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Global warming puts heat on Arctic ice cap (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-29-2008 at 01:00:32
| Agence France-Presse: The Arctic ice cap keeps melting under the effects of global warming, and has shrunk by the second-largest amount in any northern summer since satellite observations began 30 years ago, according to US scientists. Measurements on Tuesday showed the size of the ice cap at 5.26 million sqkm, just below the 5.32 million sqkm observed on September 21, 2005, the National Snow and Ice Data Centre said. Since the start of the month, the centre, based in Boulder, Colorado, said the ... |
Now you see it, now you don't (nearly as much) (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-29-2008 at 01:00:30
| Christian Science Monitor: It`s getting down to the wire: Will the Arctic ice cap`s annual melt-off this year top last year`s record? In one sense, it`s a trivial 'horse race' question, because at this point in the summer, stats for the two years are sufficiently close and low to arch eyebrows yet again within the Arctic science community — already out in force as part of the International Polar Year, which runs through next March. So far, this year`s decline has ensured that 2008 will at least ... |
As Biomass Power Rises, a Wood-Fired Plant Is Planned in Texas (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-29-2008 at 01:00:28
| New York Times: The city of Austin, Tex., approved plans on Thursday for a huge plant that will burn waste wood to make electricity, the latest sign of rising interest in a long-dormant form of renewable energy. When completed in 2012, the East Texas plant will be able to generate 100 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 75,000 homes. That is small by the standards of coal-fired power plants, but plants fueled by wood chips, straw and the like – organic materials collectively known as biomass – ... |
Australia: Gunns nearly out of ammo on pulp mill (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 11:00:36
| Australian: THE long battle over the proposed Tasmanian pulp mill may soon be over, with proponent Gunns unable to give an assurance that the controversial project will proceed. In a marked change of tone, the timber company last night told the Australian Securities Exchange that it was no longer certain that it could obtain sufficient finance or a joint venture partner. It also told the market it could not meet a deadline for the start of construction of November 30, set by the Tasmanian ... |
A Hard Habit to Break, Even With Gas at $10 a Gallon (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 11:00:36
| New York Times: Ten dollars a gallon may seem unthinkable to American drivers still smarting from the spike in gas prices to around $4 a gallon. But that was nearly the price that Marco Annarumi faced recently when filling his Jeep on his way home from work. "It hasn't changed my driving at all – not a bit – I just have to work harder," he said with seeming indifference. High oil prices and high taxes on gas pushed the average price of gasoline to new heights in much of Europe this summer. Yet ... |
Changes in CO2 levels caused Greenland to be covered in ice (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 09:00:39
| Asian News International: The transition from the mostly ice-free Greenland of three million years ago, to the ice-covered region that we see today, can be attributed to changes in the carbon dioxide (CO2) levels. Though there have been many reports in the media about the effects of global warming on the Greenland ice-sheet, there is still great uncertainty as to why there is an ice-sheet there at all. Now, scientists at the University of Bristol and the University of Leeds in the UK, show that only ... |
Industry groups file lawsuit over polar bear rule (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 08:00:35
| Associated Press: Five industry groups have sued the Interior Department over a rule to protect the polar bear that they say unfairly singles out business operations in Alaska for their contribution to global warming. Groups representing the oil and gas, mining, and manufacturing industries asked a federal judge Wednesday to ensure that laws designed to protect the bear, which was recently designated a threatened species, are not used to block projects that release heat-trapping gases in the ... |
Experts: Ocean level rise could cost SC billions (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 08:00:35
| Associated Press: Some experts say a rising ocean level could cost South Carolina billions of dollars in lost infrastructure. Geologists joined community and business leaders in Charleston on Thursday. They discussed how levees might one day be needed along the Charleston peninsula and rising sea levels could wash over South Carolina's barrier islands. Duke University geologist Orin Pilkey said a water rise of 5 feet is "a genuine possibility" by the year 2100. Maps from the Southern ... |
Antarctic Research Helps Shed Light On Climate Change On Mars (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 08:00:34
| Science Daily: Researchers examining images of gullies on the flanks of craters on Mars say they formed as recently as a few hundred thousand years ago and in sites once occupied by glaciers. The features are eerily reminiscent of gullies formed in Antarctica's mars-like McMurdo Dry Valleys. The parallels between the Martian gullies and those in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys were made using the latest high-resolution images and technology from satellites orbiting Mars to observe key details of ... |
Carbon clues to when Greenland was a green land (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 08:00:33
| Agence France-Presse: Climatologists poring over Greenland's ancient past say global cooling, unleashed by a fall in atmospheric greenhouse gases, caused the vast island to ice over around three million years ago. In a study released Wednesday, the British research team say that for aeons, Greenland was mostly ice-free and may have hosted grasslands and forests before it became smothered in a thick, glacial crust in a relatively short time. The ice sheet can only be explained by a decrease in ... |
Canada wants more study on polar bear protection (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 08:00:33
| Reuters: Canada, criticized by environmentalists for not adequately protecting polar bears from the effects of climate change, said on Thursday it will take more time study its next step. A scientific panel on Thursday released detailed findings of an April review that classified the bear population as a "special concern," but not endangered or threatened with extinction. The government has created a national round table to consult with a variety of groups, including residents of the ... |
Xcel agreement dims coal's future, critics say (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 08:00:32
| Minnesota Public Radio: Xcel Energy is one of five big electric companies targeted last fall by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Using a New York state law, he subpoenaed them to determine whether their reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission -- the agency that regulates Wall Street -- were adequate. The government will soon set limits on greenhouse gas emissions, and companies should start taking those limits into account, Cuomo and other investor watchdogs say. Coal-fired power plants ... |
Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice Verges on New Record Low (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 08:00:32
| Environment News Service: Evidence that Earth's climate continues to heat up comes this week in the form of satellite data that shows the extent of Arctic sea ice this year has shrunk below the 2005 minimum to stand as the second-smallest since observations from space began 30 years ago. Last summer, the extent of Arctic sea ice shrank to more than 30 percent below average, its smallest extent in the satellite record. Each year, the Arctic Ocean experiences the formation and then melting of vast amounts ... |
Papua New Guinea to Improve Power Supply (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 08:00:32
| Solomon Times: Papua New Guinea will draw up a detailed plan to improve power supply in the country where 90% of the population still has no electricity. The Japan Special Fund, administered by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), is providing a $1.2 million grant for Papua New Guinea to prepare a power sector development project design that will increase supply of reliable and sustainable power at reasonable cost. The government will contribute another $300,000 to the project. At present, more ... |
Clean power need gives India's solar mission a boost (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 08:00:31
| Times of India: The government is looking to get India's 'national solar mission' underway with steps to set up research-industry partnerships, tariff structures and tax breaks to citizens aimed at promoting competitiveness and even seed 'solar valleys' for largescale energy generation. The recognition that solar power represents a huge untapped potential for relatively clean energy saw PMO call a meeting on Tuesday to discuss what could be done to make this form of energy more viable in the Indian ... |
Australia: Carbon spike hits Kyoto gas pledge (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 08:00:31
| Canberra Times: Australia's fossil fuel emissions are growing more than four times faster than figures quoted by the Federal Government, placing Australia's Kyoto target at risk. Figures published online yesterday by one of the world's top authorities on greenhouse emissions shows Australia's total fossil fuel emissions jumped by 8.3 per cent from 93 million tonnes in 2004 to just over 100 million tonnes in 2005. This includes a 12 per cent rise in carbon dioxide emissions from cement ... |
US, 19 firms on clean-energy trade mission to China, India (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 07:00:32
| Agence France-Presse: The United States and 19 US companies will travel to China and India next month on a clean energy and environment trade mission, the Commerce Department said Thursday. US Commerce Assistant Secretary David Bohigian will lead the September 1-12 trade mission, the government's third such mission to the fast-growing Asian powerhouses since April 2007. "The 19 companies participating in this mission represent the cutting edge of US innovation, which can boost the efforts of China ... |
North Pole ice cap melting faster than ever (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 07:00:31
| Agence France-Presse: The Arctic ice cap keeps melting under the effects of global warming and in August saw its second largest summer shrinkage since satellite observations began 30 years ago, US scientists said. Measurements on August 26 showed an ice cap of 5.26 million square kilometers (2.03 million square miles), just below the 5.32 million square kilometers (2.05 million square miles) observed on 21 September 2005, making it the second biggest summer Arctic ice-cap melt in history, said the National ... |
Geothermal Company Set to Open First Plants (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 07:00:31
| Reuters: Five years after going public, geothermal company Raser Technologies Inc is on the verge of a major milestone: earning real revenue. Later this year, the renewable energy producer will open its first power plant in the Utah desert near the tiny town of Minersville. The plant will use hot water from deep underground to produce power for about 9,000 homes in Anaheim, California, the hometown of Disneyland. Seven more plants will come online next year, and Raser expects to see ... |
Xcel agreement dims coal's future, critics say (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 07:00:30
Future Storms, Global Warming Could Devastate Louisiana Coast (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 07:00:30
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Biofuels 200 times more expensive than forest conservation for global warming mitigation (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 07:00:30
| Mongabay: The British government should end subsidies for biofuels and instead use the funds to slow destruction of rainforests and tropical peatlands argues a new report issued by a U.K.-based think tank. The study, titled "The Root of the Matter" and published by Policy Exchange, says that "avoided deforestation" would be a more cost-effective way to address climate change, since land use change generates more emissions than the entire global transport sector and offers ancillary benefits ... |
Toyota Cuts 2009 Sales F'cast, Speeds Up Electric Cars (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 07:00:29
| Reuters: Toyota Motor Corp cut its 2009 vehicle sales forecast by nearly 7 percent as high fuel prices hammer demand for large cars and pickup trucks, and said it will speed up the rollout of hybrid and electric cars as their popularity grows. The weaker outlook from the world's most profitable carmaker weighed on shares of European rivals and highlighted an increasingly difficult environment, where orders in the United States and Western Europe for high-margin, gas-thirsty vehicles is ... |
United Kingdom: Brown faces rebellion over windfall tax on energy firms (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 07:00:29
| Independent: Gordon Brown faces an embarrassing defeat at next month's Labour Party conference over the Government's refusal to impose a windfall tax on the energy companies. Supporters of a one-off raid on energy firms to fund help for people paying soaring fuel bills are planning to force a vote on the issue at Labour's Manchester conference, which opens on 20 September. They claim strong and growing support for the idea among trade unions and Labour constituency parties – which each have ... |
Europeans Back Tough Car Emission Targets - Poll (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 07:00:29
| Reuters: A majority of Europeans back planned legislation to enforce big cuts in carbon dioxide emissions from new cars, a public opinion poll in the European Union's five biggest countries showed on Thursday. The survey, carried out by the TNS Opinion pollster for the Friends of the Earth lobby group, may strengthen the case for the European Parliament to keep tough targets for lowering emissions of one of the main gases blamed for global warming. A key committee at the legislature ... |
Honolulu Declaration Offers Ways to Curb Ocean Acidification (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 03:00:33
| Environment News Service: As the oceans absorb increasing amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, they are becoming increasingly acid, weakening the world's coral reefs. Today, top marine scientists and The Nature Conservancy offered a plan to combat ocean acidification that includes limits on fossil fuel emissions, reduction of stress on reefs, and creation of marine protected areas to build resilience of tropical marine ecosystems. The plan is contained in the Honolulu Declaration on Ocean ... |
UK paying £19 billion 'too much' in green taxes (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 03:00:32
| Politics.co.uk: The UK is paying £19 billion too much in green taxes, according to the Taxpayers' Alliance. The group subtracted the costs of greenhouse gas emissions from the amount of green tax paid by the UK and found Britain paid £19.6 billion too much. The emission figures came from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), but when the group used the government's own estimates, it still found the UK was overtaxed by £7.9 billion. "Green taxes are set far ... |
UK government to measure carbon in supply chain (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 03:00:32
| Environmental Finance: The UK government has begun measuring the greenhouse gas emissions in its supply chains, teaming up with the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), an organisation that is working with the private sector on the same issue. The Public Sector Supply Chain Project will identify the carbon footprints within each participating public body's supply chain and will lead to 'a better understanding of the associated risks and opportunities', the CDP said. Among the government organisations ... |
Greenhouse gas rise in state double that of U.S. (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 03:00:32
| Daily Press: Virginia's governor-appointed Commission on Climate Change predicted Wednesday that greenhouse-gas emissions would increase 31 percent by 2025 if the state stayed on a "business-as-usual" track. In a draft report summarizing all the ground that the commission has covered since its creation this year, the group said the man-made link to greenhouse-gas increases was "unequivocal." The commission also pointed out that as the state's population grew -- and more cars hit the roads and more ... |
EU lawmakers urge caution on bloc's carbon curbs (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 03:00:32
| Reuters: The European Union's response to global warming could be watered down to cut the impact on heavy industry and ensure the bloc takes a cautious approach to tougher goals, a document seen by Reuters shows. The moves aimed at protecting EU industry from overseas competitors have alarmed environmentalists, who accuse lawmakers of already weakening curbs on emissions from cars and aviation. As part of its drive to lead the world in fighting climate change, the 27-country EU has ... |
Why capitalism creates a throwaway society (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 03:00:32
| New Statesman: Within living memory, Britain was a country where recycling was a way of life and waste was abhorred. Milk was delivered in glass bottles and the empties were left on the doorstep for collection the next morning. The silver tops were kept to buy guide dogs for the blind. A beer or soft-drink bottle carried a deposit that was recoverable on its return. Rag-and-bone men toured the streets seeking waste material. Children who failed to eat up their food were sternly told the ... |
California bill attacks sprawl (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 03:00:31
| LA Times: The groundbreaking legislation would help meet the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions through smarter regional planning. August 28, 2008 The number of miles Californians drive is growing almost twice as fast as the state's population, as housing developments sprout farther and farther from commercial centers. Not only does this urban sprawl put upward pressure on gasoline prices, it creates freeway gridlock, worsens air pollution and makes fighting global warming next to ... |
African civil groups demand massive climate change compensation (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 03:00:30
| Ekklesia: A number of key African civil society organisations have come together with church development campaigners, to demand billions in compensation from rich countries for the impacts of global warming. The demand comes at the close of the United Nations climate change talks in Accra, Ghana. A number of countries, including the Philippines on behalf of the G77 group of developing countries and China, have made proposals for financing a global response to climate ... |
Low level of Arctic sea ice indicates a "tipping point" (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 03:00:30
| Associated Press: More ominous signs Wednesday have scientists saying a global-warming "tipping point" in the Arctic seems to be happening before their eyes: Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is at its second- lowest level in about 30 years. The National Snow and Ice Data Center reported that sea ice in the Arctic covers about 2.03 million square miles. The lowest point since satellite measurements began in 1979 was 1.65 million square miles set last September. With about three weeks left in the ... |
US inks geothermal pact with two nations (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 01:00:32
| United Press International: The United States, Australia and Iceland signed the charter of an agreement Thursday to promote geothermal technologies, the U.S. Energy Department said. The International Partnership for Geothermal Technology will help promote energy security and address global climate change, Katharine Fredriksen, the Energy Department's acting assistant secretary for policy and international affairs, said Thursday in a news release issued from Reykjavik, Iceland, where the agreement was ... |
EU should allow more carbon offsetting -lawmakers (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 01:00:32
| Reuters: The European Union should allow industry to offset a quarter of the cuts in greenhouse gases they have to make under emissions caps from 2013-20, EU lawmakers say in draft proposals seen by Reuters on Thursday. If enacted under an EU Parliament vote expected in coming months, and agreed by member states, the proposals by the EU parliament industry committee would allow more offsetting compared with the EU executive Commission's proposals in January. That would be good news for ... |
Canada: Critics dump on water study (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 01:00:31
| Montreal Gazette: The Montreal Economic Institute's dive into a 40-year controversy over bulk water exports ran into a tide of skepticism yesterday. Marcel Boyer, chief economist of the Montreal think tank, made public a 31-page study that claims Quebec could earn royalties of $6.5 billion annually on fresh water exports, or five time the dividend currently paid by Hydro-QuƩbec to the government. That's if it charged a 10-per-cent royalty on exports of one-tenth of the province's annual "renewable" ... |
Jordan accepts wind farm bids (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 12:00:30
| United Press International: Jordan's Energy Ministry is accepting bids for its first wind energy plant. By the end of the month, the ministry told the Jordan Times, the bids should be in and the ministers can choose the company that will construct the country's first wind farm. Companies from Germany, Spain, Greece, Italy, Denmark, Russia and the United Arab Emirates are expected to submit bids for the 40-megawatt plant. The plant will be built in Kamsheh near the northwestern city of Jerash, said ... |
E.ON to appeal over Scottish wind farm rejection (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 12:00:30
| Reuters: E.ON UK is to appeal against a local government refusal to grant planning permission for a wind farm at Auchencorth Moss in Scotland, the German-owned utility said on Thursday. Midlothian Council rejected the plan to build a 45-megawatt onshore wind farm neat Penicuik in February, despite the project's potential to contribute towards Britain's already challenging renewable energy targets. "We were disappointed in the decision made by Midlothian Council as we believe that ... |
Czech firm plans giant wind farm (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 12:00:30
| BBC: Wind farms are increasing as the EU tries to tackle climate change Czech power firm CEZ is to build what it says will be Europe's largest onshore wind farm, in a £1.1bn-euro (£598m) project. The wind farm is set to have a generation capacity of 600 megawatts and will be located in Romania. Construction of the wind farm will start in September and it is due to begin operating in 2009. Investment in renewable energy is increasing as EU rules make production from ... |
Birdspotting in France (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 12:00:30
| Guardian: Early in the morning on a country track east of Paris: Yves David, 27, is counting birds in the shade of the trees. He identifies them by sight but more by sound. He picks out a skylark, whitethroat, corn bunting and chiffchaff. "Listen, there's a wren and here's a collared dove. You have to be careful with the marsh warbler; it can imitate eight or nine other species. Now, that's an easy one, a nightingale." A few days later we visit a different habitat, starting outside ... |
Palm oil producers in Indonesia reject moratorium on forest destruction (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 12:00:29
| Mongabay: Palm oil companies operating in Indonesia have rejected a proposed moratorium on clearing forests and peatlands for oil palm plantations, reports the Jakarta Post. The Indonesian Palm Oil Producers Association (GAPKI) -- a group with 250 palm oil producers -- said that a ban on converting natural ecosystem for oil palm estates would hurt the economy, increasing unemployment and poverty. "Indonesia does not need to apply a moratorium on its forest. GAPKI strongly rejects the ... |
Australia: Our coal emissions are worst, says global study (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 12:00:29
| Melbourne Herald Sun: AUSTRALIANS continue to lead the world on emissions from burning coal, pumping the equivalent of l0 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year per person. The Centre for Global Development, a Washington think-tank, yesterday also revealed Australia is the planet's eighth biggest carbon polluter. The study of emissions from 50,000 coal-fired power stations put China, the US, India, Russia, Germany, Japan and Britain ahead of Australia in total carbon dioxide output. But each ... |
Financial Disclosure And Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 12:00:29
| Wall Street Journal: In the latest instance of state officials taking the lead in the regulation of greenhouse gases, New York state has secured an agreement with one of the largest operators of coal-burning power plants to share with its investors the risks posed to the business by global warming. Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy and four other publicly traded power generators were subpoenaed nearly a year ago by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who wanted to know if their disclosures to the ... |
Developing Nations Discuss Ways to Fight Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 12:00:29
| Voice of America: The delegates at the U.N. conference on climate change in Ghana say they are pleased with the progress made after a week of negotiations. Brent Latham reports from our West Africa bureau in Dakar, the parties hope to shape a new global environmental regime to further incorporate African countries in the fight against global warming. The U.N.-sponsored meeting in Accra was one in a series aimed at forging a deal to replace the Kyoto protocol, which expires at the end of 2012, and was ... |
Canada: Critics dump on water study (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 12:00:29
Alaska: Climate-change frontier (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 12:00:29
| Christian Science Monitor: On the approach to Exit Glacier in southeastern Alaska, wooden signs mark nearly 200 years of the ice's retreat. They begin at 1815, about a mile and a half from the ice's current terminus. That was the end of a several centuries-long cold spell known as the Little Ice Age. Since then, the bluish ice has receded up the valley at an average rate of 13 meters per year. Scientists are quick to say that glaciers naturally come and go and that no single phenomenon can be pegged with ... |
Africa climate conference delegates not offsetting flights (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 12:00:29
| Telegraph (UK): More than 1,700 delegates at two conferences on global warming being held in Kenya and Ghana have largely failed to carbon-offset their travel to the meetings, The Telegraph has learned. Some 140 participants have flown from as far as Japan to Nairobi for a forum of scientists and African and European MPs to discuss the devastating impact of climate change on the world's poorest people. The flights to the Nairobi conference will produce 2.6 tonnes of CO2 But few have ... |
Australia: User pays key to climate (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 12:00:28
| Australian: CLIMATE change is a global problem requiring a global solution. And, as Ross Garnaut has observed, the roadblock to a global solution is the prisoners' dilemma or free rider problem: if we all wait for others to act first, nothing gets done. But there is a flaw in the architecture the Government is proposing to cut carbon emissions. If the free rider problem is the obstacle to a global policy, then the first design criterion is not to make the problem worse than it has to ... |
Rich or poor? New faultline in UN climate talks (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 10:00:31
| Reuters: Rich countries are pushing developing nations with the strongest economies to do far more to combat climate change, opening a faultline between rich and poor in U.N. talks on global warming. The European Union, for instance, says that some developing nations such as Singapore, Argentina and some OPEC states have grown richer than some developed nations which have to shoulder the burden of cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. "We want some of the developing nations to do more," ... |
South Korea to Pump US$103 Bln Into Renewable Energy (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 08-28-2008 at 05:00:30
| Reuters: South Korea said on Wednesday it will spend 111.5 trillion won (US$103 billion) through 2030 in developing new renewable energy, in an effort to cut its reliance on fossil fuels and reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The plan is part of the government's long-term energy strategy and will come on top of other energy policies and overseas resource development plans. "(South Korea) will lower the portion of fossil energy to 61 percent by 2030 from the current 83 percent, while ... |
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