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Canada's image is now to climate what Japan is to whalingNov 30, 2009 - BBC News OPINION - The tar barons have held the nation to ransom. This thuggish petro-state is today the greatest obstacle to a deal in Copenhagen. |
How business is cashing in with low-carbon creativityNov 30, 2009 - BBC News OPINION - More and more companies, communities and individuals now see moving to a low carbon economy as an opportunity not a threat. It is do-able and it is making people money - not miserable. |
What is the right CO2 number to combat climate change?Nov 30, 2009 - Scientific American SCIENCE - Although the impacts humanity would like to avoid are clear, the right numbers to halt global warming are not. Despite decades of effort, scientists do not know precisely what temperatures or greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere constitute a danger. |
Carbon 'flux towers' putting value on forests, fieldsNov 30, 2009 - Cleveland.com SCIENCE - Sonic anemometers and infrared carbon dioxide sensors have been telling us in increasing detail how forests, fields and wetlands absorb and store carbon. Energy policy makers crave that information because it will eventually better refine what price the world puts on a ton of carbon. |
Under pressure, Canada PM to attend climate talksNov 26, 2009 - Reuters OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose government is often criticized for dragging its feet on global warming, will attend U.N. talks next month in Copenhagen designed to find a successor to the Kyoto climate change protocol. |
China unveils carbon target for Copenhagen dealNov 26, 2009 - Reuters BEIJING - China unveiled its first firm target to curb greenhouse gas emissions on Thursday, a carbon intensity goal that Premier Wen Jiabao will take to a summit in Copenhagen next month hoping to aid a global climate deal. |
Canada's North unprepared for climate change threats: reportNov 26, 2009 - Winnipeg Free Press OTTAWA - Climate change threatens to destroy roads, buildings and pipelines in Canada's North and the communities are not prepared to deal effectively with those challenges, a new report warned Thursday. No longer available |
Obama to attend beginning of U.N. climate meetingNov 25, 2009 - Reuters WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama will go to Copenhagen for a U.N. climate change meeting on December 9, hoping to add momentum to an international process despite slow progress on a domestic bill to cut carbon emissions. |
Canadians chagrined over status as climate-change dawdlersNov 24, 2009 - Globe and Mail VANCOUVER - On the eve of major UN climate change talks next month in Copenhagen, a major survey of Canadians has found that more than three quarters of the public feel embarrassed that the country hasn't been taking a leadership role on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. |
Climate change champion and sceptic both call for inquiry into leaked emailsNov 23, 2009 - Guardian LONDON - Prominent voices on both sides of the climate change debate today called for an independent inquiry into claims of collusion between climate scientists after it emerged last week that hundreds of their emails and documents had been leaked. |
U.S. senator invites Canada to link up with green economic strategyNov 23, 2009 - Globe and Mail WASHINGTON - Lindsey Graham is not your typical South Carolina senator. He thinks global warming is real – hardly a unanimous stand among Republicans – and he wants Canada to join him in his efforts to put in place a North American green economic strategy. |
Warming's impacts sped up, worsened since 1997Nov 22, 2009 - Associated Press WASHINGTON - Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then. No longer available |
East Antarctic ice sheet may be losing massNov 22, 2009 - BBC News WASHINGTON - The East Antarctic ice sheet has been losing mass for the last three years, according to an analysis of data from a gravity-measuring satellite mission. The scientists involved say they are "surprised" by the finding, because the giant East Antarctic sheet, unlike the west, has been thought to be stable. |
Obama ready to offer target for cutting greenhouse gas emissionsNov 22, 2009 - Guardian WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is considering setting a provisional target for cutting America's huge greenhouse gas emissions, removing the greatest single obstacle to a landmark global agreement to fight climate change. |
Climate sceptics claim leaked emails are evidence of collusionNov 20, 2009 - Guardian NORWICH, UK - Hundreds of private emails and documents allegedly exchanged between some of the world's leading climate scientists during the past 13 years have been stolen by hackers and leaked online, it emerged today. |
California approves new standards on energy-hungry TVsNov 19, 2009 - Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO - California is putting big-screen television sets on a diet. Starting in 13 months, new TV sets will have to meet energy-efficiency standards that slash the amount of electricity they consume. The regulations also will lower owners' monthly electric bills. |
Winnipeg teen's climate blog wins kudosNov 18, 2009 - CBC News WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg teen's online efforts to dispel myths about climate change have caught the attention of climatologists from around the world. |
New Manitoba furnaces must be high-efficiency: provinceNov 16, 2009 - Winnipeg Free Press WINNIPEG - Replacing your furnace in the new year? It will have to be energy efficient. As of Dec. 30, Manitoba will have the highest energy-efficient standards in Canada for replacement furnaces and boilers used in homes and small businesses, the province announced today. |
U.S., Chinese cuts key to reaching climate pactNov 16, 2009 - Washington Post SINGAPORE - The scaled-back climate strategy endorsed Sunday in Singapore by President Obama and other leaders could put pressure on the United States and China to resolve the biggest stumbling block to an agreement - how much they will cut greenhouse-gas emissions in the next decade. |
Group says electric car is U.S. oil addiction cureNov 16, 2009 - Reuters WASHINGTON - A coalition of energy companies, automakers and shipping firms called the Electrification Coalition, aims to get 75 percent of miles driven fueled by electricity by 2040, almost turning the gasoline pump into a historic roadside marker. |
Obama hobbled in fight against global warmingNov 15, 2009 - New York Times WASHINGTON — President Obama came into office pledging to end eight years of American inaction on climate change under President George W. Bush, and all year he has promised that the United States would lead the way toward a global agreement in Copenhagen next month to address the warming planet. |
Keeping up with the E-bike fadNov 13, 2009 - Reuters TORONTO - Kevin McGreal is an unlikely revolutionary. And yet the retired Toronto police officer, now in his mid-60s, is at the forefront of a movement that a handful of small Canadian companies hope will become a global tidal wave. |
China confronts global warming dilemmaNov 12, 2009 - Christian Science Monitor BEIJING - China awoke to climate change with a storm. It was late January 2008, China’s worst storm in decades was, according to United Nations scientists, an illustration of what a changing climate may herald for the future. As such, it was a tipping point in the country’s environmental awareness. |
U.S. trucking feeling pressure from greener trainsNov 11, 2009 - Reuters NEW YORK - U.S. truck operators are under pressure to improve energy efficiency as rail companies tout their green credentials and bid to win more freight haulage. The American Trucking Association says trucks transport about 70 percent of all U.S. freight annually. But they use at least three times as much energy as trains per ton carried. |
Sceptics anger Arctic scientistsNov 11, 2009 - Agence-France Presse TOMSO, Norway - As the world climate summit closes in, scientists monitoring the impact of global warming in the far north have grown frustrated by public apathy and disbelief about the extent of the problem. |
Cost of extra year's climate inaction $500 billion: IEANov 10, 2009 - Reuters LONDON - The world will have to spend an extra $500 billion to cut carbon emissions for each year it delays implementing a major assault on global warming, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday. |
An 'all-in' bet for the planetNov 10, 2009 - The Daily Climate SPECIAL REPORT - The planet's quickening pace toward irreversible climate change grows far more dire if world leaders fail to find a way to stem emissions this December, experts warn.. |
Climate deal needed to prevent doubling of energy bills: IEANov 10, 2009 - Reuters PARIS - A climate change deal is needed not just to ward off global warming, but to ensure a shift from increasingly costly fossil fuels that could lead to a doubling of energy bills, the IEA's chief economist said on Tuesday. |
Obama will go to Copenhagen if he can clinch climate dealNov 10, 2009 - Guardian WASHINGTON -
US President Barack Obama will travel to the climate summit in Copenhagen next month if the countries involved are on the verge of a deal and he thinks his presence will help to clinch agreement, he said in an interview last night. |
How to boost fuel efficiency? Raise taxes, executives sayNov 4, 2009 - Reuters DETROIT - There's a simple way to get Americans to drive fuel-efficient cars, according to auto executives, but they are not going to like it -- sharply hike the gas tax. |
Kyoto climate treaty 80 percent 'successful': UN StudyNov 3, 2009 - Science News UNITED NATIONS - A new study shows that overall, industrial nations attained 80 percent of the greenhouse-gas reductions called for under the Kyoto Protocol, although all did not contribute equally. |
Ban Ki-moon says detailed climate deal unlikelyNov 3, 2009 - Reuters LONDON - Governments are unlikely to agree on all the details of a new global climate change deal when they meet in Copenhagen next month, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday. |
Manitoba biodiesel law takes effectNov 2, 2009 - Winnipeg Free Press WINNIPEG -
A provincial mandate that requires an average of two per cent of all diesel fuel sold in Manitoba be biodiesel is now in effect.
Biodiesel is expected to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the province by 56,000 tonnes a year or the equivalent of taking 11,000 cars off the road. |
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