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International Climate Negotiations Are Dead (Thanks America), But That’s Not Stopping China

Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by Ross.

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Whatever lingering hopes the most blindly optimistic of climate negotiators had of finding further progress in the wake of the Copenhagen disaster was extinguished by the announcement that the US Senate was to abandon its attempts to pass some form of carbon emissions regulation. However, other countries including China are continuing with their decarbonisation strategies [...]

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Photovoltaic Energy: Ecologists vs Environmentalists

Posted on 11. Jun, 2010 by Ross.

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The road to fighting climate change is an increasingly torturous one, with traditional allies standing on different sides of the battle lines. Just about every option of how reduce the global carbon footprint has caused another division, whether it’s been nuclear power, wind turbines, population control, vegetarianism, energy efficiency, carbon offsetting, biofuels, carbon capture and [...]

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Holistic Management: Natural Grazing Patterns Prevent Desertification But Increase Climate Change

Posted on 08. Jun, 2010 by Ross.

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Livestock, which are commonly perceived to be a main cause of desertification, are actually the solution to helping maintain vegetation in the face of climate change.
Whilst most of the world focuses on preventing climate change through renewable energy and greater use of energy efficient technology, some of the most innovative research is starting to emerge [...]

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Wind Power Wars: What Hope Now For Technology Transfers

Posted on 28. May, 2010 by Ross.

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Hopes of top corporations sharing patent information with developing countries in climate change technology transfers seem more remote this week after a war has broken out in the US wind power market between two of the world’s biggest engineering brands.
Two years ago General Electric (GE) filed two patent infringement claims against Mitsubishi in the US, [...]

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How To Start A Green Business Driven By Federal Stimulus Money

Posted on 12. May, 2010 by Ross.

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Remember the stimulus package which was supposed to bring millions of green-collar jobs to the USA? The hundreds of billions of dollars which were going to revitalise energy efficiency and renewable energy across America?
Guess what: it’s not getting spent.
Only 10% of the $20 billion of US stimulus dollars earmarked for energy efficiency projects has been [...]

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Immigrants Hold Climate Change Hostage In US Senate

Posted on 26. Apr, 2010 by Ross.

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Just when the road seemed clear for America to finally hop on board the global clean energy agenda, domestic xenophobic politics has created a new crisis for climate change’s lethargic legislationary laggards.
10 months after the US Congress passed the Clean Energy and Security Act, the tri-partisan Senate coalition of Democrat John Kerry, Republican Lindsey Graham [...]

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Let Battle Commence: Green ‘Buy America’ Will Kick-Start Carbon Trade Wars

Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by Ross.

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After the collapse of the Copenhagen conference, there was one prediction which Energy-Saving News felt was easy to make: that a new era of green carbon tariffs in developed countries on dirty imports from developing nations was at hand. After recent comments from UK politicians suggesting a direction towards such steps, the battle in the [...]

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After Copenhagen, The Carbon Tariff Trade Wars Begin

Posted on 05. Jan, 2010 by Ross.

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In the aftermath of the global economic collapse, the industrialised world looked back at the lessons of the 1930s and realised that the fastest way out of recession was to avoid protectionist trade wars and to keep international markets as open as possible, in order to try to keep trade flowing as freely as possible [...]

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Obama Shows US Cards Early In Copenhagen Climate Poker

Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Ross.

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For the last couple of months, all the expectation placed on the Copenhagen Conference was that it would fail, despite some nations believing there to be no Plan B. That the USA could commit to nothing because of the stalled legislation in the Senate, and that other countries would feel no need to adopt stringent [...]

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USA, China Agree Carbon ‘Easing’ Targets… But What Are They?

Posted on 17. Nov, 2009 by Ross.

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After months of political to-ing and fro-ing, the two most polluting nations on Earth today agreed to set binding carbon dioxide emissions targets at the Copenhagen Conference next month.
Despite the press conference held between Hu Jintao and the visiting Barak Obama to announce the agreement, as well as the outcome of other discussions including trade, [...]

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Copenhagen: There Is No Plan B

Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by Ross.

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At a time when the US is stalling for more time in order to bring it’s own (rather unambitious) climate change cap-and-trade legislation to the negotiating table, UK prime minister Gordon Brown has delivered the European view.
The Copenhagen climate change talks are still the last chance: we have 50 days to set the course of [...]