window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;It’s no big secret that I think oil prices ran ahead of themselves in the past couple of months. I don’t think they should have cracked $90 this year (and despite mass amnesia by analysts, as of…
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window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: One in five carbon credits issued by the United Nations are going to support clean energy projects that may in fact have helped to increase greenhouse gas emissions, environmental group WWF said on Thursday. The United Nations runs a scheme under the Kyoto Protocol that allows rich nations to […]

United Press International: New research by the World Wide Fund for Nature highlights three negative effects of the heavy dependence on coal as an energy source in Asia. These include social distress, environmental degradation and carbon dioxide emissions that accelerate global warming. The WWF report released this week, "Coming Clean: The Truth and Future […]

Agence France-Presse: US President George W. Bush, who rejected the Kyoto protocol, remains opposed to international constraints on curbing carbon emissions despite growing isolation ahead of a world climate summit. "Energy security and climate change are two of the important challenges of our time," Bush said this week ahead of a world meeting on […]

Reuters: China would "definitely do more" to cut its contribution to climate change if rich nations were willing to share clean energy technologies, its chief climate negotiator Yu Qingtai told Reuters on Thursday. The stance may smooth talks to agree a global deal on climate change, which kick off in Bali next week […]

Brisbane Times: CLIMATE change is already more advanced than the world realises, and tackling it will present "diabolical" policy challenges, says the head of Labor’s climate change review, Professor Ross Garnaut. In his first speech since starting his policy review for state governments and Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd, Professor Garnaut indicated that he would […]

Sydney Morning Herald: Lashed together four abreast, a raft of illegal logs seems to take forever to snake down a winding, peat-stained stream in Borneo. More than 100 metres wide and guided with a pole by a sullen logger, it drifts through a tropical peat forest, past ramshackle logging camps, the silence broken by a […]

Bloomberg: Japan, Italy and Spain face payments of as much as $33 billion combined for failing to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions as promised under the Kyoto treaty. The three countries are the worst performers among 36 nations that agreed to curb carbon dioxide gases that cause climate change. The 1997 Kyoto accord designed to slow […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Guardian: It has become the home improvement of choice for the environmentally aware, but erecting a wind turbine on the side of your house could create more carbon dioxide than it actually saves, a study into their performance will reveal today. David Cameron led the trend for "micro-wind" this year when […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Physorg: A review, led by an Oxford University scientist, claims that intact parts of the Amazon forest are resilient to climatic drying and are unlikely to disappear if they can be sufficiently protected. However, in the review published today in Science online, Yadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystems Science and Jackson […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;New York Times: The United States could shave as much as 28 percent off the amount of greenhouse gases it emits at fairly modest cost and with only small technology innovations, according to a new report. A large share of the reductions could come from steps that would more than pay […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Baltimore Sun: High in the Silvermine nature reserve, proteas here and there unfurl skyward like floral fireworks in soft pink and yellow. Guy Midgley’s eye is drawn elsewhere, though, to ugly brown lesions on the otherwise green landscape - dead protea plants. "Nobody’s quite sure what’s going on," says Midgley, a […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Agence France-Presse: Australians want their new government to do more than just sign up to the Kyoto Protocol with over 80 percent supporting a reversal in greenhouse gas emissions by 2012, a survey released Friday showed. Research conducted for the Climate Institute, an independent body established to promote awareness about global […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: China has drawn up guidelines for new coal projects, the latest move to control expansion, raise efficiency and cut emissions by the industry, the country’s top planning body said on Thursday. The guidelines, published on the Web site of the National Development and Reform Commission, also support development of […]

Reuters: India might be painted as a pollution-spewing, global-warming economy of 1 billion people but it is also one of the world’s biggest wind power users, part of a focus on renewable energy mostly unnoticed in the West. Years of tax incentives have helped make India one of the fastest-growing markets for wind power, […]