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Racing Toward Climate Disaster (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| Inter Press Service: With 2005 the warmest year in modern times and new research confirming scientists' worst fears, most experts agree that urgent and innovative international action on climate change is needed. But neither action nor urgency was in evidence earlier this month in Montreal, Canada when 189 nations spent two weeks attempting to deal with climate change. Although the United Nations sponsored-talks were widely seen as an international success, they accomplished little beyond supporting the ... |
In Russia, Pollution Is Good for Business (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| New York Times: By its own admission, Russia's electricity monopoly is the world's largest corporate producer of greenhouse gases, accounting - by itself - for nearly as much carbon dioxide as is emitted by Britain. From smokestacks across Russia's 11 time zones, the company, Unified Energy Systems, spews out 2 percent of all human-generated carbon dioxide accumulating in the atmosphere. What will the utility get for being the world's largest greenhouse gas polluter? It is hoping for $1 ... |
Study: Southwest Summers Will Be Hotter (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| Associated Press: A study billed by its researchers as the most detailed projection yet of climate change says hotter, drier Southwestern summers will become a reality by the late 21st century if human-caused global warming continues. The number of extremely hot summer days _ those in the top 5 percent of the 105- to 112-degree range _ could jump 560 percent by late in the century from today, according to the Purdue University study. The study also says heat waves would last longer, up to 15 ... |
US$2.5b Committed to Renewable Energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| China Daily: China Energy Conservation Investment Corporation (CECIC), one of the country's flagship State-owned enterprises for alternative energy development, plans to invest at least 20 billion yuan (US$2.47 billion) over the next five years to build new projects across the nation. These projects will generate electricity using alternative energy sources like wind, biomass and garbage treatment, said a senior official from the company. "Almost a third of the total investment will ... |
United Kingdom: Treasury guilty as ministries' energy use increases sharply (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| Times (UK): ENERGY consumption by government departments has risen sharply over the past five years, in spite of the Government's commitment to tackling climate change and persuading the public to conserve energy. The Department for International Development (DFID) is the worst offender, with a 32 per cent rise in energy use over the past financial year compared with five years earlier. It is closely followed by the Department of Transport, a much bigger energy user. The Treasury, which ... |
Europeans missing their Kyoto targets (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| Independent: Britain and Sweden are the only European countries honouring their Kyoto commitments to cut greenhouse gasses, according to a think-tank report. Although the US is portrayed as the ecological villain for refusing to sign up to the agreement, 10 out of the 15 European Union signatories - including Ireland, Italy and Spain - will miss their targets without urgent action, the Institute for Public Policy Research found. France, Greece and Germany are given "amber ... |
Past Hot Times Hold Few Reasons to Relax About New Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| New York Times: Earth scientists with the longest frames of reference, particularly those whose specialties begin with the prefix "paleo," often seem to be the least agitated about human-caused global warming. This has been true even in 2005, a year that saw the biggest summer retreat of Arctic sea ice ever measured, a new sign that warming seas are rising at an accelerating pace and global temperatures continuing a sharp climb that began around 1990 and appears unmatched in 2,000 years. ... |
Downside of cleaner air: more warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| Christian Science Monitor: New measurements of tiny particles in Earth's atmosphere contain a sobering message: All those hard-won efforts to cut air pollution may unwittingly accelerate global warming. The result: The planet is likely to warm more and faster than current projections suggest, according to a team of British and American scientists. The group has produced the most precise estimates yet of how tiny particles, known as aerosols, could affect the world's climate. Aerosols, which include ... |
United Kingdom: Greenhouse gas targets set to be met, says report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| Financial Times: Britain will meet its commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto protocol on climate change but many other European countries will fail to do so, according to a report to be published today. The Institute of Public Policy Research has found only the UK and Sweden look likely, on projections of their greenhouse gas emissions, to meet their targets under the protocol. Britain is obliged by the treaty to cut its annual emissions by 12.5 per cent compared with ... |
United Kingdom: Voters split over nuclear power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| Guardian: Almost half of Britons say no new nuclear power stations should be built in the UK, according to a Guardian/ICM poll which comes as ministers consider whether to restart Britain's controversial atomic power programme to meet growing energy demand. The poll finds that neither the pro- nor the anti-nuclear lobby can rely on a clear majority of public support: 48% of people oppose expanding nuclear energy, while 45% support it. The findings show the scale of the public relations exercise ... |
Britain honouring Kyoto commitments (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| Press Association: Britain is almost alone in Europe in honouring Kyoto commitments to cut greenhouse gasses, a think-tank has warned. The US has been widely criticised for refusing to sign up to the agreement because of fears it would limit economic growth. However, 10 of the 15 European Union signatories, including the Republic of Ireland, Italy and Spain, will miss their targets without urgent action, the Institute for Public Policy Research found. France, Greece and Germany are given ... |
China Faces Complicated Energy Security Situation (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| Xinhua: China is currently facing a complicated energy security situation, Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan said here on Tuesday while making a report on current energy security issues to China's top legislature. Zeng summed up current energy issues in China as follows: the demand for energy has outstripped supply; resource shortages restrict energy production; outdated energy development technologies undermine improvements to the energy supply; changes in the international energy market are having ... |
Environmental Security in a Post-Tsunami World (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| WWF: It's been a tough year of natural disasters. Since last year's Sumatran earthquake and subsequent tsunami wreaked havoc on Asia and parts of east Africa, killing hundreds of thousands of people and displacing millions from their homes, we have seen the likes of Hurricane Katrina in the southern states of the U.S., as well as heavy floods in Europe, extensive forest fires in Spain and Portugal, and mega-earthquakes in Indonesia and Pakistan. The human dimensions of these tragedies ... |
EU states that berated Bush on Kyoto fail to hit emissions targets (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| Scotsman: MANY of the European nations responsible for coercing the United States to remain committed to combating climate change are named and shamed today as major polluters of the environment. A remarkable report has discovered Britain stands almost alone among 15 EU nations in making strides towards honouring Kyoto commitments to cut greenhouse gases. The London-based think-tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), has found that ten of the 15 European Union ... |
Europe seen as 'behind on Kyoto pledges' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| Radio New Zealand: Europe is not honouring Kyoto pledges to cut greenhouse gases, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). It claims that 10 of the 15 European Union signatories will miss the targets without urgent action. They include Ireland, Italy and Spain. France, Greece and Germany are given an "amber warning". The IPPR said they will not reach targets unless they put planned policies into action. The study found that only Sweden and the UK would meet their ... |
Evangelicals direct clout at global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| Cox News Service: What does the Bible say about global warming? Some evangelical Christian leaders hope to answer that question next year with a statement on climate change that could lend moral authority and political power to a smaller number of environmentalists pushing the issue. It's a sign that U.S. evangelicals are flexing political muscles strengthened in battles over domestic issues such as abortion, gay rights and school prayer on a broader array of topics, from human rights and ... |
China: Nuclear Plant Now Overshadows China Protest Village (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| Reuters: BEIJING - Chinese government officials are pushing forward with a coal-fired power station that sparked a bloody protest in southern Guangdong and have now scheduled a nuclear power plant close to where villagers died. At least three residents of Dongzhou village were shot dead by police and troops on Dec. 6 in a violent standoff over the coal-fired Honghaiwan power station. Some locals and outside groups say more were killed. Officials and armed police continued to patrol the ... |
United Kingdom: Renewables key to nuclear future, say experts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| Guardian: Tony Blair's energy review must produce a formula to ensure the long-term security of Britain's power supplies that embraces a strong future for renewable energy if it is also to have a serious chance of winning public support for a new civil nuclear power programme, some experts are warning Whitehall. The cabinet is nowhere near as evenly divided as the wider public on the emotive decision whether or not to start building a new generation of nuclear power stations, with today's ... |
India: U.S. deal is a bad choice for power generation (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| International Herald Tribune: A much-trumpeted deal between the United States and India seeks to employ the lure of assistance with commercial nuclear power to bring many Indian nuclear sites under international inspections. Even as tough negotiations are now under way to implement the deal, few have examined its premise - that the way for India to meet its rapidly expanding energy demands is to import nuclear power reactors. The deal's very rationale is fundamentally flawed because generating electricity from ... |
Britain, Sweden may meet Kyoto targets (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| United Press International: Britain and Sweden may be able to meet their Kyoto protocol commitment to cut greenhouse gases but other European countries are not, a report says. The Institute of Public Policy Research report has found that 15 of the European Union's states -- which agreed in 1997 to share the burden of greenhouse gas reductions under the Kyoto protocol -- would miss their target of cutting greenhouse gases by 8 percent compared with 1990 levels, the Financial Times reported Tuesday. Only ... |
Report: Most EU states short of Kyoto goal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| United Press International: Ten of 15 countries that signed onto the Kyoto Protocol on global warming will miss their targets, a think tank warned in a report Tuesday. Britain and Sweden were on their way to meet their Kyoto commitments while Ireland, Spain and Italy were not, said the Institute for Public Policy Research. Greece, German and France will not meet targets unless they implement planned policies, it added. "We are nearing the point of no return on climate change," said IPPR ... |
Malaysia: Palm oil may rise to 1,600 ringgit by April on bio-fuel demand (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| Financial Express: Palm oil prices in Malaysia may rise as high as 1,600 ringgit ($423) a metric tonne by April 2006 as countries encourage the use of the vegetable oil as a fuel for motor vehicles, a London-based analyst said. World demand for vegetable oil to be used as bio-fuel may exceed 1 million tonnes next year, James Fry, managing director of LMC International, a London-based researcher, said at a palm oil conference in Kuala Lampur on Saturday. Governments want to promote the use of gasoline ... |
Europe 'behind on Kyoto pledges' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| BBC: The UK is almost alone in Europe in honouring Kyoto pledges to cut greenhouse gases, a think-tank claims. Ten of 15 European Union signatories will miss the targets without urgent action, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) found. The countries include Ireland, Italy and Spain. France, Greece and Germany are given an "amber warning" and will not reach targets unless they put planned policies into action, the IPPR said. 'Little time left' ... |
Scientists Try to Resolve Nuclear Problem With an Old Technology Made New Again (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| New York Times: Decades ago, scientists and engineers thought it would be easy enough to deal with the radioactive waste from nuclear power plants: sort out and save the small portion that was reusable, and put the rest in a hole in the ground. It did not work out that way. Reprocessing the waste proved to be both expensive and risky: the main material being scavenged, plutonium, is a nuclear bomb fuel. And that hole in the ground - the proposed Yucca Mountain repository in Nevada - is years ... |
Oil majors pumping cash into reinvention of image (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 12:15:04
| Times (UK): IT'S energy without carbon emissions – almost – and BP is spending a mint telling us all about it. BP is advertising its proposal to build a novel power plant in Scotland that will extract hydrogen from natural gas and use it to make electricity while it stuffs the residual carbon dioxide down an old North Sea oil well. Carbon sequestration could cut 90 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions, BP claims, a figure that adorns a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign with the ... |
China Vows to Reduce Reliance on Oil Amid Soaring Prices and Increasing Import (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 09:31:42
| Xinhua: China is committed to reducing oil use in the coming years by avoiding wasteful consumption and developing renewable energy as alternatives, according to a message from higher-ranking government officials. Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan said Tuesday that optimizing the energy structure will be put high on the government agenda in the next few years. By 2020, renewable energy is expected to account for 15 percent of national consumption, up from the current seven percent. Zhang ... |
Canada: Giant thaw threatens Far North (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 09:31:42
| Toronto Star: Most of the permafrost across the Canadian North will thaw several metres deep every summer by mid-century because of global warming, warns a new study published today. And that widespread thawing would wreak havoc on northern infrastructure designed for stable permafrost conditions, including exposing the proposed $7 billion Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline to devastating landslides. Experts say the thaw could also trigger the release of millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases ... |
Venture capitalists embrace solar energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 09:31:42
| Associated Press: NEW YORK - When Rusty Schmit landed his first job 25 years ago as an engineer for Motorola Inc., he was given a choice: specialize in weapons or solar power. "I thought about it for a nanosecond and chose solar," he said, adding that the writings of militant conservationist Edward Abbey _ not dreams of fast cash _ encouraged him to take the environmentally friendly route. These days, the chief executive of solar-cell maker Advent Solar Inc. is benefiting from a new ... |
China firm to spend $2.5 bln on renewable power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 09:31:42
| Reuters: A Chinese state-owned energy firm plans to invest at least 20 billion yuan ($2.48 billion) over the next five years in biomass, garbage treatment and other alternative energy projects, state media said on Wednesday. China Energy Conservation Investment Corp. made the plans to take advantage of a new law promoting renewable energy, which sets tariffs in favor of non-fossil energy such as wind, water and solar power and is due to take effect in January. "We see tremendous ... |
Climate options for a greener world (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 09:31:42
| BBC: If climate scientists are right, the past year's scenes of extreme weather are set to become commonplace by the end of the century. The prediction is that by 2100, the average global temperature will rise by anything from 2 degrees Celsius to around 6C with potentially devastating consequences. The question is, what should we do about it? To help answer that, let's explore two different scenarios for our future world. You could summarise the first option as ... |
United States: Forest landowners playing role in fight against global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 09:31:42
| Mercury News: California's forests have something to celebrate. The first forest projects in California designed specifically to fight global warming were recently announced at the United Nations conference on climate change in Montreal. By registering in the California Climate Action Registry, the Garcia River Forest in Sonoma County and the Van Eck property in Humboldt show a new model for protecting natural resources. The projects will reduce greenhouse gases, restore streams and roads, ... |
Korean industries to enter carbon market (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-28-2005 at 09:31:42
| Korea Herald: When the carbon market was launched to trade rights to emit greenhouse gases several years ago, many global financiers sniffed at the opportunities, doubting how invisible pollutants such as chlorofluorocarbon could be products. However, as the market has grown, the world's major financial service companies and multinational firms have become increasingly interested in the new potential revenue source. While the carbon market currently is a trivial one, compared to natural ... |
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