UN Suggests Bali Targets Too Ambitious

192291 Resource 107524 107631 205428 1197495964473 1216852208595 Controlled NYC to Spend $80 Million on Reducing GHG Emissions

The mayor of New York City has announced a plan to reduce GHG emissions by 30% over the next 10 years.

Last week, mayor Michael Bloomberg announced an $80 million <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/nov2007/2007-11-28-092.asp" title="NYC to Reduce GHG Emissions">GHG reduction plan</a> that will encompass 132 projects throughout the five boroughs of the city.  These projects will include energy-efficient lighting upgrades (including replacing the Brooklyn Bridge's 100-watt mercury vapor lamps with 24-watt LED lamps) and updates to heating and cooling systems all over New York (including new air conditioning units for the American Museum of Natural History).The plan calls for a 30% reduction in GHG emissions by 2017, which translates to 34,000 tons in reduced emission each year and a 10-year goal to reduce emissions by 1.1 million tons.Another step in the right direction as the <a target="_blank" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3987003" title="UN Climate Change Summit">U.N.'s Climate Change Summit</a> in Bali comes to a close later this week. 9 application/xml false emissions GHG NYC UN Suggests Bali Targets Too Ambitious The battle over whether to include greenhouse gas emissions guidelines in the "roadmap" for a new climate accord intensified Tuesday, with the Europeans and environmentalists clamoring for targets against opposition by the U.S. and others. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3987003 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 jwuebben 74.202.198.130 false true false false true 205814 false false true false false false true 107524 blog blogsite/Enviance/web