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Ontario joins North American environmental plan

AP — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:13:25 +0000

The Canadian province of Ontario will join a regional carbon credit trading pact developed by U.S. governors that would give companies financial incentives to reduce greenhouse gas...

Decade-long Australian drought worsens

AP — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:27:03 +0000

A decade-long drought in Australia’s most important crop-growing region is worsening and there is little hope for relief from either saving rains or a new government conservation plan, officials said...

Do world leaders lack sincerity in solving the global warming issue?

View Point — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:53:04 +0000

The G8 leaders agreed Tuesday in Japan to support a 50% reduction in worldwide greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. However, developing nations including China and India rejected it because they believe the commitments are not strong...

Developing economies don't back G-8 climate goal

AP — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:13:14 +0000

A joint gathering of major developed and developing nations on Wednesday agreed that climate change was “one of the great global challenges of our time” and pledged to back a United Nations effort to conclude new climate pact by 2009. The major economies said they supported longterm and midterm goals for greenhouse-gas reductions, but endorsed no targets.

Cheney wanted cuts in climate change testimony

AP — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:23:07 +0000

Seeking to play down the effects of global warming, Vice President Dick Cheney’s office pushed to delete from congressional testimony references about the consequences of climate change on public health, a former senior EPA official claimed...

US, allies want global pollution slashed _ by 2050

AP — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:35:23 +0000

World leaders embraced for the first time on Tuesday an ambitious but nonbinding goal of slashing greenhouse-gas emissions in half by midcentury to stave off global warming. Unimpressed environmentalists called the effort too slow and too...

Cheney wanted cuts in climate testimony

AP — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:59:00 +0000

A former EPA official says Vice President Dick Cheney’s office pushed for major deletions last October in congressional testimony on the public health consequences of climate...

G-8 endorses halving emissions by 2050

AP — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:05:14 +0000

Japan’s prime minister says the Group of Eight industrialized economies have endorsed cutting world greenhouse gases in half by 2050.

7 years left for climate control

Vikas — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:33:13 +0000

The head of the UN’s Nobel-winning panel of climate scientists said on Friday that only seven years were left for stabilising emissions of global-warming gases at a level widely considered...

UN chief to G8: climate change, food crisis linked

AP — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:27:59 +0000

The global food crisis will only worsen because of climate change, the U.N. climate chief said Friday, urging leaders of the world’s richest countries meeting in Japan next week to set goals to reduce carbon emissions within the next dozen...