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• China and global warming

  Alternatives magazine n° 22, 4th quarter 2009 Category: Feature

  China and the United States are the world's leading greenhouse gas emitters. When China ratified the Kyoto Protocol in 2002, it was considered to be a developing country and as such has no emissions reduction … Read more

• G20 countries looking to end fossil energy subsidies

  Alternatives magazine n° 22, 4th quarter 2009 Category: Feature

  At the late September summit in Pittsburgh, the G20 countries, which include the most industrialized countries as well as the large emerging countries of China, India and Brazil, agreed to phase out subsidies for fossil… Read more

• Global warming: What are the challenges for Copenhagen?

  Alternatives magazine n° 22, 4th quarter 2009 Category: Feature

  The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in 1997 and, following a long ratification process, went into effect in 2005. Under the Protocol, 200 countries have committed to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 2012. … Read more

• Kyoto Protocol: the European Union on track

  Alternatives magazine n° 22, 4th quarter 2009 Category: Feature

  The EU-15 member states are close to reaching the targets set at Kyoto. What about EU-27 member states? The fifteen countries that made up the European Union (EU) at the time the Kyoto Protocol was adopted committed … Read more

• The United States rejoins the talks

  Alternatives magazine n° 22, 4th quarter 2009 Category: Feature

  The Bush Administration used the argument that “the American way of life is not negotiable” to justify the refusal of the United States to adhere to the Kyoto Protocol. Today, the United States returns to the discussion… Read more

• Japan: a singular position

  Alternatives magazine n° 22, 4th quarter 2009 Category: Feature

  Japan has already used clean technologies and energy saving measures to achieve energy efficiency in the past. Its energy structure is fairly close to that of France, which has a 0% emissions goal. In Japan, nuclear … Read more

• The planet’s rising temperature

  Alternatives magazine n° 22, 4th quarter 2009 Category: Feature

  The work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has given us more accurate knowledge on global warming issues. In its latest report, published in 2007, the IPCC reveals that eleven of the past twelve … Read more

• Copenhagen, a “New Deal” for America?

  Alternatives magazine n° 22, 4th quarter 2009 Category: Feature

  Eileen Claussen Eileen Claussen is President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, a think tank in the United States that not only contributes technological, economic and scientific expertise to the debate on … Read more

• Urban mobility in numbers

  Alternatives magazine n° 21, 4th quarter 2009 Category: Feature

  • Since 2008, more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas. In Europe, it's 60%.• Urban transportation generates 40% of Europe's carbon emissions from road transportation and 70% of related pollutants … Read more

• Towards a new urban mobility

  Alternatives magazine n° 21, 4th quarter 2009 Category: Feature

  More than half of the world's population now lives in urban areas. It is therefore no surprise that urban traffic has become a major source of carbon emissions. In Europe, it represents 40% of all transportation-related… Read more

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