesota and New York have been invited to represent their states in a joint US-Swedish renewable energy institute that aims to spearhead development and adoption of renewable energy technology.[read more]
The DoE's National Renewable Energy Lab announced MoU's for two public-private partnerships in the past two days: one on the Hawaiian island of Maui where it will work with UPC to research and develop wind energy resources in line with Gov. Lingle's Clean Energy Initiative, and a second with Conoco-Phillips and Iowa State U. to develop biomass-to-fuel conversion technologies making use of corn stalks, hardy grasses, fast growing trees and other non-food vegetable organic matter.[read more]
Foresters, climatolgists and environmental agencies are devoting much time and effort to figure out a way to include deforestation abatement into the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development and carbon trading schemes. A recently released discussion paper examines the potential effects carbon credits would have on forest conservation and use.[read more]
Streamlining and expanding the UNFCCC’s Clean Development Mechanism will be key priorities for 2008, according to Rajesh Kumar Sethi, the recently appointed chair of the CDM Executive Board.[read more]
Lots has changed since Pres. Bush and his administration took office nearly eight years ago. One them is the Bush administration's attempts to come up with a national energy policy which have had to undergo drastic alteration...[read more]
Looking to draw attention and redress the staggering fact that some 49% of the world's population lack access to basic sanitation and safe, sustainable water sources, the UN has launched a global financing mechanism, the Global Sanitation Fund, and is organizing World Sanitation Day events in Geneva and New York.[read more]
The U.S. Dept. of Transportation has released the first of three reports assessing the potential risks climate change and land subsidence pose for the Gulf Coast region's transportation infrastructure and proposing ways that planners and government officials might adapt.[read more]
Be sure to say happy birthday to your favorite national park, for 136 years ago, on March 1, 1872, the...[read more]
At the invitation of the U.S. government, public and private sector leaders will be gathering in Washington D.C. early March for WIREC 2008, the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference. The third such event, organizers are busy lining up voluntary pledges from participants to promote and foster renewable energy, which are to be collected and publicly released as the Washington International Action Plan.[read more]
Though proposed means and methods vary, it appears likely that federal greenhouse gas emissions legislation, and a national cap-and-trade scheme, will be introduced in the U.S. sometime during the new president's first term, one that has the potential to reach US$1 trillion, more than twice the size of the European Union’s.[read more]
“It’s the economy, stupid” Ah yes, we remember the early nineties fondly and the phrase that in recent weeks has been resurrected...[read more]
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