Green Roofs Now Required by Law in Copenhagen
Photo via Inhabitat
A new policy adopted last month has made green roofs required by law on all new buildings with roof slopes of less than 30 degrees. The initiative is one part of the city’s plan to become totally carbon neutral by 2025, Inhabitat reports (via GOOD). And it’s pretty impressive how much new green growth the policy will lead to: …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Do You Know What ‘Cycle Chic’ Is? Are You Part of the Movement? (Video)
Bicycle Chic Makes Cycling More Accessible
It all started with Copenhagen Cycle Chic, and now the meme is spreading around the world (see London Cycle Chic, <a href="http://www.cyc…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Living Map of Europe Grows on Copenhagen Wall
The outside of the European Environment Agency office in Copenhagen. Photo via EEA.
A display of vertical greenery in the shape of the European continent has been added to the outside wall of the European Environment Agency’s centrally located headquarters in Copenhagen to provide an example of the ways in which cities can be redesigned to enhance green spaces and <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/04/governments-failing-their-biodiv…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Chicago Climate Exchange Sold, Uncertainties Mount
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Uncertainties surround carbon pricing and trading in the U.S. No one knows if Congress will get their act together this year to pass a bill that finally puts a price on carbon and questions remain about what, if anything, will come out of Cancun later this year when the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meets to hopefully finish the business they could not complete in Copenhagen last year. The effects of the uncertainty was on display Friday when the founders of the Chicago Climate Exchange sold their interests to …Read the full story on TreeHugger
The Human Bee Pollinator: People in a Beeless World?
Image credit: Fashioning Tech
It’s well known by now that much of the action at the failed climate talks in Copenhagen happened outside the convention center. From clashes with police to activists being banned from talks, some of the action was confrontational. But there was also a gigantic sha…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Pachauri. Semi-autographical Sex Tinged Novel. Oh Boy.
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The UN’s top climate official and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, Rajendra Pachauri, has penned a novel that reportedly mixes global warming lectures with steamy sex scenes involving a male protagonist that resembles Pachauri himself. An engineer by training, Pachauri has endured the recent failings in Copenhagen and the recent attacks on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change over charges that the group wasn’t careful enough when editing their 2007 global warming assessment….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Keep Track of Nations’ Copenhagen Accord Commitments with US Climate Action Network
With ten days to go before countries have to submit their plans for reducing emissions and signing onto the thoroughly non-binding, it was the best we could do, trust us, Copenhagen Accord, none of the world’s major economies have actually done so. The United Nations has indicated that the Jan 31 deadline is now flexible–”soft” was the word the UN’s Yvo de Boer used. None of which sounds particularly promising to me. However, if you want to keep track of which nati…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Failure, Yes. But Copenhagen Still a Game-Changer
Environmentalists marching for clean air in Tel Aviv in 2008. (photo by Jesse Fox)
Last month’s climate change summit in Copenhagen, which inspired so much expectation, seems to have pleased no one. Asked to describe their feelings post-Copenhagen in one word, TreeHugger readers responded with words like “disappointed,” “cop-out” and “fail.” Many people have described COP15 as a resounding failure, and maybe it was – but maybe not……Read the full story on TreeHugger
Blaming China for Copenhagen Won’t Help the Climate
The Copenhagen Accord was a deal and not a deal, and its real implications remain uncertain. Nonetheless, thanks to fly-on-the-wall accounts by participants like Ed Milliband and Mark Lynas (“How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room”), China’s been taking heavy blame for keeping the …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Copenhagen’s Silver Lining: Is the Accord a Big Step Forward?
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The general reaction to the Copenhagen Accord, as you’re likely well aware, has been disappointment. Especially in green circles, the lack of legally binding initiatives and the vague parameters outlined seemed like an overwhelming cop out (pardon the pun). But not everyone is down on COP15–the <…Read the full story on TreeHugger
