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China offers surprise hope in climate change fight (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 12:01:39
| Agence France-Presse: Teenager Zhu Xiaotong's home a few hours' drive outside Beijing is a world away from the acrid air and snarling traffic jams that have come to dominate China's energy-hungry capital. Cherry tomatoes, capsicum and spring onions rise up from a little garden patch that forms the centrepiece of her family's brick courtyard home, while a solar panel heater ensures the Zhu's have warm water even in winter. Zhu, the 19-year-old daughter of cabbage farmers, has also for the past few ... |
Australia: Ghastly if temperatures rise: scientist (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 12:01:39
| Sydney Morning Herald: Australia's Chief Scientist today warned that "living on many parts of our globe would be difficult for humans" if temperatures were allowed to rise dramatically through this century. Jim Peacock told the Greenhouse 2007 Conference in Sydney that Australia would face "a pretty ghastly situation" if the temperatures rose by 3.5 degrees and up to 5 degrees inland. He called for urgent action to adapt to the reality of climate change and to cut greenhouse ... |
Australia: Climate change will affect security, scientist warns (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 12:01:40
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A former CSIRO scientist and academic is warning that climate change will create serious issues for national security. Dr Graham Pearman has raised concerns about water shortages, energy use and rising sea levels at the annual homeland security summit in Canberra. Dr Pearman says now that the science allows us to anticipate what will happen, action is needed to prevent a human disaster. "Maybe hundreds-of-millions of people being exposed to drought and this can ... |
Australia may adopt Kyoto on Bali eve (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 03:00:25
| Carbon Positive: The upcoming UN climate convention talks in Bali in December may get a last-minute shake-up with signs that Australia, an opponent of the Kyoto Protocol and key US climate ally, may well switch sides on the eve of the meeting. Australia, the only other rich nation along with the US not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, could soon see a change of government to the pro-Kyoto Labor Party. A national election is due and Prime Minister John Howard says he will have it by early December at the ... |
Island Nations Warn Of Warming Threat (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 03:00:25
| Associated Press: Island countries from around the world warned Tuesday that despite debate over global warming and the potential for a significant increase in sea levels, there has been little concrete action to stem the climate changes that threatens their existence. ``The international community has convened numerous conferences and summits at which it has agreed on wide-ranging plans and programs of action,'' Foreign Minister of the Maldives Abdalla Shahid, told the U.N. General Assembly. ... |
Australia: Clean energy target, emissions trading 'could save $800m' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 03:00:26
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A report released today shows renewable energy will benefit the Australian economy, but only with the help of a clean energy target and an emissions trading scheme. The Renewable Energy Generators of Australia commissioned the economic analysis, which has found that early investment in clean energy would save the Australian economy $800 million by the year 2050. The two-year study by consultants McLennan Magasanik Associates modelled 10 different cost scenarios for introducing ... |
Australia: We're willing to pay more to help climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 03:00:26
| AAP: MORE than two thirds of Australians would be willing to pay an extra $3 a week for their electricity to help meet renewable energy targets, a survey has found. The Newspoll research, released today by the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) and the Australian Medical Association (AMA), found 64 per cent of people would spend the extra money to meet a renewable energy target of 25 per cent by 2020. ACF executive director Don Henry said the cost was equivalent to a cup of ... |
Australia: Climate change offers new opportunities: Climate Institute (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 03:00:26
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: You may well be sick and tired of the amount of doom and gloom climate change information that is currently being brought to the fore in Australia and abroad, but it is a real issue and it's not going to go away without being addressed. John Connor is the chief executive of the Climate Institute and he says that while the climate change discussion may be reaching a point of saturation there are still many points that need to be addressed and debated, particularly what kind of country ... |
Australia: Faiths call on 'captive' Government to set emissions target (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 12:00:24
| Sydney Morning Herald: RELIGIOUS leaders have united to demand that the Federal Government set greenhouse gas emission targets. The 13 leaders, including Christian, Muslim, Jewish and indigenous representatives, signed an interfaith climate change declaration calling on the Government to set a target 60 to 90 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050. The call to action - facilitated by the Climate Institute - also demanded that the Government require that all new electricity generation come from clean ... |
Even tougher warming curbs may be needed (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 12:00:25
| Reuters: Governments may need to impose tougher curbs on climate change than the most stringent now under consideration to help safeguard the planet, the head of the U.N. climate panel said on Wednesday. Risks ranging from extinctions of animals and plants to rising sea levels meant that even a tough European Union goal of limiting global warming to 2 Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels might be too lax. "People are actually questioning if the 2 degrees Centigrade ... |
United Kingdom: Tories promise 'energy revolution' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 12:00:26
| ePolitix: The UK needs a "new industrial revolution" to tackle climate change, the Conservatives have said. Speaking at the party's conference in Blackpool, shadow environment minister Greg Barker said Gordon Brown had a "backward" attitude to the environment. "Nothing better illustrates his rigid, 1980s mindset, his backward-looking programme, his total lack of understanding of the new economy, than his total disinterest in the environment," he ... |
Tourist industry pledges climate-friendly future (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 12:00:26
| Agence France-Presse: Tourism chiefs and UN agencies on Wednesday pledged to "green" the travel trade while highlighting the 880 billion dollar industry's own vulnerability to global warming. In a four page declaration, UN tourism, environment and weather agencies, national tourism officials and executives from 100 countries agreed the industry must "rapidly respond to climate change" and take "concrete measures" to curb greenhouse gas emissions. They also said at the ... |
Congress should act on fuel economy: Senator (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 12:00:28
| Reuters: Attempts by U.S. states to reduce greenhouse gases on their own by limiting tailpipe and other emissions should not preclude congressional action on higher fuel economy, a key U.S. senator said on Tuesday. Jeff Bingaman, a New Mexico Democrat and chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, also told the Reuters Environment Summit the failure of Congress to require tough fuel standards has not helped American manufacturers General Motors Corp (GM.N: Quote, Profile, Research), Chrysler ... |
Focus on coal to fix global warming: CEO (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 12:00:29
| Reuters: NRG Energy Inc (NRG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Chief Executive David Crane said on Tuesday cutting emissions from coal-fired power plants needs to be at the center of addressing global climate change. "We need to confront traditional coal-fired power plants," Crane told the Reuters Global Environment Summit. Coal-fired plants generate one-half of U.S. electricity but are also a major cause of carbon dioxide emissions, the main greenhouse gas blamed for causing ... |
Australia: Turning up the heat (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 09:00:28
| Mercury: SLIPPERY as the rising mercury, climate change is a diabolical issue for politicians to grapple with. Budgets can be planned, laws passed and economic performance measured but the climate change debate shifts constantly as scientists and economists emerge with new figures and forecasts. Opinion polls show global warming is a red-hot issue. In a survey released yesterday, 76 per cent of respondents say it is as serious a threat to our way of life as Islamic fundamentalism, if ... |
US climate talks go beyond platitudes - White House (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 09:00:28
| Reuters: U.S.-sponsored climate change talks have moved beyond the political positioning and platitudes that can mire such discussions, the top White House environment official told Reuters on Wednesday. James Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said last week's two-day Washington meeting of the 17 countries that emit the most greenhouse gases featured candid dialogue instead of "the formalistic presentations and set speeches that are typical of ... |
Australia: Climate blues and benefits (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 09:00:28
| Mercury: A RISE in Tasmania's temperature could have more downs than ups for agriculture and tourism, say industry leaders. But it could also lead to happier days says a local psychologist. The CSIRO has predicted climate change could push temperatures up by as much as 4C by 2070. The agricultural impact would be difficult to quantify, said Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association president Roger Swain. "To a certain extent we really don't know if the temperature went up ... |
Australia: Scientists warn of worsening drought in Australia (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 09:00:28
| Radio Australia: The Australian science organisation, CSIRO, says people living in the country's south should expect worsening drought conditions as rainfall continues to decrease due to climate change. CSIRO senior scientist Dr Wenju Cai will make a presentation on rainfall trends at a Sydney conference on greenhouse issues today. Dr Cai says research shows rainfall is expected to decrease by 10 to 15 per cent in the country's south-west and five to 15 per cent in the south-east by ... |
Google.org Director: 'Technology Can Solve Climate Change' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 09:00:29
| Green Tech Media: The advancement and deployment of technology can solve climate change, said Dan Reicher, director for climate-change and energy initiatives at Google.org, Google's philantrophic arm, Wednesday. "The good news is the technologies are maturing rapidly," he said, as part of his keynote address titled "A Convenient Truth," at the Strategic Research Institute's Energy Tech Investor Forum. High oil and natural-gas prices, as well as energy-security concerns, have ... |
California, environmentalists ask EPA to regulate ship emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 09:00:29
| Associated Press: Environmental groups and California Attorney General Jerry Brown petitioned the federal government Wednesday to regulate on emissions from oceangoing ships that spew heat-trapping gases responsible for global warming. In separate written requests, they asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to adopt standards for carbon dioxide emissions from the thousands of cargo ships, cruise liners and other large vessels that dock at American ports each year. Marine vessels are ... |
United States: PG&E giving away 1 mln energy-saving lightbulbs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 09:00:30
| Reuters: Pacific Gas and Electric Co. on Wednesday said it will give away 1 million energy-saving lightbulbs this month in what it is calling the largest one-month promotion of compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs). "Energy efficiency is a quick and cost-effective way for our customers to save money, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat global climate change," said Brad Whitcomb, vice president of customer products and services for the utility. The utility subsidiary of ... |
US Dems Ready To Move Energy Bill Ahead Despite Objections (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2007 at 09:00:31
| CNN: While U.S. Democratic congressional leaders said this week they plan to start the reconciliation process between House and Senate energy bills later in the week, they're also prepared to push an energy bill through the chambers without the normal legislative procedure. The Senate and House earlier this year passed two different energy bills that Democratic leadership hoped to meld together in a conference committee. But instead, Democrats could craft a single "leadership ... |
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