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Australia: Labor puts faith in clean coal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 10:00:38
| Australian: IN the Labor Party's dream of an affordable, low-emission energy future, technology that captures and stores greenhouse gases from coal-fired power stations (CCS) is the night-light that keeps them safe from the monster that lives under the bed. That monster is nuclear energy. Last week, in an intriguing development, Environment Minister Peter Garrett took flailing opposition leader Brendan Nelson to task for maintaining an open mind on nuclear energy as a possibility in the future ... |
Japan may invest $1.93 bn in climate fund-report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 10:00:39
| Reuters: Japan is planning to invest up to $1.93 billion in an international fund aimed at encouraging the use of renewable energy technology in developing countries, the Nikkei financial daily said on Sunday. The fund, to be set up jointly with the United States and Britain, is expected be the largest ever of its type, with total investment of about 500 billion yen ($4.82 billion), the Nikkei said. By investing in technologies such as wind and solar power in less developed countries, ... |
Thirsting for Energy in India's Boomtowns and Beyond (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 10:00:39
| New York Times: It is Friday night in the mecca of new Indian ambition. The air is thick with the construction dust of new glass-fronted high-rise buildings. The traffic moves so slowly that commuters can gape all they want at the Burberry advertisement that lights up the facade of a shopping mall. In the din of car horns and cranes, Sucharita Rastogi, 27, a business school graduate, waits wearily for her office van to pull up and take her home; it will be at least a 90-minute crawl. "Mind-wise," ... |
Citizen scientists track climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 10:00:39
| Miami Herald: Want to become a citizen scientist and help track climate change? Take a notebook and pencil on a walk around the block or your own backyard and look for the first new flower on the shaving brush tree or the first open amaryllis or the first flowers on the live oak. Write down the name and the date. Click on Project Budburst (www.budburst.org) and enter your findings. You'll join thousands of others across the country who are recording the first buds to open, the first leaves ... |
Danish Guest Asks Bush to Back Climate Treaty (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 10:00:39
| New York Times: With less than a year to go in office, President Bush has begun offering valedictory courtesies to favored foreign leaders, including a much coveted ranch visit this weekend to the Danish prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Mr. Rasmussen, who has been one of Mr. Bush's most stalwart defenders on Iraq, has sharply reduced his country's contingent there but still has 600 troops in Afghanistan. Despite his obvious delight at being invited to Mr. Bush's ranch, Mr. Rasmussen ... |
Denmark seeks US intervention in limiting emissions in India (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 10:00:39
| Press Trust of India: Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has sought US intervention in persuading fast growing economies such as India and China to cut carbon emissions. "We need a comprehensive global agreement and American leadership is needed to reach that goal," he told a joint press conference on Saturday with US President George W Bush. "The goal is to get the US, China and India to participate in the follow-up treaty to the Kyoto climate accord, which expires in ... |
US must move carefully on biofuels policy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 10:00:39
| San Jose Mercury News: The world has embraced biofuels as a form of clean energy that could sharply reduce global warming. Look no further than the 2007 energy bill that mandates a big increase in coming years in nationwide use of renewable fuels, such as ethanol. Or consider the growing amounts of Silicon Valley venture capital flowing into developing promising biofuels from plant cellulose. But slow down. The "green" promise of some biofuels should get a closer look. As the United States and ... |
Alaska taking steps to deal with warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 10:00:39
| Baltimore Sun: In the Norton Sound village of Shaktoolik, berms of driftwood above the beach used to provide protection from the sea. But these days the storm waves travel farther, pounding into the village itself, and the "Yukon logs" are tossed around like battering rams. Shaktoolik is the latest of a half-dozen remote Alaska villages battling drastic erosion from a changing climate. All of them face expensive options - seawall? relocation? - with meager resources of their ... |
All About: Eco-philanthropy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 12:00:37
| CNN: If the excessive lifestyles of the rich have been partly to blame for destroying the environment, then it seems equitable that they use their money to preserve it. But the degree to which they are actually helping does largely depend on what they do with their money. And some 'beneficiaries' of that aid are yet to be convinced. According to last year's Merrill Lynch survey of the world's wealth, there are 9.5 million U.S. dollar millionaires in the world today, who have pocketed a ... |
New US climate offer 'too little' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 12:00:37
| BBC: A senior European official has described America's latest offer on climate change as far too little, far too late. The US climate chief James Connaughton told the BBC that President Bush was ready this year to sign up to an international long-term goal of huge emissions cuts by 2050. He said the US was also prepared to agree to internationally-binding medium-term goals for its own greenhouse gas emissions. "America's helping lead the way among the major economies ... |
Brazilian Ethanol Goes It Alone (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 12:00:38
| Inter Press Service: Despite the urgency to reduce emissions that contribute to climate change, Brazil has been unable to stave off the doubts that are slowing the growth of an international market for plant-based biofuels. In the three decades since fuel alcohol, or ethanol, has been used as a gasoline substitute (or mixed with it) in Brazil, the country has avoided emissions of 600 million tonnes of carbon, the main contributor to global warming, according to Environment Minister Marina Silva. ... |
Banks say in talks to shape U.S. climate policy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 12:00:40
| Reuters: U.S. banks, industry and decision makers are holding open talks about the shape of future climate regulations in the United States, likely to have far-reaching impact on the economy, bankers say. The main idea of any climate change regime is to put a price on carbon emissions, for example with a carbon tax, or subsidize alternative, low carbon-emitting energy technologies like solar power, or both. The European Union leads the world in national policies to curb greenhouse gas ... |
Ecuador: Galápagos Islands in Search of Clean Energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 12:00:40
| Inter Press Service: Ecuador has taken the first step towards ending the oil dependence of its Galápagos Islands, in the eastern Pacific Ocean, with the official opening of a 10.8 million dollar wind energy facility on the island of San Cristóbal. Ecuador's President Rafael Correa toured the facility as part of a celebration of the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the Galápagos, and proposed to declare the islands fossil fuel free by 2015. Located 1,000 kilometres off the coast of Ecuador, ... |
Brazil: King of soya: environmental vandal or saviour of the world's poor? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 11:00:40
| Guardian: Erai Maggi does not look like a villain who is destroying the planet; nor does he look like a hero who is saving the world's poor. Wearing jeans and work boots, he can be found on a typical day driving a battered Fiat car on one of his farms south of the Amazon rainforest. For someone who excites extreme views he seems miscast, neither Darth Vader nor Indiana Jones. But the 48-year-old Brazilian farmer is protagonist in a drama about climate change, globalisation, poverty and ... |
United Kingdom: Global warming pioneer's job threatened (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 11:00:40
| Independent: The man who unlocked the secrets of the new seasons of climate change may have to leave his job because of government cutbacks. Tim Sparks has led the way in demonstrating that the plants and animals were already responding to global warming, before people were even aware of the problem. The environmental statistician fathered a revival in the study of the timings of natural events, such as the leafing of trees, the nesting of birds and the emergence of insects – all of which are ... |
Tobacco and oil pay for climate conference (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 11:00:40
| Independent: The first international conference designed to question the scientific consensus on climate change is being sponsored by a right-wing American think-tank which receives money from the oil industry. The same group has tried to undermine the link between passive smoking and health problems and has accepted donations from a major tobacco company. The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in New York appears to be a conventional exchange of ideas on the science of ... |
Fiji: Carbon warning over ethanol (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 11:00:40
| Fiji Times: Turning new land into cassava plantations could incur carbon debts and make Fiji a global warming culprit, says an academic. Associate Professor in Physics at the University of the South Pacific, Anirudh Singh said the country should observe damaging examples from Asia. "We don't want to be like Indonesia, which has created carbon debts of up to 400 years by clearing tropical rainforests to plant palm oil plants for the biofuel industry." His comments followed ... |
Climate change poses 'security risk' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 11:00:40
| Financial Times: Climate change poses "serious security risks" and fighting it should be part of "preventive security policy", according to the European Union's top diplomats, writes Andrew Bounds in Brussels. The warning is contained in a paper prepared for an EU summit this month by Javier Solana, the bloc's foreign policy chief, and Benita Ferrero-Waldner, external relations commissioner. The paper, seen by Financial Times Deutschland and the FT, says increased natural ... |
United Kingdom: Government backflip on solar panel policy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 11:00:40
| Telegraph: Householders will be able to make money by fitting solar panels or mini wind turbines to their roofs, under proposals to be announced in the Budget next week. Those who generate their own renewable energy through the devices will be able to sell their surplus electricity to the National Grid, at a guaranteed price. The scheme, known as "feed in tariffs", gives long-term financial security to homeowners who instal the expensive electricity generation equipment. It has ... |
South Asia to face absolute food crisis in days to come (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 11:00:40
| Daily Star: Painting a gloomy picture of environmental degradation across the globe, Dr Atiq Rahman, winner of the Champions of Earth Award 2008, yesterday urged the world leaders to make the planet a fairer and better place to live in by establishing social justice. Speaking at a reception, he said global warming is causing a rise in sea level resulting frequent natural calamities like floods, cyclone, drought and salinity. The reception was arranged by University and Industry Alliance ... |
China Mulls Change to One-Child Policy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 11:00:41
| Associated Press: China may consider changing its one-child policy because it has helped slow population growth over the last three decades, a Chinese official said Sunday. The policy, launched in the 1970s, has produced "very good results," said Wu Jianmin spokesman for the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, an advisory body to parliament. There would be an estimated 400 million more people in China without it, Wu said. "The one-child policy was the only ... |
The Corporate Threat to Water and the Water Justice Movement's Fight to Protect it (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 11:00:41
| Democracy Now!: AMY GOODMAN: Eight of the nation's largest water providers from California to New York have announced the formation of a coalition to develop strategies on dealing with climate change. The members of the newly formed Water Utility Climate Alliance together provide water to more than 36 million people in the United States. The group has developed a list of goals that include expanding climate change research, developing strategies for adapting to climate change and identifying greenhouse gas ... |
United States: Global Warming: Taxing carbons (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 11:00:41
| Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels and state Sen. Ed Murray recently unveiled a plan to tax cars on the basis of their fuel efficiency. The more climate-changing emissions from vehicles, the more we would pay for registering cars each year. For instance, Prius owners might pay an extra $60 per year while a Hummer owner would have a bill of $180. Variously dubbed a carbon tax or a Hummer tax, it is a worthy idea. And the best thing that could happen would be to have it fade into obscurity, ... |
United Kingdom: Windfarm 'obsession' criticised (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 11:00:42
| BBC: Wales is in danger of being smothered "in a blanket of wind turbines," says the Conservatives assembly environment spokesman. Darren Millar AM told delegates at the Welsh party's conference in Llandudno that the assembly government had a "blind obsession" with wind power. Mr Millar said the Conservatives were not against wind energy, only large scale windfarms. He said the current policy was leading to a "massive democratic deficit". ... |
United Kingdom: A revolution in the skies... a disaster for the planet (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 11:00:42
| Independent: Cheap flights. More flights. Multiplying routes. At the end of a week that has seen protests against airport expansion, predictions of further airport chaos, and record oil prices, British travellers are showing no sign of shaking off their addiction to CO2-heavy cheap flights. A record number of new air links will open from the UK to Europe this summer. The Independent has identified 100 entirely new short-haul international routes to be launched from Britain when the summer ... |
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