"Banks have a pivotal role to play in driving our economy to one that is less carbon-intensive but, despite the fact that globally investment in new renewable energy is outstripping that for fossil fuels, Australian banks remain heavily skewed in favour of greenhouse-intensive projects.
A realistic pathway to limiting consumption would be to transition to a system where materials are conserved and cycled through the economy as many times as possible and as slowly as possible, greatly reducing the greenhouse gas intensive processes of resource extraction, resource processing and waste management.
"Pipelines are the safest and least greenhouse gas-intensive way to transport needed Canadian and American crude oil to Americans – safer than rail," the company claimed.
Romilly Madew, CEO of the Green Building Council of Australia, says replacing up to 40% of cement content with these types of materials can be up to 30 times less greenhouse-gas intensive than Portland cement.
A report from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funded Food Climate Research Network argues that the consumption of greenhouse gas-intensive foods – particularly dairy and meat which account for around half of emissions – needs to be reduced.
BP says that a 2014 study by the independent energy consultant IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates found that crude produced from Canada's oil sands was only 8% more greenhouse gas-intensive than the average crude refined in the US.
Vegetables, as a category, are less greenhouse gas-intensive than meat, as a category, even when measured on a per-calorie basis, according to the Carnegie Mellon study.
Big emerging economies--which are launched into high-speed, consumption-dependent, and greenhouse gas-intensive growth paths--can no longer hide behind the rubric of the Group of 77 to avoid making mandatory greenhouse gas reduction commitments.
By contrast, coal is the most greenhouse gas-intensive of the major electricity generation sources in the U.S. We believe it's vital that we switch away from coal to lower carbon emitting baseload sources, including nuclear.
That is because agriculture on the East Ed has morphed into an intensive greenhouse, vineyard, farm stand and agro-tourism industry far different from the potato realm that ruled until the 1970's.
