Topic: Politics
All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it’s here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. // Barack Obama
Polar Bears
Dec 29, 2006
Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne announced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
About 20,000-25,000 polar bears live around North Pol in the Arctic and suf ...>>
Angela Merkel
Dec 18, 2006
Earlier this month german government announced, it will be assisted during its presidencies of the EU and G8 by two climate change experts, Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and Lars Göran Josefsson the president of Swedish energy giant Vattenfall.
Schel ...>>
Political Interferences
Dec 17, 2006
In recent years, scientists who work for and advise the federal government have seen their work manipulated, suppressed, distorted, while agencies have systematically limited public and policy maker access to critical scientific information.
To document th ...>>
Allocation Plans
Nov 30, 2006
Yesterday the EU Commisions accepted the NAPs, but reduced annual allocation of all except UK.
Comparison of proposed vs. approved caps for 2008 to 2012 in million tonnes:
Member State
Proposed cap
Allowed cap
Germany482453.1
Greece75.569.1 ...>>
Nicholas Stern
Nov 26, 2006
24 November 2006, Sir Nicholas Stern, the Head of the Government Economic Service and adviser to the British Government on the economics of climate change and development, spoke at the British Embassy on The Economics of Climate Change.
His presentati ...>>
Emissions Register
Nov 23, 2006
The EU's public register of industrial emissions to air and water, the European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER), was today updated with the latest emissions data from some 12,000 industrial installations across Europe.
The data for 2004 for the first ti ...>>
Punitive Tariffs
Nov 17, 2006
The US, world's biggest polluter and emitter of carbon dioxide and Australia, biggest coal exporter, are still refusing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Both bring forward the argument that unless China and India are not included, it would have negative impact on ...>>
Kofi Annann
Nov 16, 2006
I thank the Government and people of Kenya for hosting this international conference. You have warmly welcomed thousands of people into your midst, and created excellent conditions for the crucially important work on our agenda. Thank you for yet another ...>>
Battling Climate Change
Nov 14, 2006
The second week in Nairobi started with new ideas, e.g. a more flexible aproach to include more countries and to avoid 'islands' of pollution.
Australian's Environment Minister Ian Campbell's suggested a 'New Kyoto' and earned laughter and the 'Fossil of t ...>>
UN Conference
Nov 6, 2006
Kenya is hosting the second meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP 2), in conjunction with the twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP 12), in Nairobi from 6 to 17 November 2006.
The two-week con ...>>
Tipping Point
Oct 22, 2006
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 ...>>
Rising Sea Level
May 30, 2006
I would say the situation is very scary now, ... ,
even recently, one of the islands by (our) main island capital just disappeared.
It will be very sad if Tuvalu actually disappears. So we only hope that everybody makes an effort to reverse global warming ...>>
