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Australia: A climate protection act must have priority (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Sydney Morning Herald: THE Stern report, while not revealing much we don't know, represents a fork in the road for the debate over climate change in this country. Surveys indicate the majority of Australians are unhappy with the Government's handling of this critical issue. Well might they be. Arguments based on narrow self-interest and short-term planning make the community cynical about politics and politicians. One example of this is "we won't act unless China and India act". Deflecting ... |
Australia: Exports cost billions in global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Sydney Morning Herald: XAUSTRALIA is exporting at least $61.5 billion worth of climate change every year in the form of coal shipments, a figure that is set to rise as federal and state governments push ahead with new mines and bigger coal loaders. The cost, calculated using an economic analysis of climate change in the British Stern report, dwarfs a $60 million grab bag of industry projects the Federal Government announced yesterday, which it says will help lower carbon emissions. The projects, ... |
Australia: Qantas plan to offset its carbon emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Age: QANTAS is designing a program to allow passengers to offset the carbon emissions from their flights. Industry sources say it is examining a range of environmental programs, which are becoming increasingly important due to climate change. Qantas' code-share partner, British Airways, already has a carbon-emissions program in place that allows passengers to pay a fee to cover the cost of the emissions created by their journey. For example, the fee for a return flight to Madrid is ... |
Australia: 'Practical' PM stands firm on climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Age: JOHN Howard likens his approach to climate change to the one he takes on Aboriginal reconciliation – concentrating on the "practical". "My preoccupation over the next 12 months is going to be in practical ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions," he said yesterday. Announcing 42 collaborative projects under the Asia-Pacific Partnership, a regional grouping on climate that also includes the US, China, India, Korea, and Japan, Mr Howard said it would take ... |
Australia urged not to delay climate response (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: TONY EASTLEY: Britain's former Environment Minister, who's now the UK's special envoy on climate, says Australia's stance on climate change is frustrating. Elliot Morley, who was Environment Minister up until a few months ago, has given AM an insight into what Downing Street makes of Australia's position on global warming and the Kyoto agreement on reducing greenhouse gases. He still has regular contact with Tony Blair as the Prime Minister's special envoy to international ... |
Avoided deforestation could help fight third world poverty under global warming pact (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Mongabay.com: An avoided deforestation strategy for mitigating climate change could mean billions for world's poorest countries while preserving biodiversity and ecosystem services Avoided deforestation will be a hot point of discussion at next week's climate meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. Already a coalition of 15 rainforest nations[1] have proposed a plan whereby industrialized nations would pay them to protect their forests to offset greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, last month Brazil -- which ... |
Britain to urge India to step up its efforts against global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Associated Press: Britain's Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said Wednesday that she will use her visit to India to urge its government to tackle climate change. Beckett will meet with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi and also stress the importance of economic links between India and its former colonial master during her six-day trip. Speaking before her departure Thursday, she said: "India is an important partner for the UK as we both work together to address the global ... |
China Turns to Salt Water to Ease Drought (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Reuters: Drought-stricken China, where hundreds of millions of people are without regular access to drinking water, is turning to desalinated sea water to help end the crisis, the government said on Tuesday. Apart from widespread drought, factories have ignored pollution hazards and dumped toxic industrial waste into rivers and lakes in China, home to one-fifth of the world's population but only 7 percent of its water resources. "China is expected to desalinate 800,000 to 1 ... |
Corals get climate survival guide (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| BBC News: Strategies to help vulnerable marine ecosystems survive the impact of climate change have been published by conservationists. Coral reefs and mangroves are being degraded by global warming, pollution and coastal developments, they said. The authors believe limiting the human impact on the habitats will allow them to be more resilient to climate shifts. The reports have been produced by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC). Coral ... |
Flat screen televisions 'will add to global warming' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Independent (UK): The domestic boom in flatscreen televisions could pump hundreds of thousands of tonnes of extra carbon into the atmosphere each, hampering Britain's attempts to cut emissions. Research by the Liberal Democrats suggested yesterday that the hi-tech televisions would increase emissions by 700,000 tonnes a year by 2010 - a 70 per cent increase from Britain's 63 million television sets. The figures come amid widespread calls for changes in consumer behaviour in the wake of the Stern ... |
Australia: Govt in flurry of climate change announcements (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: KERRY O'BRIEN: The report by former World Bank chief economist Sir Nicholas Stern on the likely impact of climate change appears to have set a new benchmark in the debate of the world's environment. While declaring it would not be spooked by the Stern Report, the Federal Government have engaged in a flurry of announcements on initiatives on how to curb carbon emissions. There was more money today for pilot emission control projects, and the government is clearly pinning its hopes on ... |
Canada: Layton threatens non-confidence vote unless Tories talk on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Canadian Press: The Tory government is being threatened with a possible non-confidence motion as early as Thursday unless it allows opposition parties to rewrite its Clean Air Act. NDP Leader Jack Layton served notice Tuesday that a motion to topple the minority government is among five options he'll table in the House of Commons on Thursday. He warned that Prime Minister Stephen Harper could be slapped with the motion of censure unless he agrees to negotiate major changes to his ... |
Rich-poor carbon trade could deliver climate deal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Reuters: A multibillion dollar trade deal to help poor countries cut their greenhouse gas emissions may sweeten talks this month on tackling climate change, providing an answer to the question of who pays to save the planet. When delegates to the U.N. climate talks sit down in Kenya on Nov. 6, they will be mindful of this week's British report which warned of economic catastrophe if urgent and dramatic action is not taken to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The cost of global warming will ... |
Wanna Save the World? Make Sure You Plant the Right Tree (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| ABC News: Problems like global warming are so overwhelming that most citizens feel there's nothing they can do to help. That's wrong. If you want to help, scientists across the country are saying these days, plant a tree. Better yet, work with your city to improve its urban forest. But here's the hard part. We've all known for years that trees are good for the environment, soaking up air pollutants and greenhouse gases, and a little shade in the middle of what scientists are calling ... |
New Zealand: 'Civil disobedience' planned over climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| New Zealand Herald: Climate change activists are expecting up to 500 people to close off a small section of central Auckland's main street on Saturday. Auckland's Climaction Coalition says it is following in the footsteps of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King with a "civil disobedience carnival". Coalition spokeswoman Gin Barker said today that the rally, which would affect the section of Queen St near Aotea Square, would start at 1pm and go on through the ... |
Aid groups drive to curb deadly gas-guzzling cars (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| Reuters: Aid workers in risky environments may fear violence but they are more likely to die -- and hurt the people they are trying to help -- in a car crash, logistics experts say. These specialists are joining a growing initiative to make humanitarian groups more responsible with their gas-guzzling four-wheel-drive cars, which belch out fumes that pollute the local environment and make people sick. Many agencies campaign on environmental issues, but few people in the aid world are ... |
Australia says Kyoto a symbolic failure (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| Reuters: Australia, a major coal exporter and producer of greenhouse gases, said on Wednesday it would use new technologies to make fossil-fuels cleaner and tackle climate change, but continued to reject the Kyoto Protocol. Prime Minister John Howard said Kyoto was mere symbolism as it did not include major greenhouse emitters such as India, the U.S. and China. He said an alliance of the world's biggest polluters -- Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and the United States -- ... |
Australia: CSIRO spending $1m less on renewable energy research (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| AAP: The CSIRO will spend $1 million less on renewable energy research this year than it did last year, a Senate estimates committee has been told. In response to questioning from Labor senator Penny Wong, CSIRO sustainable energy and environment group executive Stephen Morton said today the organisation had rejigged its research into renewable energies in 2006-2007 compared with last year. This would result in a $1 million cut in spending, Dr Morton told a hearing of the Senate ... |
Give EU more power to tackle climate change, says Balls (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| Guardian: Gordon Brown's right hand man, Ed Balls, will say today that it is in the UK's national interest to collaborate more closely with the EU and that Brussels should have more powers to deal with issues such as climate change and the single market. The economic secretary to the Treasury, whose views are likely to reflect those of the chancellor, will say that a stronger Europe is one of the four great areas where Britain needs to go further over the next 10 years. "On the ... |
Gore's Global Warming Agenda Gets Notice -- in UK (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| ABC News: Former Vice President Al Gore has been trying to get this country's attention about global warming. And he says he isn't interested in going back into politics -- at least not in the United States. But perhaps the United Kingdom is another story. Earlier this week Gore was appointed an international consultant on climate change in the United Kingdom. The announcement came timed to the release of a new report from British economic adviser Sir Nicholas Stern warning of ... |
Australia: PM's green spending all wrong: Greens (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| AAP: JOHN Howard is giving $60 million in climate change funding to the wrong projects, Australian Greens leader Bob Brown has said. The Prime Minister this morning outlined funding for 42 projects in collaboration with the five other countries in the AP6 Asia-Pacific climate bloc. More than half the money is going to projects to develop clean coal technology, including $8 million for a mobile carbon catcher for coal-fired power stations. Mr Howard said he was taking ... |
Aussie firm plans Asian biodiesel plant (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| Reuters: Australian renewable energy firm Natural Fuel Ltd will break ground on the world's largest multi-feedstock biodiesel plant in Singapore next week. The plant will be built on Singapore's Jurong Island, home to the bulk of its petrochemical processing facilities. A spokeswoman for the company could not immediately confirm the production capacity, cost or date of completion of the plant. Natural Fuel will look to South East Asia for most of its feedstock in the form of ... |
Australia: Carbon trading costs will fall: Beazley (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| Australian: THE cost of a carbon trading regime to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions will come down over time through greater efficiencies, Opposition Leader Kim Beazley says. But the Labor leader has baulked at saying if there would be higher costs for power and other commodities if Australia were to sign up to global agreements to penalise carbon emissions. Mr Beazley has welcomed the government's $60 million contribution to greenhouse gas reduction programs under the Asia-Pacific ... |
Australia: Conservationists doubt impact of green projects (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ELEANOR HALL: While environment groups have welcomed the Federal Government's investment in greenhouse gas reducing technology, some are questioning just how much difference it's going to make, if there are not also measures to penalise carbon emissions. Peta Donald reports. PETA DONALD: From $8-million to test a mobile carbon catcher, to more than a million dollars for a cement centre of excellence, according to green groups it's all a step in the right direction. But ... |
Cooling the planet at the gas roots (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| Christian Science Monitor: In Vermont, activists want to revive an old water mill to generate electricity. In California, so-called locavores are eating only local food, not food shipped by long-haul trucks. They're part of a bottom-up movement to fix global warming and start adjusting to a post-oil world. But will it work? For years, the task of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions was seen as a job mainly for central governments. The result: the 1997 Kyoto Protocols, a top-down effort by most industrial ... |
Danes go cold on windfarms (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| Scotsman: THE nation that leads the world in wind-farm development is going cool on the environmentally friendly source of power. Since the boom year of 2000, when as many as 748 turbines were erected, the number being built in Denmark has steadily fallen. So far this year, only six new wind turbines have been put up. While many countries around the world are clamouring to buy Danish wind turbines, Denmark's government is finding it difficult to convince its own population to accept an ... |
Australia: Govt to announce more clean energy funding (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: TONY EASTLEY: The Industry Minister, Ian Macfarlane, swears it's just a coincidence, but this morning in Canberra he and the Prime Minister will be announcing yet more Government funding for clean energy projects. The Government has of course been facing a barrage of questions this week about climate change, after yet another dire prediction about global warming. Today the Prime Minister will hand out $60-million in funding for 42 projects. One of the pilot programs is ... |
Australia: Labor pours scorn on 'new Kyoto' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| AAP: LABOR today rubbished Prime Minister John Howard's talk of a "new Kyoto agreement" and warned the Government may have already missed the boat on climate change. The Prime Minister reportedly is to announce today funding for 40 projects aimed at cutting greenhouse gases, including the funding of so-called clean coal technology projects and schemes to help aluminium producers cut pollution. Labor environment spokesman Anthony Albanese said the Government was scrambling to build ... |
Australia: Macarthur chief calls for clean coal action (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: MARK COLVIN: To anyone who's ever handled the stuff, 'clean coal' sounds like a contradiction in terms. But making clean coal a reality with new technology is one of the future developments that could help tackle global warming. And the head of a major Australian coal mining company says the industry needs to stop talking about clean coal and start spending serious money on it. Ken Talbot is the Chief Executive of Macarthur Coal, and he says he wants the industry to ... |
Australia: PM to announce $60m for clean energy projects (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Prime Minister John Howard will announce more Government funding for clean energy projects, valued at $60 million. The Federal Government has been facing a barrage of questions this week about climate change, amid the dire prediction about global warming in a British report by economist Sir Nicholas Stern. Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane says the timing of Government's funding boost this morning is just a coincidence. This morning in Canberra, he and Mr Howard will ... |
Power firm buys into European wind power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| Guardian: International Power (IP) has made a significant move into the renewable energy field with the €567m (£379m) purchase of wind farms in Germany and France. The British company, which operates six domestic gas and coal-fired power plants, has bought the 436MW of wind capacity from Christofferson Robb & Company (CRC). "This acquisition provides us with an immediate, scale renewable business in Europe, together with a significant pipeline of development opportunities," ... |
United States: State's shrinking glaciers: Going ... going ... gone? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| Seattle Times: Like tiny doctors on the belly of a sleeping giant, three National Park Service workers trudged up the middle of the Nisqually Glacier, stepping over tiny creeks and peering down a dizzying chute where water from the melting glacier wormed into the 300-foot-thick slab of ice. Nearby, a tall plastic pole arced from the ice into the sky. Park scientist Rebecca Doyle knelt at its base, whipped out a tape measure, and began jotting down numbers. The pole is 41 feet long. Six months ... |
United States: U.S. coal state pursues alternative energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| Reuters: Hundreds of millions of tons of waste coal are lying around the mines of Pennsylvania and nearby states, and that gets John Rich excited. Rich is president of WMPI Pty. LLC, in Gilberton, northeastern Pennsylvania, where he is setting up the first plant in the United States to turn waste coal into diesel fuel. "This will help clean it up once and for all," he said. "It's a lot cheaper to pick it up from the ground than to dig it out." Rich plans to ... |
Australian prime minister says US, China and India must join carbon trading (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| International Herald Tribune: Australia would only join a carbon emission trading agreement if the United States, China and India were included, Prime Minister John Howard said Tuesday as he again refused to sign on to the Kyoto Protocol. Australia and the United States are the only industrialized countries that have refused to ratify the agreement reached in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997 which sets targets for 35 countries to reduce their emissions of carbon which are widely blamed for global warming. As ... |
Has the world finally woken up to climate change? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:16
| Guardian: Eighteen years ago, Jonathon Porritt, then and now one of Britain's best-known environmentalists, co-wrote a book called The Coming of the Greens. The late-80s surge in green consciousness in Britain was well under way, but the book was a judicious mix of optimism and pessimism. It concluded with a discussion of what Porritt called "the brinkmanship theory" of green campaigning. "Only when a major catastrophe looms," he wrote, "will the necessary international ... |
Australia: Howard 'won't sacrifice mining jobs' for climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:17
| Australian: THE jobs of Australians who worked in mining and industries dependent on fossil fuels would not be sacrificed for symbolic measures aimed at tackling climate change, John Howard said today. Under attack from Labor for not signing the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement that would put mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions, the Prime Minister said his first priority would be to protect Australia's interests. "Let me simply say, however, that in pursuing that ... |
Putting a price on carbon: the key to securing global stability (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:17
| Guardian: The reason is that the price of a cheap flight to eastern Europe or of a bunch of hothouse flowers flown in from east Africa does not include the cost to the environment. By international agreement, airline fuel is exempt from tax. "Greenhouse gases are, in economic terms, an externality," the report says. "Those who produce greenhouse gas emissions are bringing about climate change, thereby imposing costs on the world and on future generations, but they do not face the ... |
Warned of costs, world seeks way to fight warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:17
| Reuters: U.N. climate talks in Kenya next week will hunt for new ways to fight global warming, stung by a warning that long-term inaction may trigger a cataclysmic economic downturn. But delegates say the 189-nation talks from November 6-17 look unlikely to make any big breakthroughs and may shy away from setting a firm timetable for working out a successor to the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol, the U.N. plan for curbing global warming which runs out in 2012. The United Nations says progress is ... |
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