December 13, 2007 – 4:04 am
Climate Crisis Coaliton
1Sky.org, December 10, 2007.
“Last Thursday the House of Representatives passed an energy bill that would reduce carbon emissions and begin to move our country in the right direction on energy policy. On Friday, the Senate voted down the House version of the bill; a majority supported it but not the 60 needed to [...]
December 11, 2007 – 2:12 am
Imelda V. Abano and Hepeng Jia
7 December 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
[BALI/BEIJING] Incentives to tackle deforestation and forest degradation can play a key role in combating climate change and requires a strong policy framework that is fair to poor communities, says a new report.
The report from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), was launched today (7 December) [...]
December 5, 2007 – 5:19 am
Deforestation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Ella Syafputri
28 November 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
Converting Indonesian forests and peatlands for various agricultural land uses has released huge amounts of greenhouse gases with little economic benefit, according to a new report.
The report, by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and Indonesian partners, was released last [...]
December 1, 2007 – 2:50 am
Developed countries must cut carbon emissions
Sun Xiaohua
29 November 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
Developed countries are failing to meet Kyoto Protocol targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and must drastically cut them for the sake of poorer countries, says a UN report.
The authors argue that rich countries are driving an “ecological debt crisis”, which will affect the world’s poor [...]
November 17, 2007 – 7:37 am
Climate Crisis Coalition
By Frank Ahrens and Carrie Johnson, The Los Angeles Times, November 16, 2007. “A federal court in California yesterday rejected the Bush administration’s new fuel economy standards for light trucks including SUVs, ruling that the government failed to take into account the effects of carbon emissions and their possible link to global warming. [...]
November 11, 2007 – 10:31 am
Laura Garcia
9 November 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
[LONDON] China and India should adopt sustainable energy policies to avoid endangering energy security and control carbon emissions, said representatives of the International Energy Agency (IEA) this week (7 November).
The comments were made at the launch of IEA’s annual World Energy Outlook report ‘China and India Insights’ in London.
The report points [...]
October 23, 2007 – 11:05 am
Lately, my mind has been obsessing over gaps …
The gap between the rosy colored fictions of global warming deniers and the the paint it black reality of the scientific evidence predicting dire consequences of continued inaction.
The gap between the real needs of our society and the upside-down priorities of our government’s funding choices.
The gap [...]
October 6, 2007 – 4:30 pm
TreeHugger
While many cities around the world are plagued by infighting when it comes to cutting carbon emissions, Parisians from all ends of the spectrum are coming together to create a green plan for the city. The city’s new plan calls for a 30 percent reduction in energy usage and emissions from public buildings by [...]
TreeHugger
Almost nothing raises the emotional debate around climate change like a discussion of personal carbon rationing. You only have to look in the comments section of our post on UK government plans for carbon credit swipe cards to see the widely differing views that this topic generates. While some inevitably see it as yet another [...]
From: Climate Crisis Coalition
Switzerland to Impose a Carbon Tax on Oil Imports
Neue Zurcher Zeitung, June 29, 2007.
Switzerland will introduce a tax on carbon dioxide emissions from January 1, 2008 to meet its Kyoto objectives, the government said on Thursday. The tax will be applied to all imported fossil fuels, amounting to around three centimes on [...]
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