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I hope you don't mind the intrusion after so long. Maybe we could all do with a laughThese cartoons originally appeared in either Ethical Consumer magazine or the New Internationalist magazine.For more cartoony goodness please visit the NEW WEBSITE
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British oil company Tullow & UK Embassy push disputed deal that could cut Congo's revenues by $10 billionConfidential oil contracts held by UK companies Tullow and Heritage in the Democratic Republic of Congo were leaked today, revealing the danger of economic rip-off and rights abuses in one of Africa's most unstable countries.The Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) are accompanied by a legal
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Climate Justice ActionPlanning meeting: Bonn, Germany, 29-31 May 2010Climate Justice Action : Call for a day of action October 2010Human-induced and capitalist-driven climate change caused by CO2 and other green house gases is an imminent threat to the planet as we know it. It is happening now and it is happening fast. Centuries of exploitation and destruction have passed. It is the world's poor,
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Chris Huhne (1,2) is the new Department for Energy and Climate Change head.8th of May 2007 (url)Chris Huhne proposes several climate change policies:That this House calls on the Government to set targets for carbon emissions informed by science and not political convenience which will help to hold global warming to within two degrees of pre-industrial levels; recognises that the best current
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There are limits to what you can say in 140 charachters so here is a quick note on my thougts about CCS. I`m not an expert but it is a topic that i have been looking at for some time.I started out enthusiastic about CCS and annoyed with environmentalists who where against the technology. My positions was due to my concern about the development of China and India and the potential for shifting
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MORE ROADSRT @cpre £285m for motorways "Mr Toad rubbing his hands with glee" but "not the right priority" for carbon-cutting or rural communitiesMINI-INVESTMENT BANKRT @james_randerson : Richard Gledhill at PwC says green bank "very small beer compared to the scale of new investment required" #budgetUSING THE BANKS WE ALREADY OWNRT @globaljusticeuk : WDM says RBS should go green otherwise
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This years budget is not likely to surprise to many people but there are a few interesting proposals and a couple of delayed measures that we are reminded are about to come into force.The new measures:Up to £60 million "for the development of port sites to support offshore wind manufacturers looking to build new facilities in the UK"This is superficially similar to a Lib Dem proposal for
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A press release sent ouy by activists occupying Blair House Open Cast Coal Site says that the latest occupation started last night:"Last night twenty five activists occupied the site of the Blair House OpenCastCoal Site in solidarity with near-by communities and in directintervention ofthe environmental destruction that it will cause."The other recent site of occupation is the Defend Huntington
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An update on coal power in the UK:Coal power without ccs would have been ruled out if Labour rebels, Lib Dems and Torries had sucesfully passed an emissions performance standard. The EPS fell six votes short.Hunterston energy plant is planed to have some CCS Ayrshire Power, owned by Peel Energy Ltd. Planning permission is likely to be submitted to the scottish govornment shortly. This 1600MW
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The latest climate change news from around the globe, brought to you by UNEP/GRID-Arendal.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Increasingly erratic rainfall patterns related to climate change pose a major threat to food security and economic growth, water experts said on Monday, arguing for greater investment in water storage.
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HALIFAX, Canada (Reuters) - Hurricane Earl made landfall in Canada on Saturday and fizzled after a series of scares along the U.S. East Coast, flooding roads, felling trees and cutting power to tens of thousands in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc successfully replaced a failed blowout preventer from atop its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well late on Friday, the top U.S. official overseeing the spill response said.
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HYANNIS, Massachusetts (Reuters) - A weakened but still dangerous Hurricane Earl churned toward the Massachusetts coast on Friday, en route to Canada's Maritime provinces, after slapping North Carolina with heavy wind and rain but causing less damage than feared.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States reiterated on Friday that it was committed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 even though the Senate has failed to pass legislation.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Friday he cannot predict whether Royal Dutch Shell, which has invested $3.5 billion in an offshore Arctic oil-development program, will be allowed to drill the five wells it plans next year in Alaska's Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc removed a failed blowout preventer from atop its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well on Friday afternoon, a company spokesman said.
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Contemporary energy security demands a mixed basket of energy sources. A move from the current carbon energy usage, to a more balanced energy portfolio, delivers this as well as opening up almost unlimited business opportunities and a pathway to creating thousands of green jobs.
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Burger King has become the latest company to stop buying palm oil from Sinar Mas, an embattled Indonesian company its critics accuse of deforestation.
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The world's most established fisheries certifier is failing on its promises as rapidly as it gains prominence, according to leading fisheries experts.
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WRI is working with Google to make our data related to climate change more approachable and interactive than ever.
Google's Public Data Explorer is a new tool that makes large data sets easier to understand and explore. Users can reimagine data sets from a growing list of providers (like the U.S. Census, Eurostat, the World Bank, and, now, WRI's Climate Analysis Indicators Tool - CAIT) as interactive charts and maps that illustrate data relationships and trends over...
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SeeSouthernForests.org provides a new way to learn about, and protect, the forests of the southern United States.
Changes over a large area are often hard to see. This can be especially true when it comes to forests where incremental forest loss often goes unnoticed until it is too late. A new website and report by the World Resources Institute seek to change this and allow people to visualize the trends and drivers of change affecting southern forests.
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 One of our key priorities at EarthTrends is ensuring that the public have access to the type of information that can be used to understand trends, shape ideas and inform change.
Information is crucial to both development and good governance. Successful decision making can only occur if both leaders and the wider public have a complete picture of the key trends and issues impacting their nation and communities. This is particularly important when it comes to sustainably managing a country's natural resources.
However for many, particularly in low income countries, easy...
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The air is full of carbon dioxide and other pollutants;
The ocean is emptying;
We have observed record setting harvests over the last few years, and yet chronic hunger persists and has recently been increasing;
The planet is experiencing the 6th great extinction;
All of these are the result of human activity.
This evidence illustrates that we have not responsibly managed, neither through governance nor technology, our environmental resources. In the absence of finding a sustainable relationship with our ecosystem, we might conclude that we...
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 Human waste may be a topic that people generally do not or prefer not to think about. However, its capture and disposal (often referred to in terms of sanitation) play a vital role in human health and development. The importance of sanitation as a basic human need has made it an international development priority and a key target in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Even though since 1990 the percent of the global population with access to improved sanitation has increased (see Figure 1.), lack of improved sanitation still threatens human...
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 The number of piracy attacks reported this year have already far exceeded those of last year. According to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), as of September 23, 2009, 294 piratical incidents have been reported, with 97 occurring in the Gulf of Aden and 47 off of the remaining coasts of Somalia. Figure 1 shows the placements of pirate attacks within the Gulf of Aden from July to September, 2009.
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 Today is Blog Action Day, an annual event where bloggers worldwide combine their energies to highlight a specific issue. Over 10,000 sites from more than 150 countries, are participating in this years discussion on climate change.
As part of EarthTrends contribution we will be highlighting a few key climate change trends and statistics.
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The 6th Extinction
A mass extinction is under way. Human activity, not natural phenomenon, is the difference between this extinction and the five previous big extinctions that have occurred in Earth's history. The current extinction is driven by habitat loss, overexploitation of species, invasive species and pollution. All of these, the result of humans.
The current extinction rate is between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than the natural rate. (International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN) Current estimates put the extinction rate at roughly 30,000 species per year which is about...
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 The global economy and energy system are interdependent strands where changes in one will often cause fluctuations in the other. This relationship was highlighted by the recent economic crisis which saw cumulative effects in other spheres including world energy demand.
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 The World Water Council notes that the right to water "entitles everyone to sufficient, safe and acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic" functions. Yet, the consumption and production of water for personal and domestic purposes depend mainly on the water and water transformation processes available for industry and agriculture. Indeed, water use in industry and agriculture has become so critical within and between countries that the term virtual water has been coined to distinguish it as a unique topic of discussion.
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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change |
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Researching sustainable responses to climate change...
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US Global Change Research Information Office |
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Announcements from the U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
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Arctic Observing Network Report Published. [posted 29 April 2008)
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(Effects of Climate Change on Energy Production and Use in the United States) available at GCRIO online catalog. (posted 10 April 2008)
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A summary report (dtd 11 March 2008) of the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference 2008 published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). (posted 12 March 2008)
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Proceedings of the Forest Service National Earth Sciences Conference, San Diego, CA, 18-22 October 2004. (posted March 2008)
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Press release (dtd 22 February 2008) from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Global Warming Adding to Pollution and Over-Harvesting Impacts on the World's Key Fishing Grounds Says New UNEP - "In Dead Water" - Report. (posted March 03 2008)
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Report (dtd 2008) from the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network and partners, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ReefBase, and Reef Check. (link posted 17 Jan 2008)
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(dtd Dec 2007). A new publication from the UNFCCC has been released highlighting the concerns and needs of developing countries in adapting to the effects of climate change. (link posted 5 Feb 2008)
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Summary for Policymakers and Technical Summary available from GCRIO Online Catalog. (posted 16 January 2008)
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Summary for Policymakers and Technical Summary available from GCRIO Online Catalog. (posted 16 January 2008)
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Research (dtd Jan 2008) from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (link posted 15 Jan 2008)
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