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• Greenhouse gases at near-record levels in 2005  International Herald Tribune - 28 minutes ago The volume of greenhouse gases emitted by industrialized nations rose to near-record levels in 2005. Among the nations responsible for the rising trend was the United States and a number of former Soviet bloc countries.

 

• OPEC to put carbon capture at heart of new green agenda. OPEC leaders are set to make carbon capture and storage the centerpiece of their new-found green agenda by urging greater use of the emerging technique to curb carbon emissions, Algeria's energy minister said Friday.

• Canada levies new duties on casings from China  People's Daily -  Certain Chinese-made steel oil and gas well casings will face double punitive duties in the Canadian market, the Canadian government has announced. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) recently made preliminary estimates to levy dump ...

 

• RWE to Join AEP in Validation of Carbon Capture Technology. American Electric Power announced today that RWE AG, one of the world's leading power producers and the largest electricity producer in Germany, will collaborate with AEP and Alstom during a planned validation of commercial-scale application of carbon capture and storage technology on an existing AEP coal-fired power plant. AEP and RWE, who have signed a memorandum of ...

• Proposal: Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Air.

  Emerging technologies could pull carbon dioxide straight from the air to potentially attack global warming directly.

 

• Carbon pollution from industrialised countries rises again. Emissions of greenhouse gases by industrialised countries are surging anew after a long decline, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said on Tuesday ahead of a crucial forum on tackling global warming.

 

• Group vows to block Japan whaling fleet AFP - Tue Nov 20, 2:03 AM ET

  SYDNEY (AFP) - A hardline environmental group said Tuesday it planned to intercept Japan's whaling fleet in Antarctic waters as soon as possible and prevent it reaching its quota of around 1,000 whales.

 

• Nokia Siemens sees profit from "greener" networks Reuters - Mon Nov 19, 9:49 PM ET

  HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia Siemens Networks aims to cut the energy consumption of some of its mobile base stations by up to 40 percent by 2010 in a move that should also boost profits, the telecoms network group said on Tuesday.

 

• Global Warming, Or Global Con? Investor's Business Daily - Mon Nov 19, 6:33 PM ET

  Climate Change: A U.N. that can't save the world from war, famine, disease and pestilence now releases a report saying global warming will cause all of the above -- and it's your SUV that's doing it.

 

• Britain's Brown seeks action on climate AP - Mon Nov 19, 6:02 PM ET

  LONDON - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday he is determined to raise Britain's already ambitious targets for cutting carbon emissions and to push the nation to the forefront of global efforts to tackle climate change.

 

• Technology Won't Stop Global Warming, Economists Say LiveScience.com - Mon Nov 19, 3:50 PM ET

  Greenhouse gas emissions in the United States may grow faster in the next 50 years than they have in the past 50, and higher energy prices will curb the problem better than technology, two economists say.

 

• Climate change driving 'fourth tech revolution': Brown AFP - Mon Nov 19, 3:19 PM ET

  LONDON (AFP) - Climate change is driving the need for a "fourth technological revolution" to cut pollution and save the planet, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday.

 

• Bayer announces billion-euro environmental investment AFP - Mon Nov 19, 12:12 PM ET

  FRANKFURT (AFP) - The German pharmaceutical and chemicals giant Bayer will invest one billion euros (1.46 billion dollars) over three years in environmental protection activities, it said Monday.

 

• McCartney's estranged wife gets steamed up over milk AFP - Mon Nov 19, 11:28 AM ET

  LONDON (AFP) - Paul McCartney's estranged wife Heather Mills Monday accused consumers of meat and dairy products of fueling global warming, as she launched a vegan campaign at London's famous Speaker's Corner.

 

• Climate change threatens Asian development: report AFP - Mon Nov 19, 8:11 AM ET

  LONDON (AFP) - Decades of development in Asia will be reversed by climate change, threatening the lives of millions of people, environmentalists and aid agencies warned Monday.

 

• Green vote may topple Australia's environment minister according to poll AFP - Mon Nov 19, 2:52 AM ET

  SYDNEY (AFP) - Surging support for the Greens could help topple Australia's environment minister in what had previously been a safe seat for the conservative government, a poll showed Monday.

 

• NZealand glaciers retreat due to global warming say scientists AFP - Mon Nov 19, 2:51 AM ET

  WELLINGTON (AFP) - New Zealand's largest glaciers are retreating fast in the face of global warming and could disappear altogether, scientists said Monday.

 

• Climate change priority in Australian vote AFP - Sun Nov 18, 10:30 PM ET

  GRENFELL, Australia (AFP) - On the parched paddocks of his grain and sheep farm, Paul Rout is at the frontline of one of the main campaign battles ahead of Australian elections on Saturday: climate change.

 

• Tides could spread oil spilled in SF Bay AP - Sun Nov 18, 9:32 PM ET

  SAN FRANCISCO - Tides predicted to peak shortly after Thanksgiving could wash sticky, thick balls of oil off beaches and spread them to places previously unaffected after a cargo ship hit a bridge this month, spilling 58,000 gallons of fuel.

 

• Asia can do more on climate, activists say AFP - Sun Nov 18, 5:42 PM ET

  SINGAPORE (AFP) - Environmental groups are piling the pressure on Asian nations to do more to fight global warming ahead of a key climate conference next month, calling their pledges so far nothing but empty promises.

 

• Gulf states pledge 750 million dollars to climate fund AFP - Sun Nov 18, 5:29 PM ET

  RIYADH (AFP) - Gulf OPEC members have pledged a total of 750 million dollars to a new fund to tackle global warming through financing research for a clean environment, the Saudi foreign minister said Sunday.

 

• Kuwait, UAE pledge $300 million to climate fund AFP - Sun Nov 18, 2:13 PM ET

  RIYADH (AFP) - Leading global oil producers Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates pledged 150 million dollars each on Sunday to a new fund to tackle global warming.

 

• America ships electronic waste overseas AP - Sun Nov 18, 1:53 PM ET

  SAN FRANCISCO - Most Americans think they're helping the earth when they recycle their old computers, televisions and cell phones. But chances are they're contributing to a global trade in electronic trash that endangers workers and pollutes the environment overseas.

 

• Greenpeace slams 'unsustainable' new tuna quota AFP - Sun Nov 18, 1:14 PM ET

  ANKARA (AFP) - An international commission designed to protect bluefin tuna stocks has effectively increased the fishing quota for 2008 from what was already an "unsustainable" level, Greenpeace said Sunday.

 

• OPEC leaders support 'clean oil' technologies AFP - Sun Nov 18, 11:09 AM ET

  RIYADH (AFP) - OPEC leaders are to insist on the importance of technology to enable the use of "clean oil," notably carbon capture and storage, to help fight global warming, according to the final summit declaration obtained by AFP on Sunday.

 

• Call for action issued at first summit of women leaders AFP - Sun Nov 18, 2:19 AM ET

  NEW YORK (AFP) - The first summit of women leaders held in New York Friday and Saturday issued a call for action on global warming, terrorism, poverty and women's security.

 

• Grim climate change report spurs UN call for 'breakthrough' AFP - Sun Nov 18, 1:40 AM ET

  VALENCIA, Spain (AFP) - The Nobel-winning IPCC group of climate scientists on Saturday issued their starkest warning yet on global warming, prompting a UN demand for politicians to smash the deadlock on tackling the worsening threat.

 

• UN panel gives dire warming forecast AP - Sat Nov 17, 11:11 PM ET

  VALENCIA, Spain - Global warming is "unequivocal" and carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere commits the world to an eventual rise in sea levels of up to 4.6 feet, the world's top climate experts warned Saturday in their most authoritative report to date.

 

• Saudi Arabia announces climate change fund AFP - Sat Nov 17, 4:53 PM ET

  RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, announced Saturday a multi-million-dollar fund to tackle global warming that is set to focus on finding technological solutions to the climate change problem.

 

• Key findings of UN scientific report AP - Sat Nov 17, 4:23 PM ET

  The following are some key findings in a report issued Saturday by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:

 

• Brown determined to tackle urgent climate challenge AFP - Sat Nov 17, 11:00 AM ET

  LONDON (AFP) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said tackling climate change was an urgent challenge, following Saturday's report on global warming by a Nobel-winning climate panel.

 

• U.N. says new report must spur climate change action Reuters - Sat Nov 17, 8:58 AM ET

  VALENCIA, Spain (Reuters) - Governments must do more to fight global warming, spurred by a new U.N. scientific report and damage to nature that is already as frightening as science fiction, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday.

 

• UN chief demands climate 'breakthrough' after key report AFP - Sat Nov 17, 8:18 AM ET

  VALENCIA, Spain (AFP) - UN chief Ban Ki-moon demanded that politicians next month smash the deadlock on tackling global warming, saying a report issued on Saturday by a Nobel-winning climate panel "has set the stage for a real breakthrough."

 

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