The U.S. state that takes climate change most seriously—California—has unanimously approved new rules dubbed the Advanced Clean Cars program to lower carbon emissions, reduce oil dependence, mitigate health impacts from pollution, and save …
01.31.2012
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01.30.2012
Categories: climate change politics, deforestation, environment, Ethanol, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, peatlands, plantations, renewable energy, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
Greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil-based biodiesel are the highest among major biofuels when the effects of deforestation and peatlands degradation are considered, according to calculations by the European Commission. The emissions estimates, whi…
01.27.2012
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A new report by Media Matters finds that U.S. TV and print media were largely biased toward the construction of TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline, which the Obama administration recently turned down. The report finds that guests and quotes were largel…
01.19.2012
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The Obama administration today announced it is scrapping TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline after Republicans forced a 60-day deadline on the issue in a Congressional rider. The State Department advised against the pipeline arguing that the deadline did n…
01.03.2012
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A possibly ground-breaking idea has been kept on life support after Ecuador revealed its Yasuni-ITT Initiative had raked in $116 million before the end of the year, breaking the $100 million mark that Ecuador said it needed to keep the program alive. E…
12.23.2011
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Many of 2011′s most dramatic stories on environmental issues came from people taking to the streets. With governments and corporations slow to tackle massive environmental problems, people have begun to assert themselves. Victories were seen on four co…
12.17.2011
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A Canadian artist critical of her country’s outsize environmental footprint loses government support for an art tour.
12.17.2011
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While acknowledging that the legislation is an improvement over current regulations, some safety experts say that it does not go far enough.
12.14.2011
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Less than two days after signing on to a “road map” agreement at the UN Climate Summit in Durban, South Africa, Canada has announced it is formally withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol after failing to meet its emissions pledges. Although not surprising…
12.08.2011
Categories: Amazon biodiversity, Amazon rainforest, biodiversity, biodiversity crisis, bold and dangerous ideas that may save the world, carbon conservation, carbon finance, carbon sequestration, climate change politics, commentary, conservation finance, economics, ecosystem finance, ecosystem services, Ecuador, environment, environmental economics, Environmental Politics, forest carbon, forest people, forests, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, Indigenous People, indigenous rights, Parks, payments for ecosystem services, payments for environmental services, protected areas, rainforest, rainforest conservation, rainforest destruction, rainforest people, rainforests, redd, romain pirard, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, South America, threats to rainforests, threats to the amazon, threats to the rainforest, tribal groups, tribal people, tropical forests, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
As the 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is taking place in Durban, Ecuador has embarked on the development of a project presented as highly innovative. This project targets Yasuni Nati…
