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Bush Calls for Global Goal for Cutting Emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:15
| New York Times: President Bush, fending off international accusations that he is ignoring climate change, proposed today to set "a long-term global goal" for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and he called on other high-polluting nations to join the United States in negotiations aimed at reaching an agreement by the end of next year. If carried through, such an agreement would be the first time that the United States, the world's biggest source of the emissions that scientists say are warming the ... |
Bush merely 'stalling' on climate, say experts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:15
| New Scientist: An unprecedented US initiative aimed at opening up a new direction in climate change negotiations and for the first time mentioning the possibility of committing to "targets" is being dismissed by experts as little more than a stalling tactic designed to provide cover for President George W. Bush during his final months in power. Plans for an "International Climate Change Framework" were unveiled by the president in a speech delivered on Thursday to a leadership ... |
Environmental groups attack Bush's climate change proposals (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:15
| AFX: Environmental campaigners accused US President George W. Bush of attempting to 'derail' negotiations over tackling climate change ahead of the G8 summit next week. Bush said yesterday that he wanted to create a new global framework for reducing carbon emissions, but some have accused him of trying to circumvent the G8 process. Friends of the Earth (FoE) and Greenpeace expressed strong disappointment at Bush's annoucement, saying the effect of his move would be to 'wreck' the ... |
Australia pledges support for US plan on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:15
| Associated Press: Australia's leader welcomed a U.S. proposal for 15 nations to agree on a global emission goal by next year, saying Friday that it was evidence of a new international consensus on climate change. A report commissioned by the Australian government, meanwhile, urged Australia to start curbing emissions without waiting for any global agreement, arguing that the benefits of doing so outweigh the costs. Prime Minister John Howard did not immediately say whether he would back the report's ... |
Bush calls for fall climate meetings (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:15
| Cox News Service: .S. President George W. Bush, eager to nudge a global-warming agenda away from where it seems headed at next week's G8 summit, called yesterday for 15 major countries to come up with a worldwide greenhouse-gas reduction target by the end of next year. "The United States takes this issue seriously," Mr. Bush said in a G8 preview speech, adding that his plan "will contribute to the important dialogue that will take place in Germany next week." The Bush ... |
China says impact of climate change clearer daily (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:15
| Reuters: The impact of global warming on China is clearer each day, but climate change must be tackled in a way that allows sustainable development, the government's main Web site (www.gov.cn.) said on Friday. China's State Council, or cabinet, announced a national plan to combat climate change after a meeting chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao, the report said. The plan, which will be unveiled in detail on Monday, also called for a system of countries bearing "shared but ... |
China to reveal policies to combat climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:15
| Shanghai Daily: CHINA is expected to reveal its plan to deal with climate change on Monday, Gao Guangsheng, an official of the National Development and Reform Commission, said yesterday. The plan, regarded as the country's "fundamental principle" in coping with climate change, includes targets for energy conservation and environmental protection, but it won't map out the county's emission goal, the Oriental Morning Post reported. The plan has been worked out jointly by the National ... |
Emission Permits Rise; Bush Calls for Climate-Change Targets (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:15
| Bloomberg: European greenhouse gas permits rose after President George W. Bush proposed a new round of talks to set targets for cutting emissions. Permits have more than doubled since February as traders shrugged off concern that the emissions trading regime will fail to adequately tackle climate change. EU regulators scaled back allocations of permits that set a cap on emissions in the five years through 2012, after previously issuing too many. ``The world has come to the conclusion ... |
EU welcomes Bush's proposal on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:15
| Associated Press: The European Union on Friday welcomed U.S. President George W. Bush's climate change proposal, saying it was "groundbreaking" and could pave the way for a global agreement on reducing emissions. EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs said Bush's speech was "extremely important and very welcome news," particularly for the Group of Eight countries meeting next week. "I very much now would like the G-8 to use this momentum ... to conclude an ... |
Europe Reacts with Reserve to US Climate Plan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:15
| Spiegel: US President George W. Bush seems confident that his climate change initiative will find broad support. But the first reactions out of Europe have been far from positive. Her aids are preparing for a failure of climate talks at the G-8 summit. United States President George W. Bush has expressed confidence that Angela Merkel will warm to the plan he announced on Thursday to battle climate change, but in Berlin, the German chancellor's top G-8 negotiator is preparing for the strong ... |
Head of NASA downplays global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:15
| Washington Post: NASA Administrator Michael Griffin says that while global warming is changing Earth's climate, he's not convinced that is "a problem we must wrestle with." The NASA chief -- whose agency has come under fire in Congress for cutting several programs designed to monitor climate change -- also says it's "rather arrogant" for people to take the position that today's climate is the optimal one. "I guess I would ask which human beings -- where and when -- are ... |
Canada: Poll finds Kyoto backing (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:15
| Toronto Star: Six in 10 Canadians feel that meeting the country's Kyoto targets in short order will make business more innovative and profitable in the long run, according to an internal government poll of 4,000 people on the environment. The figure was contained in a survey on climate-change issues that found an overwhelming majority, 75 per cent, want "immediate action," but there is no clear and consistent message to government about how best to proceed. The $106,000 Strategic ... |
Schwarzenegger signs greenhouse gas deal with British Columbia (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:16
| Associated Press: California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, as Schwarzenegger wrapped up a three-day visit to Canada. The pact, known as the Pacific Coast Collaborative to Protect Our Shared Climate and Oceans, commits the two jurisdictions to cap and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and work on the development and implementation of clean technologies, but is ... |
Scientists discuss warming's effect on boreal forest (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:16
| Associated Press: Climate change provides opportunities as well as challenges, according to the University of Alaska Fairbanks vice chancellor for research. But when it comes to warming's effect on Alaska's boreal forest, Buck Sharpton said, he sees only challenges: fire, insects and diseases. "If there's a silver lining in this cloud, I would certainly like to hear it," he said. Sharpton and other scientists gathered Wednesday at UAF for the start of a four-day international ... |
Study: Climate change models overstate droughts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:16
| USA Today: There will be more flooding and less drought than has been forecast in widely used projections of global warming, according to a new study. The study using measurements taken by NASA weather satellites compared ocean rainfall from 1987 to 2006 to earlier climate model projections of what that precipitation would be. The models, based on physics equations, were found to be off the mark, according to the study released Thursday by the journal Science. "The increase in global ... |
A shift by Bush on climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:16
| Los Angeles Times: On the eve of a major international summit, President Bush proposed yesterday that the United States and the other nations that produce most of the gases responsible for global warming initiate a campaign to limit emissions and set long-term goals for reductions. The president, who is leaving Monday for a weeklong European trip built around the meeting of the Group of Eight industrialized nations, announced a proposal to set an international course to fight global warming, calling ... |
Australian PM backs carbon trading scheme (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:16
| Agençe France-Presse: Howard released a government-commissioned report that recommended establishing a carbon trading scheme in 2012, drawing criticism from green groups who want immediate action. Howard, a long-time climate change sceptic who has resisted emissions trading proposals several times during his 11 years in power, said the delay will allow careful analysis to ensure minimum impact on the economy. "This is a hugely burdensome and responsible decision," he said. "If ... |
Australian Report Recommends Carbon Trading System (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:16
| Bloomberg: Australia should introduce a carbon emissions trading system by 2012 to combat climate change, according to a report commissioned by Prime Minister John Howard. A national trading system would increase certainty in business investment and promote the development of low-emission technologies, the task group said in a report released today. Howard said the government will consider the report and announce a ``measured'' response. Howard, like U.S. President George W. Bush, has ... |
Bush calls on world to reduce greenhouse gases (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:16
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: TONY EASTLEY: Australia's timetable for addressing global warming and gas emissions may be affected by decisions taken offshore. The United States wants to see major industrialised nations including Australia, agree on goals for reducing greenhouse gases by the end of next year. It's a shift from the US President's previous opposition to setting global goals, but it still falls short of having the United States itself agree to mandatory targets. President Bush's ... |
Australia: Emissions trading scheme five years away: taskforce report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:16
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: TONY EASTLEY: If the Prime Minister follows the recommendation of his special emissions taskforce, Australia won't have a full-scale emissions trading scheme up and running for another five years. As well, AM understands the report, handed to John Howard yesterday, does not set a short or long term emission reduction target. It says more modelling has to be done on the effects on the Australian economy. The report also says that revenue from permits and fees should go ... |
It's time to curb these dubious indulgences for climate sinners (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:01:16
| Province: Taking steps to clean up the environment is one thing. Mindlessly jumping aboard the climate-change bandwagon is another. That is why we view with great skepticism those currently trendy schemes that enable folks to "offset" the greenhouse-gas emissions they cause by buying "carbon credits" from "green" industries or non-profit groups. And it is not only the climate-change-mad Europeans who are engaged in these feel-good schemes that are largely ... |
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