"Make IT Green: Cloud Computing and its Contribution to Climate Change" shows how the launch of quintessential cloud computing devices like the Apple iPad, which offer users access to the "cloud" of online services like social networks and video streaming, can contribute to a much larger carbon footprint of the Information Technology (IT) sector than previously estimated.
As the next international meeting on the Kyoto Protocol approaches (Bali, December 3-14, 2007), this briefing sets out Greenpeace's detailed demands on what Governments need to agree - in order to keep global temperatures below two degrees centigrade.
This briefing aims to highlight some of the key areas where the climate legislation in Congress falls short and outlines how Obama and the US can do more to deliver deeper emission cuts by harnessing the potential of renewable energy and energy efficiency.
It is a matter of serious concern that the oceans are being systematically degraded and are in decline. The most immediate and significant threat to the oceans is overfishing and destructive fishing practices like bottom trawling. But, global warming is also having a huge impact on the health of the oceans. We have a tendency to think of climate change in terms of its impacts on land, but it also has multiple negative effects on the oceans, affecting their ability to maintain their food webs and natural ecological functions. Can the oceans survive the onslaught of global warming?
Climate change will profoundly affect agriculture worldwide.
Food security in many countries is under threat from unpredictable changes in rainfall and more frequent extreme
weather. Farmers in poorer countries with harsh climate
conditions will likely be most affected. A review of recent scientific literature underlines that the most effective strategy to adapt agriculture to climate change is to
increase biodiversity. This report outlines the role biodiversity can play as a solution to climate change and decreasing food security.
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