Tag: china

  • IEA Report: Global CO2 Emissions from Electricity Generation to Plateau

    IEA Report: Global CO2 Emissions from Electricity Generation to Plateau

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    The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently released its 2023 Electricity Market Report and it provides an overview of the trends and developments in the global electricity sector in 2022 and the outlook for 2023-2025. It should be noted at this point that historically IEA reports have proven to significantly underestimate the growth of renewables. The report…

  • Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/12/2010

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    Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: 11 Siberian tigers starve to death at Chinese zoo Eleven Siberian tigers died of starvation in north-eastern China’s Liaoning province after a cash-strapped zoo fed them only chicken bones, state media said Friday. The 11 tigers died over the past three months at the privately run Shenyang Forest…

  • CO2 emissions vs income

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    I generated this graph on Prof Hans Rosling’s Gapminder.org site. The data shows, somewhat surprisingly that the increase in carbon emissions in countries like Ireland and the US from 1975 to 2002 are not in any way mirrored by any increases in China or India. In the recent Bali talks (and the Kyoto talks before…

  • Iranian telecoms regulator should hire Irish broadband suppression expertise

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    However bad things are in Ireland in relation to our broadband speeds – things are even worse in Iran. According to the Guardian, the government there has ordered all ISPs to limit Internet speeds to 128kb. This is in an effort to: make it more difficult to download foreign music, films and television programmes, which…

  • Could podcasting get content through the Great Firewall of China?

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    I wrote a couple of pieces last week about Google’s Internet censorship in China and the debate continues this week. The four largest American companies who are actively helping the Chinese government censor the Internet are Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Cisco Systems. These four companies have been invited to a U.S. congressional subcommittee hearing on…

  • Google founder defends censorship

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    David Kirkpatrick of Fortune met with Sergey Brin (one of the co-founders of Google) at the World Economic Forum at Davos and asked him about Google’s decision to censor the Internet in China (something I posted about the other day). Sergey’s reasoning for the censorship: We ultimately made a difficult decision, but we felt that…

  • Google censors the Internet

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    The New York Times published an article yesterday (and I think I heard a reference this morning on Morning Ireland) about Google’s new Google.cn site. According to the article, the new Chinese version of the Google search engine: will not allow users to create personal links with Google e-mail or blog sites, will comply with…