The White House released this statement which makes interesting reading:
Energy & Environment
“So we have a choice to make. We can remain one of the world’s leading importers of foreign oil, or we can make the investments that would allow us to become the world’s leading exporter of renewable energy. We can let climate change continue to go unchecked, or we can help stop it. We can let the jobs of tomorrow be created abroad, or we can create those jobs right here in America and lay the foundation for lasting prosperity.”
Humans have always dreamed of harnessing the power of the Sun. Whilst we capture more solar energy, it’s not enough to supply our power-hungry world. What if we could replicate the way the Sun produces its energy?
The Sun’s core is hot: 15 million degrees centigrade to be precise. Whizzing around it at great speeds are hydrogen atoms. They collide, fuse together and provide a burst of energy in the form of light. This never-ending process uses around 600 million tons of hydrogen every second. Without this process, life could not exist on this planet.
The European Union’s Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas called for greater urgency and ambition in international negotiations on a new global climate agreement. He warned that it represents the world’s last chance to prevent climate change from reaching dangerous levels.
Commissioner Dimas made the remarks in a statement to mark World Environment Day, which has climate change as its theme.
Commissioner Dimas’s statement reads as follows:
The new global climate agreement that is due to be finalised at the Copenhagen climate conference in December is the world’s last chance to prevent the dangerous, perhaps even catastrophic, levels of climate change that are projected by scientists to occur as early as 2050 – well within the lifetimes of over a billion young people alive today.
On 5th June 2009, the main celebrationof the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) annual World Environment Day took place in Mexico.
The country’s President, President Calderon announced far-reaching plans to reduce Mexico’s greenhouse gas emissions and create five new protected environmental areas. He said that Mexico would reduce its emissions of global warming gases by 50 million tonnes annually.
People all around the world organized events.ranging from the massive to the local: from a major tree-planting drive across India organized by Tata Motors to a concert in Ecuador, a recycling drive in Seattle, and an ‘educational picnic’ on real grass in the heart of the gothic old town of Torun in Poland, alongside painting competitions, neighbourhood clean-ups and a multitude of awareness-raising events.
