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18/5/2013
The European Union should scrap fossil fuel and renewable energy subsidies and set a target to cut oil imports to remain the
leader in the fight against global warming, according to Poland’s environment minister.Poland wants to keep ...
16/5/2013
Since the disappointment of Copenhagen in 2009, Australia has witnessed a concerted scare campaign against action on global warming. The scare campaign has been led by senior commentators in (Murdoch owned) News Limited papers, by conservative ...
13/5/2013
United Nations negotiations to contain
emissions from planes and ships recommence in Montreal and London this week, with hopes for a global climate change deal in 2015 resting on these two sectors.
Only China, USA, India and Russia emit ...
13/5/2013
"The main thing is the oneness of humanity," His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, said during an environmental summit Saturday in Portland.
"In 1959 I came from Tibet and escaped to India. Now the whole world has some ...
9/5/2013
As another barge gorged with coal drifted past down the Rhine, France’s lead climate negotiator Paul Watkinson tweeted: “one day the barges will be filled with wind and sun:-)”.
It was a comment that summed up last week’s meeting of UN ...
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 ...
6/5/2013
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Monday that in the quest for binding international
emissions targets to fight global warming, doing nothing is "not an option".
"I'm under no illusion that there is a long road ahead," Merkel said ...
4/5/2013
Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Climate Secretariat, visited the Living on Earth studios on her way from UMass Boston to international negotiations in Bonn, Germany. The Bonn session is one of many leading up to a meeting in ...
28/4/2013
China continues to increase its renewable energy use as the Asian nation works towards lowering growth in
carbon emissions, a new report says.The federal government's climate commission released a report today showing the world's two ...
25/4/2013
Australia’s first review of its
emission-reduction targets will try to sidestep the political questions surrounding
carbon markets, according to the head of the newly formed Climate Change Authority.
“It’s been a long time since we’ve ...
23/4/2013
B.C. New Democratic Party
leader Adrian Dix's criticism Monday of Kinder Morgan's proposed $5.4-billion oil pipeline marks the latest twist in an election campaign that, for the first time in B.C.'s modern history, has the oil-and-gas industry ...
18/4/2013
Chevron Corp. (CVX) helped write the first-in-the-nation rule ordering reduced
carbon emissions from cars and trucks. Its biofuels chief spoke at the ceremony where California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the executive order in 2007, the ...
10/4/2013
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has announced today during her visit to Beijing that Australia and China have agreed to new arrangements to strengthen our collaboration on
carbon markets.
This agreement reflects China’s commitment to ...
9/4/2013
The Alberta government is awaiting industry feedback on a controversial proposal to increase the provincial
carbon tax to $40 from $15, Energy Minister Ken Hughes said Monday.
The idea has reignited debate about Alberta’s
carbon levy, ...
27/3/2013
The European Union’s executive will start a debate today on EU climate and energy rules as the crisis-ridden bloc seeks a long-term plan to cut greenhouse gases and promote clean power technologies.
The European Commission is scheduled ...
20/3/2013
As part of its effort to persuade the United States to accept the Keystone pipeline and the oil sands fuel it would carry from Canada, the province of Alberta is advertising itself as an environmental
leader at the cutting edge of clean energy ...
10/3/2013
The flight from Quito to Coca, a small oil town in the Ecuadorian Amazon, takes off a couple of hours late, so we don't reach Coca until around noon. Then we have to take a helicopter up the Napo river to reach Añangu, in the heart of Yasuni, the ...
6/3/2013
Canada will soon have some of the toughest climate regulations among oil and gas exporting countries, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said Wednesday as he completed a U.S. visit aimed at boosting support for the embattled Keystone XL ...
25/2/2013
The Alberta government said on Monday it canceled C$285 million ($278 million) in funding for a
carbon-capture project tied to a proposed synthetic natural gas plant, the second withdrawal of such an environmental initiative in less than a ...
25/2/2013
For the second time in less than a year a key
carbon capture and storage project in Alberta has been hit with a major setback, denting the province's efforts to combat
carbon emissions.
The Alberta government cancelled its $285-million ...
21/2/2013
In November 2010, the Governors of California, Chiapas and Acre -- all members of the Governors' Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF) -- signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote collaborative efforts to reduce
emissions from deforestation ...
18/2/2013
Yesterday over 35,000 people rallied in Washington D.C. for urgent action on climate change, which, according to organizers, was the largest climate march in U.S. history. Activists called on the Obama Administration to do much more to tackle ...
30/1/2013
A global system to regulate runaway greenhouse gas
emissions from aviation is technically and economically feasible and could help address climate change, according to a new WWF report.
The report comes ahead of a critical meeting of the ...
25/1/2013
During his inaugural address earlier this week, President Obama raised eyebrows by making a call for new action on climate change.
"We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our ...
23/1/2013
President Barack Obama made a poignant comment about the need to address climate change, during his inauguration speech on Monday. Commentators everywhere noted how the remark stood out, and also asked what specific measures the second-term ...