Les forêts et le changement climatique
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16 December 2009
Reuters: President Barack Obama has expressed confidence a climate deal can be clinched as dozens of world leaders gather on Wednesday to try to break a deadlock at U.N. climate talks. "The president believes that we can get an operational agreement that makes sense in Copenhagen," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told a briefing in Washington on Tuesday, three days before a deadline on a new U.N. deal to combat climate change. Leaders including Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, ... [more...]
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16 December 2009
Mongabay: In the midst of cyclone season, a 'dead' period for tourism to Madagascar's east coast, Vohémar, a sleepy town dominated by the vanilla trade, is abuzz. Vanilla prices have scarcely been lower, but the hotels are full and the port is busy. "This afternoon, it was like a 4 wheel drive show in front of the Direction Regionale des Eaux & Forets," one source wrote in an email on November 29th: "Many new 4x4, latest model, new plane at the airport, Chinese everywhere." Loggers in ... [more...]
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16 December 2009
BBC: Environment ministers are holding talks at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen amid threats of large-scale protests by environmental groups. Activists, angered by logistical issues and a lack of progress on a deal, have vowed to disrupt proceedings. The White House said President Barack Obama, who will join world leaders in Copenhagen later in the week, is confident of reaching a deal. Talks are deadlocked over emission cuts and financial aid for poorer ... [more...]
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16 December 2009
Agence France-Presse: Prime Minister Gordon Brown said securing a deal on climate change was going to be "very difficult," as he arrived in Copenhagen late Tuesday for the crunch talks. But Brown said he was determined to work with all countries to get the job done, despite the "many issues to be sorted out" at the UN summit in the Danish capital ahead of the Friday deadline. "I accept it?s very difficult for ... there are a number of problems that still have got to be sorted out, but we will be ... [more...]
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16 December 2009
ScienceDaily: Researchers studying carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas and a key driver of global climate change, now have a new tool at their disposal: daily global measurements of carbon dioxide in a key part of our atmosphere. The data are courtesy of the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft. Moustafa Chahine, the instrument's science team leader at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., unveiled the new product at a briefing on recent ... [more...]
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16 December 2009
Carbon Positive: The UN climate talks on forestry are on the verge of agreeing a deal on a global programme to reduce deforestation, known as REDD, according to various reports from the Copenhagen conference. A deal would pave the way for the preservation of vital carbon-storing native tropical forests, absent from the Kyoto Protocol, to be included in a global climate accord for the first time. Significantly the evolving agreement text appears now to include carbon-rich peatlands as well. Latest ... [more...]
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16 December 2009
LA Times: Jake Mackenzie, a city councilman from Rohnert Park, Calif., is looking forward to telling the world about Sonoma County's efforts to combat climate change -- he even has an appointment with a Scottish official to talk about harnessing energy from waves. So what if a few local critics have raised eyebrows about the $22,500 cost of sending a seven-person delegation from Sonoma County to Copenhagen? "Our message is, 'Hey U.N., we deserve a place at the table,' " Mackenzie ... [more...]
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16 December 2009
Business Green: As US and Chinese diplomats face off in Copenhagen, one company is serving to highlight the huge environmental and economic benefits that could accrue from improved collaboration between the two economic giants. Engineering giant General Electric (GE) reported earlier this week that its Ecomagination clean tech products and services generated sales in China of $656m (£404m) during the first half of the year, an improvement of 50 per cent on the same period in 2008. The company ... [more...]
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16 December 2009
Mongabay: Prominent climate change denialist and past advisor to Margaret Thatcher, Viscount Christopher Monckton, has persisted in labeling protestors in Copenhagen 'Hitler Youth' despite little historical connection. The initial exchange between Monckton and climate change activists occurred when activists with the nonprofit group SustainUS and other organizations briefly gate-crashed a meeting of the global warming skeptical group Americans for Prosperity last week. Monckton later ... [more...]
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16 December 2009
AP - The 10-day-old climate talks ran into disputes and paralysis as they entered a critical stage Wednesday, just two days before President Barack Obama and more than 100 other national leaders hope to sign a historic agreement to fight global warming. [more...]
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16 December 2009
AFP - Sea levels were likely eight metres higher around 125,000 years ago when polar temperatures were 3-5 degrees C warmer, says a new study published Wednesday to show the effects of global warming. [more...]
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16 December 2009
OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (The Advocacy Project/New America Media) - As governments struggle to develop an international plan for combatingclimate change, a new report from a leading Indian environmental grouphas found that informal recycling makes a huge but unappreciatedcontribution towards the reduction of greenhouse gases. [more...]
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16 December 2009
AP - Global warming in this century might raise sea levels more than expected in future centuries, says a study that looked at what happened at a time when Neanderthals roamed Europe. [more...]
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16 December 2009
Behind the "climategate" headlines, there are real struggles over access to climate records [more...]
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16 December 2009
AFP - Police battled demonstrators outside the UN climate summit on Wednesday as leaders of developing nations let rip at wealthy counterparts, exposing the huge obstacles facing a deal to tame global warming. [more...]
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16 December 2009
Bloomberg - Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- World leaders will arrive in theDanish capital of Copenhagen in the next three days to agree onan accord to fight global warming. There may be nothing to sign. [more...]
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16 December 2009
Reuters - U.S. Senator John Kerry raised the possibility on Wednesday that a major energy and climate change bill he is trying to craft might not contain the "cap and trade" mechanism for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. [more...]
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16 December 2009
AFP - India labelled developed world offers at the Copenhagen climate change summit "disappointing" on Wednesday as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh prepared to fly to the Danish capital for the talks. [more...]
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16 December 2009
AFP - The European Union on Wednesday urged major world polluters to set new long-term goals to fight climate change, realising they will fail to match its ambitious offer to slash greenhouse gas emissions. [more...]
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16 December 2009
CQPolitics.com - COPENHAGEN -- Sen. John Kerry promised the world Wednesday that Congress will pass a sweeping climate change bill in 2010 -- if negotiators here can reach a global deal this week. [more...]
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