Climate Change

The world needs to divert substantially from today’s main energy sources within a few decades to limit centuries of rising temperatures and seas driven by the buildup of heat-trapping emissions in the air, the top body studying climate change has concluded. In an all-night session capping four days of talks in Bangkok, economists, scientists and government officials from more than 100 countries agreed early today on the last sections of a report outlining ways to limit such emissions, led by carbon dioxide, an unavoidable byproduct of burning coal and oil.

The final report, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said prompt slowing of emissions could set the stage later in the century for stabilization of the concentration of carbon dioxide, which, at 380 parts per million now, has risen more than a third since the start of the industrial revolution and could easily double from the preindustrial level within decades. See more here

The companies that pollute the most

Rank	Company	Headquarters Country	2007 CO2 Emissions (MillionTons)	Stern Bill (@$77/Ton) ($Billion)
1	ESKOM	South Africa	234.94	$18.09
2	HUANENG POWER INTERNATIONAL	China	210.02	$16.17
3	SOUTHERN CO	USA	175.10	$13.48
4	AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC	USA	170.89	$13.16
5	NTPC LTD	India

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