EU greenhouse gas emissions from waste decrease

MRW, UK
European Union greenhouse gas emissions emitted from waste have fallen by more than one third, new figures from the European Environment Agency show. Figures from the EEA show that between 1990 and 2007 waste emissions had fallen from 38.9 per cent.
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Nurturing forests, peatlands will attack global warming: UNEP

Space Daily, CA
The report touched on areas that are up for debate in talks to craft a new global pact on climate change. The accord, scheduled to be sealed in Copenhagen in December, will be take effect from the end of 2012. Separately, a study published in a science ...
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Obama More Optimistic US Can Lead Climate Change

Wall Street Journal
DRESDEN (AFP) -- US President Barack Obama said Friday he was increasingly hopeful that the US can lead the way on climate change, six months before crunch global talks in Copenhagen. "I'm actually more optimistic than I was about America being able to ...
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Global-warming special nothing but 'speculative drivel'

OneNewsNow, MS
The special took a futuristic worst-case scenario look at civilization in the next 100 years if no action is taken on supposed "manmade" global warming. ABC collaborated with top scientists who believe human-caused carbon emissions are heating up the ...
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Climate change pledges not so easy for some-Obama

Reuters
DRESDEN, Germany, June 5 (Reuters) - US President Barack Obama said on Friday it would be difficult to convince less wealthy countries such as China to commit to pledges aimed at reducing global warming. "It will be very difficult for us to persuade ...
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Global Warming Conference: A Warning on Warming Predictions

Heritage.org, DC
He blogs here and explains very well why the IPCC model predicts too much warming; in fact, his latest post "A Layman's Explanation of Why Global Warming Predictions by Climate Models are Wrong" is worth taking a look. His talk discusses why we cannot ...
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Pricing Carbon Emissions

MIT Technology Review, MA
By Kevin Bullis Experts are applauding a sweeping energy bill currently before the United States Congress, saying that it could lead to significant cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions and improve the likelihood of a comprehensive international agreement ...
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Kodak sets green goals

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY
Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday it plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions and ensure all its new products are energy efficient by 2012 under a set of new "worldwide sustainability goals." The company also wants to lower its employee injury rate.
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US House committee approves climate change bill

Oil & Gas Journal, TX
The oil and gas industry joined other industries that responded critically after the US House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a bill May 21 to address global climate change by instituting a cap-and-trade system. The committee beat the Memorial ...
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China commentary chides rich nations on climate change

Reuters India, India
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's official news agency has accused rich countries of shirking their duty to fight climate change and seeking to divide developing countries, warning that negotiations for a new global climate pact face deep disputes.
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All The Carbon Counts: Including Land-based Carbon In Greenhouse ...

Science Daily (press release)
But whether policies to stabilize greenhouse gases in the atmosphere should include this terrestrial source of carbon dioxide is under debate. According to a new study this week in Science, failing to include land use changes in such policies could ...
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Why the Caribbean must meet the challenge of climate change

Jamaica Observer, Jamaica
Globalisation is the staple of public discourse, the sound bite of choice that gave us the great growth spurt, the great excesses, followed by the great economic meltdown, not unlike the extensive melting of polar ice and glaciers at an unprecedented ...
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Climate change to raise a $340 bn bill

Economic Times, India
The influential report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, the first to calculate the human impact of climate change, finds that in 20 years, the death toll can hit 50000, and annual economic costs rise to $340 billion. Kofi Annan, president of the ...
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Kodak Ups Environmental Targets

Environmental Leader, CO
As part of previous goals, Kodak has reduced energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by 40% since 2002, surpassing its 20% target. Kodak says it will now reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions at operations worldwide by another 10% by 2012 ...
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Let's unite to combat climate change threat

Gulf Daily News, Bahrain
ENVIRONMENTALISTS are calling on individuals, organisations in all sectors in Bahrain to unite in combating climate change. The country may only be responsible for 0.1 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions but per capita it is the sixth highest ...
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Pelosi Stressed Fiscal Discipline, Greenhouse Gas Initiatives in China

RTT News, NY
The House's efforts to enact a law regulating greenhouse gas emissions using a cap and trade system were also a subject of great interest in China, Pelosi said. "Frankly, it was a game changer for us in our discussions in China that the US was ready to ...
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Chu calls for global warming action

Harvard University Gazette, MA
Harvard was not spared in the global financial meltdown and has been forced to take a new, hard look at its spending priorities as it examines ways to cut its budget. Despite the difficulty, Faust said, this is not a time to feel victimized by ...
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The Human Cost of Climate Change

TIME
A forlorn polar bear stuck on a splintering glacier makes for a gripping visual, but a new report says there are millions of climate-change victims we don't see - and many look just like us. The Global Humanitarian Forum paints a grim portrait of the ...
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Climate Change Pros: Male, Well Paid and Secure

Reuters
By Tilde Herrera - Tilde Herrera Professionals in climate change-related fields are more likely to be male, highly educated, well paid and not worried about losing their jobs, according to a new survey. The results of the inaugural Carbon Salary Survey ...
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Scientists get measure of Antarctica's hidden heights

Xinhua, China
The research, published in Nature, was carried out by a collaboration involving the Polar Research Institute of China and the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan. It was part-funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), ...
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Did global warming help bring down Air France flight 447?

RT, Russia
As the investigation continues as to what brought down the French airliner over the Atlantic Ocean with 228 people on board, a Russian climatologist believes global warming played a significant part. For even the most experienced pilots, ...
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House Ag Panel Releases Climate Change Survey Results

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The House Ag Committee has now published the responses the panel received to its climate change survey. The Committee received more than 200 responses to the questionnaire. "The tremendous response to the Agriculture Committee's climate change survey ...
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China Challenge: How Can US, China Tackle Climate Change?

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
By Keith Johnson There's a new parlor game in Washington these days: Trying to figure out how the US and China can work together to tackle climate change. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee hosted the latest round today, as resident China optimist ...
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Big Business Fails to Disclose Climate Change Risks

Huffington Post, NY
As climate change business impacts take hold, a growing number of investors are boosting their attention to the risks and opportunities from global warming that are embedded in their portfolios. GM failed to respond to climate risks by continuing to ...
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Mass. forms climate change advisory committee

Mass High Tech,  USA
The Climate Change Adaptation Advisory Committee was created by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 and comprises experts from business, academia and nonprofit organizations. The committee will meet periodically and report their findings to the ...
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Climate change work 'a game-changer': Pelosi

AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that the initial progress Congress has made on a climate change bill was a "game-changer" in her recent talks in China ahead of a major UN conference. "Frankly, it was a game-changer for us ...
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Agriculture could be part of solution to global warming

Economic Times, India
WASHINGTON: A new report released by the Worldwatch Institute has said that agriculture could become a big part of the solution to global warming. According to a report in Environmental News Network (ENN), innovations in food production and land use ...
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U.S., Canadian groups gear up to halt oil sands development

New York Times, United States
"We plan to make sure that sources of greenhouse gas emissions like the tar sands are not given a free ride," explained Natural Resources Defense Council Senior Attorney Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, referring to Alberta's vast oil shale deposits.
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How Antarctica Got Its Ice

U.S. News & World Report, DC
... in Earth's climate, which have already affected ice shelves in parts of Antarctica. The work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the International Polar Year program CHINARE, and the UK Natural Environment Research Council...
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Tips: 12 Steps to a Greener Life!

Alibaba News Channel, NEW YORK
Larger organisations may need specialised advice and tools, such as the new ISO 14064 standard for greenhouse gas accounting and verification, or the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, provided by the World Resources Institute and World Business Council for ...
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NAFTA countries need common greenhouse-gas position: Charest

Canada.com, Canada
QUEBEC - Canada, the United States and Mexico should adopt a common position on greenhouse gases, Quebec Premier Jean Charest, hosting a meeting of Canadian premiers and governors from American and Mexican states, proposed Wednesday.
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Earth 2100--the reality. Scientists and FEMA prepare for the ...

Examiner.com
After I shared my concerns with them about the slow actions currently being taken on climate change, both responded with their own personal, private fears. Both stated that they personally felt that unless we humans take much stronger action than we ...
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Climate change law will boost state economy

Detroit Free Press, United States
BY THOMAS LYON ��� GUEST BLOGGER ��� June 3, 2009 Climate change legislation working its way through Congress provides real opportunities for Michigan's economy. Opponents are quick to overstate the costs, using scare tactics and bogus science, ...
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Kyoto Protocol's successor: too much too soon?

Los Angeles Times, CA
Ever since, Americans concerned about climate change have been hoping that when the successor treaty was negotiated in 2009, the United Nations would come up with something better: a verifiable, enforceable and fair way of assuring that nations curb ...
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Crunch-time for climate change

Canada.com, Canada
By William Marsden, Canwest News ServiceJune 4, 2009 Each new piece of scientific data makes it clearer that we're running out of time to take action on climate change. So the question is: Are we at the beginning of a global revolution or the beginning ...
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Scientists rebut idea that global warming is a crisis

Little Chicago Review, IL
Joe Bast, president and CEO of The Heartland Institute, helped edit the book; he says the book is a response to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report on global warming. "It is an authoritative, detailed, and completely scientific ...
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Your Global Warming Questions Answered

Today's TMJ4, WI
MILWAUKEE - Icecaps are melting...environments are changing...but many people still believe Global Warming is not real. TODAY'S TMJ4'S Chief Meteorologist John Malan met with Global Warming experts at a Climate Change Conference in Chicago.
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Cap-And-Trade Would Have Varying Effect on S&P 500

Reuters
The analysis also finds that the greenhouse gas emissions from companies in the S&P 500 total more than all the car, truck, bus and aircraft emissions in the United States. These findings are contained in a new report released by the not-for-profit ...
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Report Shows How the S&P 500 Would Fare Financially Under Cap-and ...

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The analysis found out that direct greenhouse gas emissions from companies in the S&P 500 in 2007 added up to about 2173 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, more than all the emissions from cars, trucks, buses and aircraft in the United States.
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Groups seek more SEC climate disclosure

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Federal regulators have not done enough to ensure that shareholders are aware of material risks to companies from greenhouse gas emissions, according to a pair of studies released Wednesday by environmental and investor groups.
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US role in new climate treaty hinges on China

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China and the United States are the world's largest emitters of climate-altering pollution, accounting for 40 percent of worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas. The culprit is the same in both places - a dependence on fossil ...
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Springtime on Titan? Cassini mission sees seasonal changes

Ars Technica, MA
Stable clouds are found around the north polar region, where the stratospheric ethane should condense in the cold winter polar night. On the other hand, the timing of the cloud events predicted by the models seem to be a little off.
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Companies Show Little Awareness of Climate Change Risks, Report Finds

GreenBiz, CA
WASHINGTON, DC -- Two new studies from investor group Ceres, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Center for Energy and Environmental Security assess the major impacts climate change could have on global companies, and calls on the US Securities and ...
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Small islands win UN vote on climate change security

Reuters
By Claudia Parsons UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Small Pacific islands vulnerable to rising sea levels won a symbolic victory at the United Nations on Wednesday with the passage of a resolution recognizing climate change as a possible threat to security.
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US House puts climate bill on quick pace for passage

Reuters
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic leaders in the US House of Representatives have put major environmental legislation on a fast-track, boosting chances a climate change bill will pass this month or next, leading lawmakers said on ...
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A China-US Partnership on Global Warming

U.S. News & World Report, DC
For that matter, China's position on global warming isn't entirely clear. It will not agree to binding emissions cuts, and a 2008 report in Science found that China was building the equivalent of two coal-fired power plants per day.
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China Syndrome: Will the US Go It Alone on Climate Change?

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
By Keith Johnson When it comes to a global treaty tackling climate change, will the US insist that China play ball or not? That question has come to a head this week-and sparked a query from Republican legislators-after US Energy Secretary Steven Chu ...
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US envoy sees climate partnership with China

Reuters
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 3 (Reuters) - The United States wants to forge a partnership with China, bringing the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases together to address global warming, Washington's top ...
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Companies not disclosing climate risks -studies

guardian.co.uk, UK
2 greenhouse gas polluter after China, is beginning to form policies that will for the first time put a price on emitting the gases. A climate bill that would require the country to cut emissions 17 percent by 2020 is working its way through the House ...
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Event Host: World Meteorological Organization

Ecosystem Marketplace, DC
The world must come together to improve climate prediction and information services that will significantly contribute to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Bali Action Plan and ...
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