GreenPrices Weekly, 17 July 2007 – ­ Everyone seems to agree that global warning should not exceed 2 degrees Celsius. But what is actually needed to achieve this goal by 2050 and are we on the right track? Researchers from the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Ecofys, Greenpeace and EREC show in the Energy Policy journal how it can be done. They recommend their work should be adopted as a future benchmark in stead of the Business-as-Usual scenario.

Iceberg near Baffin island - Ansgar Walk (WikiCommons)

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GreenPrices Weekly, 11 June 2007 -­ At the G8 meeting at Heiligendamm last week, participants acknowledged the need to half global emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050. They promised to constructively participate in the UN Climate Change Conference in Indonesia in December 2007.

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4 May 2007–Climate change can be curbed, but at a price. That’s the conclusion of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) briefing this morning from Bangkok. After a week of editing by hundreds of contributors, the summary of the IPCC’s report on the mitigation of climate change is now available.

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GreenPrices Weekly, 20 April 2007 – ­ Member States must increase the share of renewable power they use to more than 30% by 2020. Most can only do so by importing, so a green power market is desperately needed, says the European Commission. But how such a market should function, no one knows. Not even the Union of the Electricity Industry, Eurelectric, who made an inventory of the obstacles ahead at a conference in Brussels this week.

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GreenPrices Weekly, 6 April 2007 – For the first time, the global scientific community confirmed that climate change is happening, both on a global and on a regional level. “Even if we agree on mitigation of climate change, we have to adapt to address impacts of warming already happening,” said Martin Parry, co-chair of the second Working Group contributing to this year’s assessment of climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). “Billions of people are at risk”.

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GreenPrices Weekly, 5 February, 2007 – Eleven of the last twelve years were the warmest since records began. Widespread melting of snow and ice is observed as well as a rising global sea level. In short, warming of the climate system is unequivocal, the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel of climate change (IPCC) concludes.

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