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How Denmark paved way to energy independence.
Through a wide variety of government-driven initiatives, Denmark's energy consumption has held stable for more than 30 years, even as the country's gross domestic product has doubled.
Wall Street Journal.
16 April 2007
Climate change scenarios scare, and motivate, kids.
For many children, global warming is the atomic bomb of today. Fears of an environmental crisis are defining their generation in ways that the Depression, World War II, Vietnam and the Cold War etched souls in the 20th century.
Washington Post.
16 April 2007
Rising seas put salt marshes at risk.
Now about 30 percent of Connecticut’s salt marshes are gone, the remainder are endangered, and there is no practical way to bring them back, geologists, environmental scientists and geophysicists said.
New Haven Register.
16 April 2007
Climate report tweaked to lessen impact, scientists charge.
The alarming warnings about the dangers of climate change released in a United Nations report this month were watered down by government officials from less than a handful of countries without scientific proof, according to several lead authors of the document.
CanWest News.
16 April 2007
China rejects caps, aims to cut ‘carbon intensity’.
China aims to nearly halve by 2020 the amount of greenhouse gases it emits for each dollar of its economy, but will reject strict caps for decades, a copy of a national global warming assesment seen by Reuters shows.
Reuters.
16 April 2007
The carbon-neutral bandwagon.
Buying wind credits gives peace of mind to us environmental sinners in Vail, Colorado, but are they worth much else?
Vail Daily.
16 April 2007
Edwards says industry should pay for greenhouse gases.
America should charge industry for creating greenhouse gases to generate money for investing in clean technology, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said.
Associated Press.
16 April 2007
Savvy investors bet on the endangered planet.
Up to 1.7 billion people will suffer from water shortages in 2020 and half of the population will face water scarcity in 2080, a recent UN report about global warming forecasts.
Seoul Chosun Ilbo.
16 April 2007
Far north feels worst effects of warming.
Inuit hunters are falling through thinning ice and dying. Dolphins are being spotted for the first time. There‘s not enough snow to build igloos for shelter during hunts.
Associated Press.
16 April 2007
Developing states must help curb emissions - W.Bank
Some developing countries, rapidly catching up to the industrialized world in greenhouse gas emissions, must take more responsibility for the output and act to curb it, the World Bank's chief economist said Sunday.
Reuters.
16 April 2007
The future of water in a warmer world.
With concern about climate change growing, some scientists are trying to determine how global warming will affect sources of water.
Great Lakes Radio Consortium.
16 April 2007
Lib Dems plan carbon saving kits for homes.
Homeowners could face a retrospective rise in stamp duty if they fail to install energy efficiency measures within a year of moving into their home, the Liberal Democrats propose as they seek to fill "a yawning gap" in the government's climate change policies.
London Guardian.
16 April 2007
UK to raise climate talks as security council issue.
The British government will make a concerted effort this week to push climate change up the global agenda when it raises the subject for the first time within the UN security council.
London Guardian.
16 April 2007
EU demands Hungary slash its 2008-12 emissions cap.
The European Commission told Hungary on Monday to slash its proposed cap for industrial carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2008-2012 by more than 12 percent, making it the 16th country to face a cut by Brussels.
Reuters.
16 April 2007
Industry slams state emissions plan.
A state-based emissions trading scheme has been rejected by business chiefs and the energy supply industry on the grounds it would undermine the $75billion infrastructure investment needed to deliver lower emissions and would isolate Australia from future global trading regimes.
Sydney Australian.
16 April 2007
Emissions trade on ice until 2011.
A national carbon emissions trading market is unlikely before 2011 at the earliest because of the failure of state and federal governments to agree on mandatory reporting standards, says the head of an investor lobby group.
Melbourne Age.
16 April 2007
Market takes shape for emissions credits.
Canadian companies may soon find themselves participating in a continental market for greenhouse gas emissions as part of their efforts to meet anticipated climate change regulations.
Toronto Globe and Mail.
16 April 2007
Activists rally against world climate change.
On a gloomy and rain-soaked Saturday, the local residents and environmental activists who rallied at the University of Virginia might have wished for a climate change.
Charlottesville Daily Progress.
16 April 2007
Farmers want to help cut CO2 levels.
North Dakota farmer Mark Holkup, of Wilton, is one of about 600 agrarians who pledged to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by the way they manage their land.
Bismarck Tribune.
16 April 2007
A song nearly silenced.
The coqui, the tiny singing frog that has become Puerto Rico's living symbol, is facing extinction. The culprit, scientists say, is global warming.
Orlando Sentinel.
16 April 2007
Court ruling on greenhouse gases boosts 'cap and trade'.
A recent Supreme Court decision validating efforts to regulate greenhouse gases adds force to proposals in Congress to limit emissions from power plants and factories while allowing them to buy and sell the right to release gases into the atmosphere.
Washington Times.
16 April 2007
Rally-goers urge action on global warming.
Nearly 200 people worried about climate control gathered in front of the Alamo on Saturday as part of a nationwide rally encouraging U.S. lawmakers to enact legislation to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
San Antonio Express-News.
16 April 2007
In US Earth Day prelude, calls for greenhouse gas cuts
Earth Day seems to have morphed into Earth Week or possibly Earth Season, with more than 1,300 US events that focus on sharp cuts in the greenhouse gas emissions that spur global warming.
Reuters.
16 April 2007
Global warming activists urge US emissions cuts.
Global warming activists formed a "human postcard" on Capitol Hill, dove to a coral reef off Key West and fanned out across Manhattan's financial district on Saturday to call for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that fuel climate change.
Reuters.
16 April 2007
Protestors rally against global warming in Battery Park.
On perhaps the only warm day of the weekend, hundreds of people came out to rally against global warming.
NY 1 TV.
16 April 2007
Rallies nationwide take aim at U.S. Congress.
Environmentalists say they are running out of patience with what they see as the snail's pace of climate change legislation moving through the U.S. Congress.
Inter Press Service.
16 April 2007
Climate change worries military advisers.
A group of retired generals and admirals says global warming could provoke serious national security threats.
National Public Radio.
16 April 2007
Climate rallies seen on streets, slopes.
Americans worried about climate change gathered Saturday on ski slopes and in cities for a nationwide day of demonstrations aimed at drawing attention to global warming.
Associated Press.
16 April 2007
CO2 "upstream" battle.
There's a lot of talk these days in Washington about creating new laws to cut greenhouse gas emissions. One major question right now is how the government will handle carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles.
Great Lakes Radio Consortium.
16 April 2007
Kerry, wife call for eco-action.
Sen. John Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, told a crowd Sunday at a downtown Denver bookstore to take steps in their own lives to clean up the environment and diminish the effects of climate change.
Denver Post.
16 April 2007
Planet lovers and tax haters mix it up at State Capitol.
The crowds that converged on the State Capitol grounds Saturday were an unlikely combination. The building's steps were filled by people rallying for tax cuts while a group at the other end of the Capitol Mall called for action against global warming.
Minneapolis Star Tribune.
16 April 2007
Getting together to save the planet.
America's seemingly insatiable appetite for electricity and fuel, global competition for energy to feed emergent economies, and studies about global warming haven't been enough to prompt members of Congress to pass meaningful laws to control our energy future and curb greenhouse gases.
Salt Lake Tribune.
16 April 2007
Oil and gas still needed: ExxonMobil.
Oil and gas will remain the world's biggest sources of energy over the next two decades, ExxonMobil Australia chairman Mark Nolan says.
Australian Associated Press.
16 April 2007
Russia tries to save polar bears with legal hunt.
Here on the frozen edge of the country’s Arctic expanse, where a changing climate has brought polar bears into greater contact with people, Russia has embraced a counterintuitive method of trying to save them.
New York Times.
16 April 2007
Climate expert urges dropping clean coal.
A climate change expert has urged Australia to step away from the development of clean coal technology for power generation in favour of natural gas and nuclear energy.
Sydney Australian.
16 April 2007
Watch your TV turn green.
TV is jumping on the “eco” bandwagon, including the recent announcement of Discovery PlanetGreen, a network dedicated to living a green lifestyle. It begins next year.
Associated Press.
16 April 2007
Environmental group says legislative session moderately successful.
Environmentalists in Arkansas consider the recently concluded legislative session a moderate success, but note there are still improvements to be made.
Jonesboro KAIT.
16 April 2007
