Youth Climate Movement
on Nov 14, 2009 in Global warming The Youth Climate Movement is an international coalition of youth organisations. The coalitions aims to inspire, empower and mobilise a generational movement of young people across the world to take action on climate change. The movement itself is su...

World Wide Views on Global Warming
on Nov 8, 2009 in Global warming World Wide Views on Global Warming is a global project initiated by The Danish Board of Technology on the occasion of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) held in Copenhagen December 2009.World Wide Views on Global Warming (or just WW...

Western Fuels Association
on Nov 6, 2009 in Global warming The Western Fuels Association is a not-for profit cooperative that supplies coal and transportation services to consumer-owned electric utility in the Great Plains, Rocky Mountain and Southwest regions. It is based in Westminster, Colorado.Controvers...

Waste heat
on Oct 23, 2009 in Global warming Waste heat refers to heat produced by machines, electrical equipment and industrial processes for which no useful application is found, and is regarded as a waste by-product. When produced by humans, or by human activities, it is a component of anthr...

Virgin Earth Challenge
on Oct 13, 2009 in Global warming The Virgin Earth Challenge is a competition offering a $25 million prize for the first person or organization to come up with a way of scrubbing greenhouse gases out of the Earth's atmosphere to avoid global warming. The prize was conceived and finan...

United States House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming
on Oct 8, 2009 in Global warming The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming is a select committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. It was established March 8, 2007 through adoption of a resolution by a 269–150 vote of the full House. As a select comm...

U.S. Climate Action Partnership
on Sep 9, 2009 in Global warming The U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), formed January 22, 2007 is a co-operative group of businesses and leading environmental organizations. The group's primary purpose is to call on the U.S. government to require significant reductions in gre...

Tonne of oil equivalent
on Sep 5, 2009 in Global warming The tonne of oil equivalent (toe) is a unit of energy: the amount of energy released by burning one tonne of crude oil, approximately 42 GJ (as different crude oils have different calorific values, the exact value of the toe is defined by convention;...

The Carbon Principles
on Sep 1, 2009 in Global warming The Carbon Principles are a series of guidelines established by three leading Wall Street banks — Citigroup Inc., JP Morgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley — to assess the risks in financing electric power projects in terms of climate change.The Princi...

Stratospheric sulfur aerosols (geoengineering)
on Sep 1, 2009 in Global warming The ability of stratospheric sulfur aerosols to create a global dimming effect has made them a possible candidate for use in geoengineering projects to limit the effect and impact of climate change due to rising levels of greenhouse gases. Delivery o...