WWF: Green economy will help fight climate change

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http://www.panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/news/?155001/Green-economy-will-help-fight-climate-change

Green economy will help fight climate change

26 Jan 2009

Brussels - New figures released today show that moving to a “green” global economy could not only protect the planet from the worst effects of climate change but is surprisingly affordable.

Pathways to a Low Carbon Economy- a new study by McKinsey and Co – shows that global warming can be kept below the critical 2°C rise and that it is well within our means to do so. The study spells out in detail the costs of cutting damaging carbon emissions, but makes it clear that only by acting now will we avoid the worst impacts of climate change. According to WWF, one of the report's sponsors, world leaders now have all the information they need to shape a global climate deal for both developed and developing countries.

The study – one of the biggest and most detailed of its kind ever compiled – lists more than 200 opportunities, spread across ten sectors and twenty-one geographical regions, which could cut global greenhouse gas emissions by about 40% below 1990 levels by 2030.

By 2030, wind, solar and other sustainable renewable energy could provide almost a third of all global power needs; energy efficiency could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than a quarter and deforestation in developing countries – one of the biggest drivers of climate change and a major threat to sustainable development – could be almost fully halted. And all at a cost of less than half a percent of global GDP.

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http://globalghgcostcurve.bymckinsey.com/

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1. Yes, and put money into people's pockets with new jobs

The corporate greeders need to understand there is a whole nuther infrastructure that needs to be built. Building/transforming=good economy.

We can recycle the pumpjacks and make our own windmills instead of importing so many from France. Electric service stations will need to be transformed to charge electric cars. Old holding tanks and pipelines for fuel will need to be dug up and recycled and the earth restored. Transmission lines will need to be beefed up. Mountaintops and valleys will need to be cleaned, reclaimed and replanted from the rape of dirty coal.

Oh, and we won't have to "buy oil from terrorists."

My word, but we need to get busy.

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2. Windmills

GE makes windmills and the turbines for them, much of it here. This whole article sounds so obvious to old hippies, who were right all along about conservation. Jimmy Carter too, should be given the credit he deserves, for spotting this early.

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3. I see so many of them

coming through the Port of Houston. They are in pieces in these long convoys of trucks. It just fills me with hope.

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4. Large Wind Turbine Manufacturers in the United States

http://energy.sourceguides.com/businesses/byGeo/US/byP/wRP/lwindturbine/byB/mfg/mfg.shtml

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5. Reuters: Fast action needed to avoid climate chaos: study

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE50P4E520090126

Fast action needed to avoid climate chaos: study

Mon Jan 26, 2009 11:01am EST

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Global temperature rises due to climate change could be kept below the critical 2 degree mark by fast international action to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 70 percent by 2030, a report said on Monday.

Scientists say that if temperatures increase beyond 2 degrees, humanity faces severe environmental fallout, such as melting polar ice caps and rising sealevels.

Increasing numbers of scientists and politicians question whether the 2 degrees goal is achievable, given the slow progress of international negotiations so far.

But it is not too late to avert dangerous climate change, said the report by consultancy McKinsey and backed by ten organizations including energy companies, Enel, Vattenfall and Royal Dutch Shell.

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