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13/5/2013
"THIS IS THE CHURCH taking direct action and showing that it's not willing to profit from destroying the Earth."
That's what Justin Whelan, Paddington Uniting Church mission development manager, had to say after the church's NSW and ACT ...
12/5/2013
[Editor's note: Students from the State University of New York (SUNY) School of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY held their 2013 graduation ceremony yesterday. SUNY ESF's motto is "Improve Your World." Dr. Sandra Steingraber was ...
9/5/2013
In a U.S. patent application, a little-known Maryland inventor claims a stunning solar energy breakthrough that promises to end the planet's reliance on fossil fuels at a fraction of the current cost – a transformation that also could blunt ...
8/5/2013
The movement demanding that public interest institutions divest their holdings from fossil fuels is on a serious roll. Chapters have opened up in more than 100 US cities and states as well as on more than 300 campuses, where students are holding ...
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, ...
4/5/2013
The UK's energy policy is not "plausible" and a "crisis" is inevitable. That is the view of Peter Atherton, a respected utilities analyst who works for Liberum Capital, an investment bank in the City.
Atherton is convinced that ...
1/5/2013
If you weren’t familiar with the term “speculative bubble” before the U.S. economy imploded in 2008, you probably were after the crash. It quickly became part of our everyday lexicon as the government began to bail out many of the institutions ...
30/4/2013
In December 2011 countries agreed in Durban, South Africa to secure a new international legal agreement by 2015. This is not the first time that countries agreed to finalize such an agreement. Cynics point out that countries continually agree to ...
30/4/2013
The latest round of U.N.
climate talks, a second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP), resumed this week in Bonn, Germany.
As so often seems to be the case, the meeting began against the ...
30/4/2013
A U.S. submission to U.N.-backed negotiations shows how a scaled-down global
climate deal which falls short of a full treaty can be agreed in 2015.
Much will depend on the United States, as the world's second biggest carbon emitter whose ...
29/4/2013
Could the same movement that brought down Apartheid be the key tactic in convincing America to go fossil fuel free and preventing a new
financial crisis?
If you ask activists at the more than 400 colleges, cities and states, and ...
25/4/2013
As a lifelong scientist I have attended
climate change meetings for over 30 years. Our aim was to convince scientists and policymakers to take
climate change seriously. The message was: 'Take action now, to leave a better world for your ...
23/4/2013
Rahm Emanuel, the former top aide in the White House, once advised a world struggling with a
financial meltdown that it was not a good idea to let a serious
crisis go to waste.
But this year, despite electoral momentum and tragedies by ...
20/4/2013
The world is going to fry – unless there is
change soon. There is weakening political will to make national and international targets for carbon reduction stick, no strong business and
financial coalition prepared to lead and a weakening ...
20/4/2013
Hundreds of billions of dollars in fossil fuel investments would be stranded, triggering a potential economic
crisis, if companies continue to invest in fossil fuels while governments introduce stronger policies to limit global warming, a new ...
20/4/2013
A new report is warning that too much investment in fossil fuel reserves risks bringing on a new global economic
crisis.
The report says at least two-thirds of oil, gas and coal reserves owned by listed firms would become useless if ...
19/4/2013
The world could be heading for a major economic
crisis as stock markets inflate an investment bubble in fossil fuels to the tune of trillions of dollars, according to leading economists.
"The
financial crisis has shown what happens when ...
18/4/2013
The Minister of Forestry, Zulkifli Hasan, once again asserted the commitment of Indonesia to ensure the implementation of the moratorium of primary natural and peat forest conversion in the ministerial level conference's 10th United Nations Forum ...
18/4/2013
The
crisis facing the European carbon market will not deter China from plans to establish its own emissions trading platform or its other
climate pledges, the senior official responsible for
climate change said on Thursday.
Xie Zhenhua, ...
16/4/2013
Today, the global economy annually consumes at least 80 times more coal than was burned in 1850 at the height of the Industrial Revolution. The International Energy Agency said that global coal use -- now close to 8 billion tons a year -- could ...
15/4/2013
Viewed from afar, even the bad news in Australia looks pretty good. Unemployment reached a three- year high last month and is now all of 5.6 percent. Leaders such as U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande would kill ...
12/4/2013
This week in Washington, DC, U.S. Special Envoy for
Climate Change Todd Stern is hosting a ministerial meeting on mobilising
climate finance. This invitation-only event for finance and
climate ministries of select donor countries typifies the ...
11/4/2013
COMMUNITY organisations are not well prepared to deal with the impact of
climate change and extreme weather, new research reveals.
The Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS) has commissioned research finding small and medium-sized ...
10/4/2013
In an industrial warehouse on the outskirts of Stuttgart, the sooty past is shaking hands with Germany's green-energy future. In one corner sits a relic destined for a museum: a cast-iron engine as big as a bus, which was used until the early ...
10/4/2013
Europeans no longer see the kind of pollution that within living memory killed thousands of Londoners in the Great Smog of 1952, but the air they breathe still bears invisible threats scarcely less deadly, and little more ...