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Climate solutions often harm indigenous peoples-UN (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 11:00:34
| Reuters: Large-scale solutions to help slow global warming often threaten the very indigenous peoples who are among those hardest hit by a changing climate, the U.N. University said on Wednesday. Biofuel plantations, construction of hydropower dams and measures to protect forests, where trees soak up heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas as they grow, can create conflicts with the ancestral lands of indigenous peoples. "Biofuel production, renewable energy expansion (and) other ... |
Drought Hits Northern China, Worst In Decades (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 11:00:34
| Reuters: Drought parching parts of northern China will continue this month and water should be set aside for drinking and farming, China's weather administration said on Tuesday as it forecast little rain in coming days. In several regions, including the northeast, the region of Inner Mongolia, Beijing, Tianjin and the surrounding province of Hebei, only 6.2 mm (0.2441 inch) of rain fell this year to March 19, a 57-year low, an administration spokeswoman said. Normally, there is 12.7 ... |
Eight Climate Protesters Arrested At US Coal Plant (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 11:00:35
| Reuters: Eight protesters who locked themselves to bulldozers at a Duke Energy Corp coal-fired power plant in North Carolina as part of a day of international actions on climate change were arrested on Tuesday, police said. Rutherford County Sheriff Jack Conner said the protesters were arrested for trespassing. Four were still being held pending the posting of small bonds. The group was protesting the construction of a new coal unit, which would emit the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. ... |
EU industry emissions fall in 2007-incomplete data (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 11:00:35
| Reuters: European Union industry emissions fell in 2007, incomplete EU executive Commission data showed on Wednesday, as analysts saw the toll from a fourth quarter economic slowdown and a mild winter earlier in the year. As expected, the data also showed that emissions were less than industry's quotas of permits to emit the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, under an EU climate change scheme meant to drive emissions cuts through permit shortages. Brussels has defended that flaw in its ... |
Norway To Use Forests To Double Bioenergy Output (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 11:00:35
| Reuters: Norway will double production of bioenergy by 2020 by tapping its vast pine forests and seek to become an exporter of renewable energies to diversify from oil and gas, the government said on Tuesday. "This is alchemy at its best," Oil and Energy Minister Aaslaug Haga said of the plan to turn forests into what she called "green gold." The scheme would also help Norway reach targets for axing greenhouse gas emissions. Norway, the world's number five oil ... |
'More action needed' to cut carbon emissions from existing homes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 11:00:35
| Press Association: The Government is failing to take sufficient action on cutting emissions from existing homes, a committee of MPs warned today. An "understandable" desire to make new homes environmentally friendly has meant ministers have given "insufficient priority" to making already-built houses as green as possible, the MPs said. A report by the Communities and Local Government Committee urged the Government to do much more to help householders radically cut carbon ... |
Analysts say EU industry emissions flat in 2007 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 11:00:35
| Reuters: European Union industry emissions were roughly flat in 2007, preliminary analysis of EU emissions trading scheme data suggested on Wednesday. Carbon emissions by affected companies in the six highest-emitting countries were up 1.2 percent above 2006 levels and for all member states could be about 25 million tons carbon dioxide (CO2) higher, Fortis estimated. New Carbon Finance gave a preliminary estimate that emissions across all countries fell 0.25 percent in 2007. The ... |
Britain extends support for micro-power generation (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 11:00:35
| Reuters: Britain on Monday said it had extended the timeline for support, but added no new extra money, for small-scale electricity installation using renewable energy sources, called microgeneration. Local production of electricity from the wind and sun, for example using roof-top solar panels and micro wind turbines, is attracting increasing subsidy support worldwide as governments try to curb greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels. Britain has extended to 2010 the ... |
Climate changing gas from some surprising microbial liaisons (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 11:00:35
| Innovations Report: The climate changing gas dimethyl sulphide (DMS) is being made by microbes at the rate of more than 200 million tonnes a year in the world's seas, scientists heard today (Tuesday 1 April 2008) at the Society for General Microbiology's 162nd meeting being held this week at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. "This gas has many different effects", says Dr Andrew Curson from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. "It triggers clouds to form over the oceans – and clouds ... |
Delegates, environmentalists await new US government for climate leadership (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 11:00:35
| Associated Press: The U.S. government insists it's deeply engaged in talks started this week on the world's next climate pact, but other negotiators are already looking ahead to the next administration and wondering what to expect. Nations have less than two years to piece together a deal that scientists say is needed to cut emissions of greenhouse gases and stop the planet's temperatures from rising so high they trigger an environmental disaster. The high-stakes negotiations that began Monday ... |
German cars not ready for new biofuel - sources (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 11:00:36
| Reuters: More than 2 million cars in Germany cannot run on a new biofuel the government wants to introduce, well over a limit the administration has set as a pre-condition for its use, industry sources said on Wednesday. Around 330,000 cars made by German manufacturers, plus more than 2 million imported cars, are unable to run on the new fuel, industry sources familiar with the data said. The environment ministry declined to comment on the figures. In a newspaper, Environment ... |
Malaysia scraps coal plant plans on environment worries (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 11:00:36
| Reuters: Malaysia has scrapped plans to build a 1.3 billion ringgit ($408 million) coal-fired power plant in eastern Sabah state on Borneo island due to worries it would pollute the environment, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. The 300MW-plant was to have been built near a tropical forest by a subsidiary of state-controlled utility Tenaga Nasional and a Sabah state government agency, The Star reported on its Web site. "After weighing the pros and cons, the cabinet decided to do ... |
Poor nations demand money to cope with warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 11:00:36
| Associated Press: Developing countries at a UN conference said they won't sign a global warming pact unless industrialised nations guarantee them billions of dollars needed to adapt to the impact of climate change. Island nations in the Caribbean and South Pacific recounted how they are being hit by worsening floods, rising seas and cyclones linked to climate change and don't have the money to build sea walls or relocate threatened villagers. "Adaptation is critical to our very ... |
REpower plans capacity expansion (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 11:00:36
| Reuters: Wind turbine maker REpower (RPWGn.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to more than double its production capacity in the next two years to handle further strong growth, especially in Europe and North America, it said on Monday. REpower, whose major shareholder is India's Suzlon Energy (SUZL.BO: Quote, Profile, Research), the world's number four wind turbine maker, confirmed its outlook for its fiscal year 2008/09, starting on April 1, which it had raised earlier this month due to a ... |
Wood waste eyed as renewable energy source in Missouri Ozarks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 11:00:36
| Associated Press: The forest-rich Missouri Ozarks have been quite good to the four generations of kin at McGinnis Wood Products, a supplier of white oak barrels to distillers and winemakers the world over. Business is so good, there's even a market for the 120 tons of sawdust produced daily as remnants from the plant's two lumber mills. Rather than haul the wood waste to the landfill, McGinnis sells its scraps to a nearby Kingsford charcoal factory. So when a pair of forestry extension agents ... |
Australia: Emissions trading start faces 'hurdles' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 11:00:37
| AAP: Australia has three key hurdles to overcome if it wants an emissions trading system to operate by its scheduled 2010 starting date, the global head of carbon emissions for Merrill Lynch says. London-based Abyd Kamali said there needed to be reliable carbon price data and information technology infrastructure. He also said the carbon services sector must have capacity to deal with the new work load in order meet the federal government's July 1 2010 deadline to have the trading ... |
Australia: Seeking clean coal science 'only option' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 11:00:37
| AAP: Australia has no alternative to seeking "clean coal" technology, says Federal Energy Minister Martin Ferguson. "Australia's coal resources alone - assuming the advent of successful clean coal technologies - are so large that they could be significant in the global energy mix for several hundred years," said Mr Ferguson. Coal and other fossil fuels will continue to provide much of the world's energy for the foreseeable future, Mr Ferguson told about 100 ... |
Toyota Denies Prius Govt Funding Report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 11:00:37
| Associated Press: Toyota Motor Corp. denied on Wednesday it had received any funding from the Japanese government to develop its hit Prius gas-electric hybrid car. Japan's top automaker rejected a March 24 Business Week report that quoted Jim Press, vice chairman and president of Chrysler LLC and a former board member at Toyota, as saying, "The Japanese government paid for 100 percent of the development of the battery and hybrid system that went into the Toyota Prius." Press worked for ... |
Nations resist new deal on climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 02:00:35
| Shanghai Daily: SMALL island nations at the United Nations climate conference said they won't sign a global warming pact unless industrialized countries guarantee them billions of dollars needed to adapt to the impact of climate change. Island nations in the Caribbean and South Pacific recounted in Bangkok on Tuesday how they are being hit by worsening floods, rising seas and cyclones linked to climate change and don't have the money to build sea walls or relocate threatened ... |
Brazil biodiesel sputters on social, green goals (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 02:00:35
| Reuters: Booming demand for biodiesel has become a lifeline for some poor farmers who plant oil seeds in Brazil's dry northeast but critics say the fuel is not as clean, equitable and bountiful as the government boasts. "Nobody ever wanted this stuff and now they can't get enough," farmer Joel Queiroz said of the drought-resistant castor beans he sells to a biodiesel refinery in Iraquara, 310 miles west of the Bahia state capital, Salvador. Investors, including many ... |
Climate seen stoking Arctic indigenous land claims (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 02:00:35
| Reuters: Global warming has opened the European Arctic to firms exploiting timber, oil, gas and metals, and intensified a land rights battle with Sami reindeer herders whose way of life is under threat, an indigenous leader said.Milder temperatures mean that birch and pine forests are edging north in Russia and the Nordic nations, shrinking the chill pastures where reindeer graze on lichen, said Lars-Anders Baer, a herder and president of the Sami Parliament in Sweden."This will make the fight over land ... |
CO2 emission reduction assumptions overly optimistic, says study (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 02:00:36
| EurekAlert: Reducing global emissions of carbon dioxide this century is going to be more challenging than society has been led to believe, according to a new research commentary article appearing April 3 in Nature. The authors, from the University of Colorado at Boulder, the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder and McGill University in Montreal, said the technological challenges of reducing CO2 emissions have been significantly underestimated by the Intergovernmental Panel on ... |
Sudden 'Ecosystem Flips' Imperil World's Poorest Regions, Say Water Experts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 02:00:36
| Science Daily: Modern agriculture and land-use practices may lead to major disruptions of the world's water flows, with potentially sudden and dire consequences for regions least able to cope with them researchers at the Stockholm University-affiliated Stockholm Resilience Centre and McGill University have warned. In a paper published April 1 in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Dr. Line J. Gordon of the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Stockholm Environment Institute and Dr. Garry ... |
United States: Bush official fails to show for polar bear hearing (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 02:00:36
| MSNBC: Sen. Barbara Boxer held a hearing Wednesday to find out why the Bush administration has put off deciding whether to list the polar bear as a threatened species. But her star witness, Interior Secretary Dick Kempthorne, didn't show. "This listing is months overdue, in violation of the Endangered Species Act," the California Democrat said at the hearing of the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee. Witnesses who did make it to the hearing said that given ... |
Global response needed on food crisis - Zoellick (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 02:00:37
| Reuters: World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Wednesday called for a new coordinated global response to deal with spiraling food prices exacerbating shortages, hunger and malnutrition around the globe. Speaking ahead of International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Washington next week, Zoellick said the global food crisis now required the attention of political leaders in every country, since higher prices and price volatility were likely to stay for some time. The ... |
New formula for combating the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 02:00:37
| Physorg: The cost of treating wastewater contaminated with nitrogen could be lowered in future. Soil scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) have developed a new mathematical model which can help determine the optimum conditions for microbiological water treatment. Using the stable natural nitrogen isotope 15N, this mathematical model, which is the most accurate to date, can for the first time calculate exactly the quantities of dinitrogen (N2) produced by the complex ... |
States sue EPA over global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 02:00:38
| Associated Press: Seventeen states and the District of Columbia are taking the EPA back to court. They want to force it to take action against global warming. It was a year ago that the Supreme Court criticized the Bush administration for not acting on the issue. The justices ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to do something about carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. But Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and others complain the EPA has not come up with any new ... |
States Sue EPA Over Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 02:00:38
| Associated Press: A group of state attorneys general is taking the EPA back to court to try to force it to comply with a Supreme Court ruling that rebuked the Bush administration for inaction on global warming. The high court decided a year ago that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act and ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to take action. But 17 states and others said in a court filing Wednesday that the EPA has not issued a decision on ... |
UN climate panel downplayed technology need-report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 02:00:38
| Reuters: The U.N. climate change panel seriously underestimated the need for new technology in its reports on what it will take to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions that spur global warming, ecology and economy experts said on Wednesday. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change based its global warming predictions issued last year on the assumption that technology would automatically improve, giving the world even greater energy efficiency, which would help lower climate-warming ... |
Canada: Tories reject opposition pledge on global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 02:00:39
| Canwest News Service: The Harper government has rejected a new pledge taken by opposition leaders to endorse a tough international treaty to fight global warming. Liberal Leader Stephane Dion, the Bloc Quebecois' Gilles Duceppe and the NDP's Jack Layton all signed the pledge to push for a post-Kyoto Protocol climate change agreement that would prevent average global temperatures from rising by more than two degrees Celsius above 19th-century levels "because scientists have shown that, otherwise, the ... |
Indonesia's palm oil boom takes environmental toll (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 02:00:40
| TODAYonline: Marto Wijoyo and his family left the overcrowded Indonesian island of Java 27 years ago in search of a better life on neighbouring Sumatra. The government had given Wijoyo, now 60, a tract of fertile land to plant with rice and a home to call his own as part of a plan to ease Java's population pressures. Soon, he was producing twice-yearly harvests of more than ten tonnes of rice. Life was easy then, he said. All that changed four years ago when his neighbours in this ... |
Bush's 'caution' on CO2 seen as 'foot-dragging' by critics (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 04:00:40
| Christian Science Monitor: With the U.S. Supreme Court peering over its shoulder and Congress turning up the political heat, the Bush administration is moving toward some sort of action on the climate-changing greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2). But what administration officials see as responsible deliberation – seeking public comment later this spring before acting under the federal Clean Air Act – critics charge is foot-dragging. Rep. Ed Markey (D) of Massachusetts, chairman of the House Select Committee on ... |
India may enter a drought state in 60-70 years: Meteorologist (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 04:00:43
| Economic Times: India, which has been fortunate to have largely stable monsoon for the last 140 years, may find the weather behaving erratically due to global warming with persistent drought in 60-70 years, a top meteorologist warned today. The Government's efforts to push up farm growth might require some reorientation laying emphasis on arid farming and development of flood and drought resistant crops, B N Goswami, Director of Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology told PTI. There is a ... |
Porsche challenges London congestion charge (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 04:00:44
| Reuters: Luxury carmaker Porsche (PSHG_p.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) launched a legal challenge on Wednesday to a tax on gas-guzzling cars proposed by London mayor Ken Livingstone who is campaigning for a third term in office. Livingstone wants to raise the eight-pound ($15.90) daily levy on all cars driving in the city centre to 25 pounds for those with high fuel consumption, in a drive to cut CO2 emissions and fight global warming. Porsche called the plan unfair and disproportionate ... |
Warming world holds new threats for Aussie wildlife (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 04:00:44
| Innovations Report: Climate change is likely to transform many of Australia's natural landscapes, according to a new study by CSIRO scientists. The report, Implications of Climate Change for the National Reserve System, was prepared for the Federal Government, and released today by Environment Minister Peter Garrett. Author Dr Michael Dunlop says climate change is forcing environmental scientists to rethink their approach. Temperatures over Australia are projected to rise by about 1 ºC by ... |
Mass. leads court case to force US vehicle emissions limits (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2008 at 04:00:45
| Boston Globe: Led by Massachusetts, 17 states and more than a dozen environmental groups today filed a rarely-used legal petition in federal appeals court to try to force the US Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit petition comes exactly a year after the Supreme Court ruled that greenhouse gases are pollutants and ordered the agency to reconsider its refusal to use the Clean Air Act to ... |
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