Extreme Days I August 28, 2009

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• UK plans to generate one third of electricity from renewables by 2020 [+]
• India: 16% of humanity but less than 3% of global fresh water resources. [+]
• The Rosy periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) increases a child’s chance of surviving leukemia by 10 to 95%. But this plant is increasingly threatened for a host of reasons, and as they disappear so do our life saving resources. [+]
• Climate change already is claiming more than 150,000 lives each year, with causes ranging from heat waves to respiratory illness. [+]
• Thermal expansion has already raised the oceans 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters). [+]
• India’s total GHG emissions stood at 1,853 million metric tons equivalent of carbon dioxide, about 4.9% of global emissions in 2005, according to the World Resources Institute. [+]

August 26, 2009

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the energy sector contributed 61% of total emissions in India, pegged India’s per capita emissions at only one-twentieth of the United States and about one-tenth of western Europe and Japan.

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August 25, 2009

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A separate government report said India’s forests are absorbing about 11.25 % of the country’s total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) every year at 1994 levels – or about 24 billion tonnes of CO2 -a potential market worth $120b

source: http://su.pr/4TiMqg