Dopo le polemiche sollevate nei giorni scorsi dalle anticipazioni, domani venerdì 27 settembre alle ore 10 sarà presentata alla stampa la Sintesi del primo Gruppo di Lavoro (WG1) del “Fith Assessment Report” (AR5) dell’IPCC, un rapporto frutto di oltre 6 anni di lavoro da parte di 259 esperti di 39 paesi differenti e coadiuvati da un team di 1.500 esperti.
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At a closed-door meeting in Stockholm this week, each paragraph of a document written by scientists is being projected onto large screens. Delegations from scores of nations participate in the editing: Words will be substituted, emphasis will be added, entire sentences may well be inserted or deleted.
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With news of a potential meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and his newly-elected Iranian counterpart President Hassan Rouhani raising hopes that the stalemate over Iran’s nuclear program might finally come to an end, Russia has handed over control of Iran’s single nuclear power plant to domestic specialists.
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In his address to the United Nations General Assembly, the President of Uruguay today urged the international community to strengthen efforts to preserve the planet for future generations. Speaking to world leaders gathered at the General Debate of the Assembly’s 68th session, President José Mujica said that “the world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.”
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Statoil, the oil and gas giant based in Oslo, Norway, said on Monday that it would suspend an ambitious effort to capture and store carbon dioxide in underground geologic formations near its Mongstad refinery.
The Norweigan government ultimately decided to pull the plug on the project, which began in 2006, as a result of rising costs.
“The government has . . . concluded, after careful consideration, that the risk connected to the Mongstad facility is too high and has for that reason decided that the work on the full-scale facility will be discontinued,” said Norwegian Energy Minister Ola Borten Moe.
The carbon capture project at Statoil’s Mongtad refinery was estimated to cost about $500 million.
The decision marks a major setback to commercialize carbon capture and storage technology, which the International Energy Agency has estimated could cut carbon dioxide emissions from the industrial sector as much as four gigatons by 2050.
Fonte: forbes.com
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Four years ago, Congress rejected the idea of a cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by putting a price on them. But the plan announced by the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday to regulate emissions from existing coal-fired power plants could foster creation of such a system, at least on a regional basis, and a push for renewable energy and energy efficiency in states that so far have embraced neither.
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