Solar panel costs ‘set to fall’, BBC News reports here: The cost of installing and owning solar panels will fall even faster than expected according to new research.
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Spiegel Online reports here: Some of the world’s largest developing nations met over the weekend to form a collective bargaining position ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit, which starts next week. Their demand? More money from the West. Read SPIEGEL ONLINE’s Climate Countdown to keep up to date as Copenhagen approaches. BBC News reports here: Commonwealth leaders pledge backing for a multi-billion-dollar fund to help developing nations cope with climate change. Great Black Friday Deal at Amazon.com: Planet Earth – The Complete BBC Series. It’s Black Friday all week long here and we’ve got new deals on sale every day! # The 11-part series shot entirely in high-definition: From Pole to Pole, Mountains, Fresh Water, Caves, Deserts, Ice Worlds, Great Plains, Jungles, Shallow Seas, Seasonal Forests, [...] BBC News reports here: Unusually warm and cold periods in Earth’s pre-industrial climate history are linked to how the oceans responded to temperature changes, say scientists. BBC News reports here: China has unveiled its first firm target for limiting greenhouse gas emissions, two weeks before a global summit on climate change in Copenhagen. Beijing said it would aim to reduce its “carbon intensity” by 40-45% by the year 2020, compared with 2005 levels. BBC News reports here: Millions of trees should be planted to cover an extra 4% of the UK in woodland in order to tackle climate change, the Forestry Commission has recommended. Global ice-sheets are melting at an increased rate; Arctic sea-ice is disappearing much faster than recently projected, and future sea-level rise is now expected to be much higher than previously forecast, according to a new global scientific synthesis prepared by some of the world’s top climate scientists. In a special report called ‘The Copenhagen Diagnosis’, the [...] BBC News reports here: This year will be one of the top five warmest years globally since records began 150 years ago, according to figures compiled by the Met Office. |
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