Change2's Blog Posts Tagged 'Greenhouse' (2)

It may have become fashionable to target four-wheel drives as gas guzzlers and heavy emitters, but they are probably less damaging to the environment than the cows and sheep that are essential to the rural economy. Methane emissions from both ends of cattle and sheep are causing great concern, according to Times Online in July 2007. The UK government has asked researchers to find ways to cut down on methane (a greenhouse gas 20 times more powerful at driving global warming than carbon… Continue

An international agreement made in 1997 (in the Japanese city of Kyoto), the Kyoto Protocol, sets emission reduction targets for developed countries and establishes mechanism to reduce the emissions of developing countries. The Kyoto Protocol is an addendum to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It took one year for the member countries of the UNFCCC to decide that the Convention had to be augmented by an agreement with stricter demands for reducing greenhouse gas… Continue