California weighs global warming fee on industry

BusinessWeek
The money will go toward funding a regulatory bureaucracy that will oversee the law and ensure the state lowers its greenhouse gas emissions. The California Air Resources Board on Thursday is expected to vote for the carbon fee, an action that comes as ...
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Possible Plan for Tariffs on Imports From China Remains Alive in ...

New York Times, United States
The Ways and Means Committee's proposed bill language (pdf) would virtually require that the president impose an import tariff on any country that fails to clamp down on greenhouse gas emissions. Directed primarily at China, the United States' biggest ...
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New effort sounds hopeful note about climate change

SmartBrief, DC
"Hopenhagen" is the tagline for an effort being launched this fall by the United Nations to the issue of climate change ahead of a global summit in December in Copenhagen. The name is meant to represent the idea the public can either "cope" with global ...
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The nexus of climate change and human rights

Business Green, UK
Though climate change and human rights are important corporate responsibility issues on their own terms, they are increasingly interrelated. As our global climate destabilizes, there will be an increase in water stress, food scarcity, the prevalence ...
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Climate change bill gaining in US House-Pelosi

Forexyard, Cyprus
"We are making progress," Pelosi told reporters when asked whether previously undecided Democrats were beginning to line up behind the climate change bill. "We intend to bring it up" this week, she added. House Democratic leaders have said they hope to ...
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Hopenhagen: Twitter-Like Site to Push World Leaders at Copenhagen ...

Fast Company
The open source project, which riffs on Obama's hope campaign, aims to push world leaders to take action on climate change at December's UN meeting in Denmark. Unlike Twitter's limit of 140 characters, Hopenhagen asks site participants to use 45 ...
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USAID giving $1 million to Africa climate project

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The US development agency said Thursday it has committed $1 million to a project that aims to help people living along southern Africa's Zambezi River cope with worsening natural disasters because of climate change.
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What Will Obama Do on Climate Change?

Washington Post Blogs, DC
I've been trying pretty hard to wrap my head around the politics of the climate change debate. No one, for instance, seems to think Waxman-Markey is, at this point, a particularly good bill, even as everyone agrees it's the best we're likely to get. ...
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Relating Climate Change to Poverty 'Vital'

Christian Post
By Aaron J. Leichman The leader of a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service groups says it is "vital" for humanitarian organizations to relate climate change to the issue of poverty and to address the factors that make ...
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Report foresees drastic climate change for BC

Calgary Herald,  Canada
The above scenario may sound like apocalyptic, but evidence suggests blights of biblical proportions may be coming, due to climate change, according to a new government-commissioned research paper, Climate Change and Health in British Columbia.
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Climate Change, Patent Pending

ISN, Switzerland
By Peter Buxbaum in Washington, DC for ISN Security Watch On 12 June, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a foreign relations funding bill which included an instruction to the US envoy to the UN-sponsored climate change treaty ...
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What's New in the EU: EU examines impact of climate change on jobs

Jerusalem Post, Israel
By ARI SYRQUIN The European Commission held a meeting in Brussels this week to examine the impact of climate change on employment. Bringing together about 300 policy makers and experts, this latest edition of the Restructuring Forum addressed various ...
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UN Climate Change Summit to be Held in New York This September

AZoCleantech, Australia
On Tuesday, UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon invited world leaders to an "unprecedented" Summit on Climate Change at UN Headquarters for Heads of State and Government from every country in the world. The focus of the day-long event will be to mobilize ...
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US climate change bill vote looms

guardian.co.uk, UK
Democrats say they are confident of delivering on one of Barack Obama's defining promises tomorrow, by calling a vote in Congress on a sweeping energy and climate change bill. The bill, produced with hands-on involvement from the White House and ...
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Limits on Emissions Have Wide Support

Washington Post, United States
Tiffany Collins, 31, a part-time children's activity director at a church and a mother of four in Riverside, Calif., said she does not think greenhouse gases are causing climate change. She said she read a report on the Internet saying climate change ...
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House set to pass historic Climate Change bill

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House set to pass historic Climate Change bill. After weeks of compromise Obama announced the House is set to pass the Climate Change bill called Waxman-Markey. The key compromise delays regulation of farms for 5 years and gives the regulatory powers ...
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Offshore wind farms could meet a quarter of the uk's electricity needs

guardian.co.uk, UK
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) and energy regulator Ofgem also announced today they were opening the tendering process to companies to provide the ��15bn of new cabling needed to connect new wind farms. The energy and climate change ...
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Hasan discusses climate change challenges with Kofi Annan

The Daily Star, Bangladesh
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Hasan Mahmud, who is now attending a UN conference in Geneva, Wednesday met with former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and President of Timor Leste and discussed possible ways to address the climate change challenges ...
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Africa needs compensation for climate change

Reuters
A UN summit scheduled for December in Copenhagen will try to reach global agreement on how to tackle climate change and come up with a post-Kyoto protocol to curb emissions. "Africa should demand compensation at the upcoming Copenhagen negotiations," ...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger backs Scottish Climate Change laws

Scottish Daily Record, UK
The Terminator star, who is now governor of California, said: "Climate change is a global problem that requires a global solution. "California has set aggressive greenhouse gas reduction targets, but we need the help of the world to tackle the most ...
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