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India, China must for climate change solution: Bush (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 02:00:26
| Indo-Asian News Service: President George W. Bush said Sunday he would be "constructive" in G8 talks on climate change but insisted that the issue cannot be solved unless fast-growing China and India agree on long-term emission goals. "I'll be constructive. I've always advocated that there needs to be a common understanding and that starts with a goal," Bush said at joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda in Toyako, Japan, according to the White House. "And I also am realistic enough ... |
Australia: Garnaut Report a first step that falls short (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 02:00:25
| Australian: THE commonwealth and the states are united on the need for the establishment of a national emissions trading scheme. Properly implemented, an ETS would provide for carbon emissions abatement to be achieved at minimum cost. However, poor implementation will have significant unintended economic and social consequences. The Garnaut Report was marketed as the first serious attempt at outlining the framework for such an emissions trading scheme. But some of the comments that accompanied ... |
G8 nations to push nuclear energy (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 02:00:25
| United Press International: Group of Eight leaders meeting in Japan will push for more nuclear power generation as a way to curb greenhouse gas emissions, sources said Sunday. The Yomiuri Shimbun quoted anonymous sources saying the G8 nations will pressure China and India to satisfy a greater percentage of their electricity needs from nuclear power plants as a way to both reduce global warming and help battle the high price of oil. The additional nuclear capabilities would come with strings attached, ... |
Wheat yield on decline due to temperature rise (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 02:00:25
| Indo-Asian News Service: Global warming coupled with climate change will adversely affect wheat production in India, according to an industry study. The minimum rise of 0.5 degrees Celsius in winter temperatures will cause a 0.45 tonne fall in India's wheat production per hectare, said the study. The average per hectare wheat production in India is 2.6-2.7 tonnes at current estimates. The study was carried out jointly by the Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham), and AgriWatch, a ... |
Japanese pushing G8 to halve greenhouse-gas emissions by mid-century (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 02:00:25
| Canwest News Service: Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived in Japan on Sunday for the Group of Eight summit amid heightened concerns about the struggling global economy and dampened expectations for a breakthrough on climate change. The summit is expected to be dominated by talk about the global economy, which has been hampered by slowing growth as well as soaring oil and food prices. With the economy topping the agenda, G8 officials have been downplaying expectations of tough new commitments on ... |
China Needs Carbon Trading Commitment, Garnaut Says (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 02:00:24
| Bloomberg: China, India and Indonesia must become involved with emissions trading to counter climate change, Ross Garnaut, the Australian government's adviser on global warming, said today. ``The arithmetic of solving the global problem doesn't work unless China plays a substantial role from an early date,'' Garnaut told ABC's Inside Business television show today. ``Eighty percent of the emissions growth over the next couple of decades is going to be in the developing countries,'' especially ... |
Unopened EPA e-mail symbol of Bush administration attitude (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 02:00:24
| Kennebec Journal: "The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency's conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency officials that an e-mail message containing the document would not be opened, senior E.P.A. officials said last week." -- from "White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail," in The New York Times, June 25, 2008 The New York Times story leaves me in disbelief. The EPA e-mail reportedly ... |
Australia faces worse, more frequent droughts-study (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 02:00:24
| Reuters: Australia could experience more severe droughts and they could become more frequent in the future because of climate change, a government-commissioned report said on Sunday. Droughts could hit the country twice as often as now, cover an area twice as big and be more severe in key agricultural production areas, the Bureau of Meteorology and Australia's top science organisation, the CSIRO, said in a joint report. The study also found that temperatures currently defined as ... |
Senator warms to climate change report (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 02:00:24
| Melbourne Herald Sun: IN THE strongest hint yet that carbon guru Ross Garnaut may be on the money when he calls for strong measures to reduce emissions, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong yesterday appeared to soften her assessment of his advice. Following the release of his Climate Change Review on Friday, Senator Wong yesterday said he had made an "extraordinarily important contribution" to government thinking. After months of labelling his report on the economic consequences of global ... |
Australia: Rudd firm on emissions target (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 02:00:24
| Courier Mail: HOUSEHOLDS and business will be told in 10 days how the Rudd Government plans to help offset rising costs under an emissions trading scheme. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday revealed the Government's green paper - to be released on July 16 - would stand by its 2010 deadline for the introduction of an ETS and outline "adjustments" for households and affected industries. The new insight came as Ross Garnaut - the Government-appointed economist examining the cost of ... |
Australia: Petrol, coal ideas to be dumped (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 02:00:24
| Age: KEY aspects of last week's major report on climate change will be rejected by the Federal Government. These will include the treatment of petrol in a carbon emissions trading scheme, and compensation for electricity generators. The Government is also determined to introduce a full cap-and-trade scheme from 2010, rejecting an earlier proposal from its hand-picked climate change expert, Ross Garnaut, that a transitional scheme with set-priced permits should operate between 2010 ... |
Wyoming has the right to preserve special places (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 02:00:24
| Casper Star-Tribune: As gasoline prices continue to rise, Americans are changing their opinions about how to solve the current energy crisis. A Pew Research Center report in February found that 35 percent of the public wanted to expand exploration, mining and drilling of oil and gas. In June, that number increased to 47 percent and will likely go higher as prices at the pump soar. Half of all Americans, according to the survey, now favor drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. Fewer people ... |
Australia: Welcome to a drought-stricken future (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 02:00:24
| Australian: AUSTRALIA'S agricultural regions face a hotter, drier, more drought-stricken future as a result of climate change, with major implications for both the price and supply of food. The prediction has been delivered in a major report by the Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO, described yesterday by Kevin Rudd as "very disturbing" and "a serious revision of the impact of climate change on drought". Agriculture Minister Tony Burke warned the cycle of drought ... |
Rudd faces climate revolt (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 02:00:23
| Australian: KEVIN Rudd faces a savage backlash from unions and state Labor over an emissions trading scheme, with calls to offer free permits to polluters in order to protect electricity prices and prevent jobs moving offshore. In his attack on the Garnaut report, NSW Treasurer Michael Costa has backed free permits for electricity generators, saying today in The Australian that "Chicken Little" warnings about the dangers of climate change are no substitute for a rigorous economic and ... |
Crop failure shows scale of food crisis (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 02:00:23
| Age: AS THE food crisis hitting the world's poor forces food security onto the agenda at today's meeting of G8 leaders in Japan, across the world in Ethiopia it has taken its toll on their most common source of nutrition. Poor rainfall on already arid land has meant that last season's crop of teff, a cereal that is ground down to make a sour pancake-like dish called injera, has largely failed. World Vision aid worker Joseph Kamara said that was "a big, big blow to ... |
Australia: Carbon dioxide burial reaches a milestone (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 02:00:23
| Age: IT IS technology vital to the Government's hopes of cutting greenhouse emissions from Australia's huge coal-fired power stations: capturing carbon dioxide from the polluting stations and burying it deep underground. Australia's first trial of geosequestration in the Otways reached its first milestone last week – 10,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide was successfully stored two kilometres underground in a depleted natural gas field. Scientists from the Co-operative Research Centre for ... |
No climate change progress without India, China: Bush (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 10:00:31
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: US President George W Bush has played down the likelihood of any breakthrough on climate change without more international cooperation. He was speaking at a media briefing in Hokkaido after talks with the Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda ahead of the G8 summit which gets underway in northern Japan on Monday. Climate change and the slowing world economy are expected top the agenda. Mr Bush said he would use the the summit to advance US ideas about the climate, saying ... |
EU ministers 'discover' biofuels not an obligation after all (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 10:00:30
| Agence France-Presse: European Union energy ministers said at an informal meeting Saturday they had been labouring for 18 months under the false impression that an EU plan to fight global warming included an obligation to develop controversial biofuels. What seems to be a stunning misreading on the part of policymakers in Brussels comes at a time when the image of biofuels has shifted over a matter of a months from climate saviour to climate pariah. Documents issued by the EU describing its ... |
Canada: Western view of carbon tax (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 10:00:30
| Toronto Star: Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion ventured out to Calgary this weekend to promote his carbon tax. The annual Stampede is underway and while it's definitely a good time to eat pancakes with the masses, drink copious amounts of liquor with your morning orange juice, and glad-hand people you otherwise rarely see, it's the worst time to promote complicated policies. Poor Dion is akin to the mild-mannered preacher who arrives in a frontier town just as a gang of thirsty cowboys descends on the ... |
Germany wants to build 30 windfarms (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 10:00:30
| Agence France-Presse: The German government wants to build up to 30 offshore windfarms in a bid to meet its renewable energy targets, Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee said in an interview published Sunday. Tiefensee told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that the windfarms would be built in the Baltic and North seas and said some 2,000 windmills should soon be producing 11,000 megawatts of electricity. The government is aiming to obtain "25,000 megawatts of energy from windfarms by 2030", ... |
G8 summit to test leaders on climate change, global economy (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 10:00:29
| CBC: The head of the European Union's executive has said the Group of Eight summit leaders may be ready to step up promises to cut greenhouse gas emissions when they meet on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido this week. Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Sunday that leaders of wealthy countries in the group will be "working for real commitments" on the issue. Leaders from the G8 – which includes the United States, Japan, Russia, Germany, France, Britain, Italy ... |
EU's Barroso urges G8 for firm pledge on emissions (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 10:00:29
| Reuters: The head of the European Union's executive said on Sunday the United States and other rich nations might be ready to step up their pledges on cutting greenhouse gas emissions when leaders meet this week. Climate change is high on the agenda of the annual summit of the Group of Eight rich nations that starts on Monday at a luxury hotel on the lush northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. "We will be working for real commitments from this G8 Summit, not only reinforcing ones ... |
Rich countries lack the will to make difficult decisions (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 10:00:29
| Toronto Star: When the leaders of the G8 countries – the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Canada – meet in Toyako, Japan this week, they will face a busy agenda of urgent issues. These include high oil prices that could go even higher, a surge in world food prices and critical food shortages, the need to move quickly to a consensus on climate change, and reducing the risks of global stagflation. These issues are just a foretaste of the difficult kind of world ... |
China: Plant species on the decline due to Global warming (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 10:00:29
| Press Trust of India: Global warming could trigger a dramatic decline in diversity of plant species on the rangelands in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau in southwest China, American and Chinese scientists warned, as research showed a 26 to 36 per cent drop in plant species from 1998 to 2001. Experts said global warming specifically caused loss of 21 per cent of medicinal plants and 25 per cent of pasture plants. Research into climate change and grazing in northeastern Qinghai-Tibet plateau had shown the ... |
Australia: Garnaut says solid public support for emissions trading (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 10:00:29
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Federal Government's climate change adviser Ross Garnaut says he believes there is good public support for introducing an emissions trading scheme to combat climate change. Professor Garnaut will hold public forums in five capital cities this week as the Government prepares its response to his draft report. The government wants the scheme introduced in 2010, potentially in the same year as the next federal election. Professor Garnaut has told Channel Nine the ... |
Climate change may cut South Africa corn crop sharply (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 10:00:29
| Reuters: Climate change could cut South Africa's maize crop by 20 percent within 15 to 20 years as the west of the country dries out while the east is afflicted with increasingly severe storms, its environment minister said on Sunday. "For a developing country that's major, and major bad news," Marthinus van Schalkwyk told reporters after arriving in northern Japan, where the Group of Eight rich nations' leaders are gathering for a summit this week. "For us it's not ... |
Australian climate report like 'disaster novel': minister (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 10:00:29
| Agence France-Presse: Heatwaves, less rain and increased drought are the likely prospect for Australia, according to a new report on climate change which the agriculture minister said read like a "disaster novel". The report, by the Bureau of Meteorology and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, found that the world's driest inhabited continent is likely to suffer more extreme temperatures due to climate change. It said that exceptionally hot years, which once ... |
Prospects dim for G8 climate change deal (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 10:00:29
| Reuters: Prospects that the G8 would reach a meaningful agreement to how best to fight global warming at their annual summit dimmed on Sunday as leaders began arriving in northern Japan with a raft of global problems on their minds. Climate change is high on the agenda of the July 7-9 summit of rich nations at a luxury hotel in Toyako, Hokkaido, and of a Major Economies Meeting on July 9 that brings the G8 together with eight other countries including China, India and Brazil. Global ... |
Climate deadlock seen at G8 despite 'constructive' Bush (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 10:00:28
| Agence France-Presse: US President George W. Bush pledged Sunday to play a "constructive" role on climate change at a summit of rich nations, but hopes for a breakthrough were dim as he pressed developing countries. Japan, the host of the three-day Group of Eight summit, pushed for progress in the fight against global warming but environmentalists said that any agreement was unlikely to be far-reaching. "Yeah, I'll be constructive," Bush told a joint news conference after meeting ... |
Australia: Dried river basin sends warning, says PM (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-06-2008 at 10:00:28
| Age: The Federal Government is pressing ahead with efforts to convince a financially stressed public that doing nothing on climate change is not a viable option, as the Opposition demands that motorists and jobs must be put first. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday visited the parched Lower Lakes region of the Murray River, warning that failure to act would inflict far greater economic and environmental costs than the introduction of an emissions trading scheme. After trudging ... |
Canada: Baird Says He Doesn't Expect Greenhouse-Gas Accord at Summit (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-05-2008 at 11:00:31
| Bloomberg: Canadian Environment Minister John Baird doesn't expect leaders from the Group of Eight industrial nations to reach an agreement on targets for reducing greenhouse gases at a meeting in Japan next week. Any agreement would come as part of United Nations brokered talks next year, Baird told reporters today on the plane flying the Canadian delegation to Hokkaido, Japan. He made the comments during a stopover in Calgary. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is hosting the G-8 ... |
United Kingdom: Public 'misled' over Heathrow pollution (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-05-2008 at 11:00:30
| Times (UK): The government's adviser on air quality has warned that ministers are "pulling the wool" over the public's eyes to justify building a third runway at Heathrow. Mike Pilling, who chairs the government's expert group on air quality, said the public were being misled over claims that Heathrow's expansion would not cause unlawful and dangerous levels of pollution. His comments came as it emerged that Ruth Kelly, the transport secretary, has been forced by the scale of the public ... |
Don't bother investing in climate change - yet (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-05-2008 at 11:00:29
| Times (UK): One of the most popular stocks this year with private investors, alongside big boys such as Halifax Bank of Scotland and Barclays, has been a minnow called Tanfield. The electric vehicle manufacturer, listed on the Alternative Investment Market (Aim), has regularly appeared in the top ten buys at stockbroker TD Waterhouse over the past year. Easy to see why it has captured the imagination. In a world where the soaring price of oil, which topped $146 a barrel on Thursday, is ... |
How China's thirst for oil can save the planet (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-05-2008 at 11:00:29
| Times (UK): At the Lotusengineering works in Norfolk, researchers are working on an idea that seems almost too good to be true: a car that runs on CO2 The very gas that comes out of exhausts and poses the threat of climate change could, they believe, be extracted from the atmosphere and used as a source of synthetic fuel. Hey presto: a carbon-neutral car, planet saved. From theory to practice is a bumpy road, of course, and Mike Kimberley, chief executive of Group Lotus, readily admits that some ... |
Rudd says trading scheme will raise living costs (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-05-2008 at 10:00:26
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the Federal Government acknowledges its emissions trading scheme will put more pressure on the cost of living. The Government wants to introduce an emissions trading scheme in 2010, and will release a discussion paper on possible models later this month. "Any adjustment at a time when households across Australia are under real financial pressure with rising mortgages, rising rents, the impact on petrol and the impact on food, I think any ... |
Australia: Rudd says report to show drought much worse due to warming (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-05-2008 at 10:00:26
| Age: A new "very disturbing" report due today shows climate change in Australia is inflicting severe drought conditions much more often, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says. Mr Rudd said Agriculture Minister Tony Burke would release the CSIRO research report on the impact of climate change on drought later today. "We asked some time ago for the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology to advise us how do we deal with exceptional circumstances and drought arrangements into the ... |
Range of groups form climate coalition (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-05-2008 at 10:00:26
| AAP: A climate change coalition has been set up involving social, union, environmental and independent research organisations. The new body will be dedicated to leading debate on a fair response to climate change policies. The Southern Cross Climate Coalition (SCCC) is the result of the Australian Conservation Foundation, the Australian Council of Social Service, the Australian Council of Trade Unions and The Climate Institute getting together. In a statement on Sunday, the ... |
America's love affair fades as the car becomes burden of suburbia (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-05-2008 at 10:00:26
| Observer: It is known as the Inland Empire: a vast stretch of land tucked in the high desert valleys east of Los Angeles. Once home to fruit trees and Indians, it is now a concrete sprawl of jammed freeways, endless suburbs and shopping malls. But here, in the heartland of the four-wheel drive, a revolution is under way. What was once unthinkable is becoming a shocking reality: America's all-consuming love affair with the car is fading. Surging petrol prices have worked where ... |
Britain: a leader in tackling climate change? Far from it, says new report (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-05-2008 at 10:00:26
| Independent: Britain's true contribution to global warming is much higher than official figures show, ministers admit. And it has been rising rapidly at the very time that they have been boasting that it has been falling. The admission undermines the Government's claim to be in the vanguard of cutting the pollution that causes climate change – on the eve of negotiations among the world's most powerful leaders this week. Global warming will be high on the agenda of the G8 summit that opens ... |
EU backs away from biofuel goal, eyes Brazil accord (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 07-05-2008 at 05:00:29
| Reuters: European Union energy chiefs considered an accord with Brazil over biofuels on Saturday at the end of a three day meeting in Paris during which they backed away from the EU's controversial biofuels target. Though no concrete changes were made to proposed biofuel legislation, ministers said the EU had failed to properly communicate plans to get 10 percent road transport fuels from renewable sources, such as biofuels, by 2020. French Ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said many ... |
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