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6/6/2013
Today is World Environment Day, and to mark it, the U.N. Environment Programme and the World Resources Institute are releasing a paper calling for concerted action to reduce food loss and waste.
UNEP and WRI estimate that one-third of ...
28/5/2013
While President Obama's reelection
campaign was almost completely silent on the issue of global warming, Organizing for Action, the advocacy group tooled from his 2012
campaign machine, has launched a
campaign designed to build support for the ...
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 ...
10/5/2013
Specific criteria that countries can base emission reduction plans on needs be agreed at the Warsaw
climate summit at the end of 2013, an influential
campaign group has warned.
The
Climate Action Network (CAN) wants the UN to host an ...
8/5/2013
President Obama’s first major environmental decision of his second term could be to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, profoundly disappointing environmental advocates who have made the project a symbolic test of the president’s seriousness on ...
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 ...
6/5/2013
State of the Union addresses are wearying rituals, in which stitched-together lists of never-gonna-happen goals are woven into idealistic catchphrases, analyzed as rhetoric by an unqualified panel of poetry-critic-for-a-night political reporters, ...
3/5/2013
A new buzz phrase in the push to limit greenhouse gas emissions is "unburnable carbon" - an effort to define and then wall off the portion of the world`s still-vast reserves of coal, oil or natural gas that might, if combusted, cause unacceptably ...
1/5/2013
[Editor's note: With voting day just over two weeks away, we look back on big issues that have driven debate in our province during the last 12 years of BC Liberal governance. What did B.C.'s leaders and opposition parties say and do on these ...
20/4/2013
Global finance officials on Saturday endorsed a new World Bank goal to end extreme global poverty by 2030 and emphasized that its focus should be on ensuring that the poorest benefit from strong growth and rising prosperity in developing ...
18/4/2013
Forget the carbon price, forget the opposition`s Direct Action
climate plan. Australia could probably meet its
targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions without either, provided we did one thing. But you won`t hear the politicians talk about ...
16/4/2013
Just as one federal cabinet minister is urging a more sophisticated tone to the
climate-change debate, a second cabinet minister has found himself trying to prove he is not a
climate-change denier.
Environment Minister Peter Kent this ...
12/4/2013
Just as one federal cabinet minister is urging a more sophisticated tone to the
climate-change debate, a second cabinet minister has found himself trying to prove he is not a
climate-change denier.
Environment Minister Peter Kent this ...
7/4/2013
A few weeks ago the Skoll World Forum hosted an online debate on how increased global consumption can be balanced with sustainability. The debate asks how a rapidly growing world that is ever consuming can hope to feed everyone, and at the same ...
3/4/2013
A few weeks ago the Skoll World Forum hosted an online debate on how increased global consumption can be balanced with sustainability. The debate asks how a rapidly growing world that is ever consuming can hope to feed everyone, and at the same ...
3/4/2013
Europe's cap-and-trade system for reducing the release of greenhouse gases is broken, but not everybody wants to fix it. Industry has profited immensely from the plummeting prices of CO2 emissions certificates, and from lax checks on questionable ...
3/4/2013
What if, instead of giving Marie Curie and Alexander Fleming Nobel prizes for their life-saving work on radiation and penicillin, they'd been thrown in jail? Or, instead of being awarded the Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur for his work on the ...
26/3/2013
RTCC understands that the UK Prime Minister's Adviser for Europe and Global Issues Ivan Rogers has rejected moves from Germany and France to make the issue one of the meeting's key talking points.
Officials from the two countries are ...
23/3/2013
In the picturesque town of Lydd, the museum records the fate of two smugglers arrested at the turn of the 17th century. The men were locked in a room at a inn on the edge of Romney Marsh, a few miles from the English Channel, where they were ...
19/3/2013
EU politicians backed a compromise on Tuesday that would give carmakers limited leeway in the race to cut CO2 emissions in line with
targets while rejecting German calls for more lenient rules.
The issue of how strictly to enforce ...
19/3/2013
Despite little success so far and growing support nationally for clean energy, a multi-pronged
campaign to undercut renewable power mandates in the states is showing no signs of letting up.
Over the past few years, a rising tide of ...
17/3/2013
There was a telling moment just before Gov. Jay Inslee raised his right hand and took the oath of office.
He was introduced as a politician who sees
climate change as "an existential threat that transcends politics.'
"More than ...
13/3/2013
The European Union will look at whether it needs to keep setting the legally binding
targets that have made it a world leader in tackling greenhouse gas pollution, a draft paper on the bloc’s future
climate and energy policies shows.The ...
13/3/2013
EDF has today confirmed that it has reached a settlement with the group of protesters that it had been suing for £5m following their occupation last year of the West Burton gas power station.
In a statement the energy company said it had ...
10/3/2013
Last month, standing at the Old Capitol Pump House, a restored building along the Anacostia River, Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray announced the launch of the long-awaited Sustainable D.C. plan. The result of an amazing public outreach ...