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Automakers Ask Judge to Boot out Global Warming Lawsuit
The leading auto manufacturers argue that a case brought against them by California Attorney General Bill Lokyer for contributing to global warming shouldn’t go to court on the grounds that global warming is so important that they wouldn’t get a fair trial. Sounds reasonable enough.
- 03/09/2007
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UK Leads the Way in Carbon Legislation, Even If It Doesn't Please Everyone.
The UK has passed binding legislation to curb CO2 emissions. The government will need to “count the carbon, just as they count the pennies,” says Treasury chief Gordon Brown. The bill called for emissions to be reduced by 60 percent by 2050, and by as much as 32 percent by 2020. Targets were based on 1990 levels. The Green Party said emissions should be reduced by 90 percent by 2050.
- 03/14/2007
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Thailand looks to deadly nuts for biofuel
On a large tract of land in Thailand’s dusty northeast, Suwit Yotongyot hopes to make a fortune on jatropha, a plant with a poisonous nut that might hold the key to the nation’s energy troubles.
- 03/28/2007
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UN panel to hammer out consensus on global-warming impact
Scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are meeting in Brussels this week to chart the consequences of global warming on populations and ecosystems worldwide and agree possible measures to tackle it.
Melting glaciers, rising sea levels, heatwaves, droughts – the effects of rising global temperatures are already widely felt around the world.
But the poorest nations are set to suffer more, and are the least prepared to cope with the expected consequences, climate scientists will warn on 6 April 2007.
- 04/03/2007
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EU Confirms to Release 2006 CO2 Data on Monday
The European Commission will release 2006 carbon emissions data from companies involved in the EU’s emissions trading scheme at midday central European time (1000 GMT) on Monday, the Commission confirmed.
- 04/03/2007
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US Court Rules Against Bush in Global Warming Case
In a defeat for the Bush administration, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a US government agency has the power under the clean air law to regulate greenhouse gas emissions that spur global warming.
The nation’s highest court by a 5-4 vote said the US Environmental Protection Agency “has offered no reasoned explanation” for its refusal to regulate carbon dioxide and other emissions from new cars and trucks that contribute to climate change.
- 04/03/2007
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China rejects emission caps that might hobble economy
It appears that world’s biggest emitter of CO2 takes the same view of carbon cuts that the Canadian government takes.
- 04/20/2007
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Global warming threatens development: China
The world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases will pursue a policy of jeopardizing economic growth in order to pursue economic growth.
- 04/23/2007
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Global Plan to fight climate Change
Britain and Germany are leading efforts to persuade US, China and India to join the carbon trading scheme – the global plan to bring together polluters to fight climate change.
- 05/15/2007
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Zerofootprint Guides: Offsetting - Offsetting As A Sop To The Conscience
Carbon offsetting provokes a powerful emotional response in some people. They just don’t like the idea that you can pay someone else to mop up your carbon emissions. It smacks of indulgence and cheating. Critics say buying an offset while continuing to fly, or drive an SUV, or live in a mansion with all the lights on, is at ...
- 06/13/2007

