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James Hansen, one of the US’s leading climate scientists, says he plans to send a letter this week urging President-elect Barack Obama to fight global warming with a carbon tax rather than a cap-and-trade system. According to the Worldwatch Institute, Hansen calls cap-and-trade “convenient, but it will not solve
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The UN talks on climate change have been ongoing at Poznan this week with the aim of coming up with a new international agreement to replace the Kyoto deal. In support of a new deal 140 global companies are demanding that world leaders not to delay on climate change action
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Here’s this week’s Jurdy cartoon. Enjoy…
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Global warming is accelerating at a faster rate than climate change experts had previously predicted, the WWF has warned. A collection of the latest scientific research by the WWF claims the science of climate change has moved on in the year since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) global
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Energy and Climate Change secretary Ed Miliband has committed the UK to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent on 1990 levels. The agreement is part of a global deal on climate change and is set to be in effect by 2050. In a wide-ranging statement Miliband: * Backed the
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The US presidential election won’t be won or lost on environmental and green issues, Greenbang can fairly safely predict. But both McCain and Obama have been touting their green credentials to varying degrees and last week we reported their stances on key issues such as CO2 emissions and carbon
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HSBC has teamed up with the Met Office to provide fund managers with a tool to monitor the potential impact of climate change on investment portfolios. In addition to the Met Office the bank has also teamed up with Ernst & Young’s Renewable Energy and Environmental Infrastructure Advisory, Risk
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Predicting the future is a tricky business, just look at Nostradamus’ vague hallucinogenic ‘visions’ for evidence of that. Greenbang prefers reading tea leaves, but finds it a bit difficult with tea bags. Inevitably there’s a lot of future-predicting that goes on around climate change and the latest comes from
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The global economic meltdown has, amazingly, relegated even the US presidential election race to an “in other news today” item, but Greenbang has been following the TV debates with interest and is still, frankly, absolutely terrified by the prospect of Sarah Palin getting anywhere near the White House. Now that
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Bingo is now the most popular leisure activity for women between 20 and 25 years old, according to a recent study. Greenbang wonders how the study arrived at these figures given that her friends in that particular demographic are more likely to be propping up a bar somewhere than listening
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Oxfam has called for the UK government and leading businesses take the lead in fighting climate change by steering the UK towards a low-carbon future. In a report, released this week, Oxfam said the UK must turn away from high polluting policies and projects that would jeopardise the UK’s
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Back from his unbuttoned jacket controversy and shoddy flag waving efforts at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing, London Mayor Boris Johnson has published a climate change report warning that London isn’t prepared to cope with the predicted effects of global warming, including increased floods, droughts