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The Carbon Footprint of Email Spam – 17 million tons of CO2
22 Apr 2009
by Florian Bauer - Category: News
A few days ago McAfee / ICF International released a report about “The Carbon Footprint of Email Spam“. The numbers shown in this report are amazing, the waste of electricity is frustrating and the impact of Spams on our climate (CO2 Emissions) is really frightening. Let’s summarise the report: About 62 trillion spam emails where [...]
According to Reuters Google is shortly to roll out free software which allows consumers to track their home electricity use and improve energy efficiency in a bid to help mitigate global warming. Dan Reicher, Director for Climate Change and Energy Initiatives Google, is currently working with a number of major utilities companies in the United [...]
UN publishes proposals ahead of Poznan climate talks
21 Nov 2008
by Lauri Kinnunen (www.energy-enviro.fi) - Category: Contributed News
The draft report assembled proposals presented by countries and observer organizations since last year’s U.N. talks in Bali, Indonesia, on what a new treaty should feature. The proposals will help lawmakers meeting at an upcoming U.N. climate summit in Poznan, Poland, to move closer to sealing a new agreement to confront potentially devastating global warming, [...]
G8 agreed on halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
08 Jul 2008
by Lauri Kinnunen (www.energy-enviro.fi) - Category: Contributed News
The Group of Eight countries want to work with the nearly 200 states involved in U.N. climate change talks to adopt a goal of at least halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to a draft communique obtained by Reuters ahead of its formal approval. Mid-term goals also would be needed to achieve the shared [...]
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