Saturday, February 2, 2013

The good news: US climate emissions continue to decline

Here's the report that says this, from Bloomberg, the financial analysts:

http://www.bcse.org/pdfviewer/php/simple_document.php?doc=BCSE_BNEF_Sustainable_Energy_in_America_2013_Factbook.pdf

Here's a short Guardian article that gives the main details:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/01/us-carbon-emissions-lowest-levels?intcmp=122

The main difficulty, as I've mentioned elsewhere on this blog, is that Chinese and Indian and other developing country emissions will fill in behind the US, I'm afraid.

The remedy is a strong international agreement, or, failing that, some kind of climate free trade zone scheme, as explained in earlier posts.

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