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Forest Disappearing in Papua New Guinea (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 02:00:28
| New York Times: A new satellite analysis of logging in Papua New Guinea shows that the country has been losing about 1,400 square miles of rain forest, or about 1.4 percent of its total forest cover, each year. At that pace, by 2021 more than 80 percent of the country's accessible forest, and more than half of its total forest area, would be badly degraded or cleared, according to the study. It was conducted by scientists at the University of Papua New Guinea and Australian National University. ... |
US coal lobbyists unveil nightmarish vision of life after cap-and-trade law (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 02:00:28
| Independent: US businesses have spent tens of millions of dollars trying to kill a proposed law that would introduce European-style "cap-and-trade" rules on carbon emissions – even before the bill hit the floor of the Senate for discussion yesterday. Lawmakers began a week-long debate of measures to tackle climate change amid predictions of dire consequences if carbon emissions were capped. Television viewers have been treated to visions of a dystopian future where Americans are forced ... |
About Farmers, Without Farmers (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 11:00:26
Blessed and Cursed by Water (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 11:00:26
| Reuters: Millions of people are threatened by poor, unreliable, or non-existent water resources, and climate change could make things worse. IPS looked at some of the issues before participants at a World Bank conference on water and sanitation issues held in Oslo last week. In 2008, the United Nations (U.N.) International Year of Sanitation, it is estimated that 2.16 billion people in developing countries lack that most basic of amenities -- a proper toilet. They do not have water ... |
Climate Change Could Impact Vital Functions Of Microbes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 11:00:26
| ScienceDaily: Global climate change will not only impact plants and animals but will also affect bacteria, fungi and other microbial populations that perform a myriad of functions important to life on earth. It is not entirely certain what those effects will be, but they could be significant and will probably not be good, say researchers June 3 at a scientific meeting in Boston. "Microbes perform a number of critical functions for ecosystems around the world and we are only starting to ... |
Revolution in rain forest monitoring with MacArthur grant (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 11:00:26
| EurekAlert: Tropical rain forests are treasure houses of biodiversity, but there has been no effective way to inventory and monitor their plant species over large areas. As a result, we have limited understanding of how climate change, clearing, invasive plants, and other threats are affecting these delicate ecosystems. A major advance in improving this situation is in the works, however. Gregory Asner of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology was just awarded a $1.8 million grant from ... |
Senate debates climate bill cost (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 11:00:26
| United Press International: The U.S. Senate launched into a battle Monday over the most comprehensive climate change legislation ever considered by the body. After the opening debate, senators voted 74-14 to invoke cloture on the bill, preventing a Republican filibuster and limiting the coming debate to 30 hours. The most controversial aspect of the bill is its economic impact -- a figure the two sides hotly debated Monday. The Climate Security Act attempts to decrease greenhouse gas emissions by ... |
United States: Spanish wind company promises New York $2B in development, jobs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 11:00:26
| Associated Press: A company based in Spain is promising to invest $2 billion (€1.28 billion) in wind energy in New York over the next five years if regulators approve its purchase of Energy East Corp. The global company, Iberdrola SA, is trying to buy Energy East for $4.6 billion (€2.95 billion). The deal would affect 3 million customers from upstate New York to Maine and would put Rochester Electric and Gas Corp. and New York State Electric & Gas Corp. under foreign ownership. Company ... |
Japan: Tokyo to go it alone on greenhouse gas cuts: official (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 11:00:26
| Agence France Presse: Japan's capital Tokyo is preparing to force industry to make big cuts in greenhouse gases, an official said Tuesday, taking the lead in a country struggling to meet its Kyoto Protocol obligations. Tokyo's outspoken governor, Shintaro Ishihara, has decided to go it alone and create Japan's first emissions cap system, an idea that has met resistance among some in industry and the central government. "If we don't make the efforts that we should right now, we would regret it ... |
UK Gives $894 Million to Alleviate Food Crisis (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 11:00:27
| Bloomberg: The U.K. will contribute 455 million pounds ($894 million) to help alleviate an increase in food prices that's caused rioting in more than 30 countries. The pledge was made by Secretary of State for International Development Douglas Alexander as delegates from around the world, including Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, gather in Rome for a three-day conference that aims to tackle the food crisis that threatens to swell the ranks of ... |
UN climate chief says cutting fuel taxes a bad idea for the environment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 11:00:27
| Associated Press: The top U.N. climate official says cutting fuel taxes in the face of rising oil prices would counteract efforts to fight global warming. Yvo de Boer says rich countries must confront their populations with "the environmental consequences of their actions." He says rich governments should encourage consumers to reduce dependence on oil and such fuels that contribute to global warming. He spoke at a conference in Paris on Tuesday. French officials have proposed ... |
UN Leader Ban Calls for 50% Increase in Food Output (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 11:00:27
| Bloomberg: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a 50 percent increase in food production by 2030, saying that failure to feed the world's growing population will spark civil unrest and starvation. ``The world needs to produce more food,'' he said today in the opening speech at the World Food Security conference in Rome. ``While we must respond immediately to high food prices, it is important that our longer-term focus is on improving world security -- and remains so for some ... |
UN Opens Food Summit with Call for Urgent Action to Stem Food Crisis (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 11:00:27
| Voice of America: The United Nations is calling for urgent action to ease the global food crisis that officials say threatens to push millions of people across the globe into poverty and to the brink of starvation. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday addressed an international food summit in Rome urging world leaders to boost food output by 50 percent over the next two decades. The U.N. chief called on governments to administer direct food aid and to supply small farmers in stricken ... |
Biofuels, cases for the defense and prosecution (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 11:00:27
| Reuters: Biofuels are under fire. Critics say they contribute to soaring food prices and damage the environment. Defenders say biofuels are an important alternative to fossil fuels in the fight against global warming. FOOD VERSUS FUEL -- BIOFUEL IMPACT ON FOOD PRICES Following are Goldman Sachs estimates of the percentage of agricultural crop that biofuels used globally in 2006. While little wheat is used for biofuel directly, the fuel uses other crops such as corn and rapeseed which ... |
About Farmers, Without Farmers (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 01:00:25
| Inter Press Service: Record high food prices and their impact on poor countries will dominate the three-day UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) summit of world leaders that opened Tuesday in Rome. But the solutions to the food crisis cannot be left to governments only, according to several small farmers groups running a parallel civil society food forum. More than 100 delegates from international social movements, farmers organisations, indigenous groups from the South and NGOs are holding a ... |
China needs new policies to kickstart biofuel sector - expert (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 01:00:26
| AFX: The Chinese government needs to draw up new policies to ensure that its biofuel targets can be achieved efficiently and economically, said a researcher with the country's regulator, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). Wang Zhongying, the assistant director of the renewable energy section of the NDRC's Energy Research Institute, said at a conference in Beijing that the industry has so far been stumbling along without any proper product standards or market entry ... |
End to ethanol could stave off grain crisis-expert (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 01:00:26
| Reuters: Halting production of ethanol from grains would help ease global grains shortages in the short-term, the founder of the Earth Policy Institute think tank said on Tuesday. Ethanol, a fuel made from corn, accounts for a 20 million ton increase in the amount of grains consumed each year, far outpacing growth of about 2 million tonnes a year on average in demand from China, Lester Brown told reporters in Beijing. Brown also called for higher water prices to encourage efficient ... |
EU low-cost airlines reject planned emissions trading rules (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 01:00:26
| Associated Press: Low-cost airlines on Tuesday called on the European Union to reject a plan that would force air carriers to trade pollution allowances because they say it risks turning potential environmental benefits into punitive fees for air carriers and passengers. Under the EU proposal, debated by the member states' governments and the European Parliament, airlines would trade pollution permits, forcing them to buy more credits over a certain limit of CO2 emission or reduce the greenhouse gases ... |
World food crisis: Production must rise by 50%, says UN chief (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 01:00:27
| Guardian: World food production must rise by 50% by 2030 to meet increasing demand, the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, told the UN food summit today. He urged a quick resolution of world trade talks and said nations must minimise export restrictions and import tariffs to alleviate the food crisis. "The world needs to produce more food," Ban said. "Food production needs to rise by 50% by the year 2030 to meet rising demand." He said a UN task force set up to ... |
United States: Chicago Botanic Garden to break ground on $50 million conservation center (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 01:00:27
Canada: Concern resurfaces about algae blooms plaguing some Quebec lakes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 01:00:27
France: Environment 'more vital than economy' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 01:00:27
EU still split on biofuels, decision seen delayed (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 01:00:27
| Reuters: European Union states are so divided on the conditions for producing biofuels made from crops that they are unlikely to reach agreement this week on a set of so-called "sustainability criteria", diplomats say. A paper circulated by the Slovenian EU presidency before environment ministers meet on Thursday shows member states don't agree on rules to prevent fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel doing more harm than good in fighting climate change. "There remain ... |
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