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Leuenberger pushes for post-Kyoto carbon tax
Bern :: Switzerland | about 3 hours ago
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Swiss Environment Minister Moritz Leuenberger has called for a tax on fossil fuels, heating oil and greenhouse gases to be introduced in Switzerland from 2012. This, he said, would reduce emissions by 1.5 per cent a year after the expiry of the Kyoto...
Tags: Switzerland, Bern, Environment, Carbon finance, Climate change, Carbon dioxide, Greenhouse gas, Kyoto Protocol, Energy economics, Energy policy, Environmental economics, International Energy Agency, Economics of global warming, Global warming
Doom and gloom scenarios for lifeboat Japan
Tōkyō :: Japan | about 22 hours ago
Credibility When the global average temperature has gone up by 2 degrees Celsius and most of mainland Asia is ravaged by famines, when civil wars and failed states and waves of climate refugees are the norm from Tehran to Hanoi and from Madras to Beijing, Japan will...
Tags: Japanese, Japan Language, Lucky Japan, GWYNNE DYER Japan, Southeast Asian, China, Britain, average temperature, gas emissions, greenhouse gas, Japan, Tōkyō, Environment, Famine, Mitigation of global warming, Scientific opinion on climate change, Carbon finance, Climate change, Global warming, Disaster Accident
All emissions under scope
San Diego :: CA :: USA | about 23 hours ago
Credibility Copenhagen meetings, climate experts have called on world leaders to also consider cutting down on non-carbon pollutants to delay climate change. And a US climate expert says there is evidence that reducing black carbon emissions worldwide by 50 per cent...
Tags: black carbon, climate change, special feature, San Diego, Environment, Carbon finance, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Environmental science, Climate, Global warming, Greenhouse gas
Save Planet Earth
The average facade temperature of the globe has augmented more than 1 degree Fahrenheit since 1900 and the speed of warming has been almost three folds the century long average since 1970. This increase in earth’s average temperature is called Global...
Tags: green, India, Jalandhar, Greenhouse gas, Climate, Scientific opinion on climate change, Climate change, Environment, Global warming, Greenhouse effect, planet earth
Ottawa braces for winter storm
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility Parliament Hill in response to a protest by Greenpeace activists who scaled the centre and west blocks of the Parliament building Monday. Janitors at the Canadian War Museum have been filmed cleaning fragile paintings with commercial dusters and their...
Tags: Parliament Hill, Greenpeace, Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, parliament building, west blocks, greenpeace activists, Rideau High, Canada, Ottawa, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Education, Environment, Snowplow, Carbon finance, Climate change, Cornwall Ontario, Labor, Greenhouse gas, Gendarmerie, Public Safety Canada
Cities can cut greenhouse gas emissions more cheaply: Report
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility Municipalities can kick-start an action plan to slash Canada's greenhouse gas emissions at a fraction of the cost of reducing pollution from large industrial facilities, says a new report released Tuesday. "There is a large untapped potential to reduce...
Tags: greenhouse gas, Canada, Ottawa, Environment, Carbon finance, Offsetters, Greenhouse gas emissions by the United States, Energy in the United States, Action on climate change
Federation urges federal government to help cities control greenhouse gases
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility A new report urges Ottawa to partner with cities to control greenhouse gases. The report by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities says municipalities have direct or indirect control over about 44 per cent of Canada's overall greenhouse gases. The...
Tags: greenhouse gases, Canada, Ottawa, Environment, Politics, Belliveau, Carbon finance, Sterling Belliveau, Business Finance, Climate change, Year of birth missing, Greenhouse gas, Kyoto Protocol, Individual and political action on climate change, Darrell Dexter, Nova Scotia, Global warming, Action on climate change
December 7, 2009; Another Day of Infamy?
Toronto :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility On Monday December 7, 2009 a world conference and a bureaucratic action is another day of infamy...Two travesties occurred that completely undermine freedom, market economies, and progress. One was the opening of The Conference of the Parties (COP) version...
Tags: Copenhagen Kyoto, Kyoto Renewal, climate change, China, Canada, Toronto, Environment, Diplomatic conferences, IPCC Summary for Policymakers, Carbon finance, Global warming, Carbon dioxide, Greenhouse gas, Kyoto Protocol
Push for emission loophole alleged
Canberra :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility Rule changes for measuring forestry emissions proposed at the Copenhagen climate summit are estimated to allow wealthy nations to release an extra 236 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels while still meeting their...
Tags: Australia, forestry emissions, fossil fuels, Canberra, Environment, Emissions trading, Carbon finance, Climate change, Carbon credit, Kyoto Protocol, Greenhouse gas
The Buzz: Greenhouse gas law gets cold shoulder from GOP trio
Elk Grove :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Assemblyman Dan Logue of Linda, Rep. Tom McClintock of Elk Grove and tax activist Ted Costa of Citrus Heights are teaming on an initiative that would suspend AB 32 until the current 12.5 percent jobless rate drops below 5.5 percent. AB 32 is the law that...
Tags: greenhouse gas, Elk Grove, Environment, Air pollution, Climate change in the United States, Daniel Logue, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emission standards, Environment of California, Tom McClintock, Energy in the United States
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