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United Kingdom: Green Power on the march: Thousands unite to rally against global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:20
| Independent (UK): People power comes to the fight against climate change today as Britain witnesses its biggest march and rally demanding the Government acts against the threat of global warming. From the rock band Razorlight to members of the Women's Institute, from the singer K T Tunstall to the Bishop of Liverpool, the expected crowd of 20,000 in Trafalgar Square will be as wide a cross-section of society as can be assembled anywhere. The Stop Climate Chaos event brings together an even ... |
Greenhouse gains sunk by frequent flyers (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:20
| Age: EVA, a 40-year-old Polish nurse, is queuing with her two sons at Stansted Airport near London for a flight to Poznan in Poland. Before moving to Britain two years ago she hardly ever flew, she says. Now she flies home four times a year. "I care about the environment very much," she says. She thinks cars should be redesigned to carry clean fuel. But if she was persuaded that planes were also having a huge impact on global warming, would she stop flying? "I don't ... |
Energy watchdog doubts carbon trading will work (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:20
| Independent (UK): The world's leading energy watchdog gave a lukewarm response to the call by the Stern Review for a global carbon trading system as the way to tackle climate change. The Independent Energy Agency said yesterday it doubted that the scheme would gain sufficient agreement by world governments to be viable. Fatih Birol, the IEA's chief economist, said he believed the right formula was a mix of increasing energy efficiency in industry and transport, a shift to renewable ... |
Australia: Sea burial solution to greenhouse gas threat (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:20
| Sydney Morning Herald: THE Howard Government has championed globally an industry answer to climate change: burying millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide in bedrock under the sea. An international agreement on sea dumping was amended on Thursday so the greenhouse gas captured at such sources as coal- or gas-fired power stations can be piped underwater for burial. The Australian-sponsored amendment to a protocol to the London Convention was passed in a vote of 17 member countries. Five nations, ... |
Stern raises stakes on climate change action (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:20
| Age: FORMER World Bank economist Sir Nicholas Stern warns that Australia must provide incentives for new technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions or they will not be used. He said Australia faced "severe water stress" and rising sea levels if the globe continued to heat at the current pace, of particular concern as most Australian cities were on the coast. In an alarming report to the British Government, Sir Nicholas this week predicted climatic and economic ... |
United Kingdom: The green goldrush that is creating multimillionaires (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:20
| Times (UK): NEIL ECKERT gave up his job as an insurance industry executive last year to dedicate his life to saving the planet. But unlike many sandal-wearing green campaigners, his good intentions did not come at a price. Rather, they have turned him into a multimillionaire. Mr Eckert, 44, who lives in Sussex with his wife and children, is one of a new breed of green entrepreneurs who are living proof of Tony Blair's claims that tackling climate change is as much an opportunity as a threat. The ... |
Australia: If a tree falls during a climate change row, will the PM hear it? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:20
| Sydney Morning Herald: FOR almost 50 years, two magnificent gums stood in the grounds of the Lodge as a legacy of the Menzies era. On Thursday at lunchtime, as fierce winds and what passes for rain these days whipped the nation's capital, they came crashing down. Had the wind been blowing the other way, more than a memory of the Menzies era would have been lost. The Lodge, only metres away, would have been badly damaged as well - the first tree to fall was about 25 metres high. The trees, a ... |
Blair, Merkel back alliance against climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:20
| Reuters: British Prime Minister Tony Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed on Friday to work closely together to build a strong international alliance to fight global warming. Blair said he saw a real opportunity to make progress in promoting global action towards climate change next year when Germany takes over the presidency of both the Group of Eight leading industrialised nations and the European Union. "We will give every support we can," Blair said at a joint ... |
Britain pushes India to join climate change battle (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:20
| Reuters: Britain urged India on Friday to do more to cut greenhouse gas emissions and tackle climate change to prevent "devastating" effects on millions of poor living in the South Asian subcontinent. British Foreign secretary Margaret Beckett said that while there was no doubt that developed nations had to bear a greater share of the responsibility, developing economies must also pitch in more because time was running out. Beckett's comments came days after a report ... |
Cooking the global economy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:20
| Boston Globe: BRITAIN'S Stern report on the cataclysmic economic effects of global warming is the 2006 equivalent of a warning to world leaders in the 1920s that they faced a Depression without certain preventive steps. That is the size of the downturn predicted by Nicholas Stern, former chief economist of the World Bank, if the world does not take serious concerted action against the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. Stern's report takes the issue out of the realm of ... |
Greenhouse gases hit record levels in 2005 - UN (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:20
| Reuters: Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a record last year and are likely to keep rising unless emissions are radically cut, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said in a report on Friday. The U.N. weather agency found that the so-called "mixing ratios" of carbon dioxide reached an all-time high of 379.1 parts per billion in 2005, and the global average for nitrous oxide hit a record 319.2 parts per billion. "It looks like this will ... |
Tropical peat bogs stoke global warming-report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:21
| Reuters: Drainage of tropical peat bogs is a vast uncharted source of greenhouse gases that may be doing more to stoke global warming than fossil fuels, a conservation group and a Dutch research institute said on Friday. "The figures are alarming... This issue has been overlooked," said Marcel Silvius, senior programme manager at Wetlands International, a non-profit group whose backers include 60 governments and 15 conservation groups. Silvius told Reuters that a study with ... |
A climate change on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:21
| Christian Science Monitor: Around here, when they talk of climate change, they usually mean change in the political climate. Now the change in the climate on global warming presents President Bush with the opportunity for the kind of legacy-building reversal of policy that led President Reagan in his second term to embrace Mikhail Gorbachev and the former "evil empire" in Red Square. Until now, the Bush administration has turned its back on the Kyoto Proto- col requiring some three dozen ... |
Addressing China's climate challenge (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:21
| BBC: China is on course to overtake the United States as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. It is building a new power station every week to meet a surge in demand for electricity. I'm in Shanghai, on my first visit to China, and I'm feeling the consequences. China's industrial revolution has got me by the throat, literally. I arrived here in Shanghai on Tuesday and I've been coughing ever since. The streets are filled with a pale haze of fumes. ... |
Analysis: U.N. to solve emissions crisis? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:21
| United Press International: The United Nations will host a conference on climate change in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday to discuss ways to improve the climate amid British warnings of a worldwide disaster should governments fail to cooperate on global warming. Members of the world body will also meet with parties to the 1997 Kyoto protocol, which made a commitment to reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in their countries. A decade ago, recurring questions about future climate ... |
Australian PM turns a light shade of green (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:21
| Reuters: Australia's conservative prime minister has turned a light shade of green, say political analysts, as global warming and his opposition to Kyoto emerge as key political issues in the lead up to an election in 2007. A long-term critic of the Kyoto Protocol and opponent of carbon trading, Howard this week announced projects to promote cleaner energy and shifted his stand on carbon markets, saying he would now be willing to join an international trading system. But political ... |
Chamber of Commerce and Industry gives global warming nod (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:21
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ELEANOR HALL: Less than a week after the release of the Stern Report on the economic impact of global warming, one of Australia's business lobby groups appears to be softening it's position on climate change. The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is now backing an emissions trading scheme, although it says more work needs to be done on the appropriate model. Emissions-trading allows small polluters to trade credits with those businesses that pump large amounts of ... |
Coral reefs can be saved from global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:21
| Mongabay.com: The outlook for coral reefs -- often termed the rainforests of the sea -- is dire. Overfishing, pollution, damage from anchors, mining for construction materials, and over-collection for the pet trade are all over-shadowed by climate change which could decimate reefs by higher water temperatures and increasingly acidic conditions which could render many coral species incapable of forming carbonate support structures. Nevertheless a new report from the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and The ... |
Indian PM Slams Ozone Pact over Trade Sanctions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:21
| Reuters: India's prime minister on Thursday criticised an international pact that aims to protect the ozone layer, saying its inclusion of trade sanctions could hurt economic growth and efforts to eradicate poverty. The 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer commits signatory nations to progressively ban the use of products that hurt the layer. It was one of the first environmental pacts to use the threat of trade sanctions to achieve its goals. "A ... |
Indonesia plans measures to prevent repeat of haze (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:21
| Agence France-Presse: Indonesia is planning a series of measures to prevent a repeat of the choking haze which has engulfed the region, following a meeting with Southeast Asian neighbours on how to tackle the problem. Indonesian farmers burn forests annually to clear land for agriculture, causing a haze that spreads across the region during the dry season, affecting tourism and increasing health problems. "We are planning an increase of spending to tackle haze, stressing on the preventive ... |
Kenya to host climate change convention (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:21
| Kenya Broadcasting Corporation: Kenya will host the second meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP 2), in conjunction with the twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP 12), in Nairobi from 6 to 17 November 2006. The conference will also include, from 6 to 14 November, the twenty-fifth session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 25), the twenty-fifth session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 25), and the second ... |
Ocean sequestration given the go-ahead (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:21
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ELEANOR HALL: An international meeting of scientists and officials in the UK has given the go-ahead for the Earth's seabed to play an important role in combating climate change. Overnight, the London Convention, which governs the discharge of waste into the oceans, voted to make it legal for carbon dioxide to be buried under the sea floor. Previous plans to store carbon dioxide under the sea have drawn criticism because of concerns about leakage and safety. Now ... |
United Kingdom: Power station occupation enters day two (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:21
| Greenpeace: Yesterday Greenpeace climate campaigners shut down one of Britain's dirtiest power stations. Ten protestors spent the night on top of Didcot power station chimney, another 15 spent the night chained to the station's coal conveyor belts. Coincidentally, Tony Blair was in the area last night visiting a local science centre. We managed to get a question to him through the local ITV studio. Ben Stewart was transmitted from the power station chimney: "On Monday you ... |
United Kingdom: Protesters remain at power plant (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:21
| BBC: Negotiations are continuing between site managers at Didcot power station and environmental campaigners chained to equipment at the Oxfordshire plant. A team from Greenpeace also climbed a 650ft (200m) tower on Thursday and painted "Blair's Legacy" on a chimney. Operator Npower has called for the protest to stop and launched an inquiry into the security breach. Campaigners want the coal-fuelled plant to close as they believe it makes a massive contribution to ... |
Scientists investigate unusual ocean conditions along the U.S. West Coast (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:21
| Media Newswire: Scientists from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and other institutions have analyzed the events of 2005 in a series of papers published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters ( GRL ), and they are busy analyzing more data collected this year. At the back of everyone's mind is a troubling question: Are these unusual conditions part of the natural variability of the California Current system, or do they signal a shift to a new oceanographic regime? "Once is a fluke, ... |
Tidal Energy Companies Staking Claims (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:22
| Associated Press: In the quest for oil-free power, a handful of small companies are staking claims on the boundless energy of the rising and ebbing sea. The technology that would draw energy from ocean tides to keep light bulbs and laptops aglow is largely untested, but several newly minted companies are reserving tracts of water from Alaska's Cook Inlet to Manhattan's East River in the belief that such sites could become profitable sources of electricity. The trickle of interest began two ... |
U.S. Pesticide Stockpile Under Scrutiny at World Ozone Meeting in India (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:22
| Associated Press: President George W. Bush's administration is seeking world permission to produce thousands of tons of a pesticide that an international treaty banned nearly two years ago, even though U.S. companies already have huge stockpiles of the chemical. Methyl bromide has been used for decades by farmers to help grow plump, sweet strawberries, robust peppers and other crops, but it also depletes the Earth's protective ozone layer. The United States and other countries signed a 1987 treaty ... |
Australia: Water problems could get 'even worse' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:22
| AAP: AUSTRALIA'S water problems could become at least seven times worse unless climate change is tackled, according to the author of a major international report on global warming. Former world bank economist Sir Nicholas Stern released his Review on the Economics of Climate Change this week, saying global warming risked forcing the world into another depression on the scale of that of the 1930s. Sir Nicholas said if temperatures were allowed to continue rising at the current rate, ... |
Bulgaria: Banks pull the plug on nuclear plants (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:22
| Edie: UniCredit Group, which runs a number of highstreet bank chains across the continent, and economic powerhouse Deutsche Bank had both expressed interest in investing in the development of two new stations near the town of Belene. The decision of the banks followed lobbying from Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and CEE Bankwatch. Each of the banks was backing a different consortium bidding for the contract to build the stations, both of which have now been left in financial ... |
Bush and Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:22
| Philadelphia Inquirer: The Bush administration needs to stop clinging to its myopic view that efforts to mitigate global warming would hurt the U.S. economy and cost jobs. A new British government report concludes that failing to act could be as economically devastating as the Great Depression or the two world wars. In a 16-month study commissioned by Prime Minister Tony Blair, economic adviser Sir Nicholas Stern determined that the benefits of strong, early action considerably outweighed the ... |
China ethanol demand to grow 20 pct/yr over next 5 yrs - Deutsche Bank (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:22
| XFN: Deutsche Bank said it expects China's consumption of renewable energy to grow 10-36 pct a year in the next five years, with demand for ethanol rising 20 pct per year during the period. 'China aims to increase the proportion of renewable energy to 16 pct of total energy consumption in 2020 from seven pct in 2005,' the bank said in a research report, citing the China Renewable Energy Law that came into effect on Jan 1 this year. The report said that hydro power is the most ... |
United States: Global warming protests Saturday (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:22
| Rutland Herald: Vermont activists seeking government action on global warming will stage a series of rallies Saturday at dozens of landmarks throughout the state. Demonstrators are scheduled to join hands at Burlington's Intervale farm to form a silhouette of a maple leaf, which will be photographed from the air by a helicopter from the environmental group Greenpeace. "We'll be gathering the length and breadth of Vermont to remind people we need to vote for a change in U.S. and state ... |
Lukewarm 'Warming' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:22
| Washington Post: "The Great Warming" knows what it's up against: eyes-glazed indifference to forewarnings about the dangers of carbon dioxide buildup to Earth's atmosphere. The documentary's strategy: Awaken those eyes with snappily edited, arresting images (darkly billowing factory smoke, hurricanes and floods in Louisiana and Florida) and vicarious visits to exotic locales around the world (all of them in imminent danger of sinking underwater). Then let Keanu Reeves and Alanis Morissette gently ... |
Australia: PM denies climate change policy 'cobbled together' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:22
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Prime Minister has rejected suggestions the Federal Government "cobbled together" its recent announcements on climate change. John Howard says any response to climate change needs to be balanced and must take into account the cost of losing Australia's advantage in the gas and coal industries. He says the Government's priority for two-and-a-half years has been to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions produced by fossil fuels. "Now it happens that a lot ... |
United Kingdom: PM's climate change progress hopes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:22
| Press Association: Tony Blair has called on the world to grasp the "real opportunity" that would exist next year for tackling climate change. The Prime Minister said there would be a chance to make progress when Germany took over the presidency of the powerful G8 group of nations and the European Union in January. Speaking at a joint press conference in Downing Street, German Chancellor Angela Merkel also stressed that the Stern Report published by the UK Government this week should act ... |
Scientist pessimistic about alternative fuel in Aust (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 12:00:22
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Australia's chief scientist does not think alternative fuels have a big future in the country because of a shortage of available production land. Dr Jim Peacock made the comments ahead of the Australian Farm Institute's strategic round table meeting on agriculture in Sydney today. The conference is examining how science will assist agriculture over the next decade, especially in the areas of climate change, GM technology and strengthening international markets. Dr ... |
United Kingdom: Climate rally to call for action (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:19
| BBC: Climate change campaigners are due to rally in London as part of global protests calling for world leaders to act urgently on the issue. The day's events include the March for Global Climate Justice from the US embassy in London to Trafalgar Square. Ashok Sinha, director of Stop Climate Chaos, said "climate change is the biggest threat the planet faces" and called for "urgent political action". The events are ahead of UN climate change talks in ... |
Greenhouse gases hit 'record levels' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:19
| Reuters: Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a record last year and are likely to keep rising unless emissions are radically cut, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said. The UN weather agency found that the so-called "mixing ratios" of carbon dioxide reached an all-time high of 379.1 parts per billion in 2005, and the global average for nitrous oxide hit a record 319.2 parts per billion. "It looks like this will continue like this for ... |
Australia: Protesters march against global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:20
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Thousands of people have turned out for rallies across Australian cities to raise awareness of climate change. The Walk Against Warming was an international event with similar marches happening around the globe. The biggest march was in Sydney as thousands of people walked from Martin Place to the Botanical Gardens. Campaigners opposed to coal and nuclear power and are calling for the Government to adopt more solar and renewable energy sources. Greens Senator Bob ... |
Australia: Bracks vows 10pc home emissions cut (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:20
| AAP: THE Bracks Labor Government in Victoria has promised to help families cut greenhouse gas emissions by 10 per cent if re-elected. Labor today vowed to introduce $100 rebates for households that use energy-efficient appliances. It said energy retailers also would be "required" to help households reach the 10 per cent target by 2010, by taking measures such as supplying energy-efficient light bulbs and Triple A showerheads. "We will also ensure that ... |
Chaotic world of climate truth (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:20
| BBC: As activists organised by the group Stop Climate Chaos gather in London to demand action, one of Britain's top climate scientists says the language of chaos and catastrophe has got out of hand. "Climate change is a reality, and science confirms that human activities are heavily implicated in this change. But over the last few years a new environmental phenomenon has been constructed in this country - the phenomenon of "catastrophic" climate change. It ... |
Greenhouse gases reach record high (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:20
| Toronto Star: The amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere – the major cause of climate change – hit a record high last year and appears set to keep rising, a United Nations agency reported yesterday. The carbon concentration reached 379.1 parts per million, just a 0.53 per cent increase from the previous year. But the new level represents the continuation of a trend that began with the industrial revolution two centuries ago, the World Meteorological Organization said. Levels of ... |
Ozone problem shows the folly of messing with nature (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:20
| Toronto Star: The ozone hole over Antarctica is bigger than it has ever been – at 17 million square kilometres, it's larger in area than North America. At first glance, this might seem an alarming setback, since news stories over the past 10 years have reported that with the banning of ozone-depleting chemicals, the ozone layer has been repairing itself. What in fact has occurred is that damage to the ozone layer has bottomed out. But as with any trend, projections for ozone depletion follow ... |
America's anti-enviromentalists (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:22
| Guardian: As an American, I am appalled, ashamed, and embarrassed by my country's lack of leadership in dealing with global warming. Scientific evidence on the risks mounts by the day, as most recently documented in England's magisterial Stern Report. Yet, despite the fact that the United States accounts for roughly 25% of all man-made global carbon emissions, Americans show little will or inclination to temper their manic consumption. The first George W Bush administration was probably right ... |
Australia: Howard calls top level water crisis summit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 06:00:25
| Sydney Morning Herald: THE Prime Minister will today announce the convening of an extraordinary crisis summit with three state premiers to thrash out Australia's dramatically worsening water shortage. Prompted by the seriously deteriorating situation in the Murray-Darling Basin, Mr Howard rang NSW Premier Morris Iemma on Friday night, urging him to go to Canberra on Tuesday. He also rang Mr Iemma's Victorian and South Australian counterparts, Steve Bracks and Mike Rann, summoning them and their water ... |
Australia: PM to hold crisis talks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 06:00:25
| Sunday Herald Sun: PRIME Minister John Howard has called a climate-change summit of key state Premiers on the back of new data that suggest Australia's most important river system will dry up within a year -- threatening water supplies to our cities. On best scientific information available to senior government figures this week, on current rainfall, dams on the Murray system will be empty by May next year. Ministerial sources say supplies for cities such as Adelaide will be at risk if there is ... |
UK protesters urge climate action (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 06:00:25
| Reuters: More than 20,000 protesters rallied in London ahead of international talks on climate change in Kenya, demanding that world leaders act to curb global warming. The event included a march from the United States embassy in protest against US President George W Bush's refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on cutting climate-warming gases from fossil fuels. It was held at the end of a week in which a British government-backed report published on Monday painted an apocalyptic picture ... |
Australia: Timely call for climate action (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 06:00:25
| Sunday Telegraph: THESE are the facts. Australia is in the grip of a sustained and debilitating drought - the worst in 100 years. Stock and crops are dying at alarming rates while farmers race against time to feed them by hand while praying for rain. Mother Nature, at her most vicious, is forcing people off the land, ending decades of proud family tradition, and city-dwellers are also feeling her wrath with increasingly harsh water restrictions despite irregular rainfall along our coastal regions. ... |
United Kingdom: Climate protest goes 'mainstream' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 06:00:26
| BBC: As thousands of people joined a march and rally in London calling for action on climate change on the eve of global talks in Nairobi many were publicly adding their voice to the campaign for the first time. A multitude of signs - Flood Warning, Cut the Carbon, Climate chaos kills, Solar not Nuclear, Cheap Flights Cost the Earth - reflected a diverse set of interests from different organisations. Many demonstrators, however, said they were representative of a growing green ... |
Australia: PM calls crisis summit on water (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 06:00:26
| Sunday Telegraph: PRIME Minister John Howard has called key premiers to a snap water summit after data showed Australia's most important river system will run dry within six months, threatening water supplies. On current rainfall, the dams on the Murray system will be empty by May next year, according to scientific information seen by senior government members last week. That means water supplies for Australia's cities will be put at risk if there is no increased rainfall. In the face of ... |
United States: Activists push for action on global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 06:00:26
| Associated Press: Scores of people fanned out from one end of Vermont to the other and from top to bottom on Saturday to urge lawmakers to make real progress in the fight against global warming. Middlebury College scholar in residence Bill McKibben led a group of about 30 people to the summit of Camel's Hump where they got an early taste of winter and fleeting views of Lake Champlain through the low clouds. "The purpose is to remind our candidates who are about to become our elected ... |
Philippines: Activists: Developing countries bear brunt of climate change cost (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 06:00:26
| Associated Press: Developing countries such as the Philippines are bearing the brunt of the cost of climate change, with huge economic losses from extreme weather like cyclones and droughts, activists said Saturday. "The impacts of climate change will be most catastrophic to countries who are the least able to cope," said Greenpeace Southeast Asia campaigner Abigail Jabines. Jabines said four successive cyclones toward the end of 2004 alone cost the Philippines P7.61 billion ... |
Howard: Australia would be 'foolish' not to consider nuclear energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 06:00:26
| Associated Press: Australia would be "foolish" not to consider using nuclear energy, given its vast reserves of uranium, Prime Minister John Howard said Saturday, giving his strongest hint yet the government planned to kick-start an atomic energy industry. "Nuclear power is potentially the cleanest and greenest of them all," Howard said in a speech to the Queensland state branch of his Liberal Party. "And we would be foolish, from the national interest point of view, ... |
Is the Answer Blowing in the Wind? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 06:00:26
| New York Times: FOR almost a year, five turbines on New Jersey's first coastal wind farm have been generating electricity in Atlantic City, their slowly revolving 118-foot-long blades making the turbines resemble gigantic upright roulette wheels. They are the first full-size turbines along the coast in New York and New Jersey and the region's first working examples of a clean-energy technology that supporters say will one day ease dependence on oil and gas and begin to address concerns about global ... |
Japan a new ally in climate change debate? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 06:00:26
| CanWest News Service: The Harper government could find itself with a new climate change ally next week as the world gathers in Nairobi, Kenya, to review the United Nations treaty on climate change and its Kyoto Protocol. Although environmentalists have accused the minority Conservatives of turning Canada into an international outlaw for abandoning its Kyoto commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Japan has submitted a proposal to the upcoming conference that could weaken the agreement in its next ... |
Thousands gather in London for climate rally (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 06:00:26
| Telegraph (UK): Thousands of people have gathered in Trafalgar Square in London to urge the Government to take dramatic action to combat climate change. The rally's organisers, the Stop Climate Chaos coalition, want Britain to take the lead at the UN global warming conference which begins in Nairobi next week. They are urging the Government to negotiate an international deal to make sure that global temperatures do not rise more than two degrees centigrade from their current levels, and to ... |
Australia: Thousands march against global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 06:00:26
| AAP: TENS of thousands of people have taken part in protest marches across Australia calling for action against climate change, but one of the rallies had to be called off after heavy rain. More than 10,000 people were reported to have marched through the streets of central Sydney, including Greens leader Senator Bob Brown and Labor Environment spokesman Anthony Albanese. They were joined by actress Cate Blanchett and director husband Andrew Upton, as well as celebrity chef Kylie ... |
Barrier Reef to get sunshades (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 06:00:26
| Agence France-Presse: Australia is considering using vast sunshades to stop global climate change further damaging the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral system, a government minister said on Friday. Tourism Minister Fran Bailey said the government was looking at funding the use of shade cloths to protect vulnerable parts of the giant reef off the coast of Queensland state, after a promising two-year trial. Scientists warned earlier this year that high ocean temperatures linked to ... |
Global Warming Could Trigger Insect Population Boom (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 06:00:27
| LiveScience: A rise in the Earth's temperature could lead to an increase in the number of insects worldwide, with potentially dire consequences for humans, a new study suggests. New research shows that insect species living in warmer areas are more likely to undergo rapid population growth because they have higher metabolic rates and reproduce more frequently. The finding has scientists concerned that global warming could give rise to more fast-growing insect populations and that we could see a ... |
Australia: Greens to introduce climate bill (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 06:00:27
| AAP: Australia's next generation faces dual dangers, climate change and a nuclear power industry, Greens leader Bob Brown says. Senator Brown, in Sydney to take part in a Walk Against Warming march, said in a statement the Greens will introduce a climate change bill setting a timetable and targets for greenhouse gas emissions reduction. It was the Greens fourth such bill and would include targets including a 90 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, he ... |
Australia: Labor promises cash back for energy efficient products (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 06:00:27
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Victorian Labor Party says its climate change policy will reduce household greenhouse gas emissions by 10 per cent within four years. The Labor Party has promised to spend $14 million on new rebates for energy efficient household appliances and heating and cooling systems if it wins the upcoming state election. Deputy Leader John Thwaites says consumers will get $100 cash back for each new appliance. "So they can save energy, save electricity and help the ... |
United Kingdom: Rally plea for Climate Change Bill (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 06:00:27
| Press Association: Thousands of people descended on London's Trafalgar Square to call for urgent action on climate change. The free event organised by the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition took place on the eve of global climate talks in Nairobi. At the rally, activists urged the Government to negotiate an international deal to keep global warming to less than two degrees centigrade, and to lead by example by introducing a Climate Change Bill into the Queen's speech which delivers annual cuts in UK ... |
Can we really save the planet? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:22
| Sunday Herald: Something shifted last week. One of the world's leading economists put a cost on the climate chaos being caused by pollution, and everyone sat up and started to take notice. With the publication of Sir Nicholas Stern's review of the economics of climate change, the argument suddenly seems to have got serious. It's no longer just scientists and environmentalists worried about humanity who are demanding urgent action, it's bankers worried about the bottom line. Stern, a government ... |
Talks to Start on Climate Amid Split on Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:22
| New York Times: Climate negotiators are gathering in Nairobi, Kenya, for their 12th conference since 1992, with the world divided into three seemingly inflexible blocs on what to do about global warming. The conference will begin tomorrow and continue through Nov. 17. A host of specialists, including economists, environmentalists and United Nations officials, say the challenge this year is more daunting than ever. "Right now it seems that the glaciers in Greenland are moving faster than the ... |
The Stern Report: People making a difference (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:22
| Independent (UK): Climate change threatens to create 200 million refugees and could drag Western economies into the kind of turmoil last seen in the Great Depression, Nicholas Stern, the Government's chief economist, warned last week. Sir Nicholas's 700-page report prompted calls for eco-taxes and the curtailing of cheap flights, and it came as Britain was still enjoying unseasonably warm weather and glorious blue skies. The news on the environment is so bad it can leave you feeling powerless, ... |
Australia: Climate change rally draws 30,000 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:22
| AAP: Tens of thousands of Australians marched through capital cities across the country yesterday, calling for action on climate change. The Walk Against Warming rally attracted more than 30,000 people in Melbourne while up to 12,000 people braved wet and windy weather to turn out in Sydney. Similar events took place in 48 countries and more than 20 other locations across Australia as part of an international day of action on climate change. The Australian rallies attracted a ... |
Australia: Climate fix will cost 'billions' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:22
| AAP: THE Federal Government continues to refuse to ratify the Kyoto treaty, while at the same time saying it is 'committed' to meeting emission targets set out in the landmark environmental treaty. Environment Minister Ian Campbell says it is not environmentally effective for Australia to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, even though the government still wants to meet the agreement's emissions targets. The government has been on the back foot over its environmental policies in the past week after ... |
Australia: Govt continues to dismiss Kyoto (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:22
| AAP: Environment Minister Ian Campbell says it is not environmentally effective for Australia to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, even though the government still wants to meet the agreement's emissions targets. The government has been on the back foot over its environmental policies in the past week after the release of the Stern report into global warming. Prime Minister John Howard has been criticised for refusing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, which allowed Australia a target of 108 ... |
United Kingdom: Low-cost carriers hit back on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:22
| Observer: The aviation industry is desperately defending itself against last week's Stern report, which said reducing air traffic to cut carbon and other emissions would be crucial in preventing climate change. Low-cost airlines and the International Air Transport Association (Iata) say that while they have their part to play in reducing emissions, plans to force holidaymakers to fly less often (either by introducing green taxes or allocating a 'carbon allowance' for each person) are not the ... |
United Kingdom: As thousands march to halt climate change ... car industry admits it can't meet green pledges (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:22
| Sunday Herald: The two polar bears had only taken a few steps into the crowd when they were greeted by one of Trafalgar Square's resident drunks. Rapidly adjusting to the concept of climate change, the tramp shook the bears warmly by the paw, as if meeting an Arctic mammal in central London was a perfectly normal occurrence, which, if we don't put the brakes on global warming, it soon might be. The Greenpeace activists in the bear outfits, the tramp and 22,000 other optimistic people rallied ... |
United Kingdom: Investors are filling up with biofuels (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:22
| Times (UK): HENRY FORD dubbed ethanol "the fuel of the future" and planned to run his ubiquitous Model T car on it. Unfortunately, the discovery of cheap petrol and the prohibition of alcohol in America in 1920 put the brakes on his plans. But now ethanol, a type of alcohol, is making a comeback. It is one of two biofuels – fuels made from plants rather than pumped out of the ground – that are being driven into the limelight by fears over climate change. Governments across Europe have ... |
IoS 2060: Tsunami horror hits Britain (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:22
| Independent (UK): International attempts to cut the pollution that causes global warming have gone into reverse just as evidence mounts that it is putting the planet in grave danger, a startling official report will reveal. The findings by the United Nations - which will be presented to the world's governments tomorrow at the start of crucial negotiations about whether to tackle climate change seriously - show that after reducing emissions during the 1990s, the world's richest countries have in fact ... |
United Kingdom: Note to editors: yes we do care about climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:22
| Independent (UK): When (and if - OK, Melanie?) global warming wreaks its devastating effects on the planet, there will be no selection. Greens and sceptics, Sir Nicholas Stern and Melanie Phillips, Independent readers and Express readers, all will suffer the consequences of reckless carbon emission. There is not an easy left/right divide on every issue, nor a quality/tabloid level of interest. Some things are more important than that, though you might have thought otherwise reading the coverage of the report ... |
United Kingdom: Rich may face higher green tax, says Hain (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:22
| Sunday Times: PETER HAIN today raises the spectre of making the rich bear more of the burden for reducing carbon emissions by relating green taxes to income. The Northern Ireland secretary, campaigning to become deputy prime minister under Gordon Brown, also suggested "innovative ways" were needed to stop the super-wealthy "racing away" from those on average incomes. Hain advocates introducing "progressive" green taxes to hit those on big incomes hardest, rather than slapping levies on ... |
United Kingdom: ... and will Labour's green taxes help? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:23
| Sunday Herald: From February next year the car-owning residents of west London will be forced to pay an additional £200 a year as the capital's congestion charge expands into an area of London where congestion isn't a major problem. Forecasts suggest the new system, far from deterring car use, will increase it. Despite its name, neither congestion nor the environment is being improved by what is now regarded as merely a new stream of tax revenue for Ken Livingstone's London assembly. Livingstone says ... |
United Kingdom: Climate campaigners urge action (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:24
| BBC: Thousands of climate change campaigners have attended a rally in London, calling for world leaders to act urgently on the issue. The action included a march from the US embassy to Trafalgar Square, where celebrities joined a demonstration. Some 22,500 people attended the rally, said the police while organisers said 25,000. There were no arrests. Ashok Sinha, director of Stop Climate Chaos, said climate change was "the biggest threat the planet faces". ... |
United States: Environmental Group Calls For Oil Project Details (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:24
| Associated Press: An environmental group accused the Bureau of Land Management of refusing to release information on proposed oil shale projects in Colorado. Western Resource Advocates said it has sent a letter to Deputy Interior Secretary Lynn Scarlett protesting the decision not to release comments received on the BLM's environmental review of three projects proposed in northwestern Colorado. "I think the BLM is trying to avoid scrutiny of the actions that it is proposing until it's too ... |
Canada: Hundreds of protesters demand PM act on Kyoto (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:24
| CBC: Hundreds of protesters gathered in cities across the country on Saturday to demand the Conservative government support the Kyoto Protocol and fight global warming. In Ottawa, about 200 protesters rushed the Parliament buildings to demonstrate their anger over Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Clean Air Act, which they said sends the signal to the world that Canada has given up on its battle against greenhouse gases. Dale Marshall of the Suzuki Foundation says Canada is the only ... |
United Kingdom: The road to ruin: how pay as you drive could cost families £3,000 every year (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-04-2006 at 09:00:24
| Telegraph (UK): It has been sold as a price worth paying to free up the roads, not to mention help save the planet, but pay as you drive could cost a typical middle class family an extra £3,000 a year. The potential expense of proposals to be put forward by ministers later this month has been revealed by an investigation using figures from a government transport adviser. Under Government plans, cars will be fitted with tracking devices and their exact movements recorded by satellite. Motorists ... |
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