Wednesday, April 29, 2009

European Initiative

Summary:

Will Hutton, in the article How Europe can save the world says that European Union countries work hard and decrease the carbon dioxide emissions by 20% by 2020 from 1990 levels. This will be accomplished by using some renewable energy like hydropower, wind energy and biofuel. This kind of energy is expensive but we should do it against the GHG emissions. For example France depends on the nuclear power which is categorized as a renewable energy. In Europe within two years the power stations will have 'carbon capture and storage technology'. Moreover they force a law that each country should have a fixed amount of fossil fuel. David Miliband mentions that there is a risk by going forward for the first country which will apply the strategy, but the advantages will be more than the disadvantages because all of us will learn from the mistakes and problems we will face.

Main Idea:

This article mainly talks about how the European countries are taking the lead for keeping our earth safe and trying to use every method and technology that will help them to achieve their goals and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. European countries are using renewable energy that produces low amount of GHG emissions. The EU is trying to send a massage all around the world to work hard and follow them to help the earth.

Comment:

In my opinion, the idea of reducing the carbon emissions of the globe is important. All the countries should move and apply what the European countries are doing nowadays. I enjoyed reading this article because in this course I read some article related to the global warming; moreover I watched a movie before I read this article I thought it’s hard to do it and reduce the amount of emissions around the world but now I’m confident.

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