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Canada’s Increasing Tar Sands Emissions Will Cancel Out Carbon Cuts Elsewhere

12:15 pm in Business & Politics, canada, carbon emissions, pollution, tar sands by TreeHugger

tar sands photo photo: sbamueller/CC BY-SA A new report from Canada's environment ministry shows that emissions from expanding tar sands production and use will double by 2020 and will overwhelm emission cuts in energy production elsewhere. This will entirely undermine Canada's efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions 17% by 2020, as pledged under the Copenhagen Accord. So much ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Carbon-Constrained Business World is Coming. Shape Up.

8:00 am in Business & Politics, california, carbon emissions, carbon footprints, economics, global climate change, united states by TreeHugger

via internet business politics While there was some uncertainty over the status of cap and trade in California back in May, the largest State in the US is only months away from potentially adopting a hugely comprehensive cap and trade bill. Of course Tea Partiers will protest the creeping conspiracy to enforce an inhabitable planet on God-fearing patriots, but the fact is that climate science is not going away, and neither are the dire problems that it warns of. Carbon limitatio...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Massive Tar Sands Pipeline Protest to Hit White House this Month

2:09 pm in barack obama, Business & Politics, canada, carbon emissions, global climate change, oil, united states by TreeHugger

white-house-climate-politics.jpg Photo credit: dcJohn via Flickr/CC BY If you have even a fleeting passion for the environment, you probably already know what a monstrosity Canada's tar sands are. It's been dubbed the "most environmentally destructive project on Earth". A 1,700 mile pipeline that would pump the stuff to refineries along the Gulf coast, the Keystone XL, is currently awaiting the go-ahead from the Obama administration. Which is why scientists, e...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Could a Carbon Tax Emerge from the Debt Ceiling Crisis?

3:33 pm in Business & Politics, carbon emissions, congress, united states by TreeHugger

shame-polluters-action.jpg Photo: thewritingzone, Flickr/CC BY-SA So, the Senate has just passed a plan that allows the government to raise the debt ceiling -- just in time to prevent the United States from careening into an unprecedented default scenario. Hooray! But it meant Democrats and a more-spineless-than-ever Obama caving in to conser...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Large Hydropower Reservoirs Far Lower Than Currently Assumed

10:57 am in carbon emissions, global climate change, hydropower, Science & Technology by TreeHugger

three gorges dam photo Three Gorges Dam, photo: Harvey Barrison/CC BY-SA From an environmental perspective hydropower is a mixed bag. Depending on how it's done (micro, small, run of river, large scale) it can be anything from a great low-carbon sustainable energy source to an environmental disaster destroying habitat, displacing people and animals, and even spewing greenhouse gases from the l...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Breakthrough Could Help Chemists Compute Safer Biofuels

10:20 am in air pollution, alternative energy, carbon emissions, chemicals by TreeHugger

What toxic chemicals could new biofuels emit? photo Image: Rishabh Mishra/CC This is your mission, should you choose to accept it: you are a biofuels researcher, diligently seeking a solution that can take mankind into the post-industrial revolution, an era of alternative fuels that are both sustainable and practical. You will probably spend a year developing a scalable synthetic pathway for your new biodiesel. Then you will put it to the test: what comes out of the tailpipe when combusting the novel biofuel? Will your hopes b...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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World Resources Institute and Fortune 500 Companies Launch Sustainable Business Partnership

4:12 pm in Business & Politics, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions by TreeHugger

business emissions photo Image: Arnob Alam via flickr The World Resources Institute has announced an initiative that it says will focus on business and finance models for sustainable, low-carbon economic growth in major markets like the U.S., China, Mexico, India and Brazil. The founding members of the Next Practice Collaborative are Alcoa, AkzoNobel, CEMEX, Johnson & Johnson, Siemens, Staples and United Technologies Corporation....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sony Meets Air Quality Targets, Cuts Emissions 31%

3:06 pm in Business & Politics, carbon emissions, electronics by TreeHugger

Sony.png Image: Ian Muttoo via flickr Electronics giant Sony announced today that since 2000, it has achieved a 31 percent reduction in global CO2 emissions. The company boasts that means it surpassed its 2006 "Green Management" goal by 24 percent, but the original goal of 7 percent was not exactly ambitious. It did also achieve, though, a 54 percent reduction in waste generation (the goal was 40 percent) and a 41 percent reduction in water use at business sites (the goal was 20 percent). ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cargill Sets Sustainable Goals for Palm Oil, But Are They Too Little, Too Late?

3:22 pm in Business & Politics, carbon emissions, corporate responsibility, deforestation, indonesia by TreeHugger

palm oil photo Image: Marufish via flickr Agribusiness giant Cargill has announced plans to offer only sustainably-certified palm oil by 2015 for certain countries, including the U.S., and by 2020 worldwide. On the surface, that sounds like a positive step forward, but on closer look, it seems like just another empty PR move. The earlier goal does not include palm kernel oil—which is produced from the same trees as palm oil and is nearly ubiquitous on food and cosmetic labels on supermark...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ask Pablo: Is Nexflix Streaming Greener? The Answer May Surprise You

7:13 am in amazon.com, carbon emissions, News by TreeHugger

Netflix Streaming Online Television Image Photo Image credit: Roscoe Ellis, used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: Since Netflix is raising rates it got me thinking about choosing between streaming and receiving DVD's in the mail. Which is better from an environmental perspective. Streaming a movie or having the DVD sent to me? Netflix announced its Read the full story on TreeHugger

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