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18/5/2013
A senior official from the Civil Aviation Administration of China said on Friday that the country disapproved and "will not accept any unilateral and compulsory market measures", after the European Union threatened Chinese carriers with fines for ...
18/5/2013
ELIZABETH JACKSON: The Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has made it clear that the Coalition will scrap the
carbon tax if it wins the election in September.
But a Tony Abbott victory won't mean an end to the debate.
With the ...
16/5/2013
Since the disappointment of Copenhagen in 2009, Australia has witnessed a concerted scare campaign against action on global warming. The scare campaign has been led by senior commentators in (Murdoch owned) News Limited papers, by conservative ...
14/5/2013
A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to attend an event in Ottawa put on by Canada 2020, a newish think tank of sorts that is trying to further debate on the policy changes we need over the next decade. “How to sell
carbon pricing to Canadians” ...
13/5/2013
Whether or not Hurricane Sandy had a connection to
climate change,
climate change will make future Hurricane Sandys more common, imposing enormous costs on cities.
Since we seem to lack the will to reduce this threat by cutting ...
13/5/2013
"The main thing is the oneness of humanity," His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, said during an environmental summit Saturday in Portland.
"In 1959 I came from Tibet and escaped to India. Now the whole world has some ...
11/5/2013
Global greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached an ominous milestone that's unprecedented in recorded human history.
At the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii, the daily reading of
carbon concentrations has now reached a level that ...
11/5/2013
While the planet hurtles inexorably toward catastrophic
climate change, progress in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through
carbon capture and storage (CCS) is moving at a glacial pace, an international symposium on CCS was told here ...
10/5/2013
The National Journal has a long piece out, "The Coming GOP Civil War Over
Climate Change: Science, storms, and demographics are starting to change minds among the rank and file."
Back in October 2010, NJ ran an article explaining, “The ...
10/5/2013
Michael Levi is my favorite energy wonk -- and not just because we both had to endure waiting for hours in the cold outside the 2009 United Nations
climate-change conference in Copenhagen. (Though he got in first.)
Levi, the senior ...
4/5/2013
It's hard to make predictions, especially about the future. But policymakers have to do just that as they craft rules that improve the economy, protect energy supplies and mitigate
climate change.
To solve these problems, think tanks and ...
1/5/2013
[Editor's note: With voting day just over two weeks away, we look back on big issues that have driven debate in our province during the last 12 years of BC Liberal governance. What did B.C.'s leaders and opposition parties say and do on these ...
28/4/2013
With the tragedy at the Boston Marathon at the forefront of the nightly news, the extreme weather disaster unfolding in the Midwest has received little attention. The Midwest has been on a see-saw ride of extreme drought to extreme flooding ...
27/4/2013
Europe's effort to protect the
climate faces "a decade of stagnation" without quick action to save the EU
carbon market, the chief executive of German utility E.ON said in a newspaper interview on Saturday.
"European emissions trading is ...
27/4/2013
As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing the door on Winston Churchill’s world. Their ...
26/4/2013
Nearly a dozen U.S. cities have announced their interest in withdrawing municipal investments from fossil fuel companies, joining a fast-growing movement among colleges and universities that supporters say is allowing citizens concerned with ...
26/4/2013
I know you`ve all been following the developments around the European Union`s
carbon-trading system and are concerned that ... hm? What`s that? You say you have a life?
OK, fine, some background then.
In 2005, the EU launched ...
26/4/2013
The controversial process of blasting water into rock to extract shale gas, or fracking, has caused earth tremors in the UK in the past and leaks can contaminate water.
But the Energy and
Climate Change Committee said companies should ...
26/4/2013
Companies fracking for shale gas in the UK should be made to offer substantial financial incentives to people living near their sites, an influential committee of MPs has said.
The energy and
climate change committee said on Friday that ...
25/4/2013
Shale gas fracking companies should be made to offer incentives, such as cash payments or rebates on energy bills, to people living near their sites, according to an influential committee of MPs.
But the demand for sweeteners to help ...
25/4/2013
MPs will today highlight the role domestic shale gas could play in boosting
tax revenue and enhancing energy security, but will also warn that its effect on energy
prices remains far less certain.
A report to be published today by the ...
22/4/2013
For
carbon markets across the world it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Plummeting European Union
carbon prices following a key EU vote seem to demonstrate in the clearest terms that cap and trade is doomed to fail. ...
21/4/2013
Fossil fuel subsidies provided by both rich and poor countries to keep their citizens happy are holding back the world economy, accelerating
climate change and damaging the health of current and future generations, according to the International ...
21/4/2013
George Osborne's plan to deliver cheap energy by fostering a fracking revolution has been dealt a severe blow after an influential cross-party group of experts said any boom in shale gas production would be "unlikely to give the UK cheap ...
18/4/2013
The European Parliament this week voted 334-315 (with 60 abstentions) against a controversial "back-loading" plan that aimed to boost the flagging
price of
carbon, which since 2008 has fallen from about 31 euros per tonne to about 4 euros (about ...