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28/5/2013
They say that every cloud has a silver lining. If future energy consumption (which is mostly fossil fuel) drops because of a financial collapse brought on by high oil prices and other limits, then, at least in theory, climate change should be ...
14/5/2013
A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to attend an event in Ottawa put on by Canada 2020, a newish think tank of sorts that is trying to further debate on the policy changes we need over the next decade. “How to sell carbon pricing to Canadians” ...
8/5/2013
German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week called for a redoubling of efforts to forge a new U.N. agreement on climate change by 2015.
Speaking Monday at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, Merkel warned the representatives of 35 ...
12/4/2013
Which fares worse in a world of climate shifts, drought-ridden Burundi or flood-prone Bangladesh?
As poorer countries are hit by the effects of climate change and their resources to respond remain inadequate, richer nations have promised ...
6/4/2013
The economic benefits to Canada from oilsands industrial expansion may be “considerably less” than what the Canadian government and industry representatives predict, if the planet collectively takes action to slash the heat-trapping greenhouse ...
21/3/2013
Fifteen years after the
Kyoto protocol was signed and just months after being extended, a true global carbon trading marketplace may finally be within the world's grasp.
It is as though a line of dominos has suddenly appeared, awaiting ...
12/3/2013
Japan’s proposal to cut the price paid for solar power by 10 percent leaves in place incentives for a boom in installations this year, the industry’s lobby group said.
A committee of experts advising the Ministry of Economy, Trade and ...
8/3/2013
Republican eminence grise George Shultz addressed a packed room on Capitol Hill Friday to press for a carbon tax.
A Californian now at the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Shultz taught
economics at the University ...
17/2/2013
President Obama faces a knotty decision in whether to approve the much-delayed Keystone oil pipeline: a choice between alienating environmental advocates who overwhelmingly supported his candidacy or causing a deep and perhaps lasting rift with ...
3/2/2013
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has vilified political opponents who support a tax on carbon-dioxide emissions. The oil-sands industry, Canada’s fastest growing CO2 polluter, says he’s out of step.
The contradiction of an industry ...
30/1/2013
Although the region is not a big polluter, the threat of climate change means it should lead the way on cuts, argues Crispin Maslog.
The category 5 super typhoon Bopha, which wreaked havoc in southern and central Philippines in the first ...
25/1/2013
President Barack Obama’s chief global climate cop won’t be stationed at EPA or on the White House staff. He’ll be at the State Department.
Obama’s choice of John Kerry as the nation’s top diplomat is the strongest signal to the ...
13/1/2013
Politicians are doing more to combat climate change than they are given credit for, according to a report.
It says 32 out of 33 countries surveyed have introduced, or are producing, significant climate-related laws.
Out of ...
13/1/2013
China, Mexico and other emerging economies are leading the fight against climate change by passing laws to cut carbon and raise energy efficiency, the Globe International alliance of lawmakers said today.
A study of energy and climate ...
9/1/2013
Environmental groups urge Obama to use ‘executive authority’ to fight climate change Annual bird counts give scientists climate clues 2012 another record-setter, fits climate forecasts Only 37 countries willing to back
Kyoto Protocol ...
14/12/2012
Four Deutsche Bank staff have reportedly been jailed in the latest twist to a European carbon trading fraud investigation that has seen the bank's co-chief executive brought in for questioning.
Five bank staff appeared before judges ...
14/12/2012
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10/12/2012
With the Doha summit now concluded, with only very modest achievement, there is growing consensus that a faster response to climate change is desperately needed. This is especially so when the science and physical impacts of global warming are ...
10/12/2012
At the end of another lavishly-funded U.N. conference that yielded no progress on curbing greenhouse emissions, many of those most concerned about climate change are close to despair.
As thousands of delegates checked out of their ...
5/12/2012
As climate change delegates meet in Doha for the United Nations climate change conference (COP18) they are facing a unique crisis: The developing countries' most important pillar in the fight against climate change -- and one the
Kyoto Protocol's ...
4/12/2012
Poor nations must make haste to curb greenhouse gas emissions as even an impossible zero-percent pollution target for the developed world by 2030 won't stop calamitous climate change, a report warned Tuesday.
Co-authored by former World ...
4/12/2012
Extreme weather is the new normal and poses a threat to the human race, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday, as he sought to revive deadlocked global climate change talks.
Ban's intervention came as efforts to agree a ...
3/12/2012
Amid the glittering skyscrapers of Doha, capital of the arid, oil-rich Arab emirate of Qatar, 17,000 diplomats, delegates, nongovernmental organizations, and environmentalists are converging this week and next in the conference halls and ...
29/11/2012
A list of popular villains from the 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen would almost certainly include Canada and China. Justly or not, both countries took much of the blame for the failure of the planet's leaders to negotiate a binding global ...
21/11/2012
The gap between the steps required to avoid "dangerous" climate change and current policies is widening and without swift international action global emissions will move the world further beyond a safe temperature trajectory, the UN has today ...