While investing in clean energy projects in developing countries, the developed nations must not ignore their responsibility to reduce domestic carbon emissions.
Are Developed Nations Looking to Outsource Their Emission Reduction Goals?
May 29, 2009 By 1 Comment
Report: Climate Change Already Killing 300,000 People Annually
May 29, 2009 By 10 Comments
The first-ever report exclusively focused on the global human impact of climate change calculates more than 300 million people are seriously affected by climate change at a total economic cost of $125 billion per year.
Funding, Real Emission Reductions Key to Climate Treaty As Rich Nations Promise $100 Billion/Year Aid to Poor Nations
May 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
For Action on Climate Change, the Time is Now: Waxman-Markey Bill Gives Us a Start
May 27, 2009 By 4 Comments
I am privileged, and burdened, by being one of the 1200 people in the US trained by Al Gore to deliver his climate slideshow. I say privileged because it is an incredible group of people and fantastic training. I say burdened because, well, ignorance is bliss, and not only am I not allowed to be ignorant, I am required to understand and spread both the message of the crisis confronting us and the solutions we must undertake immediately.
Hey Red States, Get With the Freaking Program!
May 27, 2009 By 13 Comments
Conservatives don’t have a leg to stand on when it comes to protecting our citizens.
GOP Wants America To Continue With Fossil Fuels As Major Source of Energy
May 26, 2009 By 3 Comments
Wyoming Senator John Barrasso believes that fossil fuels like oil and coal are the future and should be used to power the American economy while the scientific studies clearly state otherwise. American policy makers should accelerate investments in renewable energy.
Oil Giant Shell on Trial for Nigerian Environmentalist Saro-Wiwa’s Execution
May 26, 2009 By 5 Comments
In 1995, environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by the Nigerian military government, along with eight other Ogoni activists, for protesting against the devastation of the Niger Delta by oil companies, particularly Royal Dutch Shell. If Shell is convicted, the case will provide precedence for holding transnational companies owned or operated in the United States responsible for human rights atrocities committed overseas.
Environmental Protest Round-up: 22 May 2009
May 22, 2009 By 1 Comment
Sometimes it’s impossible to extract the thread of environmental protest from the complex strands of civil disaffection, or to analyse the motives or protestors and give them a single label.
Utah’s Next Governor Doesn’t Buy Human-Caused Global Warming
May 21, 2009 By 2 Comments
Now that President Obama has tapped Utah Governor Jon Huntsman as the next U.S. Ambassador to China, attention has turned to his likely replacement, Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert, and the policy directions the new governor plans on taking the state.
Genetically Modified Organisms Divide the World
May 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In much of Europe, Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are not used in food production and are not grown as crops. In pretty well the rest of the world, they are both widely grown and widely utilised. Why is there such a division?
