Dealing with global warming ranks at the bottom of the public’s list of priorities; just 28% consider this a top priority, the lowest measure for any issue tested in the survey.
California approved the most stringent, eco-friendly statewide building code in the United States. The new code, which won a unanimous vote by the state building commssion and will apply to new homes, hospitals, schools and shopping malls, takes effect next January.
Australia's government came under pressure from lawmakers on Wednesday to block "spy flights" launched by Japanese whalers from Australian airports to foil hardline anti-whaling activists in the Southern Ocean.
With no national cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases, some states like Minnesota will start requiring utilities to weigh carbon costs from their energy sources. That could hurt out-of-state coal-fired power plants.
You can find plenty of articles analyzing what was accomplished (or not accomplished) at the COP15 over the last two weeks, but this map quickly lays out the current emissions trends around the world.
GB to call for a new global body dedicated to environmental stewardship and to prevent a repeat of the deadlock which undermined the Copenhagen climate change summit.
Coal miners rally in Sundial, W.Va. to protest environmentalists trying to stop mountaintop mining. An activist later pressed charges against her neighbor, saying she was slapped by the mining supporter.
Five nations, including China and the US, reached a deal on a number of issues, such as a recognition to limit temperatures rises to less than 2C. US, China, Brazil, India and South Africa had "agreed to set a mitigation target to limit warming to no more than 2C and, importantly, to take action to meet this objective".
In 2008 Chinas per capita GDP was 3,000 U.S. dollars. To meet the goals it has set for itself it will cost each household $166 US. I'm not sure the average size of each household but I will assume we are talking less than $9000 per year. Hillary Clinton wants the Chinese to be more transparent but we need to look at who is consuming these goods not only who is making them.
"Uzbekistan, Russia, China, Burma or Indonesia," do not respect "the right of their media to inform on such crucial issues," Brossel head of Asia's Repoters Without Borders asked, "how we can expect them to really commit to fight the climate change?" It looks as though we may have put the horse before the cart. Some countries may not be so forthright with there environmental data. Will we have in
