ISO/TS 14067 BRIEFING NOTE – The need for standards on the environmental footprint
A growing number of government agencies, organizations and communities are adopting the environmental footprint as a core indicator of the use of sustainable resources or of the environmental impact resulting from human activities. ISO/TS 14067 briefing note ISOTS 14067 briefing note
The Italian experience on EU ETS Accreditation
Daniele Pernigotti, as an inspector for ETS Accreditation, displayed on 31th October in Brussels, the Italian experience on EU ETS accreditation. Click here to view the presentation.
IPCC Working Group III Contribution to AR5
Concluding four years of intense scientific collaboration by hundreds of authors from around the world, this report responds to the request of the world’s governments for a comprehensive, objective and policy neutral assessment of the current scientific knowledge on mitigating climate change. The report has been extensively reviewed by experts and governments to ensure quality […]
IPCC Working Group II Contribution to AR5
The 10th Session of Working Group II (WGII-10) was held from 25 to 29 March 2014 in Yokohama, Japan. At the Session, the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (WGII AR5) was approved and the underlying scientific and technical assessment accepted. Click here, to go […]
Climate and Energy
EU Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said: ”We got the clear signal: Europe’s 2030 emissions target will be fully in line with our agreed 2050 objectives. This is exactly in line with the Commission’s proposal: a cost-effective 40% emissions target in 2030. And there’s more good news: the whole set of decisions, including on renewables and energy […]
A new climate agreement in 2015
This week’s meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) marked the start of an intense year with a calendar of meetings. In late 2014 countries will meet in Lima, Peru with the aim of having a draft universal agreement on the table to be finalized in 2015. […]
Statement of Commissioner Connie Hedegaard on Ukraine and energy dependency
After yesterday’s EU environment ministerial Council, EU climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said on Ukraine and energy dependency: “Often when we discuss energy dependency in Europe we discuss it in the context of economic costs, the fact that we are sending more than 400 bn euros outside Europe every year to pay for our imported […]
The Carbon Footprint of Products: a powerful tool to support existing market dynamics in favour of a low carbon economy
A top-down approach is not enough Climate change seems to be a problem of eyesight defect. On the one side scientists may be considered “far-sighted”, as they concentrate on what it will probably happen far from now, in the next decades or, more likely, at the end of the century. That will happen when it is virtually certain that nobody […]
Carbon Footprint – Calcolare e comunicare l’impatto dei prodotti sul clima
[vc_row type=”full_width_background” bg_position=”left top” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left”][vc_column][vc_column_text] Acquista qui CARBON FOOTPRINT Edizioni Ambiente – 2011 Il mondo sta entrando in una fase di cambiamento senza precedenti. I tagli delle emissioni di gas serra chiesti dagli scienziati dell’IPCC, pari al 25-40% entro il 2020 e almeno all’80% entro il 2050, impongono di introdurre modifiche radicali in […]
The role of forests in the international negotiation process of UNFCCC
Forests are crucial for climate change. The deforestation process is one of the main greenhouse gases emission sources in developing countries and it is also greatly important at the global level. New mechanisms to fight this process are under development and implementation at the national and international level. At the same time, the UNFCCC negotiation […]