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Carbon trade scheme 'is failing' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:33
| BBC: The EU's carbon trading scheme has increased electricity bills, given a windfall to power companies and failed to cut greenhouse gases, it is claimed. An investigation by BBC Radio 4's File on 4 programme has found that after two and half years the scheme has yet to cut in carbon dioxide emissions. The consumer body Energywatch said customers are getting a raw deal. But a government minister has promised that the scheme's next phase will be a big improvement. ... |
China Outlines Modest Environmental Goals (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:34
| Washington Post: China released its first-ever national climate change policy Monday, rejecting mandatory caps on emissions of greenhouse gases as unfair and a threat to the development that has contributed to the country's meteoric economic growth. Although China is one of the world's largest producers of carbon dioxide, the government made clear that it will not shoulder the burden necessary for change. "It is neither fair nor acceptable to us to impose too early, too abruptly or too ... |
Europe Moves to Make Big Polluters Pay for Emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:34
| New York Times: Europe is moving toward making significant changes to its emissions-trading system that could force large polluters to pay for most, if not all, permits to produce climate-changing gases, European officials said Monday. Although the European carbon-trading arrangement is considered to be among the world's most functional, the countries that administer it acknowledged in a meeting during the weekend in Essen, Germany, that the system had flaws, including a government credit allocation ... |
Europe vs. Bush on Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:34
| Time Magazine: When it comes to addressing climate change, the U.S. and Europe are like two cars racing toward each other in a game of chicken, according to Hans Joachim Schnellhuber, an adviser on climate issues to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. That may be overstating the case. But there's little chance that this week's G8 summit at the German seaside resort of Heiligendamm will resolve fundamental differences between the Bush Administration and E.U. countries led by Germany over how to combat global ... |
Indonesia Won't Allow Oil Palm Growers to Cut Primary Forests (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:34
| Bloomberg: Indonesia, the world's third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, won't allow oil palm growers to cut primary forests for establishing plantations, Minister for Environment Rachmat Witoelar said. Per capita carbon dioxide emissions in the Southeast Asian nation, the biggest producer of the gas after the U.S. and China, is growing at a rate of 4 percent a year, compared with 3.5 percent in India and 2.7 percent in China, according to a report released yesterday by the World Bank. ... |
Japan struggles to meet Kyoto goals, even as it seeks climate change leadership role (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:34
| Associated Press: Even as Japan tries to take the lead on climate change at this week's G-8 summit, the world's second-largest economy is falling behind on its existing obligations to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Under a global agreement known as the Kyoto Protocol, Japan pledged to reduce its emissions to 6 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. Instead, emissions rose 8.1 percent by 2005, the Environment Ministry says. Now, Japan needs to achieve a cut of about 14 percent just to meet the 2012 ... |
Public concern over climate change jumps-survey (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:35
| Reuters: Global concern about climate change has risen dramatically over the last six months and consumers increasingly expect their governments to act, according to a survey published on Tuesday. The survey by the Nielsen Company and Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute, found 42 percent of global online consumers believe governments should restrict companies' emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants. A G8 summit of rich nations this week could pave the way for a ... |
Wind to make 20 percent of power by 2030: advocates (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:35
| Reuters: The U.S. wind power industry will see half a trillion dollars of investment by 2030 to take the renewable source up to 20 percent of U.S. electricity generation, an industry conference heard on Monday. This would be a lofty rise from wind's use for less than one percent of U.S. power today, but many advocates at the American Wind Energy Association's (AWEA) annual conference this week were bullish as the United States develops green energy alternatives. Many aim to catch money ... |
Chief Negotiators Try to Hammer Out Climate Deal in Berlin (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:35
| Deutsche Welle: Chief negotiators of the world's leading industrial nations are meeting in Berlin on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to remove obstacles threatening to derail a G8 deal on climate change. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country holds the current presidency of the G8, wants this week's summit participants in Heiligendamm to agree to set long-term goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But she faces opposition from US President George W. Bush, who wants to convene a global ... |
China balks at emissions caps (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:35
| Christian Science Monitor: China echoed the Bush administration's stance on global warming Monday, refusing to set firm caps on its greenhouse-gas emissions and saying that economic growth remained its "first and overriding priority." Releasing the country's first plan to deal with climate change, the government rejected international demands that it should fix ceilings on Chinese emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases. Instead, the plan acknowledges the threat global ... |
China releases strategy to counter climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:35
| New York Times: With global warming high on the agenda for the world's industrial powers gathering later this week in Germany, China staked out its position Monday by releasing its first national strategy on climate change, a plan that promises to improve energy efficiency but rejects any mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions. The 62-page plan, two years in the making, served at least partly as a rebuff to efforts by President Bush and European nations to draw China and other developing ... |
Climate change threatens marine life (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:35
| Fiji Times: CLIMATE change is now one of the principal threats to the marine environment, says the Fisheries Department. It is likely to hit coral reefs, fisheries and other marine-based resources with a likely decline in total tuna stocks and a migration of these stocks to other waters. In a statement issued today to mark the beginning of Environment Week, the Fisheries Department says almost 60 per cent of Fiji's coastal population depends on marine resources as its primary source of ... |
Drought hits nearly 4 million in Chinese province (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:35
| Reuters: A prolonged drought in China's mountainous southwestern province of Sichuan has left nearly 4 million people and 4.46 million livestock short of drinking water, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday. Eighty counties or cities had suffered 20 to 40 days of drought this summer, according to the Sichuan provincial meteorological bureau. "About 110,000 people have to depend on water transported by vehicles," Xinhua said, quoting the provincial water resources ... |
EU climate target lacks scientific basis, says China (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:35
| Telegraph (UK): The developing world's resistance to Western-led initiatives over climate change stepped up yesterday when China rejected the European Union's key global warming target. Unveiling its own long-awaited "Climate Change Action Plan", the Chinese government said the EU's goal of keeping a rise in global temperatures to within two degrees centigrade was in need of more work. "I fear this lacks a scientific basis," said Ma Kai, the minister in charge of China's ... |
Europe's Carbon Trading Market Sees Brisk Business (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:35
| National Public Radio: The Group of Eight, a forum of the world's major industrialized countries, meets this week in Germany. High on the G-8 agenda is the issue of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas that warms the planet. European governments have put a cap on how much carbon dioxide industries can put into the atmosphere, and they want to tighten that cap even more in the future. To ease the pain of all these carbon cuts, Europe has created a carbon market. Businesses that emit less than their quota ... |
Hundreds of bird species could face extinction (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:36
| Scotsman: CLIMATE change and the destruction of natural habitats could put hundreds of species of birds at risk of extinction over the next century. Biologists in the US say the combination of deforestation and changes to birds' habitats will be "devastating" for the world's 8,750 land bird species. The scientists from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and Princeton University estimated 950 to 1,800 bird species may be under threat or even driven to extinction ... |
US short-changes climate monitoring, report says (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:36
| LA Times: America will lose much of its ability to monitor global warming from space unless the Bush administration reverses course and restores funding for the next generation of climate instruments, according to a confidential report prepared by government scientists. Cost overruns and technology problems recently caused the federal government to cut the number of planned monitoring satellites from six to four. Those four will focus on weather prediction rather than climate research, ... |
World leaders unimpressed with US climate change plans (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:36
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: TONY EASTLEY: Cleaning up the world's carbon emissions isn't going to be easy. Even before they meet in Germany some of the world's biggest polluting countries don't appear willing to embrace a US plan to deal with the problem. The Secretary General of the United Nations, the German Chancellor and the President of Brazil have rejected US President George W. Bush's attempts to negotiate a new framework, outside of the UN, for dealing with greenhouse gases. Here's Europe ... |
Aussies want action on climate change: survey (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:36
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: An international survey commissioned by an environmental group has found that the majority of people in 14 countries want governments to do more about climate change. The report was initiated by Australian environmentalist Jon Dee, the founder of the green group Planet Ark. It will be launched later today at the House of Lords in London. Mr Dee says concern about the consequences of climate change is high among Australians. "We found that there is an ... |
Australia commits millions to Asia Pacific climate projects (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:36
| Radio Australia: Australia has committed $US6 million to help poor nations across Asia and the Pacific assess and adapt to the likely impacts of climate change. In Cambodia, malaria control has been listed as a priority for funding assistance and Pacific nations have been marked for a series of water management projects. The contribution is part of the $27m Climate Change Partnerships initiative announced in Australia's 2007-08 Budget. The head of AusAID's Climate Change Branch, Robin ... |
Bush Bids to Enhance US Influence in G-8 With Climate Offer (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:36
| Bloomberg: President George W. Bush, branded an obstructionist across Europe for his policies on issues from Iraq to global warming, arrived on the continent with a retooled message: let's make a deal. With less than 20 months left in his term, the leader of the world's largest economy is pressing to finish his presidency with international agreements on climate change and global trade talks that have muddled along since he took office in 2001. Bush, 60, has pivoted during his second ... |
Australia: Carbon trading 'will increase living costs' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:36
| AAP: THE price of goods and services such as electricity and petrol will have to rise under a carbon emissions trading scheme, federal Treasurer Peter Costello says. The Government has committed to implementing a carbon emissions trading scheme, but is yet to set emission reduction targets. Labor is targeting a 60 per cent reduction by 2050. Mr Costello today said getting people to reduce their reliance on carbon emitting goods and services involved making those goods and ... |
China hedges its environmental plan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:36
| LA Times: On its way to supplanting the United States as the world's biggest producer of greenhouse gases, China has proposed an ambitious-sounding program to combat global climate change. But the economy, not the environment, remains its top priority. Much as President Bush did last week in pledging U.S. resolve to combat global warming, Chinese leaders Monday made it clear that neither the promise of cleaner skies nor a cooler globe would stand in the way of the country's rapid economic ... |
China launches climate change policy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:36
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: TONY EASTLEY: Armed with its new climate change plan the Chinese Government says it can show the way on combating global warming. China Correspondent Stephen McDonell reports. STEPHEN MCDONELL: President Hu Jintao is preparing to go on the offensive over climate change at tomorrow's G8 summit. China's Assistant Foreign Minister, Cui Tiankai, told journalists last night that his country's leader will have plenty to say on global warming when he meets world leaders ... |
Australia: Environment groups push for bigger emissions cuts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:37
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: TONY EASTLEY: Despite the Federal Government's claims that Labor's climate change policy would send the country into recession, Australia's major environment groups have banded together to call for much bigger cuts to greenhouse emissions. Green movements say there's no excuse not to cut greenhouse gases by 30 per cent by 2020 and at least 80 per cent by 2050. But the politicians on both sides have already dug in their heels. From Canberra, Alexandra Kirk ... |
Canada: Environmentalists pan Harper's pitch on climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:37
| CTV: Environmentalists panned Prime Minister Stephen Harper's pitch on intensity-based targets as a solution for a looming climate impasse at the G8. "Not only is it embarrassing for Canada because we're going to be selling something that doesn't work, it will be problematic for the planet because we're pushing something that doesn't work," said Julia Langer of the World Wildlife Fund in Ottawa on Monday. In Germany ahead of the G8 summit that begins Wednesday, Harper told ... |
Japan to revamp aid plans to cut pollution (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:37
| Kyodo News: Japan will promote new aid programs to help developing countries take steps that not only cut greenhouse gas emissions but also address development issues such as pollution and poverty, government officials said Monday. Tokyo will have to convince developing countries, which are generally reluctant to fight global warming over worries that curbing their greenhouse gas emissions could adversely affect their economic development, that the potential benefits of such measures outweigh the ... |
Richardson: Americans need to sacrifice to protect climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:37
| Associated Press: Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson on Monday said Americans will have to sacrifice to make the country more energy-efficient. Richardson, who is New Mexico's governor, touted himself and his stance on energy issues at an informal gathering of about 70 people at Burton Barr Central Library in Phoenix. "I'm going to ask everybody in America – listen to this word – to sacrifice a little bit, sacrifice a little bit for the common good," he said. "That doesn't mean ... |
UN Report: Melting Ice Will Disrupt Water Supplies for 40% of World Population (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:37
| Voice of America: A new United Nations report says melting glaciers and ice sheets caused by global warming could disrupt drinking and agricultural water supplies for up to 40 percent of the world's population. The report released Monday said the depletion of ice caps could also contribute to global warming because the ice sheets reflect the sun's heat away from the Earth's surface. It also warns that such low-lying countries as Bangladesh and Indonesia could face severe flooding by melting ... |
Bush urged to back UN climate change deal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:37
| Reuters: Senior officials from Europe, the United Nations and G8 countries piled pressure on U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday to back U.N. efforts to combat climate change at a summit of major powers this week. Bush, who left for Europe on Monday, last week unveiled a plan for fighting global warming beyond 2012, saying he wanted the world's top 15 emitters to meet later this year and agree new measures to curb emissions by the end of 2008. His plan shocked EU leaders, including ... |
EU moving further on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:38
| International Herald Tribune: Europe is moving toward far reaching changes to its emissions-trading system that could force large-scale polluters to pay for most, or even all, permits to produce climate-changing gases, European officials said Monday. Although the European carbon-trading arrangement is the world's most functional, the countries that administer it acknowledged in a meeting this weekend in Essen, Germany, that the system was shadowed by some major flaws, including a government-credit allocation plan ... |
Geoengineering -- A quick fix with big risks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:38
| EurekAlert: Radical steps to engineer Earth's climate by blocking sunlight could drastically cool the planet, but could just as easily worsen the situation if these projects fail or are suddenly halted, according to a new computer modeling study. The experiments, described in the June 4 early online edition of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, look at what might happen if we attempt to slow climate change by "geoengineering" a solar filter instead of reducing carbon dioxide ... |
Bill Would Block States on Auto Rules (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:38
| Associated Press: A dozen states would be blocked from imposing new requirements on automakers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under a draft energy bill being prepared for a vote later this month. The "discussion draft" would prohibit the head of the Environmental Protection Agency from issuing a waiver needed for a state to impose auto pollution standards if the new requirements are "designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions." California has been battling the federal ... |
Canada gets failing grade on climate report card (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:38
| CBC: Canada has one of the worst records for fighting climate change among G8 countries, a new report released Monday by the World Wildlife Fund contends. The report tallied the environmental records of the world's eight major industrialized countries and issued a colour-coded score for each – red for fail, yellow for passable and green for good. Canada, Russia and the United States all hit the red mark. "Canada is joining the United States as the worst performer on ... |
China has climate plan but wants others to lead (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-05-2007 at 03:00:39
| USA Today: China unveiled its first plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions Monday but insisted the United States and other developed countries take the lead in battling global warming. China, which relies on coal for two-thirds of its energy, is on pace to surpass the USA as the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases within two years, according to the International Energy Agency. Monday, China's top economic planning official, Ma Kai, acknowledged that his country would soon ... |
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