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• Environment Agency to propose individual carbon ration cards

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  The Environment Agency will argue today that carbon rationing is the fairest and most effective way for the UK to meet its legally binding targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The Agency’s chairman, Lord Smith, will propose at the organisations annual conference in London that every citizen be provided with a ...
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• How Can Humanity Avoid or Reverse the Dangers Posed by a Warming Climate?

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 140
  Image via Wikipedia With greenhouse gas emissions continuing to rise, strong efforts will be required to reverse global warming Wetlands from Bangladesh to Florida submerged. Drought and devastating heat in important granaries such as the Yangtze floodplain in China or Ukraine. Rains that come too often or ...
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• On tattered reputations

  
  Accidental Deliberations — Authority: 525
  George Monbiots scathing criticism of the Harper Cons role in undermining global climate talks is definitely worth a read in its entirety. But to the extent theres a portion particularly worth highlighting, the description of the Cons actions on the international stage manages to stand out: After giving the finger ...
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• Electricity wholesaler gives up on coal plant, considers switching to natural gas

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 636
  American Municipal Power Inc. , an Ohio-based wholesale electricity provider that supplies power to several Michigan communities, abandoned plans for a new coal-fired power plant last week after learning that the cost of emissions control technology increased the price of the project by 37 percent. Marc Gerken, AMP ...
  16 hours ago

• World requires radical new economic models to fight poverty and mitigate global warming

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  A new report calls for a radical re-envisioning of current economic models in order to tackle poverty, mitigate and adapt to climate change, and solve other environmental problems. The report was crafted by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and ...
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• What would the Dalai Lama do?: spiritual leader speaks out on climate change

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  The Dalia Lama has given up taking baths in favor of showers and makes certain all lights are off when he leaves a room to help lower his carbon footprint, he told a crowd of reporters in Sydney Australia today.
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• Climate Summit Host Denmark Proposes Ambitious Emissions Goals

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 502
  Denmark, host of the upcoming climate summit, is proposing that global greenhouse gas emissions be cut by 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 , with emissions peaking by 2020, according to Reuters . A draft of the Danish proposal, now being circulated, said that to meet the 2050 target industrialized nations will ...
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• NY Times: The Road to Copenhagen

  
  CT Green Scene — Authority: 125
  With the upcoming climate summit scheduled to start on December 7th in Copenhagen, news of more carbon dioxide hitting the atmosphere is no surprise. This story from todays New York Times is no exception. By draining the canals in Indonesia,...
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• Taipei’s Financial Center Corp to Become World’s Tallest Green Building

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 432
  The tallest building between 2004-2007 Taipei’s Financial Center Corp (TFC) is now also looking to become the worlds tallest green building. The 101 floors structure will get its new looks in the next 18-month with a $1,9 million investment. TFC will primarily get new heating, cooling and ventilation system upgrades.
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• India, US will initiate landmark steps to arrest climate change: Roemer

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov.30 (ANI): Following Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh’s visit to Washington, US Ambassador to India, Timothy Roemer has held out hope for both countries to initiate landmark steps to arrest the threat of global warming and climate change through the new bilateral Green Partnership.In an ...
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• Australians try to stop sheep burping to reduce methane emissions

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, November 30 (ANI): Reports indicate that Australian scientists are trying to breed a sheep that belches less, as they look for ways to reduce harmful methane emissions from the country’s flocks. According to a report in the Telegraph, John Goop, the study leader, measured the sheep’s emissions by herding ...
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• Giant pulp mill in Indonesia shut down for being climate destroyer

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 588
  Greenpeace has blocked one of the world’s largest pulp mills, owned by Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), in the heart of Indonesia’s rainforests, an attempt on the eve of the critical UN Copenhagen Climate Summit. Greenpeace activists ‘occupied one of the cranes for 27 hours in extreme conditions. All activists have ...
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• The Road to Copenhagen: Tree Harvester Offers to Save Indonesian Forest

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Amiruddin, a fishermen from Teluk Meranti village, and his family paddled up a creek in a dugout canoe. “I can tell the peat land’s leaking because the water here is getting browner and more acidic,” said Amiruddin, 31, who, like many Indonesians, uses only one name.
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• Americans throw away enough food every year to feed 200 million adults

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  The amount of food Americans throw away has risen by approximately 50 percent since 1974 according to a new study in PLoS ONE . American now waste on average 1400 calories per person everyday, equaling 150 trillion calories a year nationwide. Considering that the average person requires approximately 2,000 calories ...
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• Zoos call for deeper emissions cuts to save life on Earth

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  To save species around the world zoos say deeper emission cuts are needed than governments are currently proposing. Over 200 zoos worldwide have signed a petition calling on governments to set the target of atmospheric carbon below 350 parts per million (ppm) far lower than most government targets.
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• No Surprises as 48 Third World Commonwealth Countries Support “Climate Change” Payouts — to Themselves

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 611
  It was no surprise at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) when 48 Third World nations enthusiastically agreed to the First World paying them out billions for so-called “climate change” damage. The $10 billion fund — taken directly from taxpayers in First World nations — is supposed to allow ...
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• Green Inc. Column: Intrigue and Plot Twists in Global Climate Talks

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  In the otherwise unhurried context of global climate negotiations, the last two weeks have seen a variety of gripping twists.
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• On battle strategies

  
  Accidental Deliberations — Authority: 525
  Shorter Stephen Harper : On second thought, Im all about the socialist schemes to suck money out of rich countries - just as long as they buy us out of having to agree to emission reduction targets.
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