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Wood the new coal in a low-carbon world

5 Jun 2009

Power companies are burning more trees because the renewable fuel can be cheaper than coal and ignited without needing permits to release carbon dioxide.

High-earning green sector workers feel safe in jobs

5 Jun 2009

Most workers in the thriving climate change sector feel just as safe in their jobs, if not more so, than they did a year ago, a new Reuters survey shows.

Companies not disclosing climate risks, say studies

5 Jun 2009

Most global industrial companies that emit a lot of greenhouse gases are not adequately detailing their climate strategies in US financial filings, two studies by environmental and investment groups have shown.

Pacific islands win UN vote on climate threats

5 Jun 2009

Small Pacific islands vulnerable to rising sea levels won a symbolic victory at the United Nations this week with the passage of a resolution recognising climate change as a possible threat to security.

Diesel-pusher VW signs with China hybrid builder

5 Jun 2009

Volkswagen, which usually spins its diesels as alternatives to green cars, is looking to partner China's BYD, maker of the world's first mass-produced plug-in hybrid.

NSW to build Australia's largest wind farm

5 Jun 2009

Australia’s biggest wind farm, with almost 600 turbines, is to be built in far western New South Wales.

Latest round of climate talks ‘progressing well’

5 Jun 2009

The latest round of United Nations climate change talks in Germany are making headway, a spokesperson for the world body said yestetrday.

Kofi Annan ... climate change not something waiting to happen.

Climate change crisis 'catastrophic', says new report

2 Jun 2009

The first comprehensive report into the human cost of climate change warns the world is in the throes of a "silent crisis" that is killing 300,000 people a year.

Climate crisis like nuclear threat, say Nobel laureates

2 Jun 2009

Twenty Nobel prizewinners, including US energy secretary Steven Chu, have compared the threat of climate change to that posed to civilisation by nuclear weapons.

Traders: Leave carbon price and speculators alone

2 Jun 2009

Carbon prices and the speculators who trade the underlying emissions permits should remain unregulated, despite wild volatility in the nascent market, a panel of emissions traders says.

Todd Stern ... some nations are going to have to do more.

US says rich nations likely to miss carbon targets

2 Jun 2009

Rich nations as a group are unlikely to reach the deep 2020 cuts in greenhouse gas emissions urged by developing nations as part of a new UN climate treaty, the top US climate envoy has said.

Big banks gear up for US carbon trading

2 Jun 2009

While United States policymakers continue to squabble over a federal plan to cap greenhouse gas emissions and sell the rights to emit them, big banks are gearing up for what they see as a new profit centre.

Report accuses supermarkets over forest destruction

2 Jun 2009

British supermarkets are driving rapid destruction of the Amazon rainforest by using meat from farms responsible for illegal deforestation, according to a three-year investigation of the global trade in Brazilian cattle products.

Malcolm Turnbull ... sensible approach.

Turnbull tips Australian carbon trading by January

2 Jun 2009

Australian Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull says the country could have an emissions trading scheme as early as January despite members of the Coalition still being opposed to the idea.

Australia points to $200b natural gas-powered recovery

2 Jun 2009

Australia has more than $200 billion worth of energy projects on the drawing board, enough to drive the nation's economic recovery with the right emissions trading scheme, the industry says.

African ministers reach climate change accord

2 Jun 2009

The United Nations Environment Programme has announced a landmark agreement reached by more than 30 African ministers to mainstream climate change adaptation measures into national and regional development plans.

Wen Jiabao ... pushing for positive results.

We’re ready to work with US, says China

29 May 2009

China is ready to strengthen its cooperation with the United States to combat climate change, Premier Wen Jiabao has told US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Business leaders urge ambitious climate action

29 May 2009

Global business leaders in Denmark for a summit on climate change have jointly issued the expected "Copenhagen Call," urging ambitious, global actions on climate change.

Russia loses billions from carbon trading delays

29 May 2009

Russia has lost out on billions of dollars in investment and carbon trading payments due to government delays in considering environmental project applications, the head of an environmental investment group said.

IBM boss Sam Palmisano ... first equal.

Report card: How the tech-execs rate

29 May 2009

Being perceived as environmentally friendly is a big issue for tech leaders.

Motor vehicle batteries spark new gold rush

29 May 2009

The Obama administration has set off a gold rush to power new environmentally friendly cars.

EU stands alone as world ponders carbon schemes

29 May 2009

Only the 27-member European Union has a legislated and operating emissions trading scheme to achieve the carbon pollution reduction targets it will sign up to at the United Nations climate change negotiations in Copenhagen in December, the Australian points out.

Ban Ki-moon ... business leaders have a crucial role.

UN chief challenges business to create cleaner, greener economy

26 May 2009

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has issued a challenge to business leaders to lead efforts to transform the global economy into one that is “cleaner, greener and more sustainable.”

Tony Hayward ... carbon a global commodity.

Business leaders vow to set price on carbon

26 May 2009

World business leaders meeting in Copenhagen are vowing to help world governments set a price on carbon, establishing a market that governments can use to cut greenhouse gases.

Christine Milne ... Government has been cynical.

Greens and Nationals aim to defeat Aussie emissions scheme

26 May 2009

The Australian Greens want the federal government's emission trading scheme legislation put to a vote as soon as possible - so they can defeat it once and for all.

US climate change bill clears key hurdle

26 May 2009

The United States’ first federal climate change legislation has cleared a key hurdle by making it out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on a 33-25 vote.

Stephen Chu ... 'contradictory and illogical.'

Obama’s new green guru under fire for climate U-turn

26 May 2009

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu will fly to Europe this week to begin talks that will be crucial in the global battle against climate change.

Get from A2B on the world’s fastest e-bike

26 May 2009

The world's fastest electric bike, already hugely popular in China, is now turning heads in Britain.

US-China climate change deal near, says report

22 May 2009

A US-China deal on climate change could be reached in autumn this year after secret back-channel meetings in the closing months of the Bush administration, according to the Guardian.

UPDATE: US cap and trade bill clears House committee

22 May 2009

Historic environmental law including a cap and trade scheme has advanced in the US.

House panel set to clear US climate change bill

22 May 2009

The nearly week-long US House of Representatives debate on historic legislation to cap and reduce greenhouse gas emissions has moved into the final stages, with the panel expected to pass the measure today.

Barack Obama ... US more energy independent.

Applause greets Obama car emissions plan

22 May 2009

Environmental groups are applauding US President Barack Obama's new nationwide rules for car emissions and mileage standards, announced this week.

Dumped Wall Streeters race to join carbon trading

22 May 2009

Jobless American stock traders and other Wall Street refugees are looking to carbon trading shops for work.

Banks who kept the faith look for carbon payday

22 May 2009

For the handful of investments banks that resiliently kept their carbon-trading desks during the financial crisis, a potential payday may come a step closer this week as the US debates its emissions future.

European investors call for carbon trading revamp

22 May 2009

As fresh details emerge confirming that US legislators plan to water down proposed cap-and-trade legislation, a group of European investors have called on world leaders to move in the opposite direction and undertake urgent reforms designed to tighten up emerging carbon markets.

Analysts see carbon windfall profits for EU industry

22 May 2009

European Union moves to exempt industries such as steel, refining and cement from the cost of buying carbon permits risk handing them windfall profits and could blunt EU green investment, analysts say.

Yvo de Boer ... important point on the road to Copenhagen.

UN posts Copenhagen talks text online

22 May 2009

Progress towards achieving an ambitious new treaty on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is gathering pace, the top United Nations climate change official said yesterday.

Ed Markey ... widespread support.

US lawmakers formally unveil climate change bill

19 May 2009

Democrats in the US House of Representatives have formally unveiled sweeping legislation to fight climate change and said the 932-page bill enjoyed broad national support.

Big business lobbyists queue up on Capitol Hill

19 May 2009

President Barack Obama’s push for a climate-change law this year has set off a lobbying boom on Capitol Hill, where companies are registering to weigh in at a rate of about one every business day.

Malcolm Turnbull ... economic incentives needed.

Turnbull puts biochar at centre of emissions deal

19 May 2009

Australian Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull has confirmed that incentives to encourage the use of biochar in the fight against climate change will be central to his negotiations with the Rudd Government over its emissions trading scheme.

Anxious car makers speed toward global pacts

19 May 2009

The breakdown of two of Detroit's Big Three is bringing a new urgency to the scramble among the world's car makers to forge alliances with former rivals, carve inroads into new markets and shop for well-known brands.

Scientists list dangers to US Pacific ocean

19 May 2009

Climate change, fishing and commercial shipping top the list of threats to the ocean off the West Coast of the United States.

UN chief urges action on risk of natural disasters

19 May 2009

United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has called for decisive action to reduce the growing impact of climate change as he launched a global assessment of ways to minimise the risks from natural disasters.

Millions of British homes to have smart meters

19 May 2009

All homes in Britain are to have "smart meters" installed by 2020 to record energy use, under plans announced by the government.

Thinktanks seek funds for green tech in poor countries

19 May 2009

New financial mechanisms to ensure the transfer of low-carbon technology to emerging economies will help to achieve a meaningful breakthrough at the Copenhagen climate change conference in December, according to a report by an alliance of some of the world's leading thinktanks.

Australia votes $4.3b for energy-efficient homes

15 May 2009

More than three million Australian households are set to benefit from the largest energy efficiency rollout Australia has seen.

Henry Waxman ... deal among Democrats.

US climate bill targets 15% renewables by 2020

15 May 2009

House of Representatives Democrats crafting legislation to fight climate change will seek to get 15 per cent of United States energy from renewable sources by 2020.

Car makers could get billions from carbon pact

15 May 2009

United States House of Representatives Democrats say the carbon pact agreement they have reached could provide the struggling auto industry with billions of dollars in funding for advanced green vehicles as part of a proposed plan to limit carbon emissions.

Renewables growth transforms global energy picture

15 May 2009

In 2008, for the first time, more renewable energy than conventional power capacity was added in both the European Union and United States, showing a "fundamental transition" of the world's energy markets towards renewable energy, finds a report released yesterday.

Climate change dire health threat, say doctors

15 May 2009

Climate change will present the greatest threat to health this century, amplifying the risk of disease, malnutrition and homelessness through floods, drought and rising sea levels, a medical panel said yesterday.

Australia
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Climate risk suburbs: The shocking truth about Aussie house prices

Thu 18 Sep 2025

Australia’s property market is hurtling towards a climate reckoning, with billions of dollars in potential losses looming.

United States
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Al Gore on China’s climate rise: ‘I would not have seen this coming’

Thu 18 Sep 2025

Twenty-five years ago, Al Gore was in the final stretch of his U.S. presidential campaign, just weeks away from an election that would ultimately slip through his fingers despite winning the popular vote.

China
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China aims to nearly double battery storage by 2027 in $35 billion plan

Tue 16 Sep 2025

China is looking to almost double its so-called new energy storage capacity to 180 gigawatts (GW) by 2027, according to an industry plan announced by authorities on Friday.

Europe
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One city’s race to ‘solarise everything we possibly can’

Thu 18 Sep 2025

Bordeaux is quickly transforming itself into France’s top solar-powered city, banking on innovations like transparent panels that preserve its historic architecture.

United Kingdom
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Republican gala dinner in Windsor disrupted by climate protesters ahead of Trump’s UK visit

Thu 18 Sep 2025

Climate protesters have interrupted a gala dinner for Republicans in Windsor celebrating Donald Trump’s second state visit to the UK.

Canada
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Carney government noncommittal about Canada meeting 2030 climate goals

9 Sep 2025

Prime Minister Mark Carney would not say Monday whether Canada will meet its climate goals under the Paris agreement by 2030, as his government faces criticism over his emission-reduction plans.

Asia
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Tax rebalancing in Indian energy sector: Renewables cheaper, coal costlier

12 Sep 2025

Industry experts and developers have hail GST cuts on clean energy equipment, saying it will be a major enabler for India’s ambitious climate goals.

Pacific
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China, climate crisis and COP31: Five takeaways from the Pacific Islands Forum

Tue 16 Sep 2025

A key climate crisis funding treaty struck as Pacific leaders backed Australia’s bid for Cop31 despite some criticism of its environmental credentials.

Antarctic/Arctic
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Iconic Antarctic species at risk amid 'regime shift', with 'rapid and self-perpetuating changes'

22 Aug 2025

Scientists say there is emerging evidence of abrupt and potentially unstoppable changes in the Antarctic environment.

Africa
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South African environmental groups push to block Shell’s new wells – how world court opinion might help

Wed 17 Sep 2025

The International Court of Justice’s landmark advisory opinion on climate change has come in handy for South African communities that are trying to stop global oil company Shell from drilling for oil and gas off the coast.

South America
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Brazil implores businesses to attend COP30 climate summit, despite 'second thoughts' amid Trump backlash

5 Sep 2025

November's COP30 summit comes at a precarious time for climate action, as companies back away from environmental initiatives, and attacks on green energy by President Trump.

United Nations
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UN pushes countries for new climate targets this month

9 Sep 2025

The United Nations urged countries on Wednesday to set more ambitious climate plans during this month, seeking to pressure major economies including the EU and China ahead of this year's U.N. climate summit.

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