Climate change news
This page is populated by RSS feeds from various sources providing dedicated feeds on climate change. The page offers some 20 news items selected randomly from the sources used. At present we have feeds from New Scientist, Climate Ark, Yahoo, and the UNREDD programme.
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12 November 2009
Source: FAO -- There is still no clear consensus among Parties on what activities should or should not be eligible for incentives under a REDD+ instrument. There are, however, signs that the lack of a common understanding of the terms “sustainable management of forests” and “sustainable forest management (SFM)” is confusing the debate. [more...]
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12 November 2009
Source: New York Times -- No matter how many times you hear them, there are some statistics that just bowl you over [...]: Imagine if you took all the cars, trucks, planes, trains and ships in the world and added up their exhaust every year, the amount of carbon dioxide [that they] collectively emit into the atmosphere is actually less than the carbon emissions that result from the chopping down and clearing of tropical forests in places like Brazil, Indonesia and the Congo every year. [more...]
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13 November 2009
AP - Evaporation blamed on global warming has reduced Lake Titicaca, one of the world's highest navigable lakes, to its lowest level since 1949, authorities said Thursday. [more...]
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12 November 2009
Reuters - Australia said it will invest $50 million to develop green technology in India in a sign Canberra is trying to bridge differences with New Delhi over climate change negotiations. [more...]
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12 November 2009
AFP - US President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama plan to call for a nuclear-free world and cooperation in fighting climate change when they hold talks here on Friday, reports said. [more...]
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12 November 2009
AFP - The World Council of Churches on Thursday called on churches around the world to ring their bells 350 times during the Copenhagen climate change summit on December 13 as a call to action on global warming. [more...]
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12 November 2009
Reuters - Japan will reassure the United States that their alliance is in good shape, Tokyo said on Thursday, as a feud over a Marine base strains relations ahead of a visit by President Barack Obama. [more...]
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12 November 2009
AFP - Low-lying and impoverished Asian coastal cities such as Dhaka, Manila and Jakarta are vulnerable to "brutal" damage from climate change without global action, environmental group WWF warned Thursday. [more...]
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12 November 2009
AFP - China said Thursday it would seek a "fair and reasonable" result at world climate talks next month but insisted rich nations must bear most of the burden for tackling global warming. [more...]
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12 November 2009
Bloomberg - Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. and three other membersof the U.S. Chamber of Commerce quit over its opposition toclimate-change legislation. President Barack Obama denounced thegroup for âspending millionsâ to kill a planned consumerfinancial-protection agency. [more...]
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12 November 2009
Source: FAO -- There is still no clear consensus among Parties on what activities should or should not be eligible for incentives under a REDD+ instrument. There are, however, signs that the lack of a common understanding of the terms “sustainable management of forests” and “sustainable forest management (SFM)” is confusing the debate. [more...]
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12 November 2009
Source: New York Times -- No matter how many times you hear them, there are some statistics that just bowl you over [...]: Imagine if you took all the cars, trucks, planes, trains and ships in the world and added up their exhaust every year, the amount of carbon dioxide [that they] collectively emit into the atmosphere is actually less than the carbon emissions that result from the chopping down and clearing of tropical forests in places like Brazil, Indonesia and the Congo every year. [more...]
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11 November 2009
AFP - The United States and China, the planet's two largest emitters of carbon dioxide, both get low marks around the world for their actions on climate change, a 20-nation poll found Wednesday. [more...]
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11 November 2009
Independent (UK): The world's energy systems will need an extra $10.5 trillion (£6.3trn) in investment between now and 2030 to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and avoid "irreparable damage to the planet", the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned yesterday. In the run-up to next month's climate summit in Copenhagen, the IEA's annual global outlook outlined parallel forecasts -- one based on the current trajectory of global energy consumption, the other a lower-carbon model requiring major ... [more...]
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11 November 2009
Agence France-Presse: Senator John Kerry has pledged to complete a framework of an elusive US climate change deal in time for next month's high-stakes summit in Copenhagen, vowing not to let the world down. President Barack Obama's election returned the United States to active global efforts to fight climate change, but a year later Congress has yet to make good on promises to set the first-ever US caps on carbon emissions. After a lobbying mission in the US Capitol by UN chief Ban Ki-moon, Kerry ... [more...]
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11 November 2009
Business Green: Wind energy projects in the UK can now apply for £1.4bn funding from a combination of the European Investment Bank and commercial sources. The EIB has made around £700m available with the remainder matched by RBS, Lloyds Banking Group and BNP Paribas Fortis. The loans will be available to eligible onshore wind projects with a total project cost of between £20m and £100m. Chancellor Alistair Darling welcomed the investment. "The money that is being made available ... [more...]
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11 November 2009
Australian: AN escalating political row over the views of outspoken Coalition climate change sceptics is threatening ongoing negotiations between the government and opposition over Labor's emissions trading legislation. Climate Change Minister Penny Wong yesterday accused Malcolm Turnbull of a failure of leadership after Coalition Senate leader Nick Minchin claimed a majority of opposition party members did not believe in man-made global warming, which he called the new "religion" of the Left ... [more...]
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11 November 2009
Carbon Positive: Recent proposals to the emerging US cap-and-trade draft legislation suggest that the Senate intends to keep domestic forestry and agriculture offsets as a major component of the climate bill. Senator Debbie Stabenow led the release of a bill that would create a domestic offset program within the federal cap-and-trade legislation. The bill provides some clarity on eligible project types and the use of temporary credits as a mechanism to balance land-use flexibility with offset permanence. On ... [more...]
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11 November 2009
Detailed studies of ancient climate have revealed that the onset of Europe's "Big Freeze", 13,000 years ago, was anything but glacial [more...]
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11 November 2009
AFP - Senator John Kerry has pledged to complete a framework of an elusive US climate change deal in time for next month's high-stakes summit in Copenhagen, vowing not to let the world down. [more...]
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11 November 2009
AFP - Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has told global leaders that poor nations will not accept failure at a crucial climate change summit next month in Copenhagen. [more...]
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11 November 2009
Bloomberg - Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- A bipartisan âframeworkâ to combatclimate change may be reached in the U.S. Senate before globalmeetings in Copenhagen next month to craft a new treaty onglobal warming, Senator Joe Lieberman said. [more...]
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last updated: Thursday, October 15, 2009