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Age: CHINA has thrown its weight behind achieving a positive "Sydney declaration" on climate change at next week’s gathering of APEC leaders in Sydney. Chinese President Hu Jintao nominated climate change as an important issue for the APEC talks during a phone conversation with Prime Minister John Howard. China’s official news agency reported […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Asia Times: It is a market expected to grow to US$100 billion in the near future, and Indian firms want to reap some of the benefits. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol allows richer countries to trade their emission-reduction targets with developing countries by buying carbon credits […]

Reuters: Industrial nations were deadlocked on Thursday about whether to set stringent 2020 goals for cutting greenhouse gases at a first UN session about long-term climate targets, delegates said. A draft text at the Vienna meeting said rich countries should recognise a need for cuts of between 25 and 40 per cent below 1990 […]

Bloomberg: John Howard, whose 11-year dominance of Australian politics as prime minister may be crumbling, hopes a climate change agreement among 21 Asia-Pacific nations in Sydney next week will reverse his decline. Howard, 68, hosts the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group meeting at a time when opinion polls suggest the opposition Labor Party […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: A long-awaited trading link between carbon markets in the European Union and under the UN-sponsored Kyoto Protocol on global warming should be completed in November, EU and UN officials said on Thursday. The statements calmed market doubts about the timing of the link and sparked sales of EU carbon […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: World food demand will surge this century with a leap in population, highlighting a need to protect soils under strain from climate change, experts said on Thursday. About 150 scientists and government experts will meet in Iceland from Aug. 31-Sept. 4 to try to work out how to safeguard […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: The United States must support a global deal to cut carbon dioxide emissions and combat climate change as time is running out in the fight against global warming, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. In a speech during her first visit to Japan as chancellor, Merkel said both […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: Regulators should slap a moratorium on pipelines in Canada’s North because governments and oil companies have not planned for long-term environmental impacts, a green-group representative said Thursday. Several environmental and social activists began submissions Thursday to the regulatory panel probing the C$16.2 billion (US$15.3 billion) Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: State-owned Mozambican Petroleum Co. (PETROMOC) on Thursday unveiled a US$550 million bio-fuels project aimed at easing an energy crunch in the fast-growing southern African nation. In an interview with Reuters, Eugenio Silva, a senior PETROMOC official, said it would create about 800 jobs and lead to a maximum annual […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: Spreading deserts and degradation of farm land due to climate change will pose a serious threat to food supplies for the world’s surging population in coming years, a senior United Nations scientist warned on Friday. M.V.K. Sivakumar of the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said the crunch could come in […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: The California power grid will be strained again Thursday during what is expected to be the highest electricity demand of the year as scorching temperatures continue, power officials said. Utilities in the state say their systems are largely holding up well under the strain, with only scattered outages. […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;inthenews.co.uk: Urgent steps must be taken in order to meet the demand for food supply which is under threat from climate change and intensive farming practices, the Soil Association (SA) has said. SA director Patrick Holden said that the "industrialisation" of agriculture has damaged the land in the last 60 years. […]

Associated Press: Five industrialized countries – including Japan and Russia, two of the world’s biggest polluters – came under fire Friday for blocking a draft agreement to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and counter the most catastrophic effects of global warming. Talks continued in the final hours of a week-long U.N. climate change conference […]

Reuters: Industrial nations were shying away from fixing stiff 2020 guidelines for greenhouse gases cuts at U.N. talks on Friday in what environmentalists said would be a vote for "dangerous" climate change. A draft text at the U.N. talks dropped a demand that developed nations should be "guided" by a need for steep cuts […]