Monthly Archives: October 2009
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The fact that you’re reading this blog at all tells me that you’re probably at least a little familiar with Cap & Trade. But just in case you have problems explaining it to other people, or in case you have friends who don’t know about it, VentureBeat recently published a short primer: Cap [...]
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Carbon markets don’t motivate clean investment, says Deutsche Bank
Carbon Finance: Emissions trading has done little to encourage investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency, and governments should focus on introducing feed-in tariffs and mandates if they want to prevent the worst effects of climate change by 2020, according to analysis by Deutsche Bank’s Asset Management (DeAM) division. "The carbon price is not [...]
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Planting the seeds of environmental disaster
Independent (UK): The typical image used to represent the process of global warming is a power station, belching out black smoke. But an equally valid image would be an oil palm sitting serenely under a tropical sky. Rainforests are being cleared across south-east Asia, West Africa and South America to make way for palm oil [...]
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Australia: Rudd offered key Copenhagen role
Age: KEVIN Rudd has won a central personal role in the negotiations for the key Copenhagen climate conference, with the Danish Prime Minister enlisting his help in trying to inject more political momentum. Mr Rudd, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and Mexican President Felipe Calderon have been requested by Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen to [...]
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Will Oregon Close the State’s Only Coal-Fired Power Plant?
AlterNet: Polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising and the number of fatal hurricanes may be increasing. The culprit? That big, malevolent unknown we call global warming. It’s out there, the scientists warn, somewhere, and it is destroying our little blue planet with every last bit of CO2 we discharge into the [...]
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United Kingdom: Is it time to remove meat from our diet?
Times (UK): Going low-carbon at the table to save the planet need not be so very painful. The climate change guru Lord Stern of Brentford called yesterday for Times readers to turn vegetarian to slow global warming. But most authorities — including the head of the United Nations climate change programme — agree that we [...]
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Indonesia: Climate change to affect marine tourism
iAntara: Sea and Coastal Areas Director of the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry Subandono Diposaptono said that climate change could affect the marine tourism, particularly natural tourism in coastal areas. "When the climate changes as a result of global warming the sea surface would rise so that white sand will disappear because it is [...]
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Obama Targeted By Climate Change ‘Twitterstorm’
iSky News: Barack Obama is set to come under pressure to commit to a climate change summit as campaigners prepare to bombard the internet. It is not yet known whether the US President will attend the Copenhagen event They hope a "Twitterstorm" will raise awareness of the Copenhagen talks and force the US [...]
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Australia boosts international efforts on climate
Reuters: Australia stepped up lobbying ahead of the global climate talks in Copenhagen on Wednesday, with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd accepting a key role as Climate Change Minister Penny Wong heads to Spain for talks. Rudd has accepted an offer from Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen to become a friend of the Copenhagen [...]
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Envoy: No China-US climate pact from Obama visit
Associated Press: President Barack Obama’s visit to China next month is not likely to yield a separate accord on countering global warming, though both countries are pushing for progress for upcoming global talks in Copenhagen, the top U.S. envoy on climate change said Wednesday. "I don’t think we’re going to get an agreement per [...]
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Climate deal not expected during Obama’s China visit
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: The United States does not expect to reach an agreement on climate change with China during President Barack Obama’s visit to Beijing next month, the country’s senior climate change envoy said on Wednesday. "I don’t think we are getting any agreement per se," said Todd Stern, U.S. Special Envoy for [...]
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Obama’s China Visit Unlikely To Produce Climate Deal
National Public Radio: President Obama’s envoy for climate change has dashed hopes of a bilateral climate-change deal during next month’s presidential trip to China. Todd Stern says a wide gap remains between Chinese and U.S. officials. China and the U.S. account for 40 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions.
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Clean Energy Touted As Good For Planet And Jobs
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;National Public Radio: Officials from the Obama Administration are out in force this week making the case for clean energy as a way to create jobs and help the planet. The push comes as the Senate begins to consider an energy bill that would crack down on carbon pollution from traditional fossil [...]
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United Kingdom: Power station protest ends with arrests
Press Association: A climate change protest being staged on top of a power station chimney came to an end today. The nine environment activists who remained at Didcot Power Station, Oxfordshire, after breaking into the site on Monday came down of their own accord in the early hours of this morning. The four [...]
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