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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 […]

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 […]

UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Thursday he would press Group of Eight (G8) leaders at their summit in Japan next month to tackle the world food crisis, climate change and the flagging fight against global poverty.On the eve of his departure on a two-week, three-nation Asian tour, the secretary general said the July 7-9 summit […]

G8 rich nations and major emerging economies probably won’t achieve a big breakthrough in talks on global warming in Japan next month, Britain’s climate envoy said on Thursday, echoing other forecasts for modest progress at best.Climate change is a key topic for the July 8 Group of Eight leaders’ summit as well as an expanded […]

Two-thirds of California’s unique plants, some 2,300 species that grow nowhere else in the world, could be wiped out across much of their current geographic ranges by the end of the century because of rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns, according to a new study.The species that cannot migrate fast enough to higher altitudes or […]

The world’s major cities are also among the planet’s worst polluters but they have the solutions to most of their problems at their fingertips, a leading environmental consultancy said on Monday.To make the case more compelling, consultancy McKinsey said that most of the available solutions would save more than they cost so made economic sense […]

Protesters have rallied outside a major coal conference in Brisbane calling for more Queensland Government support for renewable energy.Macarthur Coal, Queensland Rail and the Queensland Resources Council are attending the Queensland Coal 08 conference at the Stamford Plaza in the city’s CBD to discuss the future of the coal mining industry.
Protester Kristy Walters says greenhouse […]

A long round of talks on the trek towards a new global deal on climate change headed to a close on Friday, battered by criticism that progress was negligible.The 12-day haggle under the 192-nation UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was the second since the accord in Bali, Indonesia, last December that set down […]

A new global deal on climate change should be achieved at a meeting in Copenhagen next year despite disagreement at talks this week, the head of the U.N climate change secretariat said on Tuesday.”I really am confident that at the end of the day, the deal will be struck,” Yvo de Boer said in a […]

Climate change was atop the agenda at a meeting Thursday between former British prime minister Tony Blair and Liberal Leader Stephane Dion.The two met at a Toronto hotel, but wouldn’t take any questions from reporters.
Dion has been pushing a carbon tax proposal, which is expected to be a central plank in his party’s election platform.
He […]