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Dec 9, 2009

Climate Conference * Denmark - targets will lead to new era of transport demand management

What is being billed as the largest and most important UN climate change conference in history has opened in Copenhagen, with diplomats from 192 nations warning that this could be the last chance for a deal to protect the world from global warming

Copenhagen,Denmark -Transport Intelligence, by Sarah Smith -9 Dec 2009: ... Everyone in the logistics industry should be aware that the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference will have major implications for the global transport industry if demanding emissions reduction targets are agreed by politicians... The transport industry, as a major contributor of greenhouse gases, will be under considerable pressure to reduce its emissions. Although much has been done, progress has been considered too slow if the EU is to meet existing overall greenhouse gas emission reduction targets by 2020. If the EU commits to further reductions at Copenhagen , governments will have to find new ways in which to constrain transport demand... A document compiled by the European Commission’s European Environment Agency (EEA) prior to the conference warns that these policies have not succeeded in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transport and that the effect of mitigation measures has been more than offset by increased transport volumes... It has concluded that existing targets can only be met by a reduction of total transport demand (passenger and freight). This could be through pricing measures or other types of ‘demand management tools’... Constraining demand and regulating supply will have inevitable implications for the transport industry and the wider global economy. Whether this is a price worth paying is, at this stage, largely a subjective judgement, based on whether or not the forecasts of climate change are to be believed... However what is clear is that these consequences will be real, although the full impact on the transport industry in terms of profits and revenue growth are yet to be fully understood... (Photo from joc.com: Panalpina)

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Oct 25, 2007

CALIF WILDFIRES * USA - Will delay lawsuit filing against EPA until next week

CAL,USA - The Associated Press/Land Line Magazine, by Charlie Morasch -October 24, 2007: -- California Attorney General Jerry Brown says the state’s raging wildfires will delay him from filing a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency as planned this week... Instead, Brown told, California will likely file the suit next week in federal court in Washington, DC. The lawsuit seeks to force the EPA to consider California’s request for an exemption that would let the state enact the first tailpipe emissions standard for cars and light trucks... Because California had air quality laws before the enactment of the current federal Clear Air Act, California has special permission to enact tougher environmental standards than permitted by the federal government. A formality in the process is obtaining a waiver from EPA. That’s been requested but for two years, the EPA has not acted on the request... California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has threatened to sue if EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson didn’t grant the state a waiver to enforce a 2005 law that would prompt greenhouse gas emissions cuts for 2009 and newer cars and light trucks... U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer noted the recent investigation by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-CA, that revealed U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Mary Peters participated in a lobbying effort to persuade the EPA to deny California’s waiver... Other states can adopt California’s environmental laws, and a reported 15 states have adopted California’s greenhouse gas emissions law... (Picture from strangedangers.com: CAL wildfire - Neighborhood in fear)

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CALIF. WILDFIRES * USA - CARB says wildfires contribute to global warming

Threat of fire closes I-5... California’s state assembly acknowledged two years ago that emissions from vehicles and factories hurt nature

CAL,USA -The San Francisco Chronicle/ Land Line Magazine -October 24, 2007: -- Now, the state’s air quality agency says an act of God or nature is contributing to the globe’s declining health... According to the California Air Resources Board, Southern California’s raging wildfires are creating an estimated 2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and 200,000 tons of methane and nitrous oxide... The emissions created by the wildfires equal what 440,000 cars would emit in a single year, quoting CARB Emissions Inventory Chief Richard Bode... The Associated Press has reported that 824,000 people have evacuated their homes since the fires broke out and destroyed at least 1,300 buildings. Preliminary reports indicate that the cost of the fires is about $1 billion so far... (Photo from earthobservatory.nasa.gov: California Wildfire Sat View)

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