environmental politics

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• Cheat sheet on climate finance

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  The Global Canopy Project has released a cheat sheet on proposals for financing climate change mitigation.
  14 hours ago

• US provides 3 billion in subsidies for Exxon-mobil natural gas project in Papua New Guinea

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  While officials from around their world are working night-and-day to come up with an international agreement to combat climate change in Copenhagen, the US Export-Import Bank confirmed it will subsidize a natural gas project in Papua New Guinea to the tune of 3 billion dollars—a record for the bank.
  21 hours ago

• On Our Radar: Copenhagen

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 732
  Australian farmers are skeptical about global warming, and other news related to the climate conference in Copenhagen.
  22 hours ago

• Land Conservancy signs agreement to acquire Saugatuck dune property

  
  Detroit Business News — Authority: 821
  The Land Conservancy of West Michigan has signed an agreement to acquire 171 acres of lakefront property in Saugatuck Township.
  1 day ago

• 1700 UK researchers sign statement standing behind global warming science

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  1,700 British scientists have signed a statement put out by the Met Office declaring that they have the "utmost confidence" in the science behind climate change. The statement and signatures comes after emails by prominent climate change researchers were stolen from the University of East Anglia. Critics say that the ...
  1 day ago

• How Generous Is the European Unions Offer?

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 732
  Environmental group WWF warns Europe that its current ambitions are not much different than those of the United States.
  1 day ago

• Soros Hatches Climate Finance Scheme

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 154
  George Soros, the American philanthropist and financier, offered a new way to finance the multibillion-dollar price tag for helping poor countries adapt to climate change.
  1 day ago

• Soros Hatches Climate Finance Scheme

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 732
  George Soros, the American philanthropist and financier, offered a new way to fund the multi-billion dollar price tag for helping poor countries adapt to climate change at a U.N. climate meeting in Copenhagen Thursday.
  1 day ago

• US think-tank: islands affected by global warming should wait for trickle-down money

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  Poor island nations threatened by rising seas should wait for money through trickle-down economics, according to the founder of the US Competitive Enterprise Institute. The Washington-based free-market think tank believes that curbing greenhouse gas emissionss to combat climate change will be too costly to the US and ...
  1 day ago

• Islands and African nations present toughest treaty yet to combat global warming

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  Led by the small island state of Tuvalu, developing nations particularly vulnerable to climate change have put forward the most ambitious plan yet to mitigate climate change. Their move has split them from usual partners, such as China, India, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa, who are concerned about the economic ...
  2 days ago

• Gore, Moon, and Rasmussen attempt to regain trust after Danish Text leak in Copenhagen

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  The head of the UN, Ban-Ki Moon; the Danish Prime Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen; and American climate change leader, Al Gore, all attempted to downplay the leak of the Danish Text which has riled developing countries due to portions of its content, such as allowing a climate fund to be controlled by the World Bank, ...
  2 days ago

• Developed countries plan to hide emissions from logging

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  While developing countries in the tropics have received a lot of attention for their deforestation emissions (one thinks of Brazil, Indonesia, and Malaysia), emissions from logging—considered forest cover change—in wealthy northern countries has been largely overlooked by the media. It seems industrialized ...
  2 days ago

• Nuclear option in Copenhagen?

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  On the first day of talks at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Kevin Conrad, Papua New Guineas Special Envoy and Ambassador for Environment and Climate Change, surprised many by calling for a nuclear option. The option would allow a document to be ratified by 75 percent of the conferences nations, rather ...
  2 days ago

• Bangladesh tops list of most vulnerable countries to climate change

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  According to the Global Climate Risk Index, Bangladesh is the most vulnerable nation to extreme weather events, which many scientists say are being exacerbated by climate change. From 1990 to 2008, Bangladesh has lost 8,241 lives on average every year due to natural disasters. In addition, rising sea levels also ...
  2 days ago

• Consultants debate merit of poll indicating Kent County voters oppose funding for farmland preservation

  
  Detroit Business News — Authority: 821
  The County Commission is slated Thursday to consider spending $275,000 next year on funding for its purchase of development rights program.
  2 days ago

• Leaked document in Copenhagen seen as sidelining poor countries

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  A document leaked late in the day at Copenhagen has threatened to further divide developing nations from wealthy countries during the conference in Denmark. The document, labeled as the Danish-text, is seen by many as sidelining poor countries by handing over climate financing to the World Bank, requiring developing ...
  3 days ago

• Exxon Forecasts Efficiency Gains

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 732
  In its latest outlook on world energy trends, Exxon Mobil advocates for a carbon tax and highlights the contributions of energy efficiency.
  3 days ago

• Peoples Summit Sets Alternate Agenda

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 732
  As the formal U.N. climate talks got underway, a coalition of groups were busy preparing the finishing touches for their own 12-day conference.
  3 days ago

• Canada, not Copenhagen, hit by protests over climate policy

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  While tens of thousands of protestors have gone to Copenhagen to call on world governments to do more to fight against climate change, the most surprising protest on the first day of the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen occurred thousands of miles away: in Canada.
  3 days ago

• On Our Radar: Copenhagen

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 732
  An animated journey through the Earths climate history, and other news pertaining to the Copenhagen climate conference.
  3 days ago

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