Wednesday, July 1, 2009

NC Ch 12 : Climate

Sir John Browne, chief executive of BP, announced in 1997, 'there is now an effective consensus among the world's leading scientists and serious and well informed people outside the scientific community that there is a discernible human influence on the climate, and the link between the concentration of carbon dioxide and the increase in temperature' (p241).

Mainly, this chapter is about how saving energy and reducing CO2 emissions is good for business.

Examples

cogeneration and trigeneration power plants - in Denmark and Tulsa, Oklahoma.

reselling waste heat of industrial processes

There were probably a few more notable projects that I'll go back to later. This chapter was mostly a rehashing of the science of climate change, and giving examples of businesses that reduce emissions while making money.

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