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New Solar CIGS Cells Creep Up On Silicon (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 12:00:39
| Reuters: Silicon cells have been the mainstay of the solar photovoltaic industry, but advances in competing technologies could give those manufacturers a toehold in the rapidly growing renewable power market. Last week, researchers at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory said they had achieved a new efficiency record for one of those promising technologies, putting it within reach of the silicon cell mark. The new technology uses copper indium gallium ... |
Group Seeks EPA Rules on Emissions From Vehicles (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 12:00:40
| New York Times: In a new push to get the federal government to act on global warming, a coalition of states, cities and environmental groups took its fight to federal court on Wednesday. The coalition, led by Massachusetts, is seeking to force the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate emissions of heat-trapping gases from new cars and trucks or show that such regulation is unnecessary. The states and the federal government have long been at odds over regulation. In 2003, the ... |
Industrial CO2 emissions to fall as tougher EU curbs come in (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 12:00:40
| Independent: Carbon emissions from European energy and industrial companies increased by 1 per cent last year but traders expected that to be the high-water mark as industry begins to take action to meet much tighter pollution caps that were introduced earlier this year. The European Union published yesterday its annual compilation of the carbon emissions of 10,500 power plants and factories that fall under the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the system designed to help the bloc meet ambitious ... |
Market incentives key to fixing carbon pollution (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 12:00:40
| Finance Asia: There is no silver bullet that will undo the effects of global warming, but markets can play a key role in encouraging businesses to use clean technologies. One of the cheapest ways to create such incentives is through so-called cap-and-trade schemes, said Paul Ezekiel, Credit Suisse's global head of carbon trading. Ezekiel was speaking at the Credit Suisse Asian Investment Conference in Hong Kong yesterday. Time is running out though. Floods, hurricanes and droughts are categorised ... |
German Soy Fuel Blend Fails Climate Test - Greenpeace (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 12:00:40
| Reuters: Germany's policy of blending fossil diesel with biodiesel to combat climate change is failing because 20 percent comes from soyoil produced in countries where deforestation takes place, Greenpeace said on Wednesday. The environmental pressure group said it had tested fossil diesel sold at 46 petrol stations across Germany to determine which vegetable oils were used in compulsory biodiesel blending content. About 20 percent was soyoil rather than rapeseed oil from the German ... |
Chinese pollution quietly takes toll in Japan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 12:00:40
| Agence France Presse: With a smile on her tanned face, skiier Kazumi Furukawa can vividly recall the time three years ago she stood here on Mount Zao and looked down at fir trees turned into glittering crystals. "The sky was cobalt blue and I could see the tiny snow crystals on the tips of the tree branches," Furukawa, 56, remembers. But these days the natural phenomenon is growing rarer and scientists say the culprit is beyond Japan's control -- industrial pollution from ... |
Climate talks hit by concerns over global recession (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 12:00:41
| Agence France Presse: Painstakingly tough negotiations on how to fight climate change are getting even harder as concerns mount that the global economy is heading into recession. Even when the economic outlook looked brighter, the United States led criticism that the existing Kyoto Protocol's requirements on cutting greenhouse gases would prove too costly for rich countries. As more than 160 nations talk here about what to do after Kyoto's obligations end in 2012, the backdrop is tepid growth in ... |
Inaction on Polar Bear Is Criticized (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 12:00:41
| Washington Post: Senate Democrats yesterday deplored the Bush administration's failure to meet a legal deadline for determining whether global warming is pushing polar bears toward extinction and lashed their scheduled star witness -- Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne -- for declining to appear in his own defense. Kempthorne announced 15 months ago that his department would determine within a year whether the bear should be added to the endangered species list because rapidly disappearing sea ice ... |
United States: Green energy powering Dell headquarters, firm says (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 12:00:42
| Austin-American Statesman: Dell Inc. said Wednesday that it is running its Round Rock headquarters complex entirely with "green power" coming from renewable energy. The computer maker said it struck an agreement with its electric utility, TXU Energy, to use electrical power generated from wind power and landfill methane to supply 80 million kilowatt hours a year to the 300-acre campus with 2.1 million square feet. More than 10,000 Dell employees work on the campus. The world's ... |
US EPA Sued for Ignoring Supreme Court Greenhouse Gas Ruling (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 12:00:44
| Environment News Service: Attorneys general from 17 states, the City of New York, the City of Baltimore, the District of Columbia, and 13 environmental advocacy groups today asked the U.S. Court of Appeals here to order the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to respond to last year's ruling on greenhouse gas emissions in the case of Massachusetts v. EPA. That ruling, which the U.S. Supreme Court issued exactly one year ago today, required the EPA to make a decision on whether to regulate greenhouse gas ... |
US warns worsening economy could hit climate change battle (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 12:00:43
| Sydney Morning Herald: The United States warned Thursday a worsening economy could hit the funds it gives poor nations to fight global warming, as African activists appealed for major polluters to commit one percent of GDP. More than 160 countries are meeting in Bangkok to lay the groundwork for a deal on combating climate change after the landmark Kyoto Protocol's commitments to slash greenhouse gas emissions run out in 2012. But rich and poor nations remained at loggerheads a day before the ... |
Food prices to rise for years, biofuel firms say (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 12:00:43
| Reuters: Staple food prices will rise for some years, but should eventually fall to historical averages as harvests increase, biofuel company executives said on Thursday. Soaring demand for better quality food from rapidly industrialising emerging markets such as China, supply shortages, increased demand for biofuels, and a surging appetite for food commodities by investment funds, have combined to push prices of basic foods higher and higher in recent months. Stephane Delodder, ... |
Wanted - Homes For Small Island People (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 12:00:43
| Inter Press Service: A rapidly warming planet may soon create a new class of refugees -- those fleeing climate change in their homelands. Tuvalu is showing signs of such a dire prospect. The Pacific island nation of some 12,000 people has already appealed to the governments of Australia and New Zealand to open their doors for its citizens to find a new home, states a background note by the secretariat of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The appeal stems from the ... |
Carbon 'Offsetting' Schemes Won't Save the Planet (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 12:00:43
| Independent: It all started with Sting, this fad for owning one's very own patch of tropical rainforest, though it is probably unfair to blame him entirely for creating the boom industry that buying up forests piecemeal has become. It is 20 years since the musician first set foot in Brazil and pledged to fight the cause of the Yanomami Indians, setting up the Rainforest Foundation to protect forests and their indigenous inhabitants. Today, protecting forests has acquired a more ... |
Climate Change Is Not Caused By Cosmic Rays, According To New Research (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 12:00:43
| Science Daily: New research has dealt a blow to the skeptics who argue that climate change is all due to cosmic rays rather than to man-made greenhouse gases. The new evidence shows no reliable connection between the cosmic ray intensity and cloud cover. Lauded and criticised for offering a possible way out of the dangers of man made climate change, UK TV Channel 4's programme "The Great Global Warming Swindle", broadcast in 2007, suggested that global warming is due to a decrease in cosmic ... |
Developing world could beat crisis as US growth at standstill: IMF (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 12:00:43
| Deutsche Presse-Agentur: Developing countries are well-placed to weather the current economic crisis despite growth in the United States coming to a virtual halt, according to a report by the International Monetary Fund Thursday. The IMF also said industrial nations with more developed mortgage and financial markets have been struck harder by a correction in housing prices than poorer countries, where fewer people have access to credit. Growth in the United States has come to a "virtual standstill" ... |
EPA Sued Over Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 12:00:43
| Associated Press: Officials of 18 states are 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. In a petition filed Wednesday, the plaintiffs said the 5-4 ruling in April 2007 required the Environmental Protection Agency to decide whether to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide, from motor vehicles. The EPA has instead done nothing, they said. "The EPA's ... |
Severe drought hits Uganda (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 12:00:44
| Agence France Presse: John Lochaon does not just survive on less than $1 a day. He has stretched out $15 for nine months in a part of Uganda that climate change is plunging into famine. Lochaon had been unable to make a living because he lived in Karamoja, one of the driest and least developed areas in this east African country and one with a lack of infrastructure and basic services. Drought forced the one million-plus people in this northeastern region bordering Kenya and Sudan to constantly ... |
Birds get the credit, but bats eat more bugs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 02:00:39
| Reuters: Bats play a bigger role than birds do in controlling tropical insects, and the loss of bats might mean that morning cup of coffee gets more expensive, researchers said on Thursday. Two separate studies show bats eat far more insects than birds do, protecting plants of the rain forest and, in one of the studies, coffee plantations. The studies, published in the journal Science, suggest that the loss of bat populations worldwide might affect agriculture -- not to mention make ... |
Climate Change: A Vision Worth Fighting For (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 02:00:39
| Inter Press Service: Sweeping societal change is a slow and erratic business. The civil rights movement in the United States went nowhere for decades and then exploded in the 1960s. Not long ago, smokers could light up anywhere they pleased in Canada and the U.S. Now they are mostly confined to a few outdoor areas and as a consequence, far fewer people smoke. "There's been a major shift in values regarding smoking," said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change at Yale ... |
IMF Sees Modest Growth Tradeoff From Tighter Emissions Rules (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 02:00:39
| Wall Street Journal: The International Monetary Fund forecast that sharply reducing greenhouse gas emissions would slow global growth, but only minimally if economic policies were designed to encourage companies to adopt low-emission strategies. The policies needed to reduce emissions by 60% from 2002 would leave the global economy about 2.6% smaller than it otherwise would be in 2040, the IMF projected. Even so, the size of the global economy would grow about 2.3 times between 2007 and 2040, the IMF ... |
Ted Turner: Global warming could lead to cannibalism (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 02:00:39
| Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Failure to address global warming will have us all dead or eating each other by mid-century. So says Ted Turner, the restaurateur, environmentalist and former media mogul whose controversial comments have earned him the nickname "Mouth of the South." If steps aren't taken to stem global warming, "We'll be eight degrees hotter in 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow," Turner said during a wide-ranging, hour-long interview with PBS's ... |
US Cites Recession Fear in Climate Talks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 02:00:39
| Associated Press: U.S. negotiators at a United Nations climate conference say steep emission cuts could further rattle the world economy, especially in the developing world. The EU has proposed that industrialized countries slash emissions of greenhouse gases by 25 percent to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 as part of global climate pact. The U.S., one of the world's top polluters, has repeatedly rejected mandatory national reduction targets of the kind agreed to under the Kyoto Protocol a decade ... |
Global warming may bring malaria to Britain (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 02:00:40
| Reuters: Climate change could bring malaria and other diseases to Britain and trigger more frequent heatwaves that will have huge health impacts, doctors said on Thursday. With the exception of Lyme disease, insect-borne diseases are largely unknown in Britain. But global warming could change that in a few decades, according to a report from the British Medical Association (BMA). "Higher temperatures and heavier rainfall may increase the spread of infections like malaria that have ... |
GM drove $14.3M into lobbying last year (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 02:00:40
| Associated Press: Auto maker General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM) spent more than $14 million last year to lobby on auto industry and economic matters, climate change legislation and a host of other issues. The company spent nearly $8.1 million in the second half of 2007 to lobby on its own behalf, according to a disclosure form posted online Feb. 14 by the Senate's public records office. GM Chief Executive Rick Wagoner recently urged attendees at the National Automobile Dealers Association to lobby ... |
Going it alone a bad way to tackle climate change, says IMF (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 04:00:44
| Age: A GLOBAL agreement binding all significant countries, rich and poor, offers the best hope for tackling climate change, and could halve the cost of countries trying to tackle it alone, the International Monetary Fund advises. In its latest World Economic Outlook, to be released today, the IMF calls on national leaders to draft a global agreement quickly that establishes either a common tax rate on carbon, or an emissions trading scheme in which permits can be traded internationally, so ... |
US warns worsening economy could hit climate change battle (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 04:00:44
| Agence France Presse: The United States warned Thursday a worsening economy could hit the funds it gives poor nations to fight global warming, as African activists appealed for major polluters to commit one percent of GDP. More than 160 countries are meeting in Bangkok to lay the groundwork for a deal on combating climate change after the landmark Kyoto Protocol's commitments to slash greenhouse gas emissions run out in 2012. But rich and poor nations remained at loggerheads a day before the ... |
Australia: $430b: how much greenhouse gas cuts will cost, says Costa (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 04:00:44
| Sydney Morning Herald: MAKING the cuts to greenhouse emissions recommended by the nation's economic adviser on climate change would cost hundreds of billions of dollars and slash the size of Australia's economy by 4 per cent, modelling by the NSW Treasury shows. The NSW Treasurer, Michael Costa, said it would cost $430 billion to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 80 per cent as outlined by Ross Garnaut, and the sharp reductions proposed would impose a substantial cost on the economy. The Rudd ... |
Germany: 'Implementation of Biofuels Plan Was a Disaster' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 04:00:44
| Spiegel: Germany's enthusiasm for biofuels is in question this week after estimates were released that well over a million vehicles on German roads would be unable to run on gasoline containing a higher mixture of bioethanol. Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel had planned to introduce a requirement that gasoline sold in Germany contain 10 percent green ethanol made from plants, a mixture known as E-10. But he said in an interview with the Stuttgarter Nachrichten that, should more than 1 ... |
Climate change a moving target, experts note (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 04:00:45
| Denver Post: Renewable energy is not replacing fossil fuels as quickly as scientists forecast – leading to a serious underestimation of what still needs to be done to stabilize the world's climate, according to a new analysis. "Enormous advances in energy technology will be needed to stabilize atmospheric carbon-dioxide concentrations at acceptable levels," said Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado at Boulder and his colleagues, writing in today's edition of Nature. ... |
Global Warming Raises Malaria, Cancer Risk in U.K. (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 04:00:45
| Bloomberg: Global warming will bring added health risks to the U.K., including the possibility of malaria infections and higher cancer rates, the British Medical Association said. The predicted higher temperatures as a result of rising emissions of greenhouse gases will boost the burden of diseases and shorten lives, the association said today in a report on its Web site. More sunshine may raise incidences of sunburn and skin cancer, while flooding may make life harder for the poor, the group ... |
IMF says uniform carbon-pricing should include emerging, developing economies (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 04:00:45
| Thomson Financial: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) today said carbon-pricing aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions should be uniform across all economies because most emissions come from emerging and developing countries, where reduction is cheapest. 'Any policy framework that does not include large and fast-growing economies such as Brazil, China, India, and Russia in some way (with a lag or with initially weaker emissions targets) would be extremely costly and politically untenable,' the ... |
Renewable Energy: German lessons (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 04:00:46
| Economist: Q-CELLS, based in Wolfen, just north of Leipzig, is the world's biggest maker of the photovoltaic cells used in solar panels. It overtook Sharp of Japan last year and announced big jumps in sales (up 59%) and profits (up 69%) on March 27th. Germany, which is not known for being sunny, seems an unusual place to find this industry leader. But the country leads the world in its installed capacity of renewable energy sources (see chart), and is the third-biggest producer of solar panels, after ... |
NGOs in Bangkok climate change talks: Market Yes, Target No for developing countries (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 04:00:47
| Xinhua: Rather than imposing legally-binding emissions cut targets, more actions to improve industries' energy efficiency and more funding through international market mechanism are the answer for most developing countries in fighting climate change under a global framework, some Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are saying at a new round of climate change negotiations being held here through March 31-April 4. Rising economies inside the group of developing countries like China should ... |
Summer forecast hot for Europe (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 04:00:47
| Reuters: Northwest Europe could see above average temperatures and rainfall this summer, according to the UK Met Office's summer forecast published on Thursday, while southern and eastern Europe look like being drier than normal. "For north-western Europe, early indications suggest a slightly enhanced risk of more unsettled spells than usual with average or above-average rainfall," the UK's official weather forecast said. "In contrast, rainfall is more likely to be below ... |
Energy efficient cos suit planet and pocket -Jupiter (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 04:00:47
| Reuters: Companies that aim to improve energy efficiency may not have the hype of renewables or biofuel firms but they offer better returns, the fund manager running Jupiter's 300 million pound Ecology fund (JEF) said. "I don't care if it's not sexy," said Charlie Thomas, who cycles to work, owns a low-emission car and buys organic foods, and whose fund had its 20th anniversary on Tuesday. "That's where the returns are," he said. "The glamour in climate ... |
Australia: Garnaut's verdict on Eddington report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 04:00:47
| Age: THE $18 billion Eddington transport plan is unlikely to be of much help in dealing with climate change, according to the Federal Government's climate policy adviser, Professor Ross Garnaut. "Better public transport systems probably can make a contribution, but they can't make it quickly," Garnaut said yesterday. "It's more likely that we would get faster results through lowering (carbon) emissions from private automobiles." Answering questions at a ... |
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