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Corn-based biofuel, fluke or future?

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:35:36 +0000

Former advisor to British Prime Minister Tony Blair highly critical of U.S. recovery of energy and investment in food production.

In 2008, an increase in production costs of grains and rice, coupled with American policies on foreign trade agreements triggered a hike in food prices.

Before the food crisis, 1.3 billion are estimated to have [...]

Opinion: If political promises were energy, there would be no need for oil

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:15:27 +0000

The CO2-neutral innovation race is on. In the private sector, that is. Whether it is pure PR or do-good spirit that drives it, CO2 neutral initiatives are all over in the business world. Costumers and their consciences love it, and everything points to companies going green or going under in the future because in business [...]

Biodiversity is already suffering from climate change

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:12:57 +0000

Action is needed immediately if we are to fight the loss of biodiversity caused by global warming, according to two scientists.

The scientists attending the Beyond Kyoto conference are stressing that we need to attend to the loss of biodiversity immediately. They say we are already seeing the dramatic results that environmental problems such as [...]

Nanotechnology for lunch

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:03:25 +0000

The fourth session of the nanotechnological theme has just ended, and I want to do some short interviews with the speakers on hydrogen as a future energy carrier. However, after attempts to ask them if they have a minute for a few comments, they ask me to join them for lunch instead.

It wasn’t exactly [...]

Cleaner technology a new victim of the financial crisis

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:00:53 +0000

Professor Frede Hvelplund, Aalborg University

The search for cleaner technology is in limbo as failing markets and oil dependency have businesses scrambling

Competing financial and environmental interests threaten the pursuit of green technology, said Aalborg University Professor Frede Hvelplund at the ‘Beyond Kyoto’ conference on Friday.

With government and business shifting their focus [...]

Inuit people hit hard by climate change

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:54:08 +0000

As global warming thins the arctic ice, moving with sled dogs is becoming increasingly dangerous for the Inuit people. Source: Flickr

Unstable ice, difficulties in hunting seals, migration of fish, thawing permafrost… These are some of the problems encountered by the Arctic indigenous people. As they live in a very extreme region, adaptation [...]

Drive green

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:50:50 +0000

Electricity-powered Smart car. Source: flickr

Alternative fuel cars have been presented at the ‘Beyond Kyoto’ conference on Friday as a key way to significantly reduce CO2 emissions.

All day a seemingly endless line of cars cut through the misty grey of the early Danish spring and [...]

Nanotechnology: Small particles for great challenges

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:31:02 +0000

Nanotechnology is about manipulating particles to make new materials. In one of the potentially most far-reaching projects, scientists want to prevent heat from disappearing during the burning of fossil fuels. This will dramatically increase the efficiency and reduce global warming.

Imagine if your jacket could [...]

Recommendations at closing session Beyond Kyoto

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:24:52 +0000

Introducing the seven recommendations at the Beyond Kyoto closing ceremony.

Money and private investments; this is what the climate summit in Copenhagen in December needs more than anything, if the world’s leaders want it to succeed. This was the clear message from the more than 1.000 experts and other participants assembled at the Beyond [...]

Brazil offers the world a solution for biofuels

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:20:30 +0000

Stephen P. Long before his speech on efficient crops for biofuels.

The crops currently used for green fuels in Europe are inefficient and contributes to global warming. In Brazil you can fill your car with environmentally friendly ethanol for half the prize of gasoline.

Maize is bad, so is [...]