As you know, the aim of the projects supported from the FCO Strategic Programme Fund Low Carbon High Growth is to promote low carbon economy that at the same time contributes to high economic growth. Three such projects are currently implemented in Poland and I have already described them in my blog. This time I would like to encourage you to visit a website called “Climate Success”. There you will find examples of companies, local authorities and other organisations from different countries that have succeeded in implementing solutions reducing their negative impact on climate. They include insulating the existing buildings or building new ones using environment friendly technologies, switching to low carbon production or increasing the share of renewable energy sources in generating electricity and heat. As you can see from the examples presented at the “Climate Success” site, pro-climate actions can also be quite profitable, which can be seen when you pay your bills for electricity, gas, water or waste collection. Unfortunately, I have not found a single example from Poland on the site. Have you heard of anything that would be worth showing to others? If so, it would, perhaps, be a good idea to describe such cases and submit them to the site administrator.
While focusing in my work on project coordination, I do not have much time to surf the web looking for information. And yet, there are two websites that I would like to recommend to you in view of the coming Climate Summit in Copenhagen.
The first one, “Act on Copenhagen”, is an official site of the UK government, containing information about the activities of various groups which strive for an ambitious global climate agreement in Copenhagen. Views of business people appear here side by side with scientific experts opinions and interviews with government officials. Recently, an interactive map of the world has been launched, illustrating probable economic and social consequences of an increase of air temperature by 4 degrees Celsius as a result of climate change. The map has been developed by distinguished scientists from the UK Met Office Hadley Centre. Its copies have just been sent to foreign ministers of a number of countries, vital for the success of the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen. I know that the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Radosław Sikorski received the map on 22 October.
The “Act on CO2” website contains valuable guidance on what every one of us can do in our own households or workplaces in order to reduce CO2 emissions. The carbon footprint calculator available on the page will let you calculate the amount of carbon emissions resulting from all your activities and prepare an individual carbon footprint reduction plan. Most of us will not go to the Copenhagen summit but we can all do something good for the climate by changing our ways.
Posted at 15:29 27 October 2009 by Agnieszka Tomaszewska | Comments[0]
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