09-05-2008 Airline emissions far higher than estimates More 25-04-2008 Boeing and Airbus join forces to green the skies More 25-03-2008 In memoriam: Eckart Wintzen (1939 - 2008) More 17-01-2008 Virgin to test 747 on Biofuel. .More 01-11-2007 Reaction regarding forestry project in Uganda. More 24-07-2007 Extreme weather conditions hit Europe Extreme weather conditions have hit Europe with record-high temperatures causing deaths in south-eastern Europe while heavy rainfall in northern Europe leads to major floods in some parts of the UK. More 16-07-2007 Ban Ki-moon says climate change will be key topic in talks with US President On the eve of his meeting in Washington, D.C. with United States President George W. Bush, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said the two will discuss climate change ahead of a special session on the issue planned for September in New York and a global conference to be held two months later in Bali. More 16-07-2007 'No Sun link' to climate change A new scientific study concludes that changes in the Sun's output cannot be causing modern-day climate change. More 14-06-2007 G8 deal sends search for climate deal on road to Bali A Group of Eight accord on cutting dangerous greenhouse gas emissions has breathed new life into the search for a follow-up accord on global warming spearheaded by the UN. More 6-06-2007 US rejects German G8 climate goal Washington says it will not agree to climate change targets ahead of a G8 summit in Germany already marred by a row over US missile defence plans. More 5-06-2007 UN agencies, partners call on wealthy nations to adopt emission targets United Nations agencies and their partners are calling on the world’s leading industrialized nations, on the eve of their Group of Eight (G8) summit, to take bold steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect biodiversity. More 4-06-2007 UN warning over global ice los Hundreds of millions of livelihoods will be affected by declining snow and ice cover as a result of global warming, a UN report has warned. More 3-06-2007 Merkel in last-minute bid to clinch G8 climate-change deal German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet with US President George W. Bush ahead of the G8 summit in a last-ditch attempt to convince him to commit to key targets and timetables for fighting global warming. More 3-06-2007 Global warming 'is three times faster than worst predictions' Global warming is accelerating three times more quickly than feared, a series of startling, authoritative studies has revealed. More 24-05-2007 Global warming's boom town Ilulissat, a town of 5,000 people in the chilly north of Greenland, is hot. Majestic blue icebergs the size of small islands float outside its harbour; its ice fjord drains 7% of the area of the Greenland ice sheet. More 22-05-2007 World Growth Spurs Faster Climate Change, Report Says Global warming is occurring faster than predicted because rapid economic growth has resulted in higher than expected greenhouse gas emissions since 2000, said an Australian report on Tuesday. More 13-05-2007 World Bank data points to rising global CO2 emissions 29-04-2007 The hottest April since records began Much of Britain will bask in scorching 22C temperatures today as the Met Office confirmed last night that April 2007 will be the warmest since records began in 1659. More 22-04-2007 New York plans to plant 1 million trees. New York City is planning to plant 1 million trees during the next decade as part of an effort to make it a greener city. More 4-03-2007 JP Morgan and Innovest Launch Global Warming Bond Index The global financial services firm JPMorgan and Innovest Strategic Value Advisors Wednesday launched the first bond index designed to address the risks of global warming. More 2-3-2007 UN chief warns on climate change Ban Ki-moon urged the US to lead the way in tackling climate change. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned that climate change poses as much of a danger to the world as war. In his first address on the issue, Mr Ban said changes in the environment were likely to become a major driver of future war and conflicts. 1-3-2007 Winter 'second warmest on record' The UK has experienced its second warmest winter on record, with a mean temperature of 5.47C (41.8F), provisional Met Office figures show. More 26-02-2007 Eindhoven Airport is the first airport in the Netherlands to tackle greenhouse gas emissions As of May 2007, Eindhoven Airport will be using its “Flying Naturally” campaign to encourage passengers to go climate neutral. Eindhoven Airport has furthermore set itself as target to compensate 100% of the greenhouse gases released by its own business operations. More 12-2-2007 Climate Neutral Group and GreenSeat join forces More 5-2-2007 GreenSeat listed! CNBC European Business magazine publishes global top 50 low-carbon pioneers list. More 26-01-2007 World Leaders put Climate Change and Global Trade first The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2007 has opened with a call from leaders to make progress on resolving climate change and restart the Doha round of global trade negotiations. The Annual Meeting Co-Chairs joined Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, in urging participants to confront “The Shifting Power Equation” and use the five-day meeting to shape the 2007 global agenda. Read more. Source: PNN 21-1-2007 Global warming: the final verdict A study by the world's leading experts says global warming will happen faster and be more devastating than previously thought. Global warming is destined to have a far more destructive and earlier impact than previously estimated, the most authoritative report yet produced on climate change will warn next week. Read more. Source: The Observer 11-1-2007 Tony Blair Pledges to Pay to Offset Carbon Emissions from His Holiday Flights - British Prime Minister Tony Blair mounted a defense of his environmental credentials Tuesday after critics rounded on his claim that lawmakers would never ask the public to cut down on air travel. Blair's office announced he would offset carbon emissions from personal air travel by donating money to environmental projects - after lobby groups and a government adviser criticized the premier. Read more here. Source: Associated Press 4-01-2007 Norway, UK Try to Tackle Planes' Greenhouse Gases Norway plans to join Britain in offsetting greenhouse gases caused by bureaucrats jetting around the world, announcing it will buy emissions quotas to combat global warming. Read more. Source: Reuters 13-12-2006 Arctic sea ice 'faces rapid melt' The Arctic may be close to a tipping point that sees all-year-round ice disappear very rapidly in the next few decades, US scientists have warned. The latest data presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting suggests the ice is no longer showing a robust recovery from the summer melt. Read more. Source: BBC News 6-12-2006 Germany Aims to Cap Airline's CO2 Emissions Germany wants to cap carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from airlines flying into its territory and to make them join the EU emissions trading scheme, a minister was quoted as saying on Tuesday. Read more. Source: Reuters 4-12-2006 Flowers in Alps, bears can't sleep as winter waits Flowers are blooming on the slopes of Alpine ski resorts and bears are having trouble hibernating in Siberia amid a late start to winter that may be a portent of global warming. Rare December pollen is troubling asthma sufferers as far north as Scandinavia, sales of winter clothing are down and Santa Claus is having to reassure children his sleigh will take off on Christmas Eve, snow or no snow. Read more. Source: Reuters 30-11-2006 Research Shows Acceleration in Greenhouse Gas Emissions The rate at which humans are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere has more than doubled since the 1990s, according to Australian research, the latest report warning about the high rate of emissions accumulating in the atmosphere. Read more. Source: Associated Press 25-11-2006 How Windows XP Wasted $25 Billion of Energy and 225 million tons of CO2 Microsoft has been touting Vista's new power saving features, saying that upgrading to Vista could easily save consumers and corporations $50 to $75 per computer per year in energy costs. The question, though, is what marvelous new code makes this miracle possible. The answer? They fixed three stupid mistakes that have cost the world billions of dollars and millions of tons of CO2 in the past five years. Read more. Source: Treehugger.com 17-11-2006 KLM calls for action to address climate problem At the Dutch Aviation Agenda Conference (De Nederlandse Luchtvaartagenda) held in Noordwijk, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines called on participants representing the Dutch aviation sector to adopt a proactive approach towards addressing climate problems. Read more. Source: KLM.com 14-11-2006 Carbon emissions rising faster than ever Far from slowing down, global carbon dioxide emissions are rising faster than before, said a gathering of scientists in Beijing on Friday. Read more. Source: NewScientist 9-11-2006 Environmentalists hopeful after US Democratic victory 7-11-2006 Greenhouse gases hit record high The steady rise in atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gases blamed for climate change shows no signs of abating, a UN agency has announced. The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide rose by about half a percent in 2005, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said. Read more in the following article. Source: BBC News 2-11-2006 Number 100! WNF is the 100st organisation compensating its flights via GreenSeat. The WNF, part of the global organisation WWF, the World Wide Fund for Nature, has compensated all of its flights since 2005 and from now on all flights will automatically be compensated via travelagency Multatuli. As one of the largest conservation organisations in the world WNF is fully aware of the negative impact of air travel on our climate. WNF/WWF operates in more than 100 countries, working for a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. Click here to visit the WWF website. 30-10-2006 Climate change 'brings huge cost' Climate change could shrink the global economy by a fifth at a cost of up to £3.68 trillion unless drastic action is taken, a review is to warn. But taking action now would cost just 1% of global gross domestic product, economist Sir Nicholas Stern says. Read the complete article here. Source: BBC News 27-10-2006 Climate Change Inaction Will Cost Trillions - Failing to fight global warming now will cost trillions of dollars by the end of the century even without counting biodiversity loss or unpredictable events like the Gulf Stream shutting down, a study said on Friday. Read the complete article here. Source: Reuters 18-10-2006 Britain Must Cut Flights or Miss CO2 Targets The British government must curb the huge expansion in air travel or risk overshooting its self-imposed target of cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 60 percent by 2050, a study said on Tuesday. Read more. Source: Reuters 11-10-2006 Al Gore on a green seat On Friday the 6th of October the movie An Inconvenient Truth was launched in Amsterdam. The movie, based on the book of Al Gore, warns against the tremendous effects of global warming on our climate. GreenSeat made this event climate neutral by compensating the CO2 emissions that were released. Read more about An Inconvenient Truth. 26-9-2006 Earth may be at warmest point in 1 million years Earth may be close to the warmest it has been in the last million years, especially in the part of the Pacific Ocean where potentially violent El Nino weather patterns are born, climate scientists reported on Monday. Read more. Source: CNN 20-9-2006 California Sues 6 Automakers Over Global Warming California Sues 6 Automakers Over Global Warming California, which has battled the automotive industry over new global warming regulations for years, sued the world’s six-largest automakers yesterday, demanding that they pay for environmental damage caused by the emissions of their vehicles. Read more. Source: The New York Times 14-9-2006 'Drastic' shrinkage in Arctic ice 1-9-2006 California passes CO2 reduction bill 28-06-2006 Night flights give bigger boost to global warming 5-06-2006 "You control climate change" 22-05-2006 Greenhouse gas-temperature feedback mechanism may raise warming beyond previous estimates 23-02-06 'Open Skies' Air Treaty Threat 30-11-05 Highest level of CO2 in 650.000 years 28-11-06 Citizen wants CO2- neutral products. 27-10-05 Dutch Parliament now customer 1-10-05 GreenSeat.com website live 15-9-05 COOL Flying becomes GreenSeat 15-8-05 New office |