Our Carbon Footprint is defined as:
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Our Carbon Footprint is defined as:
On the 6th - 7th of November I attended Ecomondo, the Green Technology Expo, located near the seaside town of Rimni, Italy. After a relatively pain free, all be it mammoth journey, I arrived seemingly with the entire Italian population. I had been told the event was big, but nothing could really prepare me for just how big! More on that later.
The Environment Bill has been in the news a lot lately. On 29th October, it passed its second reading by MPs unopposed, but it still has a long way to go to receive royal assent and actually make it into law.
Regulation of emissions to air from large combustion processes is well established; The Large Combustion Plant Directive (LCPD), issued in 2001, was a European directive which required member states to limit flue gas emissions from all combustion plant having a thermal capacity of 50MW (thermal) or greater. The LCPD was superseded by the Industrial Emissions Directive (Directive 2010/75/EU) on integrated pollution prevention and control, referred to simply as the ‘IED’. This covers large power plants regardless of the fuel used e.g. oil, gas, biomass, refuse derived fuels (RDF) or municipal solid waste (MSW).
I was listening to the old wireless on Wednesday last week at a moment when Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson, was addressing her party conference.
Recently in a rather heated exchange with an old Australian pal (old in age and because I have know him for 30 years) he contended that the climate change theory was a hoax. "Green house gasses may be increasing" he said "but CO2 is not a pollutant and the difference between 300 and 415 parts per million was so insignificant it could never be the cause of global warming".
The announcement from the outgoing UK Prime Minister Theresa May on June 12th can be read in many ways. Politically it could be holding the future PM hostage to fortune, having to implement a policy he does not agree with whilst leaving her with a positive legacy people will remember. Practically the announcement was met with scepticism from Greenpeace who criticised that off-shoring reductions through offsets in (for example) tree planting in other countries leads to abuse of the system and weakness in monitoring. While the discredited climate sceptic from Denmark, Bjorn Lomborg, (you can read more about his discredited science here) highlights the costs rather than the benefits.