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Yale Environment 360: Fifty years ago, political scientist Harold Lasswell explained that some policies are all about symbolism, with little or no impact on real-world outcomes. He called such actions "magical solutions," explaining that "political symbolization has its catharsis functions." Climate policy is going through exactly such a phase, in which a focus on magical […]

Sydney Morning Herald: THE former Australian of the year Tim Flannery has proposed a single Australian Government trading desk – similar to the former wheat desk – to sell carbon credits to the United States. The government-operated desk could ensure Australia up to 10 per cent of the 1 billion tonnes of carbon offsets […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Vancouver Sun: There is a strange conviction, in certain circles, that the world’s environmental community has grown superhumanly strong — an idea that, with the cock of an eyebrow or the curl of a lip, any leading environmentalist can strike fear into the hearts of academics, politicians and businesspeople around the globe. […]

USA Today: The Obama administration promised Friday that the financially strapped "cash for clunkers" program would be alive at least through the weekend, and the House of Representatives approved additional money for the program later in the day. Senate action is expected next week. "If you were planning on going to buy a […]

United Press International: Vietnam has more wind energy potential than Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, experts say. A World Bank survey says Vietnam has the capacity to produce 513,360 megawatts of wind power annually. That translates into 200 times the output of Southeast Asia’s largest power plant, the Son La Hydroelectric Plant in northern Vietnam, […]

Jakarta Post: Pressing global challenges such as climate change, poverty and food insecurity are essentially human-induced problems. There are approximately 6.77 billion people in the world today, and the global population is still growing at a rate of 1.14 percent annually. That equates to nearly 80 million new individuals on this planet every […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Citizen: I recently attended a Nobel laureates symposium at St James Palace in London, where a memorandum emphasised the need for action based on scientific evidence on climate change. That memo called for reduction of emissions to at least 50 per cent by 2050 on a 1990 baseline, with interim reductions […]

Reuters: India will spend some $200 million to protect its forests and will announce how much carbon emission is being captured by its green cover, the environment minister said on Friday. Jairam Ramesh said the money would go into conserving and restoring unique vegetation, controlling forest fires and strengthening forestry infrastructure, among other goals. […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;LA Times: With surprising swiftness, the government’s "cash for clunkers" program has burned through its $1-billion budget in less than a week as car buyers swarmed dealerships, and federal officials were scrambling late Thursday night to find more money to keep it going. The program, designed to jump-start car sales and […]

AAP: An international pledge to peg global warming to two degrees is a pipe dream, and most governments know it, says an Australian researcher. World leaders gathered in Italy in July to discuss the global offensive on climate change and agreed on at least one target - to hold surface temperatures to two degrees […]

Asahi Shimbun: An experimental project by two of the nation’s biggest electric power firms could eventually eliminate carbon emissions from new coal-fired thermal power plants. The technology, which would remove carbon dioxide from combustible gases before they are burned to generate electricity, could revolutionize the way electricity is generated globally. The firms are […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Jakarta Globe: Britain’s Prince Charles has set aside 2 billion euros ($2.8 billion) to help Indonesia and other developing countries preserve their rain forests, State Minister for the Environment Rachmat Witoelar said on Thursday. "His representative came on Wednesday afternoon and asked Indonesia’s government to prepare to discuss the scheme further," […]