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ENVIRONMENT : EP CALLS FOR BINDING MEASURES ON CLIMATE CHANGE.
The European Parliament is calling on member states and the European Commission to take a range of binding measures to tackle the problem of climate change in the medium and long-term. By adopting, on 14 February, a resolution presented by Karl-Heinz The European Parliament is calling...
Tags: climate change, environment, European Commission
Research articles 2007-03-08
Government and Canadian steel industry agree to cut emissions.(ENVIRONMENT)
The Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario, and the Canadian Steel Producers Association have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together to address climate change. The agreement sets out short-term and longer-term plans for govern The Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario, and...
Tags: Government of Canada, climate change, environment
Research articles 2005-03-01
CLIMATE CHANGE: ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL SUPPORT FOR EUROPEAN PROGRAMME.
COP6: Continuing disagreements.Focused on the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions the COP6 meeting is "the last chance to revive the Kyoto Protocol. And yet six weeks before it starts, the major countries and groups of countries COP6: Continuing disagreements.Focused on the Kyoto Protocol...
Tags: climate change, commission, Council, environment, European Commission, greenhouse gas
Research articles 2000-10-13
OPEC: Risk Remains, Oil Production Unchanged and a Word About Climate Change
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will keep its oil production levels unchanged -- as expected -- in large part to avoid destabilizing a fragile economic recovery. OPEC ministers from its 11 member countries gathered Sept. 9 and 10 for its 154th ordinary meeting in Vienna, Austria. OPEC...
Tags: OPEC, Microsoft Word, Environment, Climate Change, Member Country, Kirsten Korosec
Blog posts 2009-09-10
Greener industries adding power to economy
Businesses selling low-carbon goods and services now generate more revenue than the aerospace and defence sectors combined, making the sector one of the new linchpins of the global economy, according to research by HSBC.Listed companies in the climate change sector - including renewable-power generators, nuclear, energy management, water and...
Tags: Industry, Climate Change, Sector, Company News, Economic News, Environment, General News, Global & International Economics, Nuclear Issues, Pollution & Waste, Financial Times
External links 2009-09-17
Business coalition calls for firm CO2 treaty
The private sector investment needed to tackle climate change will not be made without a binding international deal on carbon emissions, according to the head of a big business coalition.Lars Josefsson, chairman of Combat Climate Change, a group including BP, General Electric, Unilever and more than 60 other large...
Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Treaty, Investment, Climate Change, Company News, Environment, General News, Government News, International Affairs, Pollution & Waste, Regulation of Business, Financial Times
News items 2009-11-22

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The American Bar Association's (Chicago, IL) Section of Environment, Energy and Resources has released "Global Climate Change and U.S. Law," a new 780-page paperback book that covers the federal, state and local laws and litigation that are deve
The American Bar Association's (Chicago, IL) Section of Environment, Energy and Resources has released "Global Climate Change and U.S. Law," a new 780-page paperback book that covers the federal, state and local laws and litigation that are The American Bar Association's (Chicago, IL) Section of ...
Tags: American Bar Association, environment, litigation
Research articles 2007-11-01
ENVIRONMENT CANADA: Six climate change projects receive nearly $1m in Government of Canada funding.
M2 PRESSWIRE-23 June 1999-ENVIRONMENT CANADA: Six climate change projects receive nearly $1m in Government of Canada funding C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:220699 OTTAWA -- Canadians will soon be able to learn of the possible health effects of climate change and what...
Tags: Benefits, environment, Government of Canada, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE
Research articles 1999-06-23
Pearson accuses airlines of failing to take climate change seriously
LONDON AFP — Environment minister Ian Pearson has accused British, Irish and US airlines of failing to take global warming seriously, branding Ryanair "the irresponsible face of capitalism." "When it comes to climate change, Ryanair are not just the unacceptable face of capitalism, they are the irresponsible face of capitalism,"...
Tags: Branding, capitalism, European Commission, Manufacturing, MARKETING, Ryanair
Research articles 2007-01-05
Japan to hold major climate change meeting
TOKYO AFP — Japan will next year host a major conference on climate change bringing together the world's biggest greenhouse gas producers and energy consumers, officials said Friday. The meeting will gather environment and energy ministers from 20 nations in Chiba prefecture just east of Tokyo for talks on...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, environment, Japan, summit, Tokyo
Research articles 2007-05-11
Climate change.
It is possible to build a climate change portfolio without having to stuff it with young loss-making businesses that are developing newfangled devices. There are, in fact, quite a few mature, cash-generative companies out there that are set to benefit from mankind's current fight...
Tags: WSP Group Plc.
Research articles 2007-06-11
Climate Change Denial: Where It Counts, It's Not Going Up
George Monbiot is beside himself. He writes in his post Death Denial: "There is no point in denying it: we're losing. Climate change denial is spreading like a contagious disease. It exists in a sphere which cannot be reached by evidence or reasoned argument; any attempt to draw attention to...
Tags: energy, Climate Change, Sustainability
News items 2009-11-08
Washington under growing domestic pressure on climate change
BRUSSELS AFP ? The US government is coming under increasing pressure from its own companies to sign up to the Kyoto protocol on climate change, EU Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstroem said. "Slowly but steadily things are also changing in the US," she told reporters. "It is coming from the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse
Research articles 2004-06-02
Blair's international brainstorming to combat climate change
LONDON AFP — Thirty Energy and Environment ministers from 20 industrialized and emerging countries will gather at the behest of the British government Tuesday and Wednesday to debate climate change and how to combat it. The informal meeting is to lay the groundwork for a Group of Eight (the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, London, summit, U.S.
Research articles 2005-03-14
Johnson Matthey has benefited from climate concerns and is worth
Our view: Buy Share price: 1,525p (+44p) Johnson Matthey, the world's largest manufac-turer of catalytic converters, has enjoyed a prosperous few years, as climate change and the environment have climbed their way up the political agenda. All vehicles in the US and UK are...
Tags: Johnson Matthey Inc.
Research articles 2007-01-25
Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman release framework for Senate climate/energy bill
by David Roberts Sens. Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman held a press conference today to discuss the framework they're developing for a clean energy bill that can get to 60 votes in the Senate early next year. (Audio here .) Obviously the event was timed to...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Carbon, Climate Change, Energy, Legislation, Lieberman Software Corp
News items 2009-12-10
Sen. Byrd - coal-hater and climate fanatic?
It looks like Sen. Robert Byrd, a lifetime loyal supporter of the West Virginia coal industry (see his definitive biography, "Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields"), stabbed Don Blankenship/Massey Coal and the rest of the W.Va. environmentally destructive "mountaintop mining" industry in the back last Thursday, in an...
Tags: Coal
News items 2009-12-07
ENVIRONMENT CANADA: Canada/Yukon Government funding he helps launch 2 climate change projects in the Yukon.
M2 PRESSWIRE-17 September 1999-ENVIRONMENT CANADA: Government of Canada and Yukon Government funding helps launch two new climate change projects in the Yukon C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:160999 Whitehorse -- Yukon residents will soon learn more about the possible impacts of climate...
Tags: environment, FINANCE, Government of Canada
Research articles 1999-09-17
New "Tri-Partisan" Climate Framework Aims to Clear High Senate Hurdle
Originally at the Breakthrough InstitutePromising "we can and will pass climate change and energy independence legislation this Congress," Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) unveiled a new framework intended to form the core of a "compromise" climate and energy bill capable of clearing the 60-vote...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Senator, John Kerry, Framework
News items 2009-12-11
U.S. charm offensive at Copenhagen climate conference: Will it work?
by Keith Schneider COPENHAGEN—Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, pushed through a crush of visitors at the U.S. Center late this morning, stepped to the podium in front of a packed meeting room, and became the first of President Obama's senior advisors...
Tags: U.S., Barack Obama, Conference, Climate
News items 2009-12-09
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