The Covenant, launched by the European Commission in 2007 and strongly supported by the Committee of the Regions, is a pledge by local and regional authorities to take concrete action to reduce their carbon footprint, going beyond the EU’s agreed target of a 20% cut in emissions by 2020. The ceremony is designed to showcase the new Covenant signatories ie those who signed up between February 2009 and March 2010. More than 1300 towns, cities and local authorities have signed the Covenant of Mayors, while a further 60 signatories come from so-called ’supporting structures’ regions, provinces, national and European associations of local and regional authorities, etc. Many of these regions and cities are also represented within the CoR, and the Committee has made it a priority to encourage all its members and their regions, cities or local authorities to sign the Covenant. Visit the Covenant of Mayors website for more information about the event: www.eumayors.eu. Visit the CoR’s website: www.cor.europa.eu The Committee of the Regions The Committee of the Regions is the EU’s assembly of regional and local representatives. The mission of its 344 members from all 27 EU Member States is to involve regional and local authorities and the communities they represent in the EU’s decision-making process and to inform them about EU policies. The European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council are obliged to consult the Committee in policy areas affecting regions and cities …
Trees capture carbon, it’s what they do Carbon Dioxide is on the loose, but the TREE (Trees Reduce Environmental Emissions) task force is been out in our streets and countryside capturing this carbon. Woodland in the UK locks up a massive amount of co2 each year. But we need to lock up more. Creating new woodland is a wonderful and effective way to reduce your carbon footprint as part of a low carbon lifestyle, whilst at the same time creating valuable woodland habitats. The Woodland Trust wants to create more to help the UK environment adapt to the changing climate, offering people the chance to help us plant and care for new native woodland right here in the UK, locking up carbon and creating valuable green spaces for people and wildlife alike. That’s why we’ve launched our woodland carbon campaign to ‘Lock-up’ carbon.
A documentary on how to reduce your carbon footprint. For further information. Footprint Calculator: www.mec.ca/Apps/ecocalc/ecocalc.jsp Eco Quizzes: planetgreen.discovery.com 100 Mile Challenge: 100mile.foodtv.ca Energy Star: www.energystar.gov Created by Mr. Mackles M3 Geography students.
As part of the ecoschool group campaign to reduce our energy use, this film uses ‘ecobell’ the eco-fairy to come to the aid of a school with a massive carbon footprint.
“The big challenge for Norway is to reduce the carbon emissions from oil and gas production and from industries related to oil and gas. We believe the main tool of the future will be CO2 capture and storage.”
The chemtrail conspiracy theory holds that some contrails are actually toxic chemicals or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitude for a purpose undisclosed to the general public. Versions of the conspiracy theory circulating on the internet and on some radio talk shows theorize that this activity is directed by government officials, and they have received thousands of complaints from people who have demanded an explanation. The existence of chemtrails has been repeatedly denied by Government agencies and scientists. Anyone living near a major metropolitan airport has gazed up at the sky and seen them: patchworks of crisscrossing contrails left by passing jetliners. Most of us don’t give a second thought to this common sight of a scratched-up sky. If we do, it’s likely to reflect on the explosion in air traffic and its growing contribution to air pollution. Do hanging contrails represent something much more sinister than increased carbon emissions? Since the late 1990s, a flourishing conspiracy theory subculture has been ringing the alarm that many of these contrails aren’t normal vapor-and-exhaust contrails at all. Rather, they are chemtrails, mysterious and menacing chemical evidence of secret government programs to modify the weather and depopulate the planet.
Barack Obama, the US president, has reached a non-binding agreement with four other nations on limiting future carbon emissions. The accord has been angrily criticised by developing nations, who say that it is not enough to prevent environmental catastrophe due to global warming. The US president will also have a tough time selling the climate agreement back home. With the country’s economy sluggish and unemployment in double digits, energy companies say it isn’t the time for new regulations. As Sebastian Walker reports from Texas, those firms say tougher rules would cut into their bottom line and keep them from creating new jobs.
