The 2014 United Nations World Water Development Report (external .pdf link in English). Large file, 230 pages, may take minutes to load.
Category Archives: Environment
Polluted Chinese Waters
Chinese Pollution Here’s why there’s a vast, untapped market for hydrogen: China needs it to generate electricity, manufacture pure water by aquafacture, and clean up its air. Currently it’s not cost effective to produce hydrogen on that scale because its principal source is fossil fuels, so it’s cheaper and more … Continue reading
Chinese & Australian Shale Gas
Chinese & Australian Shale Gas 05/29/2014 China Although serious obstacles remain, China is finally making progress on tapping its vast shale gas reserves, which hold the promise of a new source of clean energy for the coal smoke-choked country. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, China holds the world’s … Continue reading
Shale Gas Footprint
Cornell University Study on Fracking (2011, in English, .pdf file), entitled Methane and the Greenhouse-Gas Footprint of Natural Gas from Shale Formations
The Downside of Liquefied Natural Gas
Report (in English, .pdf file) dated May 29, 2014 from the U.S. Department of Energy showing that liquefied natural gas (LNG), which is mostly methane and 86 to 105 times a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, offers no appreciable climate benefit over coal. The reason: leaks in its … Continue reading
Decarbonization Plan for 2050
A 2014 report (external link in English, large .pdf file, 218 pages) prepared by teams of energy experts from the world’s 15 largest economies under the auspices of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), a global initiative for the United … Continue reading
Committed (future) Emissions of Carbon Dioxide, August 2014
The first worldwide report (in English) on future emissions of carbon dioxide, also known as “committed emissions,” prepared by Steve J Davis (Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697) and Robert H Soicolow (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544), published by … Continue reading
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Report -September 2014
A World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report (in English) reveals that between 2012 and 2013, carbon dioxide increased by 2.9 parts per million (ppm) to an average of 396 ppm. The chart below shows how average CO2 levels have risen over time.
Carbon Index -September 2014
This September 2014 Low Carbon Economy Index by multinational accounting firm Pricewaterhouse-Coopers measures how G-20 countries are performing relative to their agreement at the 2009 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to do what they must to keep global temperatures within 2 degrees Celsius of pre-industrial levels. The result: … Continue reading
National Security & Climate Change -2014
2014 National Security & Climate Change Report (in English, .pdf file) issued by the Center for Naval Analyses Military Advisory Board.