Monthly Archives: January 2010

UK to fund efforts to shift towards greener palm oil production

By | Published: January 31, 2010
Mongabay: Britain will contribute £50 million ($80m) towards efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Indonesia, including a project that aims to encourage palm oil producers to establish plantations on degraded lands instead of in place of rainforests and carbon-dense peatlands, reports BBC News. The contribution comes under the government’s £1.5 billion ($2.4 billion) [...]
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Obama pledges to reduce govenment emisions 28% by 2020

By | Published: January 31, 2010
Mongabay: The U.S. government aims to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 28 percent by 2020 under an order announced Friday by President Obama. "As the largest energy consumer in the United States, we have a responsibility to American citizens to reduce our energy use and become more efficient," Obama said in a statement. "Our [...]
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India: Climate change boss uses car and driver to travel one mile

By | Published: January 31, 2010
Daily Mail: He is the climate change chief whose research body produced a report warning that the glaciers in the Himalayas might melt by 2035 and earned a Nobel Prize for his work — so you might expect Dr Rajendra Pachauri to be doing everything he can to reduce his own carbon footprint. But [...]
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India reaffirms opposition to binding carbon cuts

By | Published: January 31, 2010
Agence France-Presse: India reaffirmed to the United Nations that it would reject any attempt to impose legally binding climate change goals, but pledged to reduce emissions intensity. In an endorsement of December’s much-criticised Copenhagen Accord, the environment ministry in New Delhi said it had submitted plans to reduce emissions intensity by 20 to 25 [...]
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The long and winding road after Copenhagen

By | Published: January 31, 2010
Agence France-Presse: After the near-train wreck of last month’s Copenhagen climate summit, what lies ahead for efforts to beat back global warming? Next week may yield the first clues. Countries are being asked to say by Sunday whether they will endorse an 11th-hour deal, the "Copenhagen Accord," which saved the marathon meeting from [...]
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Maldives pledges deepest carbon emission cut by 2020

By | Published: January 31, 2010
Lanka Business Online: Maldives has voluntarily pledged to slash carbon emissions 100 percent by 2020, which is the deepest cut promised by any country so far under an international accord, the Indian Ocean archipelago said. "Climate change threatens us all," Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed said in a statement. "If we don’t act now, we [...]
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Miliband defends climate science

By | Published: January 31, 2010
BBC: Recent controversies over scientific data have not undermined efforts to tackle global warming, Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband has insisted. Among the controversies are claims that some leading scientists exaggerated the melting of the Himalayan glaciers. Mr Miliband told the BBC it would be "profoundly irresponsible" to use one "mistake" as an [...]
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IMF plans 100 billion fund to help poor mitigate climate impact

By | Published: January 31, 2010
Agence France-Presse: The International Monetary Fund is planning a 100 billion dollar fund to help countries mitigate the effects of climate change, the agency’s head said. "The new growth model will be low carbon," Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the IMF, told political and business leaders meeting at the World Economic Forum in the [...]
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Pentagon to rank global warming as destabilising force

By | Published: January 31, 2010
Guardian: The Pentagon will for the first time rank global warming as a destabilising force, adding fuel to conflict and putting US troops at risk around the world, in a major strategy review to be presented to Congress tomorrow. The quadrennial defence review, prepared by the Pentagon to update Congress on its security vision, will [...]
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Mt. Rainier’s melting glaciers create hazard

By | Published: January 31, 2010
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;LA Times: The fallout from Mt. Rainier’s shrinking glaciers is beginning to roll downhill, and nowhere is the impact more striking than on the volcano’s west side. "This is it in spades," U.S. Park Service geologist Paul Kennard said recently, scrambling up a 10-foot-high mass of dirt and boulders bulldozed back [...]
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United States: Silicon Valley tech leaders are reinventing themselves for a cleantech revolution

By | Published: January 31, 2010
San Jose Mercury News: Brent Constantz’s last startup, Skeletal Kinetics, created a bone-fracture cement that costs $200 per gram and helps orthopedic surgeons heal their patients. His new startup aims to churn out billions of tons of market-price construction cement that Constantz says can help heal planet Earth by embedding billions of tons of [...]
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Climate change to hit public health hard

By | Published: January 31, 2010
Daily Star: Climate change will have an adverse effect on public health — particularly that of children — agriculture and environment, health experts said yesterday. They were speaking at a roundtable discussion titled "Climate change: The biggest health threat coming our way" jointly organised by The Daily Star and Health 21 at the conference [...]
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United States: Global warming bringing oddball weather to region

By | Published: January 31, 2010
Times Leader: According to a report from the National Wildlife Federation, global warming’s impact on the environment is evidenced in changing winters in the Northern United States. Barbara Green of Blue Mountain Ski discusses global warming’s impact on ski resorts during a program Thursday at Steamtown National Historic Site, Scranton. Increasing temperatures have [...]
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UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim

By | Published: January 31, 2010
Times (UK): A STARTLING report by the United Nations climate watchdog that global warming might wipe out 40% of the Amazon rainforest was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in its 2007 benchmark report that even a slight change [...]
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Panel ignored warnings on glacier error

By | Published: January 31, 2010
Times (UK): THE United Nations climate panel ignored warnings by leading scientists not to publish false claims that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035. One warning, in 2006, a year before the report was published, came from Georg Kaser, an Austrian glaciologist who was a lead author on another section of the report [...]
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