From Reuters.com
Graphic: China emissions targets
An international goal to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius appears unreachable even if China embarks on a vast effort to tame its growing greenhouse gas emissions, a Beijing think-tank has said.
The day ahead: Wednesday
Investors will eye Google and Apple as they display their wares and await the possible return of Apple’s master showman CEO Steve Jobs at a media event.
* Google is set to brief investors in a Webcast about search and monetization. While the company made its fortune on Internet search ads, Wall Street is increasingly eager for signs that the company’s other money-making bets will pay off.
* Apple’s annual September gathering may or may not feature master showman CEO Steve Jobs. While revamped iPods are again on tap this year, much of the focus is stuck on whether Jobs will make his first public appearance since taking medical leave in January.
* Shops start selling of “The Beatles: Rock Band”, one of the most highly anticipated new video games this year.
* At the second day of the Reuters Global Climate and Alternative Energy Summit the agenda includes discussions with Brazil Environment Minister Carlos Minc, New Zealand Climate Change Minister Nick Smith, Keizai Doyukai Chairman Masamitsu Sakurai, Royal Society President Martin Rees and Google Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl.
The graphic shows very well the gravity of the issue of Global Warming. Current Global Economic Downturn helps the mankind to think differently as well as collectively to overcome the dependancy over Fossil Fuel Based Technologies. Even though Environmentally Sound Technologies, known as ESTs, are often considered more expensive than the existing Fossil Fuel Based Technologies, the transition to EST driven manufacturing and service industries can become a platform for a new economic growth for sectors such as agriculture, forestry, and even tourism.
Climate Change is a universal issue and it has to be dealt collectively. ESTs know how sharing policies between developed and developing countries, will be needed on an unprecedented scale. Those who degrade the environment insanely are accountable for their act and they have a moral responsability to contribute back to the environment. In other word, Environmental Cost. Thus, ESTs are able to provide Win Win solutions, allowing the Greener Global Economic Growth and Climate Change Mitigation to proceed hand in hand.
Existing fossil fuel dependancy will be diminished with the supporting deployment of mature renewable energies as biomass, geothermal, solar, wind, and hydro energy as well as providing public awareness on efficient utilisation of energy.
How come we don’t see many of these charts before 2007? I mean like for the past 50 years?? I wonder who was the top CO2 emission country then?