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Vast grasslands provide a promising future for clean energy in China, with rich reserves of solar and wind power and great biofuels potential, experts at an international conference here said. Zhang Yingjun, a professor who specializes in grassland research at Beijing-based China Agricultural University, said to develop liquid fuels (mainly ethanol, at […]

Global warming legislation will be enacted for the first time in Pennsylvania when Governor Ed Rendell signs the Pennsylvania Climate Change Act as he is expected to do. The measure was overwhelmingly approved today by both houses of the Pennsylvania General Assembly.A coal-rich state, Pennsylvania emits one percent of the world’s greenhouse gases responsible for […]

Following the U.N. conference on climate change in Bali last year, negotiations on an international framework to follow the Kyoto Protocol after 2012 are now under way. So naturally, climate change will be a key agenda item at the G-8 summit Japan is hosting this month.As it stands, the Kyoto Protocol covers only around 30% […]

China said it is open to general discussion of longer-term goals and industrial targets to combat global warming at the G8 summit, but fended off talk of any specific pledges, stressing rich nations should lead the way.Despite its growing economic and diplomatic clout, China is not a member of the Group of Eight industrialised countries […]

“China and India are taking action to address the challenge of developing their economies and people’s futures in a climate-challenged world. It is time for some developed countries to stop using China and India as the excuses for their own inaction and get down to business as time is running out for the planet,” Ailun […]

China will deepen international cooperation on climate change, environmental protection, disaster relief and other global issues, Vice Premier Li Keqiang said here Thursday. Li made the remarks in a meeting with the foreign delegates to the 21st congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).
Li said space technology played […]

The European Union’s new French presidency expects tough negotiations among the bloc’s 27 countries in coming months as it seeks an ambitious deal to protect the climate ahead of international talks in December.
“It will not be easy — it will be much work,” French Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo told reporters as he and his peers […]

Google’s motto is “Don’t be evil.” But when it comes to its environmental impact, some think the company can’t live up to its own hype.Now that it has unseated Microsoft as Earth’s most recognizable and influential technology behemoth, Google has gone from a crowd-favorite upstart to an octopus multinational beneath the bull’s-eye. As such, its […]

Floods like those that inundated the U.S. Midwest are supposed to occur once every 500 years but this is the second since 1993, suggesting flawed forecasts that do not take global warming into account, conservation experts said on Tuesday.”Although no single weather event can be attributed to global warming, it’s critical to understand that a […]

Labelled a “green gold rush,” global investment in renewable energy surged some 60 per cent to $148 billion in 2007Global investment in renewable energy surged 60 per cent to $148 billion (74.3 billion) last year and is still accelerating despite the slowdown in the wider economy, according to the United Nations.
Wind energy attracted the biggest […]