Posts Tagged ‘Climate Ark’
Mongabay: A rainforest tribe fighting to save their territory from loggers owns the carbon-trading rights to their land, according to a legal opinion released today by Baker & McKenzie, one of
Tags: Amazon rainforest tribe | South/Central America/Caribbean | Brazil, Climate Ark
Independent (UK): The first decade of this century has been by far the warmest on record, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the UK Met Office announced yesterday – and this year
Tags: Climate Ark, climate temperatures record | Worldwide/General |
Times (UK): A male polar bear dragged the grisly remains of a cub that it caught and killed in the Hudson Bay area, Canada, after separating it from its mother — one of a growing number of
Tags: Climate Ark, climate polar bears cannibal | Arctic/Antarctic |
Mongabay: According to the Global Climate Risk Index, Bangladesh is the most vulnerable nation to extreme weather events, which many scientists say are being exacerbated by climate change. From
Tags: Climate Ark, climate vulnerable | South Asia | Bangladesh
Agence France-Presse: The 20,000 or so participants in the international climate change conference here begin Day 2 of their proceedings with clarity about just one thing. This is still going to
ScienceDaily: An Arizona State University research team has developed a process that removes a key obstacle to producing lower-cost, renewable biofuels. The team has programmed a photosynthetic
Tags: biofuel technology bacteria | Worldwide/General |, Climate Ark
CNN: The land still smolders, tinted with a depressing gray. Twisted hulks of tree trunks take on abnormal shapes. A dark black canal cuts through the wasted landscape. It looks like a scene from
Tags: Climate Ark, rainforest oil palm burn | East/South-East Asia | Indonesia
Birmingham Post: Gordon Brown has called for deeper cuts in European Union carbon emissions as negotiators started hammering out a new agreement on climate change in Copenhagen. With just a
Tags: Climate Ark, emission targets politics Brown | Europe | United Kingdom
Telegraph: Their surprisingly optimistic assessment is based on remarkable progress over the last weeks on the two most difficult issues facing the conference — reducing emissions of carbon
Tags: Climate Ark, Copenhagen talks optimistic | Worldwide/General |
Mongabay: Despite damage from ongoing illegal logging, Madagascar’s remaining forests are poised to benefit from the proposed REDD mechanism, a U.N.-backed scheme that would compensate
Carbon Positive: On the first day of the UN climate conference in Copenhagen, the opening remarks and commentary from key players highlights the magnitude of the task ahead of negotiators over the
Business Green: Even with improvements in fuel efficiency and the emergence of biofuels, demand for air travel will have to fall over the coming decades if the UK is to meet its target of ensuring
Tags: air travel cut climate | Europe | United Kingdom, Climate Ark
Associated Press: This decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the U.N. weather agency reported Tuesday on the
Tags: Climate Ark, global warming decade warmest | Worldwide/General |
National Geographic: The past decade has been the hottest on record, according to new global warming data released today at the Copenhagen climate conference by the World Meteorological
Tags: Climate Ark, global warming hottest decade | Worldwide/General |
Christian Science Monitor: The first decade of the 21st century is shaping up to be the warmest decade on record globally, while 2009 is likely to crack the Top 10 list of warmest years, perhaps
Tags: Climate Ark, climate record heat | Worldwide/General |
Inter Press Service: Latin America has come to Copenhagen with the goal that the wealthy nations of the North pay their climate debt by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and providing resources to
Tags: carbon debt Latin America | South/Central America/Caribbean |, Climate Ark
Inter Press Service: For close to three decades, Jeremiah Mkhonta has earned a living by selling firewood by the roadside. It’s not exactly lucrative: the father of 15 often goes for a
Tags: Climate Ark, firewood flora protection | Africa | South Africa
Inter Press Service: As debate ratchets up ahead of working out a climate change deal, a Dutch study says emissions from deforestation and land degradation are far lower than has been assumed. Will
Tags: carbon forests science | Worldwide/General |, Climate Ark
Inter Press Service: Vested interests in fossil fuels have blocked major steps against global warming so far, according to José Goldemberg, who has played a leading role at key times in the
Tags: Climate Ark, climate international cooperation | Worldwide/General |
Inter Press Service: As the climate change summit in the Danish capital moves into a second day, environmental groups warn that by pushing carbon offsetting and trade, governments of developed
Telegraph: The Prime Minister wants EU countries to promise to reduce carbon emissions by 30 per cent, rather than the 20 per cent they are currently offering. European negotiators at the
Tags: Climate Ark, emissions cut Copenhagen Europe Brown | Europe |
Guardian: Heavy taxes on passengers and a ban on expansion at regional airports will be needed to curb Britain’s insatiable appetite for air travel, a climate change report will say today .
Tags: Climate Ark, climate tax flights | Europe | United Kingdom
Guardian: Scientists at the European commission have cast doubt on whether biofuels could ever be produced sustainably in significant quantities, dealing a blow to the aviation industry, which sees
Tags: Climate Ark, climate biofuel nitrous oxide | Worldwide/General |
Independent (UK): Listening to climate sceptics, it is easy to think the entire science of global warming hinges on the wording of a few emails sent from a university department. But with the
Tags: Climate Ark, climate science climatology | Worldwide/General |
Independent (UK): Sea levels may rise three times faster than the official predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the global average sea level may increase by as
Tags: Climate Ark, climate sea level rise fast | Worldwide/General |
Independent (UK): Next year’s World Cup in South Africa will have a carbon footprint nine times greater than the previous competition. The 2010 tournament is expected to generate a carbon
Independent (UK): It has been billed as the most important meeting for half a century, and yesterday, with 15,000 people in attendance, the Copenhagen Climate Conference opened with a robust and
Tags: Climate Ark, climate talks skeptics | Worldwide/General |
Mongabay: While tens of thousands of protestors have gone to Copenhagen to call on world governments to do more to fight against climate change, the most surprising protest on the first day of the
Tags: Climate Ark, climate protest Canada | Worldwide/General |
CNN: On the opening day of the global climate summit in Denmark, a key U.N. official said she is optimistic that there will be a binding international treaty next year to cut greenhouse gas
Tags: Climate Ark, Copenhagen climate accord hopoeful | Worldwide/General |