Monthly Archives: March 2007
Federal Judge Strikes Down Forest Management Rules
New York Times: A federal judge in California on Friday overturned the Bush administration’s revised rules for management of the country’s 155 national forests, saying that the federal Forest Service violated the basic laws ensuring that forest ecosystems have environmental safeguards. The rules, issued in early 2005, cut back on requirements for environmental reviews [...]
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Australia: Rudd to push China on climate change
AAP: Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd is to lead a Labor delegation to China later this year to push the world’s fastest growing economy to limit its greenhouse gas emissions. Launching Labor’s climate change summit in Canberra, Mr Rudd said bringing China into the global climate change fold could be Australia’s significant contribution to saving [...]
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Canada: Climate change chaos ‘closer’
Vancouver Sun: The looming "destabilization" of Earth’s atmosphere means British Columbia faces higher municipal taxes and a reordering of basic government priorities to cope with an accelerating regime of droughts, floods and other weather-related civil emergencies. One of Canada’s most eminent climate researchers said the enormous challenges caused by rapidly changing weather systems confronting [...]
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Australia: Sydney in climate change blackout
Associated Press: Australia’s largest city dimmed on Saturday night as businesses and homeowners switched off the lights to draw attention to global warming. The normally gleaming white sails of the Sydney Opera House darkened, and so did the iconic harbor bridge and chunks of the city skyline. Security and street lights, as well as [...]
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Australia: Sydney finds climate change a real turn off
Reuters: Sydney landmarks turned off their lights for an hour on Saturday, throwing icons such as the Sydney Opera House into darkness as part of a campaign to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Restaurants set candle-lit dinners, the city’s tallest building offered special tours on an open-air skywalk and the Sydney Youth Orchestra began its [...]
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Campaigns Save Energy With Hybrid Cars
Associated Press: This year’s presidential candidates are trying to get good mileage out of getting good mileage. The candidates, who do a lot of talking about the need for greater energy efficiency, are not just asking who walks the walk but also, who drives the hybrid? Democratic candidate John Edwards makes a point of [...]
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Fuel in the Car at the Expense of Food on the Table?
Inter Press Service: South Africa has joined the race to find alternative sources of energy: government has already approved a ‘Draft Biofuels Industry Strategy’, and called on stakeholders to discuss it. The strategy proposes that biofuels ultimately account for 75 percent of the country’s renewable energy target. "Maize and sugar, as well [...]
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Brazil Aims to Dominate World Ethanol Market
Inter Press Service: Brazil is working towards producing enough ethanol to substitute 10 percent of the gasoline consumed worldwide within 18 years. That would mean increasing its current production of 17.3 billion litres a year by a factor of 12, without sacrificing forests, protected areas or food cultivation. The government called on a [...]
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Australia: Sydney blackout puts spotlight on global warming
Agence France-Presse: Australia’s largest city was plunged into darkness for an hour Saturday night as Sydney underwent a self-imposed blackout to raise awareness of global warming. Residents and businesses across the city of four million flicked off the lights for "Earth Hour" at 7:30 pm (0930 GMT). Tourists had to view the famous [...]
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Australia: Sydney Blacks Out for Global Warming
Associated Press: The Sydney Opera House’s gleaming white-shelled roof was darkened Saturday night along with much of the rest of Australia’s largest city, which switched off the lights to register concern about global warming. The arch of Sydney’s other iconic structure, the harbor bridge, was also blacked out, along with dozens of skyscrapers [...]
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Damage from global warming ‘to worsen’
Financial Times: Climate change is already threatening vital infrastructure such as road and rail networks, water and energy systems and healthcare, and the damage will worsen, the world’s leading climate scientists will warn next week. The damage will occur even as some regions, such as the UK and northern Europe, and parts of the [...]
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Poor nations to bear brunt as world warms
International Herald Tribune: The world’s richest countries, which have contributed by far the most to the atmospheric changes linked to global warming, are already spending billions of dollars to limit their own risks from its worst consequences, like drought and rising seas. But despite longstanding treaty commitments to help poor countries deal with warming, [...]
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Australia: Sydney switch-off for climate change
BBC: Sydney has made one of the biggest environmental statements Australia has ever seen. Parts of the country’s largest city have been plunged into near darkness to raise awareness of global warming. Lights on the city’s iconic coat-hanger bridge were switched off, while the famous white sails of the Opera House [...]
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Report: Global warming to hit poor
United Press International: A new report by a United Nations committee finds that rich countries are spending billions of dollars to protect themselves from global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change plans to release the report next week, The New York Times said. The committee found that the United States and European countries [...]
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Judge tosses out Bush’s national forest rules