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[Switchboard, from NRDC] South Africa Stakes Out Its Efforts to Address Global Warming: Without constraints they estimated that emissions might quadruple by 2050 and they’ll need to reduce them significantly below today’s levels based upon what the science demands. But through making existing measures mandatory (“start now”), making these measures more aggressive (“scale up”), and introducing market mechanisms (“use the market”), South Africa could significantly reduce their emissions towards the framework they outlined (see figure**).
[Cape Town news] South Africa’s new Energy Policy abandons coal: Van Schalkwyk believes that if South Africa takes action now, our greenhouse gas emissions would stabilise by 2025, whereafter it would start declining. South Africa is also pushing the United States and other developed nations to play their part in combating global warming.
[Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed] South Africa to Set Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Targets: Greenhouse-gas emissions ``must stop growing at the latest by 2020 to 2025, stabilize for up to 10 years, and then decline in absolute terms,'' Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Martinus van Schalkwyk told reporters in Cape Town today. The aim is to ``limit global temperature increases to 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels.''
[trueblue south africa] 51 Things We Can Do to Save the Environment: Actually, yes. You””along with scientists, businesses and governments””can create paths to cut carbon emissions.
[G8 Live] Business Day (South Africa): Think globally, act locally.: While it may be true that the G-8 produces 62% of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide accumulated in the atmosphere, and that it arguably makes them the main culprit of climate change, the point is not helpful. The fact is that climate change is inevitable, and try as the world might, emissions control will, at best, retard the onset of catastrophic global warming by a few years.
[Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed] South Africa Unveils Plan to Combat Climate Change: Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk told a news conference Monday that options being considered include mandatory energy efficiency targets and a possible tax on carbon dioxide emissions.
[AC Global Realty] How to get teh biggest bank for 10 billion bucks: The food crisis has reminded us that hunger and malnutrition is a daily reality for many in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Malnutrition in mothers and their young children will claim 3.5 million lives this year.
[www.Witness.co.za Feed] SA to tax CO2 emissions: Briefing the media on the government’s strategy on climate policy, Environmental Affairs Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk gave no details of his tax proposal, but said South Africa must move away from dirty coal as its dominant source of energy and increase use of renewable sources of energy.
[1read's Weblog] THE WORLD today!: Rising cost of fuel is producing protests all over the world and crude prices hitting new trading records dominated the G8 meeting in Japan, multiplying fears global economy could be harmed by soaring oil prices, driving up inflation with the risk of social tensions forcing countries to look for alterntive fuel sources, and the 5 key energy-consuming nations, the United States, China, Japan, India and South Korea called again on oil producers to increase output to try to control oil prices. OPEC said no decision will be made until the next meeting in Vienna on September 9, however Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, is completing development of its giant Khursaniyah field soon, increasing its output capacity by up to 500.000 barrels a day and is willing to bring production and supplies from actually 9.450.000 barrels a day, already 300.00 barrels a day higher since last month, to a total of 9,7 Million barrels a day in July, or more if the market requires it! The kingdom, complying with a huge expansion program in its oil industry to increase its spare oil production capacity to up to 12,5 Million barrels a day by the end of 2009, said at a meeting with important producers and consumers on Sunday in Jeddah, it is capable to boost this level another 2,5 Million barrels a day to 15 Million barrels a day if needed. Saudi Arabia is concerned today’s record prices might damp economic growth and lead to a lower oil demand, improving countries their energy efficiency, developing alternative sources of energy, including nuclear power.
[Dashboard RSS Feed] Publications and Lit. Review (updated): Excerpt: The relief effort in Darfur takes place in a context of greater environmental vulnerability than many of the larger relief operations of recent years such as the Balkans, Liberia, Sierra Leone and South Sudan. Access to environmental resources is central to the chronic conflict between pastoralists and farmers and therefore an important component of the Darfur crisis.
[Indexicon's Weblog] New posts since 07:00 31/12: 10:06 Lawyers see contradictions in Olmert case testimony - Reuters South Africa. 09:54 Verify your wiring connections using your DVM as a continuity detector.
[Environmental Blog] G8 Countries Urged to Cut Emissions Further: The G5 countries made up of Mexico, Brazil, China, India and South Africa challenged the Group of Eight countries to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by more than 80% by 2050. The joint statement from the G5 developing nations said: “It is essential that developed countries take the lead in achieving ambitious and absolute greenhouse gas emission reductions.”
[Cambridge Forecast Group Blog] CLIMATE CHANGE INDIA: CSE: News: Action begins - India unveils strategy to counter climate change - Science & Technology: Indian scientists seek clarity on nitrogen emissions - Photo Essay - Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment - Factsheet: GHG inventory .
[Beast Or Buddha] Talking with David Rice; insecure software implications ...: I dislike regulation for the same reason that hockey fans hate when the referee breaks up a good fist fight (I’m not sure if Australian football fans feel the same way, but I can imagine a good fight on the pitch is worth a look). Sure the fight is fun to watch, and the refs simply get in the way, but eventually you just want to get on watching the game.
[Center for Advanced Medicine Blog] The Cost of Combustion - Heavy Metal Toxicity: After having worked with moon rock specialist (Professor Ahrens - a geochemist) at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, Prof Brookes put Massey on the world’s scientific map by studying mineral uptake in plants.
[Ford Blog] All-New Ford Fiesta: Three- and five-door all-new Fiestas will begin rolling off production lines in Europe in summer 2008, with regionally-tailored models on sale in Asia, South Africa, Australia and the Americas by 2010.
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