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Scotsman.com News - Climate Change
Set for a new trade in (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 12-11-2007 at 08:00:40
| THE prospect of people being given individual carbon allowances moved closer yesterday as it emerged that ministers are examining the practical implementation of a personal trading scheme. |
End war on Earth, says Gore as he picks up peace prize (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 12-10-2007 at 09:00:38
| AL GORE, the climate-change campaigner, collected the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday and said it was time to make peace with the planet. |
Gore confident on 'people power' (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 12-09-2007 at 09:00:44
| NOBEL Peace Prize winner Al Gore is optimistic a growing "people-power" movement will push the world's leaders to act to stop global warming. "I see throughout the world the rising of the world's first people-power movement on a global basis," he said. |
US dashes hopes of targets for emissions (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 12-08-2007 at 09:00:31
| THE United States will not announce binding emission targets at a historic climate change conference in Indonesia, despite growing pressure from developing countries to take the lead in combating global warming. |
UK enduring more extreme weather patterns, official report reveals (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 12-07-2007 at 09:00:42
| EXTREME weather patterns have become more frequent in the UK, with Scotland's temperature rising by nearly 1C in the last 27 years, a government-funded report has concluded. |
Buying trees helps drivers cut pollution (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 12-07-2007 at 07:00:39
| COMMUTERS driving between Edinburgh and Glasgow have helped to offset some of their pollution by buying trees. |
Daffodils in December? It's a land of confusion (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 12-07-2007 at 07:00:39
| IT is just the thing to put a spring in your step on a cold winter's day. A hardy daffodil in full bloom has sprouted up months early outside an Edinburgh pub. |
Paying to preserve rain forest will help poor, UN climate talks told (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 12-06-2007 at 07:00:39
| INDONESIA'S Papua region is willing to preserve part of its rain forest, in exchange for money, to help the world slow global warming, its governor said at United Nations' climate talks. |
Saving the environment is everyone's business (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 12-06-2007 at 07:00:40
| Local companies' actions can have a global impact, says Sir Ken Collins. |
Fighting climate change may still cost the earth (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 12-04-2007 at 08:00:44
| Poor suffering as growth in biofuels forces up cereal prices, writes ALASTAIR JAMIESON |
US participation essential for agreement on climate-control measures (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 12-02-2007 at 07:00:52
| ANY agreement hammered out by a massive United Nations climate-change conference starting in Indonesia today would not make sense without the participation of the US, the world's top emitter of greenhouse gases, the UN's climate chief said last night. |
Brown says N-power will benefit the environment (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 11-26-2007 at 07:00:46
| GORDON Brown yesterday re-ignited the row over building new nuclear power stations, signalling he believed they had a role to play in tackling climate change. |
The voices of the damned (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 11-25-2007 at 07:00:46
| THEY are the human face of climate change - the ordinary people whose lives are blighted by flooding, drought, hurricanes and soaring temperatures. |
£100 - That's how much it will cost you to save planet, says CBI (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 11-25-2007 at 07:00:46
| TACKLING climate change could cost households just £100 a year by 2030 - but only if action is taken now to prepare for the challenges ahead, business leaders warned yesterday. |
Climate alert as levels hit new high (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 11-23-2007 at 08:00:44
| LEVELS of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted by burning fossil fuels, hit a record high in the atmosphere in 2006, accelerating global warming, the World Meteorological Organisation said yesterday. |
'Act now - or millions face ruin from global warming' (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 11-18-2007 at 07:00:47
| CLIMATE change will reverse decades of development in Asia, threatening the livelihoods of millions of people, a coalition of aid agencies and environmental groups have warned. |
As we face rising sea levels, famine, disease and the loss of the most precious treasures of our planet, UN warns it is our last chance (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 11-17-2007 at 08:00:44
| THE Earth faces "abrupt and irreversible changes" that will make the planet unrecognisable unless urgent action is taken, the most definitive report on climate change so far has revealed. |
Mass extinctions 'possible' (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 11-17-2007 at 11:40:53
| PREDICTED levels of global warming could trigger a "mass extinction event" like the one which wiped out the dinosaurs, new research suggests. |
Seminar on environment (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 11-17-2007 at 11:40:53
| A ONE-DAY seminar informing businesses and charities how to improve their carbon footprint is set to take place in the city. |
Population and climate change put Scotland in a Catch-22 (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 11-17-2007 at 11:40:53
| WE NEED a bigger population to pay our pensions, writes SAM GHIBALDAN, but more people will use more fossil fuels |
High-flyers turn to private jets (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 11-17-2007 at 11:40:53
| A HUGE rise in the number of private jets using Edinburgh Airport has been fuelled by the Capital's thriving financial sector. |
How much is it to Stewarton, please? That'll be four pints of cooking oil (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 11-17-2007 at 11:40:53
| IT IS commonly condemned as fuelling the obesity epidemic, but yesterday a transport firm revealed it has plans to use chip fat to fuel its buses. |
Greens want to beef up climate Bill (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 11-17-2007 at 11:40:53
| ENVIRONMENTALISTS have called for a "beefed-up" Climate Change Bill, as the Government unveils its response to the public consultation on the proposed legislation today. |
MPs call for new body to end climate change confusion (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 11-17-2007 at 11:40:53
| A POWERFUL Whitehall body must be established to drive climate-change policy after a decade of failure by the Westminster government to "rise fully" to the challenge, MPs are to say today. |
Britain 'must step up the fight against climate change' (View Original Story)
Source: scotsman.com Posted: 11-17-2007 at 11:40:53
| THE UK may have to do more to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Hilary Benn, the Environment Secretary, signalled yesterday. |
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