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17/6/2013
As leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the USA and the UK descend on Northern Ireland for their yearly G8 jamboree, even the most conservative of bodies are calling for urgent action on climate change. The World Bank, for ...
15/6/2013
Climate scientist James Hansen -- now retired and
free from the constraints of his role at NASA -- last night promoted a
carbon tax as the most effective way to curb greenhouse gas emissions in a keynote address before Colorado ...
12/6/2013
China, responsible for about one-quarter of the world’s
carbon dioxide emissions, has ambitious goals to reduce them -- but has been unwilling to set absolute targets for fear of slowing economic growth. There are now signs that its position is ...
11/6/2013
Under an eco-friendly, flowering turf roof in an industrial park, the world's largest maker of green cleaning products is trying to figure out how to stay on top of a market that has big growth potential but also increasingly fierce ...
11/6/2013
Claremont College students demonstrate for fossil fuel divestment in Los Angeles.
For young people who believe climate change is the biggest challenge humans have ever faced, the time for debate has passed. Now they're aiming to hit ...
7/6/2013
It was the dirty secret of Alberta's tar sands – until the black mountain of petroleum coke on the banks of the Detroit River grew to occupy an entire city block three storeys high.
Now it could become a familiar feature at storage yards ...
7/6/2013
At Dan's Neighbourhood Pub near the outskirts of Fort Nelson, Randy Stainky takes another swig of beer and laments the straggly state of the moose he sees in the area these days.
Lana Lowe, director of the Fort Nelson First Nation Lands ...
7/6/2013
The European Union’s regulatory arm proposed to set the quota for international
carbon credits at the lowest level allowed by law after imports aggravated a record glut of permits in the EU emissions-trading system.
Participants in the ...
6/6/2013
Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the ultra-conservative group funded by the Koch oil billionaires, is launching a series of adverts that target Democratic senators and aim to block action on climate change.The online-only campaign was ...
4/6/2013
A San Francisco billionaire -- a friend to Barack Obama and a major Democratic financier -- is embarking on a mission to block TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline by targeting voters who cast ballots for the president in last year's ...
4/6/2013
The government has seen off a rebellion by Lib Dem and Conservative MPs over calls for a
carbon emissions target for the
energy industry.
Senior Tory backbencher Tim Yeo sought to amend the coalition's
Energy Bill to set a ...
1/6/2013
"Drill, baby, drill" has been replaced by "Frack, baby, frack."
That's supposed to be good for the planet, because fracking - the hydraulic fracturing of rock formations such as shale - releases great dollops of gas, whose
carbon ...
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 ...
26/5/2013
The UK will push for the EU to adopt a legally binding target to cut its collective greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 50 per cent by 2030, it emerged on Saturday. But it will not back what it believes would be an “inflexible and unnecessary” ...
25/5/2013
We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group: genocide. And one for the conscious destruction of aspects of the environment: ecocide. But we don't have a word for the conscious act of destroying the planet we live on, ...
25/5/2013
President Barack Obama began his second term with a ringing pledge to tackle climate change — saying that “the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations.”
Four months later, everyone’s still ...
25/5/2013
Parhelion Underwriting Ltd. became the first insurer to offer a policy to protect companies from the invalidation of
carbon offset credits sold as part of California's cap-and-trade program.
Parhelion, based in London, will sell ...
23/5/2013
Quebec will announce within weeks that it will launch its own public review of a proposed pipeline that would deliver crude oil from western Canada to eastern markets, its environment minister said Thursday.
Yves-Francois Blanchet told ...
23/5/2013
I was optimistic when I began reading the Washington Post op-ed on climate change by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), current chairman of the House Science Committee. He began with a plea for a thoughtful and objective discussion of climate science. ...
23/5/2013
Europe’s plan to decarbonise its economy by 2050 could be turned on its head at a summit today (22 May) if EU heads of state and government sign off on measures prioritising industrial competitiveness over climate change in draft conclusions seen ...
22/5/2013
A coalition of 67 grassroots groups criticized the Environmental Defense Fund for its ties to natural gas drillers in setting voluntary standards for hydraulic fracturing, a process opposed by many green advocates.
The activist groups, ...
22/5/2013
Chancellor Angela Merkel appointed him for his charm and political skill as marshal of her vision of a 'green revolution' in Europe's biggest power market. A year on, Peter Altmaier finds himself spurned by many environmentalists, disdained by ...
21/5/2013
On May 18th, China’s 4th most powerful politician, Yu Zhengsheng, Chairman of the National Committee of the CPPCC (Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference) opened the Second Conference of the (carbon-neutralized) Taihu World Cultural ...
21/5/2013
Journalist and climate activist Bill McKibben is in Australia in June on his epic Do The Math tour, which aims to highlight the danger of fossil fuel company oil and coal reserves and encourage divestment.
The tour was kick started by ...
18/5/2013
The surplus of permits in the EU’s
carbon market more than doubled last year to 2bn, according to fresh data that Brussels hope will rally support for its controversial plan to boost
carbon prices.The data – released by the European ...