Posts filed under ‘UK carbon emissions’
AVAAZ is asking people to sign petition to Norman Baker on tar sands
Please sign the Avaaz petition to NOrman Baker, UK Transport Minister, asking that oil from tar sands – which is massively polluting and the production of which causes huge carbon emissions – is not allowed in the UK.
Petition is at: http://www.avaaz.org/en/crude_politics/?cl=1122921233&v=9428
Great Britain. Grid Intensity of the UK electricity supply
Fascinating website which monitors, updating every 10 minutes, the carbon intensity of our electricity. This is measured in grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour. Amazing how much it varies over the 24 hours, as the mix of supply sources varies. http://www.earth.org.uk/_gridCarbonIntensityGB.html
Carbon capture coal firm Powerfuel calls in administrators
Administrators have been called in to sell the assets of Powerfuel, which owns Hatfield colliery near Doncaster and planned to build a “clean-coal” (= carbon capture and storage) demonstration plant in Britain. This is the second CCS plant to be cancelled in Britain, after Kingsnorth withdrew earlier. The UK Government committed £1billoin in October, for a demonstration plant to eventually be built somewhere. [Our public meeting on January 19th is on CCS].
CCC: UK should commit to a 60% cut in emissions by 2030 as a contribution to global efforts to combat climate change
The UK’s Committee on Climate Change has just released its “Fourth Carbon Budget – Reducing emissions through the 2020s”. It concludes that, in order to meet the 2050 target of 80% carbon cuts, the UK needs a 60% cut by 2030, and then a 62% cut of the remaining emissions between 2030 and 2050. Loads of detail in the 188 page report ….. road transport, housing, electricity generation …..
(Monbiot) Looking for Trouble – Why are we still prospecting for oil when we can’t afford to use existing reserves?
George Monbiot – in an article well worth reading – asks why we keep looking for more, and more difficult to access, oil when even burning 60% of current fossil fuel reserves we get more than 2C degrees of warming. If we burn all of them and still look for more, we’ll get 4, 5 or 6 degrees, regardless of our spending on nuclear power, wind or sunlight. So why is the UK government both saying we need to cut emissions, and at the same time giving subsidies to get more oil out of the North Sea?
Continue Reading September 28, 2010 at 09:51 Leave a comment
George Monbiot article on the UK’s total emissions – just how much is made up of our consumption of goods
The UK, according to Government figures produced by DECC, generated some 627 million tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) in 2007. That is a huge figure. But it does not include emissions from international aviation or shipping. And it also excludes emissions generated by the production of goods we buy from abroad. If you add all those up, the UK total comes to an eye-watering 950Mt. About 50% higher than the stated figure. And instead of reducing in total, the UK’s real emissions may even be growing.
