CNW reports on a plan set forth by the Asia-Pacific Partnership, a coalition including the United States and Australia, which attempts to create “less stringent” alternatives to the Kyoto Protocols that would focus less on reducing emissions and more on development of clean techonologies:
Greenpeace today condemned any attempt by the Harper Government, in [...]
China Daily reports on the recent China-Japan Energy summit:
China and Japan started a forum on energy saving Monday in Tokyo, aiming to enhance the two countries ‘ cooperation on energy efficiency and environment protection.
At the opening of the forum, visiting Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai said China has set a goal of lowering energy consumption [...]
More than a century ago a blustery Wyoming politician named Fenimore Chatterton boasted that his state alone had enough coal to “weld every tie that binds, drive every wheel, change the North Pole into a tropical region, or smelt all hell!”
His words seem prophetic.
The future for American energy users is playing out in coal-rich areas [...]
A study from the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration suggests that trade wind patterns are weakening due to the effects of global warming. Scientists argue that a disruption of atmospheric circulation could have devastating effects on oceanic ecosystems. The UK Guardian reports:
The winds, which bring rains to the west and churn up the [...]
A federal study commissioned by the Bush administration concluded that lower atmospheric temperatures were indeed rising. The first of 21 studies by the Climate Change Science Program suggested that there was substantial evidence of human impact on the global climate system. An article in the New York Times reports:
The finding eliminates a [...]
The World Conservation Union has added polar bears and hippos to a list of 16,119 species that are at the highest levels of extinction threat. A recent study by the World Conservation Union, also known as the IUCN, reports that the number of critically endangered species has risen by 3% since 2004. An [...]
Looking to future power innovations, the General Electric Company is set to finance one of the worldās largest solar energy plants in Serpa, Portugal. The solar plant, run by the PowerLight Corporation will receive $75 million from GE Energy Financial Services to install more solar panels. While acknowledging that solar energy may not [...]