The United Nations’ University is hosting a film festival on “Indigenous Voices on Climate Change” this week in Copenhagen, Denmark to draw attention to various climate-change related issues during to the 15th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 15).
The film festival is organized around a collection of stories from...
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Enbridge and First Solar Sarnia Project Expansion, Ontario
Enbridge Inc. and First Solar, Inc. announced that they have entered into an agreement to expand the Sarnia Solar Project from 20 MW to 80 MW. Press at: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0566736.htm or http://tinyurl.com/yhc922n
Enbridge: http://www.enbridge.com/
First Solar: http://www.firstsolar.com/
Prism Solar Technologies and The Solar Energy Consortium Contract
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Canada’s tar sands mining operations appear to have increased the levels of toxins in local rivers, according to a new study released earlier this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The report finds that levels of polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) are higher downstream of mining activity, and can be detected in concentrations...
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Doug Barry, a representative of the United States Commercial Service, recently interviewded Mitch Jackson, FedEx’s Senior Director of Environmental Affairs and Sustainability for the United States Commercial Service, about a range of environmental issues.
MR. BARRY: How does one get to be a senior director of environmental affairs and sustainability? What sort of background –...
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President Obama’s Chief Science Geeks, John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco, tried to alleviate concerns about the disclosure of more than 1,000 controversial e-mails and several thousand documents stored on the computers of climate scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit.
“There is, and there will remain after the dust settles in this current controversy, a very strong...
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In the face of opposition to effective climate change legislation from members of Congress, and intense lobbying efforts by industry trade groups such as the US Chamber of Congress, a new report from the University of California at Berkeley provides welcome documentation of the economic benefits that could result from passage. The report,...
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The United States released 2.2 percent less greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere in 2008 compared to the preceding year, according to a new report released today by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Since 1990, U.S. GHG emissions have grown at an average annual rate of nearly one percent. Emissions of energy-related carbon dioxide decreased...
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India said it would reject any legally binding emission cuts and agreement to any peak year of carbon emissions at the global climate talks in Copenhagen, according to a statement made by Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh.
“There is no question of India accepting a legally binding emission reduction cut,” Ramesh told India’s parliament in a...
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