Archive for ‘politics’
EU pushes for climate-change laws by end of year
March 3rd, 2008
The European Union’s environment ministers pushed Monday for EU-wide laws on fighting climate change to be approved by the end of the year, ahead of talks on a global deal due in December 2008 and in 2009.
Popularity: 9%
US formally blocks California emissions waiver
February 29th, 2008
The Bush administration Friday formally rejected California’s bid for a waiver from U.S. law to set its own tailpipe emissions standard to reduce global warming.
Popularity: 2%
$10 billion to be invested in measures to counter global warming
February 23rd, 2008
Some 50 institutional investors in Europe and the United States have agreed to invest $10 billion, or some 1,070 billion yen, over the next two years in order to develop and spread technologies that will help to curb global warming, informed sources said Saturday.
Popularity: 3%
Obama,Clinton top McCain on environment votes-report
February 21st, 2008
All three top presidential contenders tout their environmental credentials, but Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton cast far more “green” votes in Congress than John McCain, a conservation group reported Thursday.
Popularity: 3%
China factories move inland to avoid green scrutiny
February 20th, 2008
New “green laws” and growing public intolerance for polluters are driving dirty Chinese factories inland from coastal regions to escape higher costs and tighter scrutiny, a think-tank said on Wednesday.
Popularity: 3%
Lawmakers gather in Brazil to discuss climate change
February 19th, 2008
Lawmakers from the world’s major industrial nations and five emerging economies gather in Brazil from Wednesday to discuss a global climate change treaty currently under consideration.
Popularity: 3%
Aussies: Kyoto should have been ratified
February 18th, 2008
Australia should have ratified the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions years ago instead of becoming isolated on the issue along with the United States, two former Cabinet officials said.
Popularity: 3%
Swedish climate commission disagrees on joint policy
February 18th, 2008
Disagreements on the future role of nuclear energy and different calculations of how to cut greenhouse gas emissions stymied efforts Monday to reach a broad political agreement on Sweden’s future energy and climate goals.
Popularity: 3%
Feds nip state efforts to slash mercury
February 16th, 2008
While arguing in court that states are free to enact tougher mercury controls from power plants, the Bush administration pressured dozens of states to accept a scheme that would let some plants evade cleaning up their pollution, government documents show.
Popularity: 3%
China: rich `culprits’ on climate change
February 16th, 2008
Negotiations on a new treaty to fight global warming will fail if rich nations are not treated as “culprits” and developing countries as “victims,” China’s top climate envoy said.
Popularity: 2%
UN urges rich nations to lead fight against climate change
February 11th, 2008
The UN General Assembly opened Monday a debate on climate change, taking its cue from the Bali conference that devised negotiations for a new global deal on curbing carbon emissions that heat up the earth’s atmosphere.
Popularity: 2%
Climate change becomes a U.S. Republican issue too
February 6th, 2008
The U.S. fight against climate change isn’t just for Democrats any more. Democrats used to own the environmental issue, grabbing votes from party loyalists and independent voters when they stressed their plans to curb global warming.
Popularity: 3%
World launches talks on forest payoffs
February 4th, 2008
For decades, a flood of aid and an army of conservationists couldn’t save Indonesia’s rain forests from illegal loggers, land-hungry peasants and the spread of giant plantations. Now the world is looking at a simpler approach: up-front cash.
Popularity: 3%
Mud Flow in Java
January 30th, 2008
Mud… some people drive four-wheelers through it, some people use it to displace fifteen thousand people… it’s a versatile substance. In East Java a possibly man-made mud flow is creating an inland mud sea; at the University of Washington scientists spliced rabbit genes into a tree; and Enterprise Rent-A-Car tries to go green.
Popularity: 4%
Senators fault delay in bear protection
January 30th, 2008
A decision on whether to protect Alaska’s polar bears under the Endangered Species Act might not come before the government opens a major bear habitat to oil leases next week, although staff recommendations are completed, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service chief said Wednesday.
Popularity: 3%
