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China says climate policy must make room for growth (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2007 at 09:00:19
| Reuters: China went on the global warming offensive on Monday, unveiling a climate change action plan while stressing it will not sacrifice economic ambitions to international demands to cut greenhouse gas pollution. The official launching the plan said emissions caps that dented growth in poor nations would do more damage than climate change itself -- despite the storms, droughts and rising sea levels that global warming threatens to generate. "The ramifications of limiting the ... |
Canada will not meet Kyoto targets (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2007 at 09:00:19
| Canadian Press: Prime Minister Stephen Harper has told an international audience that Canada will not meet its Kyoto targets but can be a model for the rest of the world in battling climate change. Harper blames the previous Liberal government for years of foot-dragging and says it is now impossible for Canada to meet Kyoto without destroying its economy. But he told a German business audience Monday that his government has a solution the entire planet can follow. The answer lies, he ... |
China rejects EU climate change target (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2007 at 09:00:20
| Telegraph (UK): China has rejected the European Union's key climate change target of keeping global warming within a limit of 2 degrees Centigrade, saying it lacked a scientific basis. Unveiling its long-awaited "Climate Change Action Plan", the government said it could not accept any outside limits on its greenhouse gas emissions. It had already indicated it was in no mood to compromise last week, when officials outlined the stance President Hu Jintao will take when the issue of ... |
Canada: Environmental activists go to camp to learn how to protest Alberta oilsands (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2007 at 09:00:20
| Edmonton Journal: A five-day training camp for environmental activists opposed to development of Alberta's massive oilsands begins today just outside Edmonton. About 50 to 75 people will learn non-violent direct action tactics from internationally renowned environmentalists. "I think the reason why we're training people in those types of tactics is we've tried to work through the regulatory process," said Mike Hudema, a former Albertan who now directs the Freedom from Oil program for a ... |
The impacts of climate change on people and food (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2007 at 09:00:20
| Fiji Times: FOOD security has been defined as "access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life". The World Food Summit, in 1996 and in 2002 by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) highlighted the basic right of people to an adequate diet and need for concerted action among all countries to achieve this goal in a sustainable manner. How vulnerable households, regions and countries are to climate change's impacts on agriculture ... |
China Climate Plan Stresses Right to Fast Growth (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2007 at 09:00:21
| Deutsche Welle: Two days before the G8 summit, China laid out a climate change plan that stresses economic growth over tough emissions standards, and warned wealthy countries not to interfere with the growth of emerging economies. The Chinese government released its first national plan on climate change on Monday. The plan supported the rights of developing nations to pursue growth and rejected the idea of binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions. "The international community should ... |
China: Experts: melting glaciers could harm millions in Asia (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2007 at 09:00:21
| Xinhua: The rapidly shrinking glaciers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in southwest China, dubbed the "roof of the world", might cause floods, drought as well as famine affecting millions in Asia unless measures are taken to curb global warming, Chinese experts have warned. "The plateau has softened in recent decades as global warming melts the permafrost," said Liu Jingshi, a researcher with the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ... |
Germany: Hundreds Hurt as G8 Protesters Clash With Police (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2007 at 09:00:21
| Environment News Service: German authorities Sunday closed most roads to the G8 Summit resort town of Heiligendamm. Police stopped cars to check occupants for weapons on the main road there from the port city of Rostock, where protest demonstrations injured hundreds of people Saturday. German police said more than 400 officers were injured, 30 of whom were hospitalized with broken bones and lacerations. Organizers said 520 demonstrators were hurt, 20 of them seriously. The officially permitted march ... |
Indonesia threatened by global warming, rising sea levels (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2007 at 09:00:21
| AFX: Indonesia is especially vulnerable to the impact of climate change as global warming threatens to raise sea levels and flood coastal farming areas, threatening food security, a report sponsored by the World Bank and Britain's Department for International Development said. The report, released today, said global warming could increase temperatures, shorten the rainy season and intensify rainfall, leading to a significant fall in rice yields. It said thousands of farmers in ... |
China: President Hu to enunciate propositions on climate change at G8 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2007 at 09:00:21
| Xinhua: Chinese President Hu Jintao will present China's propositions on climate change at the upcoming outreach session of the G-8 Summit, Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai said here Monday. At the invitation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Hu will attend the Summit held in Germany from June 6 to 8. The Chinese government is serious about climate change and will handle the issue in a spirit of responsibility for human life, Cui told reporters at a press briefing on ... |
China to Cut Greenhouse Emissions by 950 Million Tons (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2007 at 03:00:26
| Bloomberg: China plans to use hydropower, nuclear energy, biomass fuels and gas to help cut 950 million metric tons of so-called greenhouse gas output by 2010 as the country closes in on the U.S. as the biggest producer of harmful emissions. The government of the world's fastest-growing economy set out the steps in a 62-page National Climate Change Program. Ma Kai, chairman of China's National Development and Reform Commission, its top economic planning body, presented the plan in Beijing ... |
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