Monthly Archives: October 2007
Time magazine names eco-heroes
Edie: Nobel prize winner Al Gore, the Toyota Prius design team and entrepreneur Richard Branson are among those who make the influential list for their contributions to solving some of the biggest threats to the planet, such as climate change, pollution and species depletion. Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, naturalist David Attenborough [...]
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World’s local governments vow to combat climate change
United Press International: Delegates from 136 countries, representing local governments, vowed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and use renewable and clean energy sources to combat climate change, at the second World Congress of the United Cities and Local Governments. Some 2,000 mayors, councilors, and other officials of local autonomies from around the world attended the [...]
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United States: Arnie not happy with US effort on warming
Agence France-Presse: California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger told a conference in Lisbon on Monday that he regretted Washington’s lack of engagement on global warming but insisted the US was not ignoring the issue. "Just because you don’t see Washington leading this issue, don’t be thinking that America is shirking its responsibilities," he said in [...]
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Australia: Kyoto confusion hides sameness
Daily Telegraph: THE Kyoto accord on carbon emission reduction has been a salient feature of the Australian political debate for the past year. You couldn’t miss it. Sadly for them, nor could the two men put in charge of their party’s policy on the issue. Both Malcolm Turnbull and Peter Garrett have crashed [...]
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Closing the climate change policy gap
Australian: THE uncomfortable facts about climate change have forced Labor to admit the inconvenient truth about its own position on global warming. If Labor wins office, Mr Rudd may find himself in the same position for which Labor has long criticised the Howard Government, refusing to ratify a post-Kyoto agreement because it does not include [...]
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Australia: Rudd’s targets cool climate fallout
Age: OPPOSITION Leader Kevin Rudd has set an ambitious renewable energy target of 20 per cent by 2020 in a bid to hose down damaging fallout over Labor’s backflip on a climate change agreement. Despite the British Government last week signalling it would wind back its 20 per cent by 2020 target because it [...]
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Cash Advances
With the price of gas and oil rising due to the new economic restrictions placed on Iran and also due to the decline in the buying power of the U.S. dollar, coupled with the crisis in the housing industry, it has become obvious to our legislatures and to the federal reserve, that the cost of [...]
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Honda Plans Prius-like Hybrid
Wedge-shaped car will be a hybrid-only model.
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Gasoline Heads for $3 a Gallon
$90 per barrel oil pushing up gas prices.
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Goldman Says `Take Profits’
A few months ago, an analyst at a brokerage firm wrote to me and said that they had actually used some of my essays as the basis of advising their clients. That was flattering, but it also made me…
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OPIS on the Bull Rush
My daily OPIS summary weighed in on my side over the level of oil prices. I am beginning to think I may not be crazy at all.
Today’s “excuse de jour” for the rally has been the reported shut-in…
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Climate Change Threatens Human Health, According To Australian Report
Science Daily: Australians face increasingly large-scale health risks from our expanding impact on the natural environment, ranging from increases in weather extremes and dengue fever to obesity, diabetes and mental health. Twelve of Australia’s top health and medical researchers have contributed to a new report which concludes that rapid environmental and climatic changes pose [...]
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India, Germany call for constructive talks on climate change
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Deutsche Presse-Agentur: India and Germany urged all nations to actively and constructively participate in negotiations for a comprehensive post-2012 climate protection treaty in a joint statement issued in New Delhi Tuesday. The Kyoto protocol that required developed countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions expires in 2012 and the United Nations Framework Convention [...]
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Third phase of EU carbon trading to go through 2020
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: The third phase of the European Union’s emissions trading scheme will run from 2013 to 2020, an official said on Tuesday, as EU ministers prepared for a crucial round of international climate change talks. The European Commission is working on a revision of the EU emissions trading system, including the [...]
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Japan greenhouse emissions fell 1.3 pct last yr-paper