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Flatscreen televisions fuel increase in global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 12:00:45
| Telegraph: The boom in flatscreen television could be fuelling global warming more than official estimates, scientists have warned. Experts in California estimate that production of a powerful greenhouse gas used in their production has hit 4,000 tonnes a year - enough to match the annual carbon dioxide emissions of Austria. Research published in New Scientist estimates that the industrial component - known as "NF3" - is 17,000 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than ... |
Australia: Forging ahead: Wong uncompromising on environment agenda (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 12:00:45
| AAP: The federal government is forging ahead with its plan to dramatically boost renewable energy, in what will be a double whammy for electricity prices. Climate Change Minister Penny Wong released a paper yesterday, on how to reach the controversial target to have 20 per cent of electricity generated from renewable sources by 2020. The government's Mandatory Renewable Energy Target is separate from emissions trading but both will cause electricity prices to rise. The MRET ... |
Australia: Green protesters shut power station (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 12:00:45
| Sydney Morning Herald: Eight Greenpeace protestors have chained themselves to a coal conveyor belt at Erarang Power Station on the Central Coast, shutting it down in protest against climate change. About 27 supporters of the environment group breached security to gain access to the power station this morning. Police rescue personnel are on site, and the protestors are expected to be removed soon. Nineteen of them have already been arrested. The power station, one of eight in NSW that rely on ... |
Kicking the habit: Headlong rush to oil shale won't end energy woes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 12:00:46
| Salt Lake Tribune: A junkie gets desperate when his junk runs out. He's got to have more, and he'll do just about anything in order to keep feeding his habit. America is like that about oil. As our supply from foreign sources gets more expensive and rumors float around that those dealers are running out, we're panicking, ready to trade our natural resources, even the future of the planet, for one more hit. And Utah Sens. Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett are backing the deal, right behind President ... |
Canada's Harper Says Climate Treaty Must Include All Emitters (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 12:00:47
| Bloomberg: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said a new climate change treaty must include all major emitters and take into account the global economic slowdown. ``It's not feasible to have major emitters excluded,'' Harper said today in Ottawa during a joint press conference with French Prime Minister Francois Fillon. ``We really do need to have everyone in if we are to make long-term progress.'' Harper travels to Japan next week for a summit of leaders from the Group of Eight ... |
G8 'acting too slowly' on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 08:00:28
| Telegraph: The world's biggest industrialised nations - the G8 - aren't acting quickly enough to avert environmental catastrophe, a new study claims. Powerhouse economies, including Britain, are failing to make the drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions vital to combat climate change. As the biggest polluters, they had to show leadership and set an example to the rest of the world with a commitment to cut the amount of CO2 they produce by at least 25-40 per cent by 2020. The ... |
US Lifts Moratorium on New Solar Projects (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 08:00:29
| New York Times: Under increasing public pressure over its decision to temporarily halt all new solar development on public land, the Bureau of Land Management said Wednesday that it was lifting the freeze, barely a month after it was put into effect. The bureau had announced on May 29 that it was no longer processing new applications to build solar power plants on land it oversees in six Western states after federal officials said they needed first to study the environmental effects of solar energy, ... |
Activists protest at Australia power plant (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 08:00:29
| Reuters: Protesters chained themselves to a coal conveyor at one of Australia's largest power stations on Thursday in a protest against climate policies ahead of a major report on emissions trading. Greenpeace said the dawn protest by 27 activists at the Eraring Power Station north of Sydney was the latest in an ongoing campaign to reduce Australia's carbon emissions. Police rescuers cut the chains from 12 protesters to free them from the conveyor belt. A police spokeswoman said 27 ... |
Australian prime minister says water-saving plan will not end crisis on drought-stricken river (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 08:00:29
| Associated Press: Australian government leaders struck an agreement Thursday to conserve water on a crucial river system, but Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the deal will not end the threat that a record drought poses to the waterway's ecological health. Rudd and state leaders signed off on a 3.7 billion Australian dollar (US$3.6 billion) agreement that will reduce the amount of water wasted by farmers and towns who drain it from the drought-stricken Murray-Darling river system. Rudd's plan is ... |
Google: Good or Evil When It Comes to the Environment? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 08:00:29
| AlterNet: Now that it has unseated Microsoft as Earth's most recognizable and influential technology behemoth, Google has gone from a crowd-favorite upstart to an octopus multinational beneath the bull's-eye. As such, its innovations in search, advertising, video, open sourcing, communications, computing and beyond have taken a backseat to legitimate concerns over everything from its impossible motto, "Don't Be Evil," to its carbon footprint. And while the former is a terminological chimera, ... |
Gunns seeks pulp partner (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 08:00:30
| Mercury: GUNNS Ltd has announced that it is seeking a joint venture partner for the proposed $2 billion Bell Bay pulp mill due to tight credit conditions. Executive chairman John Gay said the company had received approaches for direct investment from current industry participants. "The company believes that introducing direct investment into the mill may be beneficial given current financial market conditions," Mr Gay said. The possible direct investment possibility ... |
Japan to Boost Spending on China, India Clean-Energy Projects (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 08:00:30
| Bloomberg: Japan will increase yen loans and investment in clean-energy technology to help cut greenhouse emissions in China and India, Asia's two economic powerhouses. The Japan Bank for International Cooperation, the government's main overseas lender, said the investment is part of the $12 billion in loans and grants Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has promised to spend in five years to tackle climate change. ``We have to focus on major developing countries, and as a financer we are going ... |
Rudd Counts on Ex-Boss Garnaut for Australia Climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 08:00:30
| Bloomberg: Ross Garnaut, the architect of a floating currency that launched Australia's 17-year economic expansion, will tomorrow outline his plan to clean up the environment without stunting that growth. The 15-month study, commissioned by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, will address the economic impact of cutting pollution in a nation that produces five times as much carbon dioxide per person as China. The report has led to concern that higher energy costs will cut earnings at the resource ... |
S Asia climate 'crisis' talks due (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 08:00:30
| BBC: Environment ministers from the South Asian regional grouping, Saarc, have gathered in Bangladesh to discuss a plan to tackle climate change. Experts say millions of people in the region could be at risk from rising seas, melting glaciers, floods, droughts and cyclone. Bangladesh is proposing the creation of a joint fund to help communities adapt to the changing climate. It says South Asian countries should counter the challenges jointly. The BBC's Mark Dummett ... |
US Seeks Global Plan on Airline Emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 08:00:30
| Wall Street Journal: The U.S. wants to negotiate a global solution to monitor airline emissions, and it contends a unilateral move by the European Union to hit airlines with charges is inconsistent with international aviation accords, U.S. officials familiar with the matter said. Last week, the EU agreed that all flights to and from EU airports will be part of a program to trade carbon-dioxide allowances beginning in 2012. The program initially will force airlines to reduce emissions by 3% compared with ... |
"Tough" talks ahead on EU climate plan, warns France (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 08:00:30
| Agence France Presse: French Ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo on Thursday warned an arduous road lay before the European Union as he kicked off talks on realising the EU's vision of slashing carbon pollution by 2020. "I find the mood is good, there's no posturing, no-one's playing games, but at the same time we are dealing with a question that's tough, there are very tough things here," Borloo told reporters. "To put things in perspective, the economies of 27 countries, with a ... |
Canada lands second-last in climate-change ranking (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 08:00:30
| Globe and Mail: Canada and the U.S. are the worst countries in the G8 when it comes to taking effective measures to forestall the risk of rapid and uncontrolled climate change, according to an assessment of the major industrialized countries compiled by a European-based environmental consulting firm. The assessment, issued today by World Wide Fund for Nature and German insurance giant Allianz SE, ranked the U.S. last among the G8 and Canada second to last because they've done so little to curb ... |
China sticks to its guns on emissions ahead of G8 meet (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 08:00:30
| Agence France Presse: China said Thursday it was eager to discuss "long-term goals" on fighting climate change at the G8 summit but stuck to its position that rich nations must lead on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. "We are ready to discuss the establishment of a long-term global goal to cope with climate change including sustainable development, emissions reductions and efforts to tackle climate change," said Chinese official Su Wei. But Su, head of the climate change ... |
China warns of "empty talk" before G8 climate change meet (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 08:00:30
| Reuters: China said it is open to general discussion of longer-term goals and industrial targets to combat global warming at the G8 summit, but fended off talk of any specific pledges, stressing rich nations should lead the way. Despite its growing economic and diplomatic clout, China is not a member of the Group of Eight industrialised countries whose leaders meet in northern Japan next week. But Chinese President Hu Jintao is attending the talks around the G8 gathering, and his ... |
G8 could see climate deal and substance in doubt (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 08:00:30
| Reuters: G8 leaders could well cobble together some agreement next week on goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions, but bolder progress in climate change talks will probably have to wait until a new U.S president takes office. Climate change is high on the agenda for the July 7-9 summit in Hokkaido, northern Japan and is the focus of an expanded Major Economies Meeting (MEM) on July 9 that brings the G8 together with eight other countries including China, India and Brazil. Japanese Prime ... |
Greater emission cuts needed to prevent irreversible damage (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 08:00:31
| Indo-Asian News Service: Much greater cuts in emissions of greenhiouse gases are required to prevent the global average surface temperature from increasing by more than two to three degrees above pre-industrial levels, a scientist has warned. Failure to incorporate this information into policy processes now could close off options to avoid dangerous climate change in the future. Policy makers have been urged to incorporate critical climate-carbon cycle feedback information into the decision making process to ... |
Canada: PM predicts progress on climate after Bush (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 08:00:31
| Toronto Star: Prime Minister Stephen Harper says global efforts to fight climate change are likely to go more smoothly once U.S. President George W. Bush leaves office early next year. Harper, who sits down with Bush and other leaders at the Group of Eight summit next week, said there's a growing international conviction that no country – including the United States– should refuse to sign on to targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Referring to the U.S., he said, "I think, if ... |
No mercy for dirty power, says Garnaut report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:28
| Australian: REGIONS hardest hit by the new emissions trading regime would win government handouts and industries investing in clean power would be rewarded, but the landmark Garnaut report on climate change rules out compensating coal-fired power stations. In his much-anticipated report to federal and state governments, to be made public today, Ross Garnaut will canvass "structural adjustment" compensation for regions such as the La Trobe Valley in Victoria and the Hunter Valley in ... |
Australia must lead climate fight (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:28
| Sydney Morning Herald: AUSTRALIA will suffer more from climate change than any other developed nation and must take the lead in global action to tackle the problem, Professor Ross Garnaut will argue in his report today. The report, commissioned by the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, is designed to illuminate the costs of inaction. It is expected to find that global warming is proceeding faster than projected, and that doing nothing will be far more costly than expected. Like the report by Britain's Sir ... |
Australia: Delay carbon tax or lose investors (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:28
| Dow Jones: AUSTRALIA risked tarnishing its reputation with international investors if an emissions trading scheme was implemented too swiftly, destroying the value of existing power assets, TRUenergy managing director Richard McIndoe says. "Given that Australia is really going out on a point on this matter ... to introduce a high (carbon) tax immediately would be fraught with risk," Mr McIndoe said yesterday. "I think you'd see significantly less appetite from international ... |
Greens urge hard line approach to Garnaut draft (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:28
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Greens say the Federal Government can not be worried about electoral popularity and must move quickly when it responds to economist Ross Garnaut's draft report on climate change. Professor Garnaut hands down his draft report today on an emissions trading scheme that would mean a massive reshaping of the Australian economy. The Government wants to cut greenhouse emissions by 60 per cent by 2050. Professor Garnaut proposes putting a cap on emissions and then trading permits ... |
Acidifying Oceans Add Urgency To Carbon Dioxide Cuts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:28
| ScienceDaily: It's not just about climate change anymore. Besides loading the atmosphere with heat-trapping greenhouse gases, human emissions of carbon dioxide have also begun to alter the chemistry of the ocean--often called the cradle of life on Earth. The ecological and economic consequences are difficult to predict but possibly calamitous, warn a team of chemical oceanographers in the July 4 issue of Science, and halting the changes already underway will likely require even steeper cuts in ... |
Biofuels are prime cause of food crisis, says leaked report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:28
| Guardian: Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% – far more than previously estimated – according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian. The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by an internationally-respected economist at global financial body. The figure emphatically contradicts the US government's claims that plant-derived fuels contribute less than 3% to food-price rises. It will add to ... |
Canada's forests Beetle attack (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:28
| Economist: OVER the past 14 years, a tiny insect no bigger than a grain of rice has laid waste a swathe of British Columbia's forests so vast that the rust-red wasteland is visible from space. The mountain pine beetle has infested and killed over half the lodgepole pine forest in the centre of the province–an area larger than England. It has rampaged eastwards into northern Alberta for the first time. (It has also made localised attacks on forests in all 11 western American states.) Scientists now fear ... |
Solar Panels For Lease Soon In Mass. (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:29
| All Headline News: Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signed on Wednesday the Green Communities Act which reduces state dependence on fossil fuel and encourage a shift to cleaner forms of energy. The new law requires utility firms to design customized plans for homeowners and businesses that would reduce energy costs and grant rebates for residents and business owners who would install insulating windows and more efficient boilers in their units. To make the use of solar panels more affordable, sun ... |
UN's climate change guru sees record oil price as a positive (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:29
| Agence France Presse: The UN's top climate change official said Thursday that record oil prices, which have surged to 146 dollars a barrel, were positive for the environment. "I think they are a net positive. First of all you see that through decreasing demand in Europe and North America where people are becoming much more conscious of petrol prices," Yvo de Boer told AFP. "High oil prices also improve the competitiveness of renewable sources of energy and make it more interesting to ... |
Australia: Emissions cuts should be 'big, happen now': Garnaut (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:29
| Scopical: Australia needs a rapid response to climate change, or it will face real and significant financial and environmental damage. Professor Ross Garnaut will today hand down his draft report on the effects of climate change in Australia, and the action required to negate the damage. The report was commissioned by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, and is expected to recommend deep cuts in emissions. While Brendan Nelson's Opposition continues to argue Australia should not cut ... |
Experts: EU, US must reconsider biofuel policy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:30
| Associated Press: Europe and the U.S. must reconsider their biofuel policies because of rising food prices around the world, aid officials and food policy experts said Thursday. Speaking at an international conference on food supplies, many also warned that some countries' restrictions on agricultural exports were severely hindering access to food and called for more investment to increase food production in the developing world. EU agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel responded by ... |
France to build second new-generation nuclear reactor (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:30
| Associated Press: France will build a second new-generation nuclear reactor, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday, pledging a "new industrial revolution" in an era in which fossil fuels have grown too expensive. France – the country most reliant on nuclear power – has been constructing its first European Pressurized Reactor, or EPR, on the Normandy coast, and it is expected to go into service in 2012. EPR reactors are meant eventually to replace the aging reactors around the world ... |
G8 Nations Fail to Meet Climate Change Promises, Report Says (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:30
| Deutsche Welle: A new study published Thursday says none of the leading industrialized nations have come close to meeting their promises to slash greenhouse gas emissions, with the US, Canada and Russia trailing especially far behind. Compiled by environmental group WWF and international financial services provider Allianz and released four days prior to the G8 summit in Japan, the study called "G8 Climate Scorecards" found that all the leading industrialized countries had failed to make ... |
India looking at investments in Canada tar sands: state oil firm (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:30
| Agence France Presse: India could invest up to 10 billion dollars (6.34 billion euros) in Canada's tar sands oil industry, the head of the country's state oil company said Thursday. Canada has vast reserves of tar sands -- a dense mixture of sand, water and petroleum used to extract bitumen -- but the development of the industry is controversial because of its environmental impact. "We have looked into those (tar sands) opportunities in Canada and done our due diligence," R.S. Sharma, the ... |
Instances of mass die-offs in wild lions precipitated by extreme climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:30
| Innovations Report: In a report issued June 25 by PLoS ONE, an online peer-reviewed research journal, researchers examined outbreaks of canine distemper virus (CDV) in 1994 and 2001 that resulted in unusually high mortality in Serengeti lions. CDV cycles periodically within the Serengeti ecosystem, and epidemics have occurred without effects on lion populations. The study, led by scientists at the University of California, Davis, the University of Illinois, and the University of Minnesota, showed that ... |
Japan lags in renewable investments (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:30
| United Press International: A U.N. report suggests Japan is not up to par on renewable investments. Global investments in wind power and other new energy sources increased 60 percent in 2007 to $148 billion. Japan, however, accounts for only about $1.2 billion of the total investment, less than 1 percent, according to a report by the U.N. Environment Program, the Kyodo News International reported. Investments in new energy businesses are also rising worldwide in this time of increased awareness of global ... |
No climate breakthrough on G8 horizon: UN climate chief (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:31
| Agence France Presse: The top United Nations climate official called Thursday on rich nations to lead the fight against global warming, but said a breakthrough was unlikely at next week's G8 summit in Japan. "At this moment it doesn't look very encouraging," said Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). He told AFP that the G8 nations -- France, Germany, Britain, Canada, Japan, Italy, Russia and the United States -- would probably not be ... |
South Asia adopts action plan on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:31
| Reuters: Environment ministers from South Asian countries adopted a three-year action plan on Thursday for regional cooperation to combat climate change effects. The meeting agreed to share information and best practices on nationally appropriate actions to mitigate carbon emissions, technology transfer, increasing climate change awareness and other areas. The meeting was also attended by environment experts from the eight countries of the South Asian Association for Regional ... |
South Asian nations issue joint climate plan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:31
| Agence France Presse: South Asian environment ministers said Thursday developed countries should establish a special fund dedicated to saving them from the effects of climate change. The measure is one of a wide range of proposals the ministers of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in an environmental action plan following a three-day summit in the Bangladeshi capital. It is the first time the seven SAARC countries have issued a joint plan to fight the effects of global ... |
UK's CO2 emissions higher than official figures, government admits (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:31
| Guardian: Britain's greenhouse gas emissions are higher than official figures suggest, the government has admitted. The environment department Defra says UK emissions are higher than previously stated if carbon pollution linked to imported goods is included. Official figures only count direct emissions within national boundaries, so miss out the carbon cost of goods manufactured elsewhere. A report this week from several international groups says carbon dioxide emissions associated with ... |
Canada Says Regulation May Boost Oil-Sands Investment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:31
| Bloomberg: Canada's Natural Resource Minister Gary Lunn said companies will increase investment in Alberta's oil-sand developments because government regulations may allow them to cut carbon costs, making these projects more attractive. Canada requires companies investing in new Alberta oil- sand projects from 2012 to develop carbon storage by 2018, as it seeks to reduce polluting emissions. By storing carbon dioxide, a gas blamed by scientists for climate change, project developers may need to ... |
China Expresses Willingness to Discuss Climate Change Goals at G8 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:31
| Voice of America: China says it is prepared to discuss moderate goals to combat climate change at next week's summit of leaders from the world's eight leading industrialized nations. Su Wei, the head of China's office responsible for dealing with climate change, says Chinese President Hu Jintao is prepared to hold talks with the Group of Eight leaders on short and medium-term actions to reduce greenhouse gases. But the official says it is up to developed nations, such as the United States, to ... |
Japan: Don't Write Off Biofuels Yet, Advocates Say (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 09:00:32
| Inter Press Service: Japan wants countries to reconsider biofuels as an alternative technology to fight climate change by using fuel cell cars at the Group of Eight (G8) Summit on Jul. 4-7. The vehicles will transport the leaders of the world's major industrialised nations when they gather on the northern Japanese Island of Hokkaido. Honda will display its most advanced environmental technologies with its FX Clarity and Civic Hybrid. They run on a blend of fuel made from straw. The world is ... |
Australia: Emissions scheme 'to change behaviour' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 09:00:32
| AAP: THE whole objective of an emissions trading scheme (ETS) is to change people's behaviour and it should apply to as many sectors as possible, including transport and fuel, the head of the former government's emissions task group says. But Peter Shergold, former secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, said even a carbon price of $20 or $30 a tonne would have a relatively modest impact on fuel prices, compared with price hikes so far this year. Speaking ahead ... |
Ban Says G-8 Leaders Should Discuss Goals on Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 09:00:35
| Bloomberg: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations to discuss ``concrete measures'' to support carbon- emission targets set for 2050. ``I hope that the leaders of G-8 and the leaders of the outreach program will come up with concrete measures and determined political will to address these issues,'' Ban told diplomats at a breakfast seminar in Seoul today. ``They have the historical responsibility.'' Climate change will be a key ... |
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