Archive for ‘policy’
Climate missing from U.S. election-Gore
December 10th, 2007
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Al Gore said on Monday the U.S. presidential election campaign had paid insufficient attention to the environment and climate change.
Popularity: 6%
Gore calls for action
December 9th, 2007
Gore also said he favoured a new global treaty and suggested one of the most important aspects of such a treaty would be to put a price on carbon.
Popularity: 3%
Gore Warns CO2 Cuts Needed for Survival
December 9th, 2007
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore reiterated his climate change agenda to a Nobel Peace Prize news conference. Gore and his fellow Nobel Laureate, Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, spoke as part of the official program before the acceptance ceremony.
Popularity: 3%
Peace Prize winners Gore and IPPC chair urge more climate action
December 9th, 2007
The winners of the 2007 Nobel Peace Price Sunday called for a “strong mandate” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the ongoing UN climate conference meeting on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.
Popularity: 7%
Amazon still faces threats old and new
December 8th, 2007
In the 1980s, scientists sounded the alarm: The Amazon was burning and would be gone by the end of the century.
Popularity: 3%
US `not ready’ to commit at Bali
December 8th, 2007
The United States will come up with its own plan to cut global-warming gases by mid-2008, and won’t commit to mandatory caps at the U.N. climate conference here, the chief U.S. negotiator said Saturday.
Popularity: 3%
Bali climate talks throw focus on Kyoto offsets
December 5th, 2007
Rich nations have less than a month to go before they must start meeting emissions caps under the Kyoto Protocol that aims to fight global warming.
Popularity: 5%
Bali climate talks advance despite squabbling
December 4th, 2007
A 190-nation climate meeting in Bali took small steps towards a new global deal to fight global warming by 2009 on Tuesday amid disputes about how far China and India should curb rising greenhouse gas emissions.
Popularity: 5%
Activists urge rich to pay up to help poor adapt to climate change
December 4th, 2007
Environmental groups attending a UN climate change conference said Tuesday that rich countries pay little to help poor nations adapt to climate change and described such aid as an “insult.”
Popularity: 5%
China’s draft energy law to up reserves
December 4th, 2007
China has released a draft of a long-awaited energy law that calls for the country to keep larger reserves of oil, uranium and other key resources and to set up a new government department.
Popularity: 5%
Today in Washington: Bali Climate Change Conference Begins
December 3rd, 2007
Special Report: Gore, Kerry, Schwartzenegger, Others Show Up to Discuss Climate Change
Popularity: 2%
New Mexico adopts Clean Car Program
November 28th, 2007
NEW MEXICANS BUYING A NEW CAR WILL HAVE TO DISH OUT MORE MONEY A FEW YEARS DOWN THE ROAD..
Popularity: 3%
12 states sue EPA for data on toxins
November 28th, 2007
Twelve states sued the Bush administration Wednesday to force greater disclosure of data on toxic chemicals that companies store, use and release into the environment.
Popularity: 2%
Climate change fight shows a divided world, UN says
November 27th, 2007
The world’s richest nations have failed to reach internationally mandated targets in cutting greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, which will mostly hurt the poor and damage United Nations programmes to reduce poverty worldwide, a UN report said Tuesday.
Popularity: 4%
World to seek broader climate deal by 2009
November 27th, 2007
The world is to start a 2-year drive next month to bind outsiders led by the United States and China into a U.N.-led fight against climate change with the United Nations rating failure to act “almost inconceivable”.
Popularity: 7%
