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Published in the newstatesman.com today, this cover story from Mark Lynas promotes rationing per capita as an adequate answer to the hard facts we are facing. You can't bargain with the planet because it doesn't care whether or not targets are 'politically ...>>

Tony Blair, British prime minister, and Jan Peter Balkenende, his Dutch counterpart urge in a joint letter ahead of an EU summit in Finland on Friday: ... The science of climate change has never been clearer. Without further action, scientists now estimate ...>>

At first sight nuclear power plants do not emit carbon dioxide during operation and thus provide a simple solution to avoid Global Warming. To see no possibilities for nuclear accidents and disasters in next 20,000 years and being unsure about foreseeable ...>>

Currently (16-17 Oct) hold in Amsterdam, Netherlands the international Conference "Make Markets work for Climate" will "explore how to create economic and financial opportunities to invest in low-greenhouse gas emitting energy technologies in developing countr ...>>

The study "Climate Change and Insurance: An Agenda for Action in the United States" was issued by the Allianz Group (FRA:ALV) and World Wildlife Fund (WWF). As detailed in the report, climate change has the potential to significantly alter and intensify ...>>

Excluding pollution from market calculations is quite profitable. The Fortune Global 500 lists five oil companies and four automobile manufacturers under the top ten. With profits of $36,130,000,000 ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) is the most profitable and by revenue ...>>

The Sep 7th print edition of 'The Economist' put Global Warming on the front page. Starting with climate extrems the opener pinpoints the uncertain and complex nature of the problem. While Climate Change is happening everywhere on Earth "The real difficul ...>>

What looks like fog over Amazon rainforest at first sight are hundreds of fires turning trees and oxygen into carbondioxyd. Switch between Landsat and Daily Terra layers to see what happened in some years, only. Satellite picture taken by Daily Terra, 2006 ...>>

The EU is in process of releasing INSPIRE as the Proposed European Commission Directive on European Spatial Data Infrastucture. There is a last chance to stop them from making Geographic Data collected by National Mapping Agencies all over Europe a property o ...>>

The Climate Group, an independent, international operating nonprofit organization hightlights companies, countries, cities and regions in a report (summary) with a success story about reducing carbon emissions and gaining more profit or reducing costs. Hop ...>>

Above a certain point the CO2 concentration and temperature reduce the yields of seed grain crops. Hartwell Allen , ARS plant physiologist Joseph C. Vu, colleagues associated with the University of Florida-Gainesville and the International Rice Research Instit ...>>

With the current European summer in mind Climate Scientist David Viner makes an educated guess. During an interview with Reuters International he states tourists from the northern Europe may stay at home in future and do not spend billions of Euros in the Sout ...>>