Spiralling oil prices should not distract G8 leaders from efforts to draw up a global deal to tackle climate change, a report has urged.Climate Strategies, an international climate policy network based at Cambridge University, said knee-jerk attempts to deal with the higher prices, for example by a shift to new more carbon intensive sources of […]
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, appearing in a taped interview Sunday on “Meet the Press,” defended GOP presidential candidate John McCain as “the real deal on the environment” within days of taking a shot at the Arizona senator’s call for lifting the federal ban on offshore oil drilling as blowing smoke.”I’m very proud of him. I’m 100 […]
India on Monday unveiled its climate change action plan which does not set target reduction of greenhouse gas emissions but seeks to promote sustainable development through use of clean technologies.The National Action Plan on Climate Change categorically states that India’s per capita greenhouse gas emissions will “at no point exceed that of developed countries.”
The plan, […]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged Japan Sunday to take a greater lead in the fight against climate change, as the nation prepares to host next month’s Group of Eight summit.In a speech at Kyoto University, Ban said Japan, the world’s second largest economy and a leader in green technology, had a “moral and political […]
On his first official visit to Indonesia, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has agreed with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to sign a joint Forest Carbon Partnership, supposedly to deal with climate change and its unprecedented consequences.The agreement was the culmination of intensive discussions consilidated in the 2007 Climate Change Conference in Bali.
This agreement is interesting […]
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda Saturday urged all major greenhouse gas emitters to tackle climate change as he sought to galvanise efforts ahead of July’s G8 summit.”It is necessary for all major emitters to participate in efforts” to fight climate change, he said, speaking in front of lawmakers from the world’s eight most industrialised nations […]
It’s a hot mid-afternoon and Miami Mayor Manny Diaz is standing on the terrace of a downtown hotel that overlooks a row of swaying palm trees, graceful sailboats and the aquamarine waters of Biscayne Bay.He’s flanked by a dozen other city leaders from around the country, all in town for the U.S. Conference of Mayors. […]
Tony Blair today called on leaders of the G8 group of rich nations to agree on practical solutions to global warming to bridge the “yawning chasm” between climate change “radicals and realists”.Speaking to reporters in Tokyo, Blair said his new report, Breaking the Climate Deadlock, was “designed to be a practical way through; not yet […]
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Friday that the country did not need to adopt nuclear energy to address climate change.The centre-left leader’s stance reverses the policy of his conservative predecessor John Howard, who announced plans to embrace the next generation of power plans before he was voted out of office last November.
Rudd said his […]
Thousands of new wind turbines could be built across the UK as part of a £100bn investment in renewable energy that could create hundreds of thousands of new “green collar” jobs, Gordon Brown announced today.The prime minister unveiled what he described as a “green revolution” and “the most dramatic change in energy policy since the […]
