A new study released in the past days establishes that freight transportation needs compromise to reduce greenhouse gases emissions.
This is a first step towards a future strategy addressing CO2 emissions from heavy-duty vehicles.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
The World Environment Day 2011, your time for support the planet
NAIROBI, KENYA/ Every year on 5 June, the World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated. Since 1972, this commemoration is a vehicle through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness towards the environment. In supportof the UN International Year of Forests (IYF), 2011 WED, is aimed to be the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive action for the planet.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Europe reasserts environmental agreement with the United Nations
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM/ A new agreement between the United Nations Environment Program and the European Commission was established to promote further cooperation between the two organizations.
The partnership has provided in the past agreements over 50 million Euros for implementing close to 60 projects ranging from chemicals to biodiversity world-wide.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Right to the Green Shares
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM/ The European Commission outlined recently a series of actions to strengthen the integrity of the European carbon market following cyber-thefts from several EU Emissions Trading System registries in January. During the realization of the European Union Climate Change Committee, Member States welcomed in broad terms the proposals by the Commission for enhanced registry security measures as a basis for further discussions.
Solar panels over the water, an option to produce renewable energy
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL/ Two major weaknesses must face the solar energy sector: one, they require vast land areas in order to be built; the other, the costs related to solar cells fabrication and maintenance are high. A new technology is about to overcome these challenges and many more: floating solar power plants.
Millions of tons of gases released by Deepwater Horizon in April 2010
TALLAHASSEE, UNITED STATES/ In April 2010 the Offshore Oil Platform, Deepwater Horizon, property of the British Petroleum, exploded 1500 meters deep from the surface in the Gulf ofMexico. All consequences are still unknown. Since then, hundreds of experts are researching the collateral damages of the spill that took more than three months to be shut.
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