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Overpopulation 'is main threat to planet' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-07-2006 at 12:00:06
| Independent: Climate change and global pollution cannot be adequately tackled without addressing the neglected issue of the world's booming population, according to two leading scientists. Professor Chris Rapley, director of the British Antarctic Survey, and Professor John Guillebaud, vented their frustration yesterday at the fact that overpopulation had fallen off the agenda of the many organisations dedicated to saving the planet. The scientists said dealing with the burgeoning human ... |
China growth 'could be fatal' for planet's environment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-07-2006 at 12:00:06
| Gulf Times: WASHINGTON: The pace of China's economic growth poses a dire threat for the planet unless Beijing and other industrial countries change their outdated model of production and consumption, an environmental activist warned. "Our global civilisation today is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, a path that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse," said Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute. As China surpasses the US in ... |
US Defends Climate Change Policy Ahead of Sydney Conference (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-07-2006 at 12:00:06
| Voice of America: The Bush administration is defending its approach on global climate change in advance of a six-nation Asia-Pacific conference on the issue next week in Sydney, Australia. Environmental groups allege the meeting is an effort to bypass the 1997 Kyoto treaty on global warming, to which the United States and Australia are not parties. Senior Bush administration officials say the Sydney meeting is not an effort to circumvent the Kyoto Protocol, but rather to complement it with action that ... |
US defends breakaway Sydney climate talks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-07-2006 at 12:00:07
| Reuters: The Bush administration on Friday defended its role in breakaway six-nation climate talks in Australia next week and said they complemented the Kyoto Protocol and were not aimed at replacing it. Senior State Department official Paula Dobriansky deflected criticism by environmental groups over the Asia-Pacific climate pact meeting in Sydney. Greenpeace and others say it is aimed at subverting the Kyoto Protocol, which obliges rich nations to cut industrial emissions of heat-trapping ... |
US to push nuke, hydrogen power at meeting (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-07-2006 at 12:00:07
| Reuters: U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman will meet with officials from five Asia-Pacific countries in Australia next week in a U.S.-led pact promoting technology such as nuclear energy and hydrogen that could cut greenhouse gases, an aide to the official said on Friday. China, India, Japan, South Korea and Australia are the other members of the group, called the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate. The group meets January 11-13. The pact falls outside of the Kyoto ... |
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