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apesphere on 12 Mar 2009
From: www.smh.com.au
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While the climate change science being updated at the Copenhagen summit is depressing, simple energy efficiency measures could have a big effect.
So far, the conference has been big on expressing how much worse thigns are than previously thought. Sea levels are now expected to rise by around one metre by 2100, versus previous estimates of 18 - 59 centimetres.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, however:
"conference participant and Australian National University (ANU) academic Will Steffen says there is a glimmer of hope.
Experts are reporting the success of energy efficiency measures, which are slashing greenhouse gas emissions "at absolutely no impact on lifestyles or economies".
"There's actually a lot of good news in terms of a really broad range of things that we can do now," Professor Steffen told AAP from Copenhagen.
"That's a bit of an upper, a lot of people are quite impressed."
The conference was told that some regions had cut their emissions by a whopping 20 per cent through energy efficiency programs."
Energy efficiency measures include building or retrofitting homes and businesses with smarter designs, solar panels, insulation, and extending the benefit of efficiency gains through implementation of smart grid technologies so that surplus business or household renewable electricity generated can be uploaded to the grid.
So far, the conference has been big on expressing how much worse thigns are than previously thought. Sea levels are now expected to rise by around one metre by 2100, versus previous estimates of 18 - 59 centimetres.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, however:
"conference participant and Australian National University (ANU) academic Will Steffen says there is a glimmer of hope.
Experts are reporting the success of energy efficiency measures, which are slashing greenhouse gas emissions "at absolutely no impact on lifestyles or economies".
"There's actually a lot of good news in terms of a really broad range of things that we can do now," Professor Steffen told AAP from Copenhagen.
"That's a bit of an upper, a lot of people are quite impressed."
The conference was told that some regions had cut their emissions by a whopping 20 per cent through energy efficiency programs."
Energy efficiency measures include building or retrofitting homes and businesses with smarter designs, solar panels, insulation, and extending the benefit of efficiency gains through implementation of smart grid technologies so that surplus business or household renewable electricity generated can be uploaded to the grid.
Andrew Newton is the author of The Handbook of Compliance: Making Ethics Work in Financial Services
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