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AVING the planet is
now a matter of a few clicks—at least on a small scale.
On September 22nd the UN’s Climate Change Secretariat
launched Climate Neutral Now, a website that estimates an individual’s carbon
footprint based on whereabouts, recycling habits, energy use and so on.
Offsetting any resulting guilt is easy: the site takes
donations to fund clean development projects. Your correspondent paid $24 to a
facility capturing methane from pig dung to cover the carbon-dioxide emissions
she had caused during the past year.
The initiative is one of many intended to spur action on
greenhouse-gas emissions in the run-up to climate talks in Paris at the end of
the year. Some seem quite successful: in recent weeks around 2,000 individuals
and 400 organisations have committed to stop investing in firms that produce
fossil fuels.
More important, countries have responded to a shift in
climate-change policy after the failure of negotiations in Copenhagen in 2009:
rather than trying to agree on mandatory emissions reductions, they were asked
to say by October 1st what they were willing to do.
ReadThe Economist
story - “It’s getting hotter”.
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