Optimistic Signs of Emissions Reduction Efforts

In this article from the Financial Times, a link is made between top-down governmental efforts to enact binding legislation to reduce carbon emissions, and voluntary bottom-up efforts by industry, and governments to reduce emissions on their own.

The article contains many positive and encouraging efforts, from those of PepsiCo and DuPont, to California, China and Indonesia. However, looking at today's bottom line, actual carbon emissions are still rising, for instance up 5.3% in 2010. Hopefully this figure will soon begin to show a significant decline.