January 16, 2008 – 6:14 am
S. Arungu-Olende
Source: SciDev.Net
Biofuels offer huge potential, but pose challenges best countered with strong and coherent development policies, says S. Arungu-Olende.
Global production of biofuels is growing steadily and will continue to do so. Biofuels offer greater energy security, reduced emissions of greenhouse gases and particulates, rural development, better vehicle performance, and reduced demand for petroleum.
But [...]
January 4, 2008 – 9:36 am
Climate Crisis Coalition
By Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times, January 3, 2008. “California and 15 other states sued the Bush Administration Wednesday, seeking to overturn a federal decision last month rejecting the state’s bid to curb greenhouse gases from cars and trucks. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, marks a [...]
January 3, 2008 – 1:20 am
Climate Crisis Coalition
By H. Josef Herbert, The Associated Press, December 28, 2007. “The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday signaled it is prepared to comply with a congressional request for all documents — including communications with the White House — concerning its decision to block California [and other states] from imposing limits on greenhouse gases. The EPA’s general [...]
October 29, 2007 – 4:03 am
26 October 2007
Source: SciDev.net
The international approach to tackling climate change is a misguided failure that needs to be radically re-thought by the United Nations conference in Indonesia in December, say Gwyn Prins and Steve Rayner in this Nature article.
The Kyoto Protocol has not cut emissions, pays only token attention to the needs of societies to adapt [...]
October 4, 2007 – 6:44 am
Alex Cheung
3 October 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
Representatives from 17 nations pledged to take action against climate change at a US-convened meeting in Washington, United States, last week (27-28 September). But the Bush administration has faced criticism after failing to commit to any [...]
August 21, 2007 – 6:00 am
Eva Aguilar
17 August 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
Forest in Panama
Rising temperatures over the last few decades in Malaysia and Panama may have decelerated the growth of rainforest trees, according to a study.
This could significantly affect the ability of trees to store carbon dioxide, raising the atmospheric concentrations of this greenhouse gas, say the researchers.
The study is the [...]
From: SciDev.Net
China and climate change: the role of the energy sector
Pan Jiahua
June 2005
Summary
Climate change is affecting China and China is affecting climate change. Key to the relationship are the nation’s booming economy and energy sector. Pan Jiahua, executive director of the sustainable development research centre of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, describes what the [...]
EarthJustice
Federal Rural Utilities Service making a risky investment that will increase greenhouse gas pollution
July 23, 2007
Coal power station
Photo by David Parsons
Washington, DC — Conservation groups, represented by Earthjustice, have filed a lawsuit challenging federal financing of a new coal-fired power plant that would increase global warming for decades into the future. The Rural Utilities [...]
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