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Green Week 2009

Climate change condensed

Posted by Anna on Thu 25 Jun 2009
Categories: Climate change , Conferences , Green Week 2009 , News | [2] Comments

A round-up of the most interesting/eye-catching/bizarre/worrying/confusing numbers, stats, comments

— green-week-brussels1

and pics from my experience of the last day or so of the Green Week conference before it all wraps up on Friday afternoon.

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Instructions not included?

Posted by Anna on Thu 25 Jun 2009
Categories: Climate change , Conferences , Green Week 2009 , News | No Comments

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Well it’s a gorgeous sunny morning here in Brussels, and I’m just off for day three of Green Week.

The conference has been very interesting so far, if a little…well, sobering. I get the distinct impression that the global warming limit of 2°C above pre-industrial levels isn’t going to save our skins, even if we manage to change our CO₂ spewing ways and actually fall below that limit. (more…)

 

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