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Latest Scientists' Views of Sea Level Rise (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:30
| Reuters: Following are details of a Reuters poll of 10 leading climatologists about likely rises in world sea levels this century: Six of the 10 experts contacted by Reuters in the last 10 days stuck to projections by the UN Climate Panel that sea levels will rise by between about 20 and 80 cms by 2100. Four said gains could be higher because of likely bigger thawing of Antarctica and Greenland. None thought the IPCC was exaggerating the risks. ------------------ Intergovernmental ... |
United States: The climatic costs of rapid growth (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:30
| Globe and Mail: Two Fridays ago, a bigwig from the Suncor oil company sat at Wayne Groot's kitchen table, where the window looks out over his cherished potato fields. They chatted about their kids, and Mr. Groot, not being the lawyer-fetching type, served tea. But it wasn't long before the conversation turned to the true reason for the visit: Suncor wants to buy the Groot land - in particular, the patch upon which the family bungalow sits - to build an upgrader that will take the bitumen travelling ... |
US sees positive mood shift at Hawaii climate talks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:30
| Reuters: The Bush administration's environment policy chief sounded optimistic on Thursday about U.S.-hosted climate change talks, noting a mood shift among the world's biggest greenhouse polluting countries. In contrast to grumbling at the fringes of the first U.S.-sponsored conference on the issue in September, representatives of 17 major economies at the Hawaii meeting are now ready to talk about specific things to do to combat climate change, said James Connaughton, head of the White House ... |
21st century water management: Calculating with the unknown (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:31
| Innovations Report: Climate change is making a central assumption of water management obsolete: Water-resource risk assessment and planning are currently based on the notion that factors such as precipitation and streamflow fluctuate within an unchanging envelope of variability. Anzeige Model-projected percentage change (2041-2060 vs. 1900-1970) in mean annual runoff volume for ice-free land, under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "SRES A1B" scenario. Copyright: Science But ... |
Australia experiences hottest ever January: weather bureau (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:31
| Agence France-Presse: Australia experienced its hottest January on record this year, with the dry continent heating up as part of the global warming process, the bureau of meteorology said Friday. Temperatures rose by between 1.0 and 2.0 degrees in most parts of the country, with the national average hitting 29.2 degrees Celsius (84 Fahrenheit) for the summer month, said the bureau's head of climate analysis, David Jones. "It's a remarkable number certainly. Averaging, as we did across the ... |
Climate Conference Ends Without Targets (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:31
| Associated Press: A meeting of delegates from the nations that emit the most pollutants ended without concrete targets for slashing greenhouse gas emissions, but participants praised what they saw as a new willingness by the United States to discuss possible solutions. Delegates from 16 nations, plus the European Union and the United Nations, gathered in Hawaii this week at the invitation of the U.S. to discuss what should be included in a blueprint for combatting climate change. Among the ... |
Dutch gas guzzler tax hammers exclusive cars (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:31
| Reuters: Buying a Hummer just became 19,000 euros ($28,000) more expensive in the Netherlands. A new "guzzle tax" came into force on Friday, penalizing cars that exceed a limit on emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as the Netherlands seeks to reduce its contribution to global warming. Dick Braakhekke, spokesman for General Motors Corp's Cadillac, Corvette and Hummer in Europe, said that of the usual annual volumes of Hummer H2 vehicles sold in the Netherlands, some ... |
United Kingdom: Energy firm wants carbon freedom at new coal-fired plant (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:31
| Guardian: The government is expected to approve the building of a coal-fired power station without insisting that it tries to reduce its climate change emissions, according to emails seen by the Guardian. The correspondence, released under freedom of information legislation, apparently shows that civil servants caved in last month to pressure from German energy company Eon and agreed not to require "carbon capture and storage" technology as a condition for approval of the new ... |
Global warming crop harm predicted in Africa, Asia (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:31
| Reuters: Agricultural problems caused by global warming in the next two decades could be most damaging in southern Africa, India and Pakistan, according to researchers who urge action now to avert a wave of hunger. Many scientists have predicted that climate change could harm agriculture in many places, fueling hunger and malnutrition. These researchers examined climate predictions and the types of crops grown in various developing regions to figure out which ones would be hit hardest by ... |
India asks developed world to walk the talk on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:31
| Indo-Asian News Service: India has asked developed countries to walk the talk on climate change and stop harping on standards "benchmarks" to let developing countries play their part through agreed flexibility mechanisms. "An absolutely clear imperative is that developed countries walk the talk on GHG (Green House Gas reductions)," R. Chidambaram, principal scientific advisor to the Indian government, told a US-sponsored international climate change in Honolulu Thursday. "There ... |
Lawmakers: Extend Energy Tax Breaks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:31
| Associated Press: Unable to extend tax breaks as part of a broad energy bill two months ago, lawmakers are trying to attach some of them to an emergency economic aid package containing rebates for millions of taxpayers. But that strategy may also falter when the Senate votes next week on the $193 billion economic stimulus bill that has been expanded over what already was approved by the House. Both President Bush and Senate GOP leaders have warned against adding to the House-passed bill. But as ... |
Poorest regions 'facing severe food shortages' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:31
| Scotsman: MANY of the world's poorest regions could face severe crop shortages, famine and hunger in the next two decades because of global warming, researchers warned yesterday. Scientists used 20 computer simulations to determine how changing temperature and rainfall were likely to affect crop yields. They concluded that, by 2030, the average temperature in most of the regions where a large proportion of the world's underfed populations live could rise by 1C. At the same time, seasonal ... |
Pricey Gas Drives US Shoppers to Fuel Efficiency (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:31
| Reuters: Pricey gasoline drives US car buyers to more fuel-efficient vehicles, according to a study by industry tracking service Edmunds.com released Wednesday. Shoppers looking at cars and light trucks become more sensitive when prices rise above an average national price of US$2.80 a gallon, according to Edmunds.com Executive Director David Tompkins, who called that level a "psychological turning point for consumers." The average US retail price for gasoline stands at ... |
UN Climate Panel Report's Findings (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:31
| Reuters: The world's biggest emitters of global-warming greenhouse gases met behind closed doors on Wednesday for a US-sponsored conference as protesters pointed up Hawaii's vulnerability to climate change. Here are findings on climate change from a February 2007 report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which groups 2,500 researchers from more than 130 nations. EVIDENCE OF HUMAN CAUSES * "Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures ... |
US Lawmakers Urged to Lead Global Warming Battle (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:32
| Environment News Service: The head of the United Nations scientific climate panel spoke with U.S. lawmakers Wednesday, encouraging them lead the world in cooling the overheated planet. "We really don't have a moment to lose," said Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC. The massive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions needed to avoid serious disruptions to Earth's climate system are impossible without U.S. leadership, Dr. Pachauri told members of the ... |
Warming blamed for snowpack decline in West (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:32
| Washington Post: The persistent and dramatic decline in the snowpack of the mountains of the West is caused primarily by human-induced global warming and not the result of natural variability of weather patterns in the region, researchers reported yesterday. Using data collected over the past 50 years, scientists confirmed that the mountains are getting more rain and less snow, that the snowpack is breaking up faster, and that more rivers are running dry by summer. The study, published online ... |
Water troubles in the West may worsen (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:32
| LA Times: Human-caused global warming has been shrinking the snowpack across the mountain ranges of the West for five decades, suggesting that the region's long battle for water will only get worse, according to a computer analysis released Thursday. As temperatures have increased, more winter precipitation has fallen as rain instead of snow, and the snow is melting sooner, according to the study published in the journal Science. The result is that rivers are flowing faster in the ... |
World's big polluters note change in US climate stance (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:32
| Reuters: The world's biggest greenhouse polluters applauded the United States at climate change talks on Thursday, but some urged Washington to take the next step by setting goals to reduce its emissions of climate-warming carbon. The United States, alone among major industrialized countries in rejecting the carbon-capping Kyoto Protocol, noted that the two-day Hawaii meeting addressed the toughest areas of disagreement among the countries that use 80 percent of the planet's ... |
Achievements at Bali Climate Talks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:32
| Reuters: The world's biggest emitters of global-warming greenhouse gases met behind closed doors in Honolulu on Wednesday for a US-sponsored conference as protesters pointed up Hawaii's vulnerability to climate change. In December, officials at climate talks in Bali, Indonesia, agreed to start two years of negotiations to seal a broader pact to fight global warming. As part of the meeting among nearly 200 nations, a range of other pressing issues to aid the developing world were ... |
African, Asian crops 'to be hit hard by climate change' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:32
| SciDev.Net: Crops in South Asia and Southern Africa are likely to be worst hit by climate change and need greater investment in agriculture development and adaptation strategies, say US scientists. The conclusions, reported today (1 February) in Science, are based on an analysis of climate risks for crops in 12 food-insecure regions. The research team, led by David Lobell from the US-based Woods Institute for Environment at Stanford University, used statistical crop models and 20 climate ... |
Chinese official urges practical action to slow down climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:32
| Xinhua: A senior Chinese official said here Wednesday that all relevant countries should take practical actions to slow down the climate change process. Addressing a closed session at the second "Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change," which opened here Wednesday, Xie Zhenhua, vice chairman of China's National Development and Reform Commission, said that to discuss about setting a long-term goal for slowing down climate change requires time. "What matters most ... |
Climate Change Debate Coins New Jargon (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:32
| Reuters: The world's biggest emitters of global-warming greenhouse gases met behind closed doors on Wednesday for a US-sponsored conference as protesters pointed out Hawaii's vulnerability to climate change. To understand the climate-change debate, it helps to understand the jargon, a mixture of diplomatese, pundit-speak and techno-talk. Here are some terms used at meetings on global warming. KYOTO - Short for Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement adopted in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, ... |
Climate change meeting marked by skepticism (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:32
| Xinhua: Amid skepticism, representatives from the world's major economies continued discussions on reducing emissions linked to global warming behind closed doors here Thursday. About 160 people representing 16 countries, the United Nations and the European Union are attending the "Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change," the second in a series of talks initiated last year by U.S. President George W. Bush. The talks were "constructive" but ... |
Australia: Climate change the biggest challenge, Treasury chiefs warn Swan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:32
| Age: CLIMATE change is the single most pressing challenge Australia faces over the coming decade, according to a confidential federal Treasury brief prepared for the new Labor Government. The brief, delivered to Treasurer Wayne Swan immediately after the November election, also strongly warns of inflationary pressures in the economy. Its release came as Mr Swan last night warned of difficult times ahead, and the US Federal Reserve, for the second time in just over a week, delivered ... |
Culprits in a hotter West: people (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:33
| Oregonian: Climate scientists for the first time have identified rising levels of greenhouse gases as a clear cause of the troubling warming and drying trends gripping the Western United States. They said in a research paper published online by the journal Science on Thursday that the trends are likely to continue and will lead to critical water shortages that the region is not prepared for. The team, based at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California and including a researcher ... |
France urges US to do more in combating climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:33
| Xinhua: The world expects the United States to take the lead in combating climate change, a French representative said on Thursday. The world was waiting for the United States to take the next step in curbing climate change, said Brice Lahonde, French special ambassador for climate change. The EU, along with other developed countries, has agreed to mandatory emission reductions, and the United States should follow suit, Lahonde said at the conclusion of the Major Economies Meeting on ... |
Australia: Garrett powers back to climate change action (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:33
| Sydney Morning Herald: WHEN Kevin Rudd created a Department of Climate Change the move was widely interpreted as a body blow to the Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, who had apparently lost responsibility for the environmental issue of the day. But in the Canberra game of bureaucratic turf warfare Mr Garrett has clawed back considerable ground in recent weeks. The Prime Minister last week quietly changed his allocation of administrative responsibilities, giving Environment carriage of community ... |
Indonesia to Form New Firm to Tap Geothermal Energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:33
| Reuters: Indonesia plans to form a new state company to take over geothermal energy activities in the Southeast Asian country, an official at state oil company Pertamina said on Thursday. Indonesia, dotted with hundreds of active and extinct volcanoes, has the potential to produce an estimated 27,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity from geothermal sources. However, the vast potential remains largely untapped because the high cost of geothermal energy makes the price of electricity ... |
Israeli-Led Venture Develops Auto Hydrogen Fuel Tank (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:33
| Reuters: An Israeli-Russian-German venture said it had developed a safe and lightweight hydrogen tank, overcoming a significant obstacle to the mass manufacture of automobiles operated by hydrogen fuel. The venture, known as C.En, has completed a design and test programme aimed at producing the tank for use in cars, Moshe Stern, who leads the investors in the project, told Reuters on Thursday. One of the biggest hurdles to building hydrogen-powered cars has been the safe and ... |
Canada: Think-tank backs carbon tax (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:33
| Toronto Star: Canadian businesses and consumers must pay a hefty price for greenhouse gas emissions, right away, to combat climate change, the Conference Board of Canada says. In a report released yesterday, the think-tank joined a growing list of research and business groups calling for taxes or other financial policies to reduce emissions from coal, oil, gas and other fossil fuels. All companies and individuals should pay a tax that stings enough to make them change their behaviour and ... |
Amazon deforestation rises sharply as jungle cleared for farming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:33
| Associated Press: The clearing of Brazil's Amazon rain forest jumped dramatically in the final months of 2007, spurred by heavy market demand for corn, soy and cattle, the government and environmentalists said Thursday. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called an emergency meeting of Cabinet ministers to consider emergency measures to stop the deforestation – an apparent reverse of a three-year decline that Silva has repeatedly praised. If emergency measures don't come soon, loggers and ... |
America is running dry (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:33
| Telegraph: An impending crisis in America's water supply is signalled by a study that concludes more than half of the recent decline seen in the west can be linked to human activities. Scientists have been documenting significant changes in water flow in the western United States for the past 50 years. Now it has been found that to 60 percent of the changes in river flow, snow pack and winter air temperatures in the region during this period can be attributed to human-caused climate ... |
Antarctic ice riddle keeps sea-level secrets (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:33
| Reuters: A deep freeze holding 90 percent of the world's ice, Antarctica is one of the biggest puzzles in debate on global warming with risks that any thaw could raise sea levels faster than U.N. projections. Even if a fraction melted, Antarctica could damage nations from Bangladesh to Tuvalu in the Pacific and cities from Shanghai to New York. It has enough ice to raise sea levels by 57 metres if it melted, over thousands of years. A year after the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on ... |
Brazil unwilling to stop destruction of Amazon: experts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:33
| Reuters: Brazil's Government is unwilling and unable to halt destruction in the Amazon rainforest despite emergency measures it announced last week to curb rising deforestation, environmental experts say. High commodity prices and increased land use elsewhere in Brazil are driving ranchers and farmers deeper into the Amazon in search of cheap land, environmentalists say. Between August and December last year, 7,000 square kilometres, or two-thirds the annual rate, were chopped ... |
Forests Finally Emerging as Climate Issue (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:33
| Mongabay: The representatives of more than 100 countries in attendance at December's U.N. climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, finally focused on the important role tropical forests play in global warming. Developed countries have pledged almost $300 million to help forest-rich developing countries prepare for their new roles and responsibilities in the post Kyoto international climate-change agreement set to start after 2012. Deforestation, especially in the tropics, has been a ... |
Green groups cry foul as UK claims progress towards Kyoto targets (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:34
| Guardian: Britain's greenhouse gas emissions fell slightly last year as homes and offices used less fuel during the mild winter and recycled more waste. Overall, UK greenhouse gas emissions for 2006 dropped to 652.3m tonnes, a reduction of 0.5% on the previous year, figures from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs show. CO2 emissions, accounting for 85% of the total UK greenhouse gas output, dropped by 0.1% in the same period. The figures put Britain on course ... |
Groups sue to block Alaska oil drilling plan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:34
| Reuters: Environmental groups sued the Bush administration on Thursday to stop plans to allow oil and natural gas drilling in the icy Chukchi Sea off Alaska, which they claim will endanger polar bears. The U.S. Interior Department plans to lease about 30 million acres of land in the Chukchi Sea -- home to about 10 percent of the world's polar bear population -- on Feb. 6. Environmental groups including the National Audubon Society, Natural Resources Defense Council and Earthjustice ... |
Hurricane Activity Linked To Sea Surface Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:34
| Science Daily: The link between changes in the temperature of the sea's surface and increases in North Atlantic hurricane activity has been quantified for the first time. The research - carried out by scientists at UCL (University College London) and due to be published in Nature on January 31 - shows that a 0.5°C increase in sea surface temperature can be associated with an approximately 40 per cent increase in hurricane activity. The study, conducted by Professor Mark Saunders and Dr Adam Lea of ... |
Brazil: Reports: Brazil's Silva Says Amazon Deforestation Rise Unproven, Causes Uncertain (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:34
| Associated Press: A reported jump in the rate of Amazon deforestation is unproven despite a government crackdown on tree cutting, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in comments published Thursday. Silva said figures showing increased deforestation, issued last week by his Environment Ministry, have not yet been confirmed and more research is underway, according to reports in three major newspapers: Folha de S. Paulo, Estado de S. Paulo and O Globo. He compared the situation to a patient ... |
Scientists warn of looming water supply crisis (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:34
| Agence France-Presse: Climate change has already dramatically altered the water cycle and these changes signal a looming water supply crisis, according to a prominent group of hydrologists and climatologists writing Thursday in Science magazine. They argue that radical water cycle changes will be widespread and that past trends can no longer be relied upon when planning future water management. "Our best current estimates are that water availability will increase substantially in northern ... |
Study: Global Warming Responsible for Western Droughts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:34
| Washington Post: The persistent and dramatic decline in the snowpack of the mountains of the West is caused primarily by human-induced global warming and not the result of natural variability of weather patterns in the region, researchers reported today. Using data collected over the past 50 years, the scientists confirmed that the mountains are getting more rain and less snow, that the snowpack is breaking up faster, and that more rivers are running dry by summer. The study, published online ... |
UN: Climate Change May Cost $20 Trillion (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:34
| Associated Press: Global warming could cost the world up to $20 trillion over two decades for cleaner energy sources and do the most harm to people who can least afford to adapt, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns in a new report. Ban's report provides an overview of U.N. climate efforts to help the 192-nation General Assembly prepare for a key two-day climate debate in mid-February. That debate is intended to shape overall U.N. policy on climate change, including how nations can adapt to a ... |
US Scraps Plan for Biggest Clean-Coal Power Plant (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:34
| Reuters: Ballooning construction costs that nearly doubled the price tag for building the world's cleanest coal-burning power plant to US$1.8 billion prompted the US Energy Department on Wednesday to pull the plug on funding the project. A consortium of utility and coal companies in December picked a site in Mattoon, Illinois, to build the so-called FutureGen plant, which would burn coal and sock away heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions underground. However, the Energy Department, ... |
US study concludes major crop losses from climate change by 2030 in world's poor areas (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:34
| Associated Press: Changes in climate brought by global warming could cause major crop losses in many of the world's poorest regions within the next two decades, environmental specialists reported Thursday. The findings foresee alarming consequences for many of the 1 billion poor people who depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, largely because agriculture is the human activity that is most vulnerable to changes in climate. The worst affected areas were projected to be southern Africa and ... |
Warming May Cause Crop Failures, Food Shortages by 2030 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:34
| National Geographic: Impoverished farmers in South Asia and southern Africa could face growing food shortages due to climate change within just 20 years, a new study says. Increasing levels of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, are heating up the planet, with droughts and shifting rainfall patterns predicted for many parts of the world. "The majority of the world's one billion poor depend on agriculture for their livelihoods," said the lead author of the new study, David Lobell ... |
World urged to help poor adapt to climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:35
| Reuters: The developed world should help poor countries brace for global warming by assisting them in taking steps like restoring coastal forests and training health care workers, the head of the U.N.'s climate panel said. Recognizing that climate change may be hard to reverse, experts are now examining "adaptation," or how to deal with potential catastrophes such as rising seas as a result of melting glaciers. "In the developing countries it's critical we think of ... |
Bill Clinton Says Economic Slowdown Could Be Necessary To Fight Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:35
| All Headline News: Speaking in Denver on Wednesday, former President Bill Clinton did not mince words on how to combat global warming, telling the crowd that the fight against climate change required industrialized nations to "slow down their economies and cut back on greenhouse gas emissions." Bill Clinton, who was traveling from state to state to campaign on behalf of his wife's presidential bid, spoke to the Colorado crowd about the importance of a good energy plan not only to curb ... |
Britain in bloom (as spring is sprung earlier than ever) (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:35
| Independent: Gardening enthusiasts could be forgiven for forgetting what month it is when they step outside in the morning, as carpets of snowdrops, crocuses and daffodils – all traditional spring flowers – are in bloom across the country. It has been a record-breaking spell for flowers, with many spring varieties opening their petals a full two weeks before the average time for the decade. The unseasonably warm and wet winter so far in Britain has coaxed plants into early flowering. At Kew ... |
Candidates line up behind California in greenhouse-gas fight (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:35
| San Francisco Chronicle: Republican presidential candidates lined up behind California's right to limit tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases in their final debate before Tuesday's primary, joining their Democratic counterparts and indicating the state would be likely to get a green light once President Bush leaves the White House a year from now. All four Republican candidates were asked at Wednesday's debate about the clash between California and the Environmental Protection Agency, which has blocked a ... |
Carbon trading must be globally regulated (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2008 at 09:00:35
| Telegraph: Simon Linnett, Executive Vice-Chairman of Rothschild, has called for a new international body, the World Environment Agency, to regulate carbon trading. In a recently published paper, Trading Emissions, for the Social Market Foundation, Mr Linnett argues that the International problem of climate change demands an international solution. Unless governments cede some of their sovereignty to a new world body, he says, a global carbon trading scheme cannot be enforced and ... |
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