FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS
Tag: CO2
How is our very own Local Climate Change programme going on?
As you may know the consultation deadline for the Climate Change Strategy has been extended to the end of January to allow for greater engagement with local business ensuring that the final version reflects the range of views received.
You can also get involved by visiting http://www.reading.gov.uk/climatesurvey The consultation ends 31/01/13
The consultation is an excellent opportunity for the business community to embrace knowledge and bring value to the region by presenting wise green solutions / advise in companion ship with the local council regarding Readings new ‘green’ legislation programme that will have impact on investments and taxes.
How do we attract business to invest in a Sustainable TVB Reading raising awareness on the Climate Change Programme?
This is really a unique chance to feedback your climate business views back to the council
A vision for us all
Reading is a vibrant environment with compact, functional developed areas. There are good communications to shopping and services, workplaces and the surrounding nature. Buildings and infrastructure are characterised by sustainable energy solutions and smart environmental design, and are adapted to future climate change. The city has clean rivers and watercourses, and plenty of parks that are both beautiful and safe..
Keep us updated, do you have a local business case to share, join us in the group TVB_ClimateChallenge – http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4704185 The conference group will be open until February 1st.
Please send invites to your connections or ANY INTERESTED PARTIES E.G.THE SUST. MANAGER
Businesses, you can’t do it alone, together we can achieve so much
Welcome
/Team TVB_ClimateChallenge
Cities Special Interest Group – Hotting Up? Low Carbon Plans in UK Cities
The battle against climate change and resource depletion will be won or lost in the world’s cities. Cities present us with huge environmental challenges, but also offer huge opportunities, because they create economies of scale in technology deployment and access to capital, both of which are vital if we are to make the existing built environment of our cities sustainable and resource efficient by 2050..
Future Cities Special Interest Group – Hotting Up? Low Carbon Plans in UK Cities
The school where everyone is encouraged to play Minecraft
FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS
Minecraft uses square blocks based stuff, a bit like a digital version of Lego. For some time all students in the seventh grade in high school play the game. It is part of an interdisciplinary project that spans the subjects of chemistry, physics, biology, social studies and English.
Should learn to build climate change smart
The project involves students working together to build a future city with pleasant climate smart solutions based on the knowledge they receive within their classes.
The purpose of this project is that students should be forced to make decisions relating to environmental issues in order to know what to build in the game. It creates a desire to learn, says teachers in science and mathematics.
In the game, students have built houses, among other things, containers for sorting and electricity through wind and hydro and solar cells.
I think it’s great fun for students to learn in a different way. Because you get to try to really build things so you understand more easily how they work, says a student at the school.
Required in teaching
Minecraft is a game that currently has around 40 million registered users worldwide. Most played of course at leisure, but at Reading’s coeducational schools it has now become mandatory for an entire year. Students must regularly submit ratings founding essays and keep accounts where they show what they have done and why.
We must not let the PC gaming take too much time. The students really know what they’re doing and understand what the purpose is, it is important to combine the game with the regular teaching.
So far pleased with the results
The project will continue in the spring term and as long as the school are happy with the results. In any case, we have gained a new perspective on some things.
Now I’m almost tempted to waste sorting because I learned what the consequences are if we do not take care of the environment properly.
Links to brief about this:
http://deangroom.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/8-ways-minecraft-works-on-your-brain/
http://blogs.ncs-nj.org/minecraft/2013/01/10/group-1-week-1-recap/
http://www.middleschoolminecraft.com/2013/01/06/science-minecraft-feathers-and-guinea-pigs/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/minecraft-block-by-block-gaming
How changing car buyers’ behaviour can help cut CO2 from road transport
easitNETWORK is a powerful working partnership designed to support
and encourage the most influential businesses in a local area to adopt
alternative and sustainable transport behaviours to reduce pollution,
ease congestion and increase satisfaction within its staff base.
By bringing together the major employers in an area, easitNETWORK
generates a critical mass, enabling the introduction and use of far more initiatives
that could not necessarily be taken up by one of the organisations alone. The benefits of this approach are in establishing a working partnership and a sizeable group that is more effective in lobbying for changes to public transport provision, generating funding for new initiatives and creating a better sense of community. Since launching in 2005, easitNETWORK has grown to represent over 60 businesses employing over
200,000 staff in the South East!
http://www.easit.org.uk/easitthamesvalley.php
End of the 13th Baktun: end of an old era and the heralding of a new one. Mayabe it´s time to end this down-going spiral to deliver a sustainable future.
zipcar
A community of folks who’ve found out that car sharing beats the heck outta car rental or ownership.
green benefits – this idea is bigger than all of us…
Imagine a world with one million fewer cars on the road. We do. Every day we are working towards a place with less dependence on personally-owned vehicles. Why? Because it matters. Less cars on the road means less congestion, less pollution, less dependence on oil, and cleaner, fresher air to breathe. Some folks don’t believe it’s possible for car sharing to have such a huge impact.
http://www.zipcar.com/business/is-it/greenbenefits
New eco-car definition nailed for 2013
FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS
The government’s autumn budget confirmed the earlier proposals for green car definition in 2013 is now a reality. The most important news is that the emission limits are tightened, while also taking into account the vehicle’s weight. This means that the requirements are tightened on small cars but also some larger, not currently approved green cars, can qualify as a green car.
The new rich limit is 95 g CO2 / km for fossils cars and 150 g / km for vehicles that run on for example ethanol, but practically clean car limit lower for vehicles lighter than 1372 kg and higher for cars that are heavier according to a formula.
Cars that meet the new limits are exempt from vehicle tax for five years. Right now there are about 120 model variants of passenger cars and 13 light trucks that meet the new rules.
The government does not change the benefit taxation of green cars despite criticism of short-termism from many directions. The rule for a special tax credit of 40 percent for gas and electric cars and plug-in hybrids only applies until the end of 2013. However, any alternative fuel cars will continue to permanent impairment of the benefit to the nearest comparable car.
Loss and damage to communities despite coping and adaptation. Loss and Damage in Vulnerable Countries Initiative.
Download the full Report here (86 pages)
http://www.loss-and-damage.net/download/6815.pdf
Warner, Koko, van der Geest, Kees, Kreft, Sönke, Huq, Saleemul,
Harmeling, Sven, Koen Kusters and Alex de Sherbinin (2012).
Evidence from the frontlines of climate change: Loss and
damage to communities despite coping and adaptation. Loss
and Damage in Vulnerable Countries Initiative. Policy Report.
Report No. 9. Bonn: United Nations University Institute for
Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS).
25 years ago since the first emissions trading – Glastonbury U.K.
Honor of the COP 18/CMP 8 Climate Change Negotiations final Day
On 6 December 1987, 25 years ago, Maureen’s Pet shop of Glastonbury in (Somerset) bought carbon offset corresponding her pet shop’s total emissions, as calculated by the Carbon Markets Association. The compensation was done with tree planting and was the world’s first. Since then, only the CDM market has offset emissions of over a billion metric tonnes of CO2.