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Short-term goals to be focussed on to reduce carbon emissions: study (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:30
| Economic Times: A new study has called for stronger short-term goals to reduce carbon emissions, as long-term climate change policy is likely to reverse the tide of climate change very slowly. The study was done by Dr. Mort Webster, Assistant Professor for Engineering Systems at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). According to Webster, climate policy decisions are normally made as sequential decisions over time under uncertainty - given the magnitude of uncertainty in both economic ... |
Fiji: Senior journalists for world reef symposium (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 04:00:29
| Fiji Times: TWO senior Pacific journalists will attend the world's leading coral reef science conference in the United States next week. Fiji journalist Samisoni Pareti and PNG radio journalist Titi Gabi will attend the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS) which begins Monday, July 7, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Held once every four years, this year's symposium will convene on the US mainland for the first time in 30 years. It will bring together more than 2500 ... |
Peru: Desperate Race For The Rainforest (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 04:00:30
| Sky News: We flew into the jungle, covering two-thirds of the country, to assess the scale of the problem and from the air. The plumes of smoke and bare brown patches were testimony to the logging and mining companies queuing up to slash and burn these trees. As they do so, they are systematically destroying the Earth's most crucial defence against climate change. The rainforest, six times the size of Britain, is a carbon sink. In other words, the trees here absorb and hold vast ... |
India: Where's the global food crisis taking us? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 04:00:31
| Reuters: In five years' time, we could be living in a world where millions are dying in famines with no food aid to hand, regular storms and droughts wipe out acres of crops, and skyrocketing food prices have created global political panic, food experts say. But there might be a way out. Or a combination of ways. "(The) tectonic plates are shifting on food... the fundamentals are changing." Timothy Lang, a researcher for British-based foreign policy think tank Chatham House, ... |
Solar application moratorium called off (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 06:00:29
| Associated Press: The government said Wednesday it is calling off a recently announced moratorium on applications to build solar plants on public lands. The Bureau of Land Management made the announcement after public opposition to its original decision, reached at the end of May. The BLM had wanted to put new applications for solar plants on federal land on hold while undertaking a comprehensive review of potential environmental impacts from such plants. That review was not scheduled for ... |
Bush seeks progress on long-term climate goal at G8 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 06:00:30
| Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday said he hoped industrialized and developing nations could make progress on a long-term goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. Leaders of the Group of Eight rich nations will meet next week in Japan along with other major emitters China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa to discuss long-term and interim steps to reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The G8 -- Japan, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, ... |
Penguin Chicks Frozen by Global Warming? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 06:00:31
| National Geographic: This January–deep summer in Antarctica–explorer Jon Bowermaster suffered through a five-day stretch of torrential rains on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. The same cannot be said for thousands of downy penguin chicks. Epic rains are unusual in Antarctica, even in summer, said Bowermaster, who had been in the region on an expedition funded in part by the National Geographic Society's Expeditions Council. With daytime temperatures above freezing, the rains soaked young ... |
Australia Carbon Adviser Opposes Fuel Break - Experts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:30
| Reuters: A draft blueprint of Australia's emissions trading scheme will include fuel, but is unlikely to recommend what the country's key emissions cap should be, experts close to the report's author said on Wednesday. The blueprint's government-backed architect, respected academic economist Ross Garnaut, will release on Friday a plan for how emissions trading could operate, likely suggesting that government force companies to bid for emissions permits at auction, a perceived failing of the ... |
Australian Companies Say Carbon Trading to Raise Consumer Costs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:30
| Bloomberg: Australian consumers will face higher costs after the nation introduces emissions trading in 2010, Business Council of Australia president Greig Gailey said. Gailey said business would have to raise costs to adapt to the trading, which sets a price on carbon gases and allows businesses and individuals to trade permits to maintain their emissions limit. Australia plans to introduce the system in 2010. ``Businesses will pass higher energy costs on to consumers,'' Gailey will ... |
United Kingdom: Before G8, Britain Says CO2 Emissions Understated (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:30
| Reuters: On the eve of a G8 summit due to address climate change, Britain admitted on Wednesday that it, and by implication others, has been drastically understating its true carbon emissions. The British government, which boasts of its success in curbing national emissions of climate warming carbon, said the real picture was reversed if carbon linked to imported goods was included. "Under international climate change agreements, we only have direct influence over our domestic ... |
Environment: Climate risk from flat-screen TVs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:30
| Guardian: The rising demand for flat-screen televisions could have a greater impact on global warming than the world's largest coal-fired power stations, a leading environmental scientist warned yesterday. Manufacturers use a greenhouse gas called nitrogen trifluoride to make the televisions, and as the sets have become more popular, annual production of the gas has risen to about 4,000 tonnes. As a driver of global warming, nitrogen trifluoride is 17,000 times more potent than carbon ... |
G8: Japan Showcases its Environmental Policy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:30
| Inter Press Service: Japan has one of the world's most aggressive environmental policies, set both to meet 2012 emission reduction targets and to make the country -- which has no natural resources of its own -- less dependent on imports, according to experts meeting here. At a meeting of influential parliamentarians of GLOBE (global legislators for a balanced environment) ahead of the upcoming G8 summit in Hokkaido, Jul. 7-9, several high-profile Japanese politicians spoke of Prime Minister Fukuda's low-carbon ... |
Green activists protest at Australia power plant (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:30
| Reuters: Environmental activists chained themselves to a coal conveyor at one of Australia's largest power stations on Thursday and more than a dozen were arrested in a protest against climate policies ahead of a major report on emissions trading. Greenpeace said the dawn protest by around 30 activists at the Eraring Power Station north of Sydney was the latest part of an ongoing campaign to reduce Australia's carbon emissions. "Police arrested 15 of our guys who were going to go ... |
Land degradation threatens dry land populations (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:31
| Hindu: Dry lands cover about 41 per cent of the earth's surface. The poor people in the drylands depend mainly on rain fed agriculture and natural rangelands for their survival. Their livelihoods are at risk due to land degradation, which is exacerbated by increasing population growth that is putting considerable pressure on fragile land resources. Scientific iinovations However, science-based innovations can be mobilized to help arrest land degradation. The International ... |
United Kingdom: Proposed duty on high-pollution cars 'to be reviewed' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:31
| Guardian: Ministers have agreed to look again at controversial plans to increase road tax on high-polluting cars, a Labour MP opposed to the scheme said tonight. Ronnie Campbell, the leader of a campaign against the proposed changes, said he had been "given assurances through the whip's office" that the measure would be reviewed. He told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that since the rise was not due to come into effect until next April, the chancellor would have time to reconsider ... |
Bush hopes for G8 solution on gas emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:31
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: US President George W Bush is hoping that world leaders at next week's G8 summit in Japan can reach a long-term goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. President George W Bush says he will remind the G8 summit that the US is trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and is investing in clean energy technology. "There's a consensus that it's a problem, but it's tough to get a consensus that all of us have a responsibility to do something about it, not just some, but all ... |
Global warming concerns may blunt India's coal edge (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:31
| Economic Times: The coal advantage that India and China have, would be offset by global warming concerns over the usage of the cheaper fossil fuel. According to a report by Standard & Poors, China accounts for 40% of total world coal usage and has already overtaken the US in carbon emissions as a result. The report says India and other emerging Asian economies have an advantage that they depend more on coal and less on oil. "Although liquids are 37% of world energy production, they are only 29% ... |
Japan: Showa Shell Plans to Expand Solar Business - Source (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:31
| Reuters: Japanese oil distributor Showa Shell Sekiyu KK plans to build one of the world's biggest solar panel plants as it seeks new revenues amid weak gasoline sales, a source close to the matter said on Wednesday. Showa Shell is considering a plan to spend roughly 100 billion yen (US$943 million) to build a solar plant with an annual capacity of 1,000 megawatts, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The plant, to go online in 2011, would be equivalent to solar ... |
Hot future shock: Heat wave temperatures to soar (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:31
| Associated Press: During the European heat wave of 2003 that killed tens of thousands, the temperature in parts of France hit 104 degrees. Nearly 15,000 people died in that country alone. During the Chicago heat wave of 1995, the mercury spiked at 106 and about 600 people died. In a few decades, people will look back at those heat waves "and we will laugh," said Andreas Sterl, author of a new study. "We will find (those temperatures) lovely and cool." Sterl's computer model ... |
US Group Urges Radical Cuts in Carbon Emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:32
| Voice of America: A leading U.S. advocate for combating climate change has unveiled an ambitious plan to drastically slash global carbon emissions over the next 12 years, saying aggressive action is both necessary and feasible. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Washington. Both major U.S. presidential candidates say they are committed to putting the United States on a path to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other so-called "greenhouse gases" by 60 to 80 percent by the year 2050. ... |
Warming Climate Adds to US Flood Fears (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:32
| Environment News Service: Climate change will bring an increase in severe storms like the ones responsible for the devastating floods plaguing the U.S. Midwest, experts warned Tuesday. But current government flood forecasts and insurance programs do not consider the effects of global warming, leaving Midwest residents with an incomplete assessment of their flood risks. "Although no single weather event can be attributed to global warming, it's critical to understand that a warming climate is supplying ... |
Air travel in the tropics is worse for climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:32
| New Scientist: Want to salve your conscience and offset your holiday carbon emissions? You might want to rethink that trip to the tropics. A typical flight there has a greater impact on global warming than a flight in temperate latitudes. As well as producing carbon dioxide and contrails, planes also produce nitrogen oxide, which triggers both the creation of the warming gas ozone, and the destruction of another greenhouse gas, methane (Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI: ... |
Canada: Drivers on Canada West Coast now paying carbon tax (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:32
| Reuters: North America's first comprehensive carbon tax is now in effect in the Canadian West Coast province of British Columbia, greeted with complaints that some gasoline stations have used the tax as cover to raise prices more than necessary. The already-controversial tax, which took effect on Tuesday, added 2.34 Canadian cents per liter to the pump price, but some stations pushed up prices more than 4 cents, the Vancouver Sun reported on Wednesday. British Columbia officials were ... |
Bush seeks progress on long-term climate goal at G8 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:33
| Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday said he hoped industrialized and developing nations could make progress on a long-term goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. Leaders of the Group of Eight rich nations will meet next week in Japan along with other major emitters China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa to discuss long-term and interim steps to reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The G8 -- Japan, Canada, France, Germany, ... |
Canada undecided over climate change funding on eve of G8 summit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:33
| Canwest News Service: As Prime Minister Stephen Harper prepares to head to this year's Group of Eight summit, Canada is withholding support for a pair of World Bank funds that would help developing nations cope with climate change. The World Bank said this week it will establish the foundations - called the Strategic Climate Fund and Clean Technology Fund, respectively - to help poor countries adapt to climate change and to deploy technologies that enable them to minimize their greenhouse-gas ... |
Mass. governor signs renewable energy bill (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:33
| Associated Press: Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a bill aimed at putting the state on a greener path. The new law is intended to help the state begin to wean itself off fossil fuels and other polluting forms of energy while cutting down on emissions that lead to global warming. A key section of the bill would require utilities and other electricity suppliers in the state to procure an increasing percentage of their energy from renewable sources - from 4 percent in 2009 to 25 percent ... |
Canada: Monarch migration in danger, think tank warns (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:33
| Canwest News Service: As staff and visitors at Point Pelee National Park in southern Ontario prepare to witness another spectacular migration of monarch butterflies, a new report is warning the phenomenon could be in danger unless North American countries work together to protect the insect. The monarch butterflies' annual North American trek from Mexico to Canada is challenged by threats to the monarch's habitat, which include the widespread use of pesticides and herbicides, climate change and loss of ... |
India: Where's the global food crisis taking us? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:34
| Reuters: In five years' time, we could be living in a world where millions are dying in famines with no food aid to hand, regular storms and droughts wipe out acres of crops, and skyrocketing food prices have created global political panic, food experts say. But there might be a way out. Or a combination of ways. "(The) tectonic plates are shifting on food... the fundamentals are changing." Timothy Lang, a researcher for British-based foreign policy think tank Chatham House, said at a ... |
Argentina: Penguin Population Plunge Points to Climate Havoc (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 10:00:28
| Reuters: Penguin populations have plummeted at a key breeding colony in Argentina, mirroring declines in many species of the marine flightless birds due to climate change, pollution and other factors, a study shows. Dee Boersma, a University of Washington professor who led the research, said the plight of the penguins is an indicator of big changes in the world's oceans due to human activities. "Penguins are in trouble," Boersma, whose study appears in the journal BioScience, said in ... |
Some 1.5 Bln People May Starve Due to Land Erosion - FAO (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 10:00:28
| Reuters: Rising land degradation reduces crop yields and may threaten food security of about a quarter of the world' population, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Wednesday. Food security has been highlighted in recent months as soaring crop prices resulting from poor harvests, low stocks, high fuel prices and rising demand, risks causing starvation for millions of people in the developing world. "An estimated 1.5 billion people, or a quarter of the ... |
Japan: Toyota Struggles to Meet Hybrid, Small Car Demand (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 10:00:28
| Reuters: The surge in popularity for small cars and fuel-efficient hybrids has left Toyota Motor Corp facing an unusual problem: deepening shortages of popular models such as the Prius hybrid. A limited inventory of small cars hurt Toyota, which reported a 11.5 percent drop in US sales in June. In stark contrast, Japanese rival Honda Motor Co reported a 13.8 percent sales rise on record demand for its Fit subcompact car and Civic sedan. Toyota executives said a dwindling ... |
Draft G-8 paper eyes emissions cuts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 10:00:28
| Yomiuri Shimbun: The draft declaration to be adopted at the upcoming Group of Eight summit will include a plan for each member to set a midterm target from around 2020 to 2030 for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Wednesday. Under the draft declaration, G-8 countries will pledge to support emerging countries, including China and India, in their efforts to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. G-8 countries also expressed willingness to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at ... |
Climate concerns halt coal plant (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 10:00:29
| BBC: The US state of Georgia has blocked construction of a new coal-fired power station because of concerns over its carbon dioxide emissions. Environmentalists welcomed the news, and predict the decision will lead to reconsideration of many coal power plants under development in the US. The judge cited a decision by the Supreme Court last year which issued a ruling recognising CO2 as a pollutant. This is the first court judgement on an industrial plant based on that ... |
Science on climate change wrong: report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 10:00:29
| AAP: Politicians may have got the science on climate change wrong and don't realise how bad the situation is, a new report says. The report, by the Australian National University's centre for climate law and policy, says policy-makers have not understood how the carbon cycle works. Recent research shows climate change could be feeding on itself, and therefore advancing at a faster rate than first thought. These climate cycle "feedbacks" - where global warming ... |
Abandon coal for gas to help planet: StatoilHydro CEO (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2008 at 10:00:31
| Reuters: Old coal-fired power plants should be closed and replaced by cleaner gas plants to slash carbon emissions, the Chief Executive of the biggest gas producer in Europe said on Wednesday. Helge Lund, the head of Norway's StatoilHydro, told the World Petroleum Congress in Madrid that substituting coal for gas was a sound strategy for fighting climate change. "Climate change is perhaps the challenge of our time," he said. "I see gas as an energy bridge to a less carbon ... |
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