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Blair push for climate progress (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2007 at 12:01:35
| BBC: Prime Minister Tony Blair has welcomed US President George Bush's call for a global warming summit this year but said more was needed. Mr Bush said major polluters needed to set targets and "great breakthroughs" in technology - led by the US - would allow this to happen. Mr Blair, visiting South Africa, said: "I want to see us now go further from what President Bush laid out." Climate change and Africa will be key topics at the G8 summit, he said. ... |
US climate plan a 'stalling tactic' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2007 at 12:01:37
| AAP: A PLAN by US President George W. Bush to decide on long-term global emissions targets with 14 other countries, including Australia, is simply a stalling tactic, the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) says. At the G8 summit in Germany next week, Mr Bush will urge major industrialised nations to sign on to the US plan after the Kyoto Protocol lapses. Mr Bush wants the US and 14 other nations to come up with long-term global targets to reduce the effects of climate change. ... |
Bush is moving. G8 must push him further (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2007 at 09:00:18
| Observer: George W Bush's announcement last week that he wants to convene a global summit on climate change would have been laudable had it come earlier in his presidency. Much earlier. His stated goal of setting fixed targets for reducing carbon-dioxide emissions might have looked like leadership, were it not for the awkward fact that most of the world's developed nations already have targets. That is because, unlike the US, they signed the 1996 Kyoto Protocol. What is more, the leading ... |
Britain tells Bush to toe line on emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2007 at 09:00:18
| Observer: Britain today warns George Bush that talks on climate change must take place within a United Nations framework and not in an ad hoc process as floated last week by the President. Amid growing alarm in Europe at Bush's call for a 'new global framework', Washington is warned that Britain and Europe will not tolerate a separate process. 'I think it is very important that we stick with the framework we've got,' the International Development Secretary, Hilary Benn, told The ... |
Many popular fish species fast disappearing (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2007 at 09:00:18
| Malaysian Star: Your favourite fish may not be on your dining table in 10 years. Fish are becoming harder to catch and getting smaller in size. Local freshwater and marine fish expert Prof Mohd Azmi Ambak said the depletion of some marine species was worrying. "Land reclamation, silting, deforestation, water pollution and the disappearance of the mangrove swamps has disrupted the fish food chain and breeding patterns of some of the species. "Global warming, the changing currents and ... |
Markets start to warm to the power of the green consumer (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2007 at 09:00:18
| Observer: Weird weather patterns, melting polar icecaps, plants and animals confused as to whether it is spring in the middle of winter: all these things have raised our awareness of global warming as never before. Banks, insurers and utility providers have been quick to spot a sales opportunity. New products to help customers reduce their impact on climate change are being launched every day. But are they effective and financially worthwhile? Most green financial products are more ... |
United Kingdom: Power groups get carbon billions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2007 at 09:00:18
| Sunday Times: BRITAIN'S power generators have made £2 billion in windfall profits by passing on charges to customers under a scheme which was introduced to combat climate change. They are charging customers for the notional cost of carbon credits – the right to emit greenhouse gases – even though the credits were given to them for free under the Europe-wide scheme. Critics are now accusing the electricity companies of unfairly exploiting customers. Steve Smith, managing director of markets ... |
China to enact action plan on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2007 at 09:00:18
| Economic Times: China, which is world's second largest carbon dioxide emitter, has announced its first national action plan to respond to climate change under which it would adhere to the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities". The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao here yestersay. The action plan describes climate change effects and outlines policies and measures China will adopt, said a statement from the Cabinet, without describing specific ... |
Time for U.S. to act on global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2007 at 09:00:18
| Star-Tribune: In a major speech on climate change Thursday, President Bush for the first time committed his administration to long-term reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. But even a quick look at the fine print shows that Bush's proposal is simply a weaker, vaguer alternative to the ambitious plan his world counterparts put forward in Europe this week, and shows that the world cannot expect American leadership on this issue until there is a new occupant in the White House. That doesn't ... |
Blame coal: Texas leads in carbon emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2007 at 09:00:18
| Associated Press: America may spew more greenhouse gases than any other country, but some states are astonishingly more prolific polluters than others – and it's not always the ones you might expect. The Associated Press analyzed state-by-state emissions of carbon dioxide from 2003, the latest U.S. Energy Department numbers available. The review shows startling differences in states' contribution to climate change. The biggest reason? The burning of high-carbon coal to produce cheap ... |
Greenland ice melt speeds up (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2007 at 09:00:18
| San Francisco Chronicle: NASA scientists reading signals from a satellite in orbit, and flying aboard a low-flying plane over Greenland, are finding fresh evidence of melting snows and thinning glaciers in vast areas of the massive island. Their observations confirm the climate's warming trend in the far northern reaches of the world, they say, where changes in the circulation of waters feeding into the Arctic Ocean are altering crucial patterns of ocean currents there with effects that are increasingly ... |
Merkel says UN must lead climate change efforts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2007 at 09:00:19
| Reuters: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it was "non-negotiable" that the United Nations should take the lead in global efforts to combat climate change, two days after U.S. President George W. Bush laid out his own strategy. Merkel, who hosts a summit of Group of Eight leaders on June 6-8, denied Bush's plans were an affront to Germany, whose ambitions for a breakthrough on fighting climate change during its G8 presidency this year look doomed. Bush's climate strategy ... |
Merkel vows no 'lazy compromises' on climate at G8 summit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2007 at 09:00:19
| Agençe France-Presse: German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not accept "lazy compromises" on climate change at next week's G8 summit she is hosting, she said in an interview published on Saturday. In an apparent swipe at the United States, Merkel told Der Spiegel weekly that any future agreement on limiting the emission of greenhouse gases must be made within a framework overseen by the United Nations. "It is clear to me: we must find a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, in a process ... |
Al Gore launches blistering attack on Bush (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2007 at 09:00:19
| Hindu: Launcing a furious attack on President George Bush for his policies on Iraq and global warming, former US vice-president has said in both the cases the best evidence was ignored. "In both cases, there was more than sufficient evidence to convince any reasonable person that the invasion of Iraq was a catastrophic mistake, and the failure to begin sharply reducing Co2 was an even worse mistake," Al Gore said in his new book 'The Assault on Reason'. The central thesis ... |
California curbs carbon emissions with energy efficiency (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2007 at 09:00:19
| Associated Press: When it comes to their role in causing global warming, Californians can feel slightly less guilty than most Americans. The average Californian generates fewer carbon dioxide emissions–the main heat-trapping gas blamed for warming the planet–than residents in all other states but Idaho, Vermont and Rhode Island, according to an Associated Press analysis of data from 2003, the latest U.S. Energy Department numbers available. California ranks second in total carbon emissions, ... |
Pelosi Accuses Bush of Being in Denial About Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2007 at 09:00:19
| KCBS: House Speaker and San Francisco Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi said President Bush's recent greenhouse gas reduction proposal is just a "rehashed, stale idea." The president is calling on 15 major countries to agree by the end of next year on a global goal for reducing greenhouse gases. The proposal comes just days before the G-8 summit of industrialized nations in Germany. "The facts are conclusive, the science is clear, and yet the president continues to be in ... |
Rising sea levels could swallow California's delta islands (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2007 at 09:00:19
| Associated Press: For 20 years, Jim Saathoff has built his private refuge from the urban hustle, making his home on an island in the vast freshwater delta that feeds into San Francisco Bay. Water skiers ply the gray-green river within view of his front porch. A short walk from his home, he can cast off to fish for sturgeon, salmon and striped bass. His two children ran wild exploring the farm fields, private marinas and hideaways of the fertile islands where the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers twine. ... |
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