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19.07.2011
Opposition denies shift on 2020 emissions target
ELEANOR HALL: The Prime Minister today went on the attack against Tony Abbott over climate change, accusing him of walking away from a bipartisan commitment on addressing global warming, and aligning himself with climate sceptics.
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18.07.2011
New climate in Australia
Better late than never. Australia, the world’s biggest per capita polluter, and yet a hesitant signatory to the Kyoto protocol on climate change, has now mooted a domestic carbon pricing regime that can put the country on the track to clean development. Its top 500 environment-polluting industries will have to pay a carbon tax from July next year which, three years later, will be replaced by a market-based emission trading system on the lines of the European Union’s internal emission trading scheme.
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13.07.2011
Economists Find Flaws in Federal Estimate of Climate Damage
Uncle Sam's estimate of the damage caused by each ton of carbon dioxide is fundamentally flawed and "grossly understates" the potential impacts of climate change, according to an analysis released July 12 by a group of economists.
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06.07.2011
Climate change will increase threat of war, Chris Huhne to warn
Climate change will lead to an increased threat of wars, violence and military action against the UK, and risks reversing the progress of civilisation, the energy and climate secretary Chris Huhne will say on Thursday, in his strongest warning yet that the lack of progress on greenhouse gas emission cuts would damage the UK's national interests.
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04.07.2011
SA aiming to raise $100bn for climate change
SA is hoping that a second round of climate change talks being held in Germany ahead of a UN summit in SA will convince developed countries to raise $100bn in finance by 2020 for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
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30.06.2011
U.S. Environmentalists Back EU Emission Plan
U.S. environmental groups are attacking the Obama administration's opposition to the European Union's plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes, arguing Washington is reneging on its commitment to fight global warming.
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29.06.2011
Study: Climate change could spread disease
LIVERPOOL, England, June 29 (UPI) -- British researchers studying the behavior of a viral disease of cattle and sheep from the 1960s to the present say climate change could cause disease outbreaks.
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28.06.2011
Europe steps up efforts to cut shipping emissions
European Commission Vice-President Siim Kallas and Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard are meeting today with the shipping industry, Member States and the European Parliament to discuss how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping in the short, medium and long term.
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27.06.2011
Global warming decreasing salt in sea
London - Climate change will turn the Baltic Sea into an increasingly freshwater sea and devastate its marine life, according to scientists.
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23.06.2011
Climate change can change ocean chemistry
LIVERMORE, Calif., June 23 (UPI) -- An organic compound with a cabbage-like smell responsible for the distinctive "smell of the sea" could be sensitive to climate change, U.S. researchers say.
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20.06.2011
EU sets out conditions for Kyoto extension
The EU has set out its terms for signing up to a second commitment period for the Kyoto protocol, insisting that any extension of the protocol must be part of an agreement that binds all major emitters.
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20.06.2011
EU ties Kyoto extension to greater efforts all-round
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Union has said major polluters must make greater progress in curbing carbon emissions before the 27-member bloc signs up to a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol.
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19.06.2011
ANALYSIS-Hopes fading for climate agreement
BONN, Germany, June 19 (Reuters) - "Ask for a camel when you expect to get a goat," runs a Somali saying that sums up the fading of ambitions for United Nations talks on slowing climate change -- aim high, but settle for far less.
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14.06.2011
Climate Regulatory Gap Could Result After 2012 Kyoto Expiration
BONN, Jun 14, 2011 (IPS) - The growing awareness that the ongoing U.N. climate change talks here won’t deliver a treaty to extend the international governance regime on reducing greenhouse gas emissions after 2012, is driving environmental experts to foster alternative solutions to global warming.
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