Global warming refers to the increase in average surface temperatures on Earth due to the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect occurs when greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide trap heat in the lower atmosphere, resulting in global temperature increases. According to scientists, human activities that produce greenhouse gases, like the excessive use of fossil fuels, are the major contributor to current global warming trends. Industrialized countries bear more responsibility for reducing emissions given that they have historically emitted more greenhouse gases and the developing world still seeks to industrialize. While technology exists to help reduce emissions, the larger challenge will be changing human behavior on a global scale to transition societies to a low-carbon future within the next 30-40 years.
Millennium-treffit 30.3.2016: Innovaatioilla ilmastonmuutosta vastaan. Alustajana Jouni Keronen, Climate Leadership Council.
With innovations against the climate change.
Carbon, the way we view it, measure it, control it and price it has come to dominate debates of all kinds. So, what's it all about?
This is the starting point of a 'Carbon 101' guide released by The Climate Institute, alongside a podcast narration by Andrew Demetriou, CEO of the Australian Football League and Dr Graeme Pearman, former head of CSIRO Atmospheric Research. This presentation summarises the book and podcast. Both are available on The Climate Institute's website: www.climateinstitute.org.au/carbon-101.html
Australian coal reserves and resources alone could exceed global coal carbon budgets and attempts to avoid dangerous climate change. Investors in our coal resources are taking high risk gambles on global climate inaction, the deployment of carbon capture and storage technology or significantly increasing Australia’s share of global coal markets. Governments, investors and even many coal companies say they take climate change seriously, but this report shows that if they did, their Australian investments could be a costly speculative bubble.
Millennium-treffit 30.3.2016: Innovaatioilla ilmastonmuutosta vastaan. Alustajana Jouni Keronen, Climate Leadership Council.
With innovations against the climate change.
Carbon, the way we view it, measure it, control it and price it has come to dominate debates of all kinds. So, what's it all about?
This is the starting point of a 'Carbon 101' guide released by The Climate Institute, alongside a podcast narration by Andrew Demetriou, CEO of the Australian Football League and Dr Graeme Pearman, former head of CSIRO Atmospheric Research. This presentation summarises the book and podcast. Both are available on The Climate Institute's website: www.climateinstitute.org.au/carbon-101.html
Australian coal reserves and resources alone could exceed global coal carbon budgets and attempts to avoid dangerous climate change. Investors in our coal resources are taking high risk gambles on global climate inaction, the deployment of carbon capture and storage technology or significantly increasing Australia’s share of global coal markets. Governments, investors and even many coal companies say they take climate change seriously, but this report shows that if they did, their Australian investments could be a costly speculative bubble.
On October 5th and 12th, the Municipality of Northern Bruce Peninsula's Climate Action Committee conducted an introductory session with community members covering its work on the Climate Action Plan.
Why Climate Change is an education issue - and how we all can help.
August 2016
Hans Joergen Rasmussen and Liza K. Tóth
Presentation for The Art of Living Summer Retreat
The future can be great for our community, for our province, for the energy industry, for you and me and our children. However, it will require us to embrace positive change and to start the transition now. We can create an Alberta that is a renewable energy powerhouse by energy companies utilizing land and infrastructure they already use to generate renewable energy as well as using fuel cell technology to produce much cleaner energy from hydrocarbons during the transition period. And we can become the supplier of choice for clean and green hydrocarbon products, with extraction, processing and use of final products without emissions, pollution, fresh water and use of harmful chemicals. Why won't we start now? We can do it together!
According to the most recent estimates, 2014 emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main contributor to global climate change, are projected to be 2.5 percent higher than 2013 levels, which translates into the release of 37 billion additional tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. As negotiators wrap up their talks at the international climate conference in Lima, Peru, there is no indication that this trend will change soon. Scientists estimate that future emissions should not exceed 1,200 billion tons of CO2, in order to keep Earth's temperature increase to no more than 2 degrees Celsius and to avoid severe and irreversible environmental effects. Yet at the current rate of emissions, this remaining “quota” would be used up in less than a generation, writes Joel Stronberg, contributing author for the Worldwatch Institute’s (www.worldwatch.org) Vital Signs Online.
Jason Switzer, Director, Corporate Consulting, Pembina Institute, spoke at the CEC Joint Public Advisory Committee's forum on Greening North America's Energy Economy in Calgary on April 25, 2013. More at: http://cec.org/jpacenergy
The SUN is the ultimate source of energy for planet earth. All the fossil fuel on earth has its origin in energy from the sun. A huge amount of energy hits the earth every day and nature has evolved to use this energy in a way so that life is sustained. In recent times man built processes are putting the natural equilibrium at risk, and the balance that took millions of years to establish may now be tipping in a way that could mean the end of life as we know it ... a big issue and maybe impossible to address.
On October 5th and 12th, the Municipality of Northern Bruce Peninsula's Climate Action Committee conducted an introductory session with community members covering its work on the Climate Action Plan.
Why Climate Change is an education issue - and how we all can help.
August 2016
Hans Joergen Rasmussen and Liza K. Tóth
Presentation for The Art of Living Summer Retreat
The future can be great for our community, for our province, for the energy industry, for you and me and our children. However, it will require us to embrace positive change and to start the transition now. We can create an Alberta that is a renewable energy powerhouse by energy companies utilizing land and infrastructure they already use to generate renewable energy as well as using fuel cell technology to produce much cleaner energy from hydrocarbons during the transition period. And we can become the supplier of choice for clean and green hydrocarbon products, with extraction, processing and use of final products without emissions, pollution, fresh water and use of harmful chemicals. Why won't we start now? We can do it together!
According to the most recent estimates, 2014 emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main contributor to global climate change, are projected to be 2.5 percent higher than 2013 levels, which translates into the release of 37 billion additional tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. As negotiators wrap up their talks at the international climate conference in Lima, Peru, there is no indication that this trend will change soon. Scientists estimate that future emissions should not exceed 1,200 billion tons of CO2, in order to keep Earth's temperature increase to no more than 2 degrees Celsius and to avoid severe and irreversible environmental effects. Yet at the current rate of emissions, this remaining “quota” would be used up in less than a generation, writes Joel Stronberg, contributing author for the Worldwatch Institute’s (www.worldwatch.org) Vital Signs Online.
Jason Switzer, Director, Corporate Consulting, Pembina Institute, spoke at the CEC Joint Public Advisory Committee's forum on Greening North America's Energy Economy in Calgary on April 25, 2013. More at: http://cec.org/jpacenergy
The SUN is the ultimate source of energy for planet earth. All the fossil fuel on earth has its origin in energy from the sun. A huge amount of energy hits the earth every day and nature has evolved to use this energy in a way so that life is sustained. In recent times man built processes are putting the natural equilibrium at risk, and the balance that took millions of years to establish may now be tipping in a way that could mean the end of life as we know it ... a big issue and maybe impossible to address.
A CONSULTING REPORT ON MARKET ENTRY STRATEGY FOR BEN & JERRY’S IN INDIASuraj Kumar
This report sets out to evaluate & analyze the US ice-cream manufacturer– the Ben & Jerry’s viable strategy to enter in India’s ice-cream market. It uses SWOT analysis approach to analyze the company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The report has identified a general marketing entry strategy which will help the company develop new market effectively. It contains the introduction of Ben & Jerry’s company in brief, the Indian ice-cream market, the SWOT analysis, and the suggested marketing entry strategy.
RACE reading material series - Global Warmingraceforgreen
This brief write-up was supplied to the students and participants before they joined the discussion event on 09-April-2011 in Vivekananda Library, Suri.
For Climate Change Workshop by British Computer Society on 17-Sep-08.
Physics & Chemistry of Climate Change,
Effects and Costs of Climate Change,
Geographical Information and use of it,
Some International Meetings and Local Authority Measures,
Climate Change Bill 2008,
Carbon trading / offsetting,
Reducing Carbon Emissions – Websites & Actions.
ISES 2013 - Day 3 - Bjorn Lomborg - Crossroads to a Sustainable FutureStudent Energy
Will We Ever Overcome Our Carbon Addiction?
The world economy is very carbon intensive, however there are vast opportunities to transform this into a greener economy meeting a sustainable future. Are we able to go through with this transition or are we carbon addicts?
Business and Climate Change lecture given in March 2009 to students on my CSR course as part of the Birkbeck College Corporate Governance and Ethics MSC. Birkbeck is a college of London University.
Higher concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide affect crops in two important ways: they boost crop yields by increasing the rate of photosynthesis, which spurs growth, and they reduce the amount of water crops lose through transpiration.
Stretagies that fit Emerging Markets,
International Business Strategies which are suitalbe for developing countries to attract the international investors
2. What is Global Warming?
An increase in the earth’s atmospheric and oceanic temperatures
widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse
effect resulting especially from Pollution.
3. Global temperature trend
Note that these are surface temperatures and mostly overland. The temperature
in upper levels may be different, even reversed.
5. How is Global Warming
Forming?
• According to scientist, human activities is the
major contribution to Global Warming. With
our excessive use of Non-Renewable Energy
we have caused Greenhouse Gases to
produce Global Warming.
6. What cause the temperature of
the atmosphere to go up?
• There are many possible mechanisms that can cause
the warming of the atmosphere, for example:
– Natural variation – the climate becomes warmer by internal chaotic
dynamics of the earth-atmosphere system (that is, no external
influence).
– Solar activity – either direct increase of solar energy output or indirect
“trigger” mechanisms due to solar activity (though nobody knows how)
may cause the surface temperature to go up.
– Greenhouse effect – increasing “greenhouse” gases such as CO2, CH4,
NO, CFC,…etc. (actually H2O is very efficient, too, but at present it is
assumed to be in steady state).
• The last one is presently thought to be the most likely cause of the
global warming and hence we will examine it here in this chapter..
8. The (Atmospheric) Greenhouse Effect
• Examples of greenhouse gases: H2O, CO2, CH4, CFC.
• Currently, CO2 is the main suspect of causing the global warming since the 20th
century because combustion of fossil fuel naturally injects CO2 into the
atmosphere and it has increased dramatically since last century.
12. Number Ten
• There is a scientific
consensus that
human activities are
very likely to affect
global climate
13. Number Nine
• There is some chance
that, due to the
uncertainties of
complex models and
the assumptions used
to drive them, the
consensus is wrong.
14. Number Eight
• Ignoring the potential
implications of climate
change is taking a big
risk with a valuable
asset.
– The Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC)
recommends that we avoid
“dangerous human
interference” with global
climate systems.
15. Number Seven
• In order to avoid
dangerous
interference, IPCC
estimates that we
need to hold global
emissions about
steady.
16. Number Six
• Since the developing
world would still like
to develop, the
developed world must
make substantial
emissions reductions.
– IPCC says 70-80
percent of current
levels must be
reduced by 2040-
2050.
23. US Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions
Commercial
Residential 4%
7%
Industrial Electricity Generation
17% 40%
Transportation
32%
24. Number Three
• We already have
technologies that can
help us on the way
– Efficiency
– Renewable Energy
– Coal-gasification with
carbon sequestration
25. Number Two
• The behavioral
challenges are much
more daunting than
the technological
ones.
26. Number One
• Climate change isn’t
likely to affect our
generation.
• We need to make
changes for
subsequent
generations.