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There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “The Boycott“, Kathryn Blume plays Lyssa, First Lady of [...] Some politicians are mentioning “Copenhagen” and “Doha” in the same breath — a worrying lament less than 2 months to go before a U.N. climate deal is meant to be wrapped up in the Danish capital. So is there a risk – if negotiators are not smart — that the new U.N. accord to fight global warming will stall like the long-running [...] Scientists may face an uphill battle in trying to warn the world about the looming perils of global warming, but one of Britain’s top academics wouldn’t trade places with the politicians tasked with negotiating a new global treaty to cut greenhouse gas emissions. “Although the science (of climate change) is difficult and still uncertain, it’s a [...] There’s no shortage of references these days in corporate and government reports to earnest, new steps to fight climate change. Often they promise to make carbon emissions cuts equivalent to taking millions of cars off the road… For example, take Europe’s fourth biggest single source of carbon emissions, Britain’s Drax coal plant. It said in March that as [...] The UN’s top climate official on Wednesday voiced doubt about the prospects for completing a new pact on global warming in Copenhagen by its much-touted December deadline. EARTH MEANDERS Using carbon funds, the world’s governments are poised to subsidize ancient forest logging, claiming it benefits the Earth’s climate. REDD’s potential support of “low impact” logging of ancient forests, and conversion of natural forests to tree farms, fails the climate, biodiversity and biosphere. Plans to pay for rainforest protection using funds from carbon markets progressed [...] Their unwillingness at climate talks to bear the costs of reducing carbon, and ending their addiction to coal, will destroy the atmosphere, biosphere and all our futures TAKE ACTION! Some 11,000 climate delegates are meeting in Poland’s western city of Poznan, seeking agreement upon new post-Kyoto climate goals, to be finalized in Copenhagen by the end [...] |
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