Monthly Archives: November 2008

Poznan kicks off as EU climate talks stumble

By | Published: November 30, 2008
EurActiv: Delegates from 186 nations are in Poznan, Poland today (1 December) to launch 12 days of talks designed to bring forward an international deal to tackle climate change. But the conference is currently overshadowed by an EU internal row over how to share the ‘effort’ of reducing CO2 emissions. Each December, parties to [...]
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Q&A: Clean technologies with Yvo de Boer

By admin | Published: November 30, 2008
SciDev.Net: Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, has been involved in climate change policies since 1994, for the Dutch government, the European Union and the UN. At the last climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia, in 2007, he warned delegates that failure to reach an agreement on tackling [...]
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Q&A: Clean technologies with Yvo de Boer

By | Published: November 30, 2008
SciDev.Net: Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, has been involved in climate change policies since 1994, for the Dutch government, the European Union and the UN. At the last climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia, in 2007, he warned delegates that failure to reach an agreement on tackling [...]
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United Kingdom: Motorists will have to drive electric cars for UK to meet climate change targets

By | Published: November 30, 2008
Telegraph: The Committee on Climate Change will recommend that large numbers of motorists must switch to the greener vehicles by 2025. The influential Committee, headed by Lord Turner, sets out the major technological advances needed for Britain to meet its commitment of cutting emissions by 80 per cent to halt global warming. Gordon [...]
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Global warming fueling hotter Western fires

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Sacramento Bee: Wildfire has marched across the West for centuries. But no longer are major conflagrations fueled simply by heavy brush and timber. Now climate change is stoking the flames higher and hotter, too. This view, common among firefighters, is reflected in new studies that tie changing patterns of heat and [...]
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Betting on Renewable Energy

By | Published: November 30, 2008
Washington Post: President-elect Barack Obama wants the nation to derive 10 percent of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2012, up from 2 percent today. That comes on top of the global push for green power, making wind and solar power companies a good bet. In such an environment, Vestas Wind Systems (symbol [...]
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After The Hurricanes: Damage Check

By | Published: November 30, 2008
National Public Radio: Sunday, Nov. 30, is officially the last day of the 2008 hurricane season. It was a busy year in the U.S. with hurricanes striking Texas and Louisiana. But it was much worse in Cuba. Original post by miscellaneous
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Sierra Nevada climate changes feed monster, forest-devouring fires

By | Published: November 30, 2008
Sacramento Bee: Driving home from Lake Tahoe, Leah Wills watched the column of ash-gray smoke from the Moonlight fire grow and grow – until finally she was under it. Overhead, the sky that September afternoon in 2007 turned eerie pink. Orange-red flecks of burning bark streaked like missiles through the air. And the smoke [...]
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Climate change gathers steam, say scientists

By | Published: November 30, 2008
Agence France-Presse: Earth’s climate appears to be changing more quickly and deeply than a benchmark UN report for policymakers predicted, top scientists said ahead of international climate talks starting Monday in Poland. Evidence published since the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change’s (IPCC) February 2007 report suggests that future global warming may be driven not [...]
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Financial crisis, EU rift, strain U.N. climate talks

By | Published: November 30, 2008
Reuters: Worries about the costs of combating climate change and rifts between European Union states are likely to strain 185-nation talks in Poland from Monday on a new U.N. treaty to fight global warming. The election of Barack Obama as U.S. president may, however, help the mood at the December 1-12 meeting of 9,000 [...]
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EU near green energy deal despite biofuel deadlock

By | Published: November 30, 2008
Reuters: The European Union has agreed rough deals on promoting renewable energy, but talks remain deadlocked over the controversial issue of biofuels, the European Parliament’s lead negotiator said. "Nearly 100 pages of the report are done and three pages are not done, but those three pages are the most politically difficult," Luxembourg Green group [...]
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Canada’s oil-sands boom creates vast riches and a dirty footprint

By | Published: November 30, 2008
Seattle Times: In the giant, open-pit mines north of this sub-Arctic boomtown, oil literally is carved out of the ground. Shovels the size of buildings scoop hundreds of tons of oil-soaked dirt into Caterpillar dump trucks as big as two-story houses. The trucks move to and from the pits in a perpetual storm of dust. [...]
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Green-collar jobs

By | Published: November 30, 2008
Daily Journal: Suddenly, taking care of the environment has implications that reach far beyond solving global warming. Efforts to reduce carbon emissions are now also being hailed as a way to save the country’s faltering economy. Thanks to the recent presidential election where candidates U.S. Sen. John McCain and President-elect Barack Obama pegged some [...]
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Australia: Wong joins talks on climate deal

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Sydney Morning Herald: CLIMATE Change Minister Penny Wong is leading an Australian delegation scheduled to arrive in Poland today to join negotiations on a new global climate deal. About 9000 people are expected to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference and meeting of parties to the Kyoto Protocol, starting [...]
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Papua New Guinea: In search of cheap food

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Star Tribune: Ezekiel Asimba’s 25-acre farm lies deep within a tropical rainforest, within view of an active volcano, but the palm oil that he and other growers produce will leave this remote island on cargo ships owned by Minnetonka-based Cargill Inc., destined for grocery store shelves around the world. The quest [...]
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