Abu Dhabi broke ground on Masdar City, the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste, car-free city, including door to door driverless public transport. Masdar CEO Dr. Sultan Al Jaber announced a total development budget for the city of $22 billion.
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A group of researchers at Kyoto University has developed a nanotechnology material that could be used to replicate the natural process of photosynthesis at a much lower cost than currently possible. The innovation could lead to an efficient and relatively cheap system that uses sunlight to synthesize sugars and alcohols from carbon dioxide and thereby mop up excess CO2 in the atmosphere.
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The IPCC (Inter-governmental panel on climate change) fourth assessment report initially indicates that Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level. Read the rest of this entry »