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• Switching from Coal to Natural Gas Would Do Little for Global Climate, Study Indicates
  Sept. 8, 2011 - sciencedaily.com
  
  ScienceDaily (Sep. 8, 2011) — Although the burning of natural gas emits far less carbon dioxide than coal, a new study concludes that a greater reliance on natural gas would fail to significantly slow down climate change.
  
• IEA Sees Dire Future For Climate, Energy Without New Technology
  Oct. 19, 2011 - James Herron - online.wsj.com
  
  PARIS (Dow Jones)--The world is headed for a "dire future" where high energy prices drag on economic growth and global average temperatures rise by more than 3.5 Celsius unless significant innovations to lower the cost of clean energy and carbon capture technology, said the International Energy Agency Wednesday.
  
• Climate Sensitivity to Carbon Dioxide More Limited Than Extreme Projections, Research Shows
  Nov. 24, 2011 - sciencedaily.com
  
  A new study suggests that the rate of global warming from doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be less than the most dire estimates of some previous studies -- and, in fact, may be less severe than projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report in 2007.
  
  
• World's Dams Unprepared for Climate Change Conditions
  Sept. 16, 2011 - Julia Pyper - scientificamerican.com
  
  Over the past four years, John Matthews has been traveling the world to better understand freshwater and climate change issues. He found that poor planning is creating one of the biggest water-related threats.
  
  
• Switch From Coal To Natural Gas No Boon To Climate
  Oct 6, 2011 - Deborah Zabarenko - planetark.org
  
  Relying more on natural gas than on coal would not significantly slow down the effects of climate change, even though direct carbon dioxide emissions would be less, a new study has found.
  
  
• Delayed action on climate to result in irreversible change and high costs
  Sep 8, 2011 - climateworks.org
  
  The physics of Earth's natural systems show that a delay—of even a decade—in reducing CO2 emissions will lock in large-scale, irreversible changes. If carbon dioxide emissions do not begin to trend down this decade, it will be nearly impossible to stabilize the climate at any acceptable level.
  
  
• Carbon War Room releases Livestock Report
  Aug 19, 2011 - Guy Pinjuv, Ph.D., Lead Analyst and Matthew Cullinen, Editor - carbonwarroom.com
  
  Over the next decade and beyond, Brazil will rely heavily on the clearing of tropical forests to make way for the expansion of livestock rangeland.
  
  
• Merkel: binding, verifiable climate targets needed
  Aug 11, 2011 - cbsnews.com
  
  (AP) BERLIN (AP) — All nations must commit to binding and verifiable goals to reduce their carbon emissions to reach a new international climate agreement as the Kyoto Protocol expires next year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday.
  
  
• From King Coal to Carbon Tax: A Historical Perspective on the Energy and Climate-Change Debate
  Aug 9, 2011 - Paul Sabin - thesolutionsjournal.com
  
  Current climate and energy policy debates in the United States rarely involve historians. If you search the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 synthesis report, you will not find the words history or historical. Even so, history pervades climate and energy policy discussions. History guides policy choices, inspires proposals for action, and structures institutional development.
  
  
• Cutting Black Carbon and Methane Promises Immediate Climate Change Impacts
  Feb 05, 2011 - Lauren Morello - ClimateWire - scientificamerican.com
  
  Reducing emissions of black carbon and methane can be done today with existing technologies, and could significantly slow climate change
  
  
• U.S. Can Cut Transportation Emissions 65% by 2050
  Feb 09, 2011 - SustainableBusiness.com
  
  The U.S. could reduce transportation emission 65% from current levels by 2050, according to a new report.
  
  
• 2010 Hits Top of Temperature Chart
  Jan 25, 2011 - Alexandra Giese - Earth Policy Institute
  
  Topping off the warmest decade in history, 2010 experienced a global average temperature of 14.63 degrees Celsius (58.3 degrees Fahrenheit), tying 2005 as the hottest year in 131 years of recordkeeping.
  
  
• Climate Change Growing Risk for Insurers Industry
  Jan 21, 2011 - David Fogarty - Reuters
  
  Insurers are struggling to assess the risks from climate change, industry officials say, with the floods in Australia and Brazil highlighting the potential losses from greater extremes of weather.
  
  
• Roadmap 2050 by Rem Koolhaas's OMA
  Oct 20, 2010 - Rowan Moore - The Observer - Guardian.co.uk
  
  I well remember my interview for a place at architecture school. As a kindly tutor leafed through my cobbled-together portfolio, on the wall I noticed a photo of a trapezoidal cabin with a whirly helical thing on top.
  
  
• Slower population growth may help reduce global emissions: study
  Oct 18, 2010 - Xinhua
  
  Slower population growth could contribute to significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a new study suggests.
  
  
• EIA: U.S. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions to Increase 3.4% in 2010
  Aug 20, 2010 - EERE Network News
  
  Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are projected to increase by 3.4% in 2010 over the previous year, according to a new report by DOE's Energy Information Administration (EIA).
  
  
• Green dream: Meet reality
  Jul 30, 2010 - Kerry Lynch - McClatchy/Tribune
  
  The vision of a "green" economy fueled by wind, sun, and renewable fuels is powerfully appealing. But there's a huge disconnect between this vision and the reality of America's energy needs.
  
  
• Climate Change Gen-Climate Change
  Jul 26, 2010 - Shaun Tandom - yahoo.com
  
  Major economies looked Monday at how to cooperate in shifting to cleaner sources of energy, with a top policy board warning the world's current path was unsustainable.
  
  
• San Diego Base Acts as Global Force For Green
  Jul 26, 2010 - Defennse Departnent Document
  
  With recent environmental initiatives designed to meet and exceed Navy sustainability goals, Naval Base San Diego is proving to be a "Global Force for Green."
  
  
• OAA: June, April to June, and Year-to-Date Global Temperatures are Warmest on Record
  Jul 19, 2010 - noaanews.noaa.gov
  
  Last month’s combined global land and ocean surface temperature made it the warmest June on record and the warmest on record averaged for any April-June and January-June periods, according to NOAA. 
  
  
• China, India nullify CO2 emission cuts by developed nations
  Jul 12, 2010 - Asia Pulse Data Source - Energy Cenral
  
  Continued rise in carbon emissions in China and India have "completely nullified" the reductions achieved by industrialised nations, with the result that emissions have remained constant in 2009, a report said Thursday.
  
  
• Homes waste watts of power, study finds: TVs, computers, others leach energy and money
  Jun 21, 2010 - Thomas Content Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - McClatchy-Tribune
  
  In one of the first studies of its kind, energy researchers in Madison have uncovered a simple way that most consumers can save on their electric bills: pull the plug.
  
  
• Obama: End dependence on fossil fuels
  Jun 18, 2010 - Julie Pace - Associated Press
  
  Seizing on a disastrous oil spill to advance a cause, President Barack Obama on Wednesday called on Congress to roll back billions of dollars in tax breaks for oil and pass a clean-energy bill that he says would help the nation end its dependence on fossil fuels.
  
  
  
• States get savvy about climate change
  Jun 18, 2010 - McClatchy-Tribune - Energy Central
  
  Soon every village in Himachal Pradesh will know how to calculate its carbon footprint as Indian states get savvier about climate change.
  
  
  
• China gets tougher about protecting environment, cutting emission
  Jun 18, 2010 - Xinhua
  
  Provincial governments and key enterprises which fail to realize the year's missions in environmental protection and emission cut will be punished as the Chinese central government is taking a tougher stance towards improving the country's environment.
  
  
• Ocean heat content increases update
  June 1, 2010 - realclimate.org
  
  There is a new paper in Nature this week on recent trends in ocean heat content from a large group of oceanographers led by John Lyman at PMEL.
  
  
  
• Local Governments Lead Efforts to Combat Climate Change
  May 25, 2010 - Douglas Fischer - The Daily Climate - scientificamerican.com  
  
  Local governments serve as idea labs for federal lawmakers as they consider changes to national climate and energy reform
  
  
• U.N. says green economy depends on metal recycling
  May 20, 2010 - usatoday.com
  
  A green global economy will require much high recycling rates of specialty metals like lithium, neodymium and gallium, says a new United Nations report.
  
• Denver company creates windows that can think
  May 17, 2010 - The Associated Press
  
  A Denver-based technology company has developed a "smart" window that can transform itself to maximize energy efficiency.
  
  
• More Clean Energy Being Produced in Ontario
  May 12, 2010 - energycentral.com
  
  Two facilities that turn waste into emissions-free electricity became the first larger-scale projects under Ontario's Feed-in Tariff program to supply power to Ontario's electricity system today.
  
  
• Obama Backs Significantly Higher Spill Damage Cap
  May 10, 2010 - Julianna Goldman and Lisa Lerer - Bloomberg
  
  The Obama administration is backing significantly higher limits for damages BP Plc might face for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and won’t rule out scaling back plans to expand offshore drilling.
  
  
• An introduction to global warming impact: Hell and High Water
  May 6, 2010 - Joe - climateprogress.org
  
  In this post, I will summarize what the recent scientific literature says are the key impacts we face in the second half of the century if we stay anywhere near our current emissions path.
  
  
• State must remain clean energy leader
  May 6, 2010 - Steve Westly - signonsandiego.com
  
  While federal climate legislation bogs down in Washington, China is investing $12.6 million every hour in clean energy technology. Why? Because its government recognizes an opportunity when it sees it.
  
  
• New Study Examines Transportation’s Role in Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  May 5, 2010 - DOT.gov
  
  A number of strategies can be used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, such as using low-carbon fuels, increasing vehicle fuel economy, improving system efficiency and reducing travel that involves high levels of carbon emissions, according to a report released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).
  
  
• Engineers of the New Millennium: The Energy Revolution
  Mai 3, 2010 - spectrum.ieee.org
  
  Energy is at once the greatest motive force in the world economy and the principal environmental challenge for policymakers. The engineers who work on getting energy, storing it, moving it about, consuming it, and conserving it are the focus of this report.
  
  
• World needs clean energy revolution: UN chief
  Mai 3, 2010 - AFP
  
  UNITED NATIONS — Rich and poor nations need a "clean energy revolution" in order to cut greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said here Wednesday.
  
  
• Bad News: U.S. Business Emissions Growing, Not Slowing
  Apr 28, 2010 - Joanna Lee - greenbiz.com
  
  When President Barack Obama announced last November his commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020, it was a crucial step in bringing the U.S. into the global climate change negotiations and signaling to the business community and the consumer that the U.S. was ready to take on the challenge of stopping climate change.
  
  
• EU roadmap to 2050 renesable energy
  Apr 26, 2010 - renewableenergyfocus.com
  
  ‘Roadmap 2050: a practical guide to a prosperous, low-carbon Europe’ outlining various scenarios for renewable energy in Europe, has been published by the European Climate Foundation (ECF).
  
  
• U.S. unveils climate report in runup to Senate bill
  Apr 20, 2010 - Jackie Frank - Reuters
  
  The United States released a new draft report on climate change on Monday, one week before the expected unveiling of a compromise U.S. Senate bill that aims to curb heat-trapping greenhouse emissions.
  
  
• Secretary Chu Announces New Partnerships under the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas
  Apr 17, 2010 - Energy Department Documents and Publications
  
  The U.S. Department of Energy today announced a series of partnerships and other initiatives to address clean energy and energy security in the Western Hemisphere as part of the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA).
  
  
• Australia should invest A$60bn in renewable energy
  Apr 13, 2010 - renewableenergyfocus.com
  
  Australia must invest billions in renewable energy over the next decade to achieve its 2020 target of lower GHG emissions, according to Siemens.
  
  
• Has Europe seen the light on renewable energy?
  Apr 9, 2010 - Geoffrey Lean - telegraph.co.uk
  
  Geoffrey Lean looks at how likely a Europe powered entirely by renewable energy could be.
  
  
• New report provides tribal energy outlook
  Apr 7, 2010 - Rob Capriccioso - Indian Country Today
  
  A new report finds that tribes disproportionately bear negative costs resulting from U.S. energy policy and its aftereffects, yet there is substantial potential on tribal lands to generate clean energy from renewable resources.
  
  
• Firms urge Obama to offer consumer energy info
  Apr 7, 2010 - Deborah Zabarenko - Reuters
  
  Almost 50 U.S. firms and organizations, including Google, General Electric and AT&T, urged President Barack Obama on Tuesday to let consumers know how much energy they use so they can decide where to cut back.
  
  
• Calgary outranks big cities for greenhouse gas emissions
  Apr 6, 2010 - Calgary Sun - AP
  
  New international standards for determining the level of global warming-linked greenhouse gases produced in an urban setting show Calgary easily surpasses Mexico City, Tokyo and New York in per capita emissions and ranks among the highest in the world.
  
  
• Tokyo gov't cap-and-trade can be precursor to state scheme
  Apr 1. 2010 - Recating Lead - Kyodo News International
  
  The Asia's first mandatory greenhouse gas emissions cut scheme launched Thursday by the metropolitan government of Tokyo, home to some 13 million people, provides a model for the central government, which is struggling to design a nationwide emissions trading system in a year.
  
  
• EPA Issues Controversial Greenhouse Gas Interpretive Ruling
  Mar 30, 2010 - Stoel Rives LLP
  
  On March 29th EPA signed a long-awaited interpretive ruling regarding when and how facilities that emit greenhouse gases will be subject to permitting under Title V and Major New Source Review.
  
  
• Developing Nations Eye Renewable Energy
  Mar 30, 2010 - Lauren Poole - renewableenergyworld.com
  
  Post-copenhagen targets for renewable energy show developing countries looking to strengthen their renewable energy portfolios.
  
  
• Does Activism Work in Combating Climate Change?
  Mar 28, 2010 - Ted Nace - CSRwire Talkback
  
  Over the past three years, despite a massive effort by the coal lobby to sell the public on the idea of “clean coal,” grassroots activists have successfully challenged and defeated over 100 coal-fired power plants in at least 33 states.
  
  
• Climate Change Imperils the State of the Planet--Will the World Act?
  Mar 26, 2010 - David Biello - scientificamerican.com
  
  NEW YORK CITY—More than 100 countries have signed on to the Copenhagen Accord—the nonbinding agreement to combat climate change hastily agreed to this past December at a summit of world leaders.
  
  
• Group Presents Energy Vision of the Future
  Mar 25, 2010 - Jennifer Runyon - renewableenergyworld.com
  
  University of Texas, Austin Energy, Environmental Defense Fund, major technology companies and business leaders collaborate to present a unified vision on transforming energy systems.
  
  
• Energy and climate to dominate European Council agenda
  Mar 24, 2010 - EWEA
  
  Tomorrow, energy will top the agenda when EU Heads of State meet in Brussels to discuss a new European strategy for jobs and growth, and to follow-up on the failed Copenhagen conference on climate change.
  
  
• Report: Tribes key in renewable energy development
  Mar 23, 2010 - The Associated Press
  
  A new report focuses on American Indian tribes as part of a solution to combat climate change, and create jobs and revenue through renewable energy development.
  
  
• Bloomberg predicts renewable energy boom
  Mar 19, 2010 - Cath Everett - BusinessGreen
  
  But warns investment levels must rise faster still if we are to avoid the worst effects of climate change
  
  
• NREL Launches Strategic Energy Analysis Institute
  Mar 18, 2010 - National Renewable Energy Labboratory
  
  The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced today that it has established a new global institute dedicated to analyzing, speeding and smoothing the transition to sustainable energy worldwide.
  
  
• Renewable energy scores high in global poll
  Mar 18, 2010 - renewableenergyfocus.com
  
  The solution to energy and climate change challenges lies in developing low-carbon sources of renewable energy, rather than reducing energy use, according to a survey across 22 countries.
  
  
• Spain establishes int'l center for renewable energy
  Mar 16, 2010 -- Xinhua
  
  Spanish Vice President Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega on Tuesday approved the opening of an International Center for Renewable Energy (CICER) in Valencia.
  
  
• Israel utility IEC considers low-carbon power alternatives
  Mar 11, 2010 - Power Engineering International
  
  Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) is considering building a 1200 MW nuclear power plant and a 1000 MW solar array, instead of building a coal fired integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) power plant,
  
  
• How to achieve carbon-neutral power in Europe by 2050
  Mar 11, 2010 - Boothby, Chris - Power Engineering International
  
  Climate change and its impacts have emerged as the most serious environmental challenge of our time
  
  
• Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists and Economists Call on Senate to Address Climate Change Now
  Mar 11, 2010 - ucsusa.org
  
  More Than 2,000 Say Delay Will Worsen Consequences and Drive Up Costs
  
  
• The secret motto of the World Climate Conference
  Mar 11, 2010 - Dr. Hermann Scheer - Le Monde Diplomatique
  
  The main reason why the public around the world were so shocked by the shameful outcome of the World Climate Conference in Copenhagen was that they were basically unprepared for failure.
  
  
• Three Alternative Energy Resources Spurred by Government Support
  Mar 10, 2010 - MARKETWIRE
  
  As controversial as they are viable, three alternative energy resources are gaining government support as practical solutions in the global clean-energy revolution: carbon emissions trading, clean coal, and nuclear power.
  
  
• On Rooftops Worldwide, a Solar Water Heating Revolution
  Mar 9, 2010 - Lester R. Brown - Earth Policy Institute
  
  The harnessing of solar energy is expanding on every front as concerns about climate change and energy security escalate, as government incentives for harnessing solar energy expand, and as these costs decline while those of fossil fuels rise.
  
  
• Analysis: Move to low-carbon economy emerges as key reform
  Mar 9, 2010 - Xinhua
  
  A low-carbon economy is becoming the favorite option for the future economic growth pattern in China because it is in line with the major world trend and reflects the country's fundamental situation.
  
  
• Global Climate Battle Plays Out In World Bank
  Mar 8, 2010 - Lesley Wroughton - Reuters
  
  The United States and Britain are threatening to withhold support for a $3.75 billion World Bank loan for a coal-fired plant in South Africa, expanding the battleground in the global debate over who should pay for clean energy.
  
  
• 'Renewable Energy Achievable in Ten Years'
  Mar 1, 2010 - All Africa Global Media - Vanguard
  
  The Managing Director of Nigerian Export Import Bank (NEXIM Bank), Mr. Roberts Orya, has stressed the need for Nigeria to focus on the green economy and renewable energy in its bid to join global forces to save a world that is threatened by climate change and global warming.
  
  
• Report: Copenhagen Accord Pledges Fall Short of Climate Goals
  Feb 25, 2010 - EERE Network News
  
  Pledges by 60 countries to cut their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over the next 10 years will not be sufficient to hold global temperature rises to 2°C above pre-industrial levels, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
  
  
• Report: Contamination from coal ash waste is worse than EPA says
  Feb 24, 2010 - Mark Clayton - The Christian Science Monitor
  
  Coal ash waste contamination nationwide is far worse than indicated by a new Environmental Protection Agency tally, with dozens more ash-waste ponds and landfills also leaching toxins into streams and drinking water, a new study finds.
  
  
• UN urges for more ambitious action to cut greenhouse gas emission
  Feb 23, 2010 - Xinhua
  
  The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) said Tuesday that countries will have to be far more ambitious in cutting greenhouse gas emission if the world is to effectively curb a rise in global temperature at 2 degrees Celsius or less.
  
  
• Copenhagen Accord By-the-Numbers
  Feb 22, 2010 - Institute for 21st Century Energy
  
  In our previous paper, Copenhagen Accord and Discord: COP-15 and the Many Roads to Mexico, we laid out some of the policy and process issues surrounding the Copenhagen Accord. In this paper, we take a look at what impact the Accord could have on global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs).
  
  
• State may shut down five coal-fired power plants
  Feb 20, 2010 - Dee J. Hall - The Wisconsin State Journal
  
  The state will install more pollution controls, eliminate coal use or possibly shut down five coal-fired heating plants, the Wisconsin Department of Administration announced Friday.
  
  
• Electric car lets drivers sell back unused watts
  Feb 22, 2010 - Dick Ahlstrom - Yellowbrix
  
  AAAS annual conference: Researchers have come up with the ultimate vehicle - an environmentally friendly electric car that plugs into the wall to sell power back to the electricity company.
  
  
• AWEA Statement on New NREL U.S. Wind Resource Assessment
  Feb. 18, 2010 - AWEA
  
  The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) today issued the following statement from AWEA CEO Denise Bode on a new assessment from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory showing that U.S. wind resources are larger than previously estimated:
  
  
• Canada's permafrost retreats amid warming trend
  Feb 17, 2010 - Deborah Zabarenko - Reuters
  
  WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - The permanently frozen ground known as permafrost is retreating northward in the area around Canada's James Bay, a sign of a decades-long regional warming trend, a climate scientist said on Wednesday.
  
  
• Bill Gates: We need global 'energy miracles'
  Feb 12, 2010 - John D. Sutter - CNN
  
  Long Beach, California (CNN) -- Microsoft Corp. founder and philanthropist Bill Gates on Friday called on the world's tech community to find a way to turn spent nuclear fuel into cheap, clean energy.
  
  
• Pew Environment Report Says Melting Arctic Could Cost $2.4 Trillion by 2050
  Feb 5, 2010 - Ruth Teichroeb - The PEW Charitable Trusts
  
  The Pew Environment Group today released a report that for the first time quantifies the global cost of the Arctic’s declining ability to cool the climate, indicating that the rapid melting of the region could carry a minimum price tag of $2.4 trillion U.S. by 2050.
  
  
• Americans support strong climate, energy policies
  Feb 4, 2010 - Tara Laskowski - George Mason University - eurekalert.org
  
  Despite a sharp drop in public concern over global warming, Americans—regardless of political affiliation—support the passage of federal climate and energy policies, according to the results of a national survey released today by researchers at Yale and George Mason universities.
  
  
• US Navy to halve fossil fuels by 2020
  Feb 2, 2010 - Carbon Positive
  
  The US Navy is to halve its use of fossil fuels by 2020 among a number of clean energy measures across the armed forces flagged in a major defence review paper released this week. On the way to the 2020 target, the Navy plans to deploy a “green” strike group by 2016 which will operate entirely without fossil fuels. It has already commissioned an electric-drive aircraft carrier, the USS Makin Island, and last year tested an F/A-18 fighter aircraft on a camelina-based biofuel blend.
  
  
• Over the Top: Data Shows "Green" Roofs Could Cool Urban Heat Islands and Boost Water Conservation
  Feb 2, 2010 - Katie Moisse - Scientific American
  
  Through the rain-pocked window of his Prius heading east on the Queensboro Bridge, Stuart Gaffin sees a black, watery sea of missed opportunities.
  
  
• VYING FOR WORLD'S GREENEST CITY: SEOUL, KOREA
  Feb 1, 2010 - Negawattcinsult.com
  
  Cities account for only 2% of the world's land mass but 80% of the global greenhouse gas emissions. Planning for climate change and new environmental initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is key to the goal of Seoul, capital city of the Republic of Korea, to become the world's greenest city.
  
  
• Obama: Government To Cut CO2 Emissions 28% By 2020
  Jan 29, 2010 - Ian Talley - Siobhan Hughes - Dow Jones Newswires
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday ordered the federal government to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 28% by 2020, marking a new push toward energy efficiency and a greater reliance on low-carbon energy.
  
  
• U.S. Commits to Greenhouse Gas Cuts under Copenhagen Climate Accord
  Jan 29, 2010 - David Biello - Scientific American
  
  The U.S. officially committed in writing yesterday to the greenhouse gas emission cuts proposed by President Obama in Copenhagen—4 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. The letter to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) commits the nation to combat climate change, but with a caveat: any such commitment must be backed by legislation, which has not passed the U.S. Senate.
  
  
• Emissions of Potent Greenhouse Gas Increase Despite Reduction Efforts
  Jan 27, 2010 - NOAA
  
  Despite a decade of efforts worldwide to curb its release into the atmosphere, NOAA and university scientists have measured increased emissions of a greenhouse gas that is thousands of times more efficient at trapping heat than carbon dioxide and persists in the atmosphere for nearly 300 years.
  
  
• Past Decade Warmest on Record, NASA Data Shows
  Jan 21, 2010 - John M. Broder - The New York Times
  
  The decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record, new surface temperature figures released Thursday by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration show.
  
  
• World must unite to produce renewable energy
  Jan 21, 2010 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - T. Ramavarman Khaleej Times, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  
  All countries, including oil-producing nations, must unite to develop renewable energies and reduce carbon emissions, said the head of IRENA, on Tuesday.
  
  
• The decline of Central Appalachian Coal and the Need for Economic Diversification
  Jan 19, 2010 - Rory Mcllmoil Evan Hansen
  
  Coal mining has played an important role in local economic development in Central Appalachia, primarily due to the jobs and taxes that the industry has provided. In 2008, for instance, the coal industry employed 37,000 workers directly and indirectly across the region, accounting for 1% to 40% of the labor force in individual counties. Additionally, the coal severance tax generates hundreds of millions of dollars in state revenues across the region every year, with tens of millions of dollars being distributed to counties and municipalities. Despite these economic benefits, coal-producing counties in Central Appalachia continue to have some of the highest poverty and unemployment rates in the region, and due to the dependence on coal for economic development, any changes in coal production will have significant impacts on local economies.
  
  
• California Company's 'Green' Cement Captures CO2
  Jan 12, 2010 - Voice of America News
  
  Cement is a major component of concrete, the world's most widely used man-made material, an integral part of roads, bridges and buildings.
  
  
• Study says Mich. climate plan would boost economy
  Jan 4, 2010 - John Flesher - Associated Press
  
  Michigan could gain a significant economic boost and thousands of new jobs by reducing emissions of gases that cause climate change, according to an analysis released Monday.
  
  
• Combating climate change by observing the Earth
  Dec 30, 2009 - David Biello - ScientificAmerican.com
  
  As part of the U.S. charm offensive at the recent Copenhagen summit on climate change, a roughly one meter-diameter orb helped display a decade's worth of climate data collected by NASA satellites. "This is the golden age," NASA's Jack Kaye told me. As associate research director for the agency's Earth Science Division, he's "reaping the benefits of the 1990s."
  
  
• World Leaders Defend Climate Accord
  Dec 21, 2009 -- Voice of America News
  
  World leaders are defending the outcome of the U.N. climate change summit in Copenhagen, despite the absence of any clear deals on emissions targets.
  
  
• Climate change summit results 'failure'
  Dec 21, 2009 - Energy Central
  
  The climate change summit in Denmark, expected to produce a historic document, fell way short of the mark, officials and organizations said.
  
  
• EPA, USDA push farmers to use coal waste on fields
  Dec 21, 2009 - Rick Callahan, AP
  
  The federal government is encouraging farmers to spread a chalky waste from coal-fired power plants on their fields to loosen and fertilize soil even as it considers regulating coal wastes for the first time.
  
  
• No New Coal Plants Started in 2009 Year End State of Coal
  Dec 21, 2009 - Virginia Cramer - Sierra Club
  
  No new coal plants broke ground in 2009, a result of a combination of widespread public opposition, rising costs, increasing financial risks and concerns over future carbon regulations.
  
  
• Climate reality: Voluntary efforts not enough
  Dec 19, 2009 - Associated Press
  
  Around the world, countries and capitalism are already working to curb global warming on their own, with or without a global treaty.
  
  
• Climate Deal Announced, but Falls Short of Expectations
  Dec 18, 2009 - Helene Cooper and John M. Broder - The New York Times
  
  Leaders here concluded a climate change deal on Friday that the Obama administration called 'meaningful' but that falls short of even the modest expectations for the summit meeting here.
  
  
• NASA, Google offer more precise emissions tracking
  Dec 17, 2009 - Seth Borenstein and Michael Casey - The Associated Press
  
  The question is a potential deal-killer: If nations ever agree to slash greenhouse gas emissions, how will the world know if they live up to their pledges?
  
  
• India's per capita emission 70 pc below world average: Report
  Dec 17, 2009 - Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  Despite being the fourth largest economy, India's per capita emission levels are 70 per cent below world average and 93 per cent lower than those in the US, says a latest report on climate change.
  
  
• Developing nations hold the key to Copenhagen climate agreement
  Dec 16, 2009 - Jim Tankersley - Los Angeles Times
  
  Rich nations still hold some bargaining chips, but many negotiators and observers say key decisions by poor and emerging nations will make or break any deal.
  
  
• China Heavily Reliant on Emissions Heavy Coal
  Dec 16, 2009 - Voice of America News
  
  China is pushing ahead with plans to develop renewable energy sources. At the same time, though, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases is still largely reliant on one major source of carbon emissions - coal.
  
  
• Monitor Climate Pledges on New UNEP Site
  Dec 14, 2009 - Stephen Meddenger, Porto Alegre - treehugger
  
  The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) unveiled a new Web site that allows users to track the promises of countries to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. The Web site is currently following the pledges made by 27 members of the European Union and more than 25 other nations--and is updated as more proposals are made at COP15. The executive director of UNEP, Achim Steiner, said that from now on anyone can follow, from the comfort of their own home, plans and policies of governments in the area of combating global warming.
  
  
• World's mayors tackle climate change on their own
  Dec 14, 2009 - Charles J. Hanley and Jan M. Olsen - The Associated Press
  
  It isn't easy getting Italy's city dwellers out of their Fiats, off their Vespa scooters and onto bicycles to ride to work, "like here in Copenhagen," says an Italian environmental official.
  

• Interior Secretary Outlines How to Use North American Continent to Combat Climate Change
  Dec 11, 2009 - David Biello - Scientific American
  
  U.S. forests and soils store some 90 billion metric tons of carbon, or 50 years worth of present U.S. emissions from fossil fuels, according to a new study from the U.S. Geological Survey. As negotiators here at the United Nations' climate summit continue to struggle to draft a global agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions -- including efforts to reduce deforestation and protect natural sinks—the U.S. Department of Interior is transforming the business of public lands and waters to help combat climate change.
  
  
• U.S. could reduce gas emissions by up to 29% by 2020, report says
  Dec 8, 2009 - The Associated Press
  
  U.S. greenhouse gas emissions could be cut up to 29 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels if all gas-cutting measures contained in bills currently under deliberation at Congress are implemented, a private-sector think tank report says.
  
  
• 40 percent emissions cut in Europe feasible: study
  Dec 8, 2009 - Xinhau
  
  Despite the European Union's commitment of a 20-percent cut in emissions by 2020, Europe in fact can achieve at least a 40-percent reduction, according to a new study.
  
  
• Glaciers melting so fast, a generation will be too late
  Dec 8, 2009 - James Balog - CNN
  
  Professional photographer and naturalist James Balog is director of the Extreme Ice Survey and the first recipient of the International League of Conservation Photographers Award. He is the author of "Extreme Ice Now: Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate: A Progress Report," some of which is excerpted for this commentary.
  
  
• 2009 and the '00s set heat records, U.S. study finds
  Dec 8, 2009 - grist
  
  The world saw one of the hottest years on record in 2009 and has notched up the hottest decade since records began, a report by a U.S. climate agency said Tuesday.
  
  
• E.P.A. Sets Carbon Crackdown
  Dec 7, 2009 - John M. Broder - Green Inc.
  
  The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday will complete its determination that greenhouse gases pose a danger to human health and the environment, paving the way for regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles, power plants, factories refineries and other major sources.
  
  
• U.S. greenhouse gas emissions declined in 2008, EIA says
  Dec 7, 2009 - Public Power Weekly
  
  Total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2008 were 2.2% below the 2007 total, led by a 2.9% decline in energy-related emissions, the Energy Information Administration said in a Dec. 3 report, Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2008.
  
  
• Renewable energy is critical to climate change mitigation, says IEA
  Dec 7, 2009 - Renewable Enegy Focus.Com
  
  The International Energy Agency (IEA) will present “key findings” on renewable energy during the climate conference in Copenhagen.
  
  
• Greenhouse Gas Carbon Dioxide Ramps Up Aspen Growth
  Dec 4, 2009 - Science Daily
  
  The rising level of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be fueling more than climate change. It could also be making some trees grow like crazy.
  
  
• Major sea level rise likely as Antarctic ice melts
  Dec 1, 2009 - Richard Black - BBC News
  
  Sea levels are likely to rise by about 1.4m (4ft 6in) globally by 2100 as polar ice melts, according to a major review of climate change in Antarctica.
  
  
• CO2 Output Exceeds Level to Contain Warming, PwC Says (Update1)
  Dec 1, 2009 - Alex Morales and Todd White - Bloomberg.com
  
  Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The worlds factories, vehicles and utilities are spewing too much carbon dioxide to keep the planet from excessive warming by 2050, PricewaterhouseCoopers said.
  
  
• China vows to dramatically slow emissions growth
  Nov 27, 2009 - CARA ANNA - Associated Press Writer
  
  China promised to slow its carbon emissions, saying it would nearly halve the ratio of pollution to GDP over the next decade - a major move by the world's largest emitter, whose cooperation is crucial to any deal as a global climate summit approaches.
  
  
• 'Copenhagen Diagnosis' offers a grim update to the IPCC's climate science
  Nov 25, 2009 - Guardian Enviroment Network
  
  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change received a kick in the pants today from members who say the climate situation is much worse than the IPCC has so far reported. From Grist, part of the Guardian Environment Network
  
  
• Global Warming Solutions News
  Nov 24, 2009 - Environment America
  
  The nation’s power plants emitted 2.56 billion tons of global warming pollution in 2007, which is equivalent to the pollution from nearly 450 million of today’s cars – nearly three times the number of cars registered in the United States in 2007, according to a new analysis of government data released today by Environment America.  More than 70 percent of this pollution came from plants – primarily coal plants – built before 1980. 
  
  
• What are the largest sources of global warming emissions in California?
  Nov 23, 2009 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Paul Rogers San Jose Mercury News, Calif.
  
  When it comes to global warming, California has begun keeping score.
  
  
• Climate change speeds up since 1997 Kyoto accord
  Nov 23, 2009 - Seth Borenstein - The Seattle Times
  
  As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the Arctic's once-frozen summer sea ice. In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons. Mountain glaciers in Europe, South America, Asia and Africa are shrinking faster than before.
  
  
• Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide Emissions Up by 29 Percent Since 2000
  Nov 17, 2009 - Science Daily
  
  The strongest evidence yet that the rise in atmospheric CO2 emissions continues to outstrip the ability of the world's natural 'sinks' to absorb carbon is published November 17 in the journal Nature Geoscience.
  
  
• Study: CO2 pollution soars in Ariz.
  Nov 13, 2009 - PHOENIX - (The Associated Press)
  
  A new study say carbon-dioxide pollution has increased dramatically in Arizona over the past two decades.
  

• What Would Failure at Copenhagen Mean for Climate Change?
  Nov 10, 2009 - Douglas Fischer - Scientific American
  
  This is the consequence of failure at Copenhagen: A marked shift in scientific effort from solving global warming to adapting to its consequences, a hodge-podge of uncoordinated local efforts to trim emissions - none of which deliver the necessary cuts - and an altered climate.
  
  
• Deforestation and Degradation Responsible for Approximately 15 Percent of Global Warming Emissions
  Nov 06, 2009 - Union of Concerned Scientists
  
  As Fossil Fuel Emissions Rise, Deforestation Makes up Smaller Percent, Still Significant Problem
  
  
• Science Museum unveils climate change map showing impact of 4C rise
  Oct 22, 2009 - David Adam and Allegra Strtton - Guardian.co.UK
  
  The British government today raised the political stakes on climate change when it published a new map of the world that details the likely effects of a failure to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
  
  
• As world nears pivotal climate talks, UN reports warming emissions grew for 7th year
  Oct 21, 2009 - The Associated Press
  
  The industrialized world again in 2007 boosted, rather than reduced, its emissions of global-warming gases, the U.N. reported Wednesday, as international negotiators looked ahead to crucial climate talks in December.
  
  
• Livestock Emissions: Still Grossly Underestimated?
  Oct 20, 2009 - Worldwatch Institute
  
  The environmental impact of the lifecycle and supply chain of animals raised for food has been vastly underestimated, and in fact accounts for at least half of all human-caused greenhouse gases (GHGs), according to Robert Goodland and Jeff Anhang, co-authors of "Livestock and Climate Change" in the latest issue of World Watch magazine.
  
  
• U.S. Headed for massive decline in carbon emissions
  Oct 14, 2009 - Lester R. Brown - Warth Policy Institute
   
  For years now, many members of Congress have insisted that cutting carbon emissions was difficult, if not impossible. It is not. During the two years since 2007, carbon emissions have dropped 9 percent. While part of this drop is from the recession, part of it is also from efficiency gains and from replacing coal with natural gas, wind, solar, and geothermal energy.
  
  
• Climate Roulette
  Oct 13, 2009 - Mark Hertsgaard - The Nation
  
  They say that everyone who finally gets it about climate change has an "Oh, shit" moment--an instant when the full scientific implications become clear and they suddenly realize what a horrifically dangerous situation humanity has created for itself. Listening to the speeches, groundbreaking in their way, that President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao delivered September 22 at the UN Summit on Climate Change, I was reminded of my most recent "Oh, shit" moment.
  
  
• Today's CO2 highest in 15 million years, new research finds
  Oct 9, 2009 - Greenbang
  
  The last time our planet’s atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were as high as they are today? Try 15 million years ago.
  
  
• China and USA energy and climate change comparison
  Oct 7, 2009 - Renewable Energy Focus.com
  
  China has long since been criticised by the West as being intransigent on its response to climate change issues. But a new analysis by NGO Greenpeace compares various aspects of China's policy and energy landscape with that of the USA, and it reveals some interesting findings.
  
  
• Risky business: insuring countries against climate catastrophe
  Sep 28, 2009 - Reenita Malhotra - CNN.Com
  
  The last 50 years have borne witness to a spate of climate-related disasters across the world causing over 800,000 fatalities and $1 trillion in economic losses.
  
  
• G-20 calls for phasing out fossil fuel subsidies to fight global warming
  Sep 26, 2009 - The Associated Press
  
  The Group of 20 major developed and emerging economies called Friday for phasing out "inefficient fossil fuel subsidies" as a way of combating global warming following their two-day summit in Pittsburgh.
  
  
• New Analysis Brings Dire Forecast Of 6.3-Degree Temperature Increase
  Sept 25, 2009 - Juliet Eilperin - The Washington Post
  
  Climate researchers now predict the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the world's leaders fulfill their most ambitious climate pledges, a much faster and broader scale of change than forecast just two years ago, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations Environment Program.
  
  
• Biotechnology could cut CO2 sharply, help build green economy
  Sep 17, 2009 - WWF
  
  Industrial biotechnology has the potential to save the planet up to 2.5 billion tons of CO2 emissions per year and support building a sustainable future, a WWF report found.
  
  
• White House Unveils Plan to Curb Auto Emissions
  Sept 16, 2009 - Stephen Power and Josh Mitchell - Wall Street Jounal.com
  
  The Obama administration rolled out details of its strategy to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from cars, with the head of the Environmental Protection Agency saying the proposal paves the way for regulating emissions from sources such as power plants.
  
  
• Failing to Curb Global Warming Could Cost the Nation Hundreds of Billions by the End of the Century, New Report Finds
  Sept 10, 2009 - Union of Concerned Scientists
  
  Unchecked climate change could saddle taxpayers, businesses, and state and local governments across the country with hundreds of billions of dollars in damages, according to a new report released today by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). The report, "Climate Change in the United States: The Prohibitive Costs of Inaction," is an overview of more than 60 studies analyzing the potential financial toll of global warming if we fail to dramatically curb emissions. The costs are largely due to rising sea levels, more intense hurricanes, flooding, declining public health, strained energy and water resources, and impaired transportation infrastructure. UCS has assembled separate summaries of findings for the East Coast, Midwest and Western states.
  
  
• Global Warming Could Forestall Ice Age
  Sept 3, 2009 - Andrew C. Revkin - The New York Times
  
  The human-driven buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere appears to have ended a slide, many millenniums in the making, toward cooler summer temperatures in the Arctic, the authors of a new study report.
  
  
• UN: Poor nations need $600B for climate change
  Sep 1 , 2009 - Eliane Engeler - Associated Press
  
  Developing countries need between $500 billion and $600 billion a year from rich nations to adapt to climate change and make sure their economies grow, a U.N. report concluded Tuesday.
  
  
• India to step up technologies to fight climate change
  Aug 13, 2009 - The Associated Press
  
  India said Thursday it will step up use of technologies to combat climate change.
  
  
• New figures show India's emissions a fourth of China's
  Aug 11, 2009 - Krittivas Mukherjee - Reuters
  
  India contributes around five percent to global carbon dioxide emissions, a new government report showed on Tuesday, but is still only about a quarter of the emissions of China and the United States.
  
  
• "Full Portifolio" of technologies key to curbing CO2
  Aug 4, 2009 - IndustryWeek
  
  The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) released on August 3 reports that show a full portfolio of electricity sector technologies could simultaneously address the challenge of growing load demand while meeting carbon constraints and limiting increases in the cost of electricity.
  
  
• Warning: oil supplies are running out fast
  Aug 3, 2009 - Steve Connor - The Independent Science
  
  The world is heading for a catastrophic energy crunch that could cripple a global economic recovery because most of the major oil fields in the world have passed their peak production, a leading energy economist has warned.
  
  
• Beijing closing coal plants in environmental move
  Jul 30, 2009 - The Associated Press
  
  China has taken advantage of a drop in electricity demand due to the global financial crisis to speed up a campaign to close small coal-fired power plants and improve its battered environment, an official said Thursday.
  
  
• New Report Finds Transportation Efficiencies Can Contribute to Significant GHG Reductions and Consumer Savings
  Jul 28, 2009 - Michael Oko - NRDC
  
  The first-ever comprehensive analysis of transportation efficiency and its relationship to greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction and consumer savings was released today by a diverse group of stakeholders committed to addressing climate change. Sponsored by transportation experts, industry, environmental organizations, federal agencies, trade associations and leading foundations, Moving Cooler: An Analysis of Transportation Strategies for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions, provides an objective and scientific analysis of the effectiveness and cost of almost 50 scalable transportation strategies, both alone and combined, to reduce GHG emissions.
  
  
• World will warm faster than predicted in next five years, study warns
  July 27, 2009 - Duncan Clark - Guardian
  
  New estimate based on the forthcoming upturn in solar activity and El Niño southern oscillation cycles is expected to silence global warming sceptics
  
  
• Trapping Carbon Dioxide Or Switching To Nuclear Power Not Enough To Solve Global Warming Problem, Experts Say
  Jul 13, 2009 - Science Daily
  
  Attempting to tackle climate change by trapping carbon dioxide or switching to nuclear power will not solve the problem of global warming, according to energy calculations published in the July issue of the International Journal of Global Warming.
  
  
• 100 Coal Plants Prevented or Abandoned
  Movement Sparks Shift to Cleaner Energy and Over 400 Million Fewer Tons of CO2
  Jul 9, 2009 - Virginia Cramer - Sierra Club
  
  Washington, DC:  Americans can breathe easier today as Intermountain Power’s coal plant in Utah became the 100th new coal plant to be prevented or abandoned since the beginning of the coal rush in 2001. In their place, a smart mix of clean energy solutions like energy efficiency, wind, solar and geothermal has stepped up to meet America’s energy needs. Last year 42 percent of all new power producing capacity came from wind, and for the first time the wind industry created more jobs than mining coal.  And it’s not just wind, significant job creation is happening across the clean energy spectrum.
  
  
• Energy efficiency, reduced deforestation can reverse emissions trend - report
  Jul 6, 2009 - SustainableBusiness.com News
  
  More than 70% of the emissions reductions needed to reverse the growth of global greenhouse gases can be achieved by investing in energy efficiency and reducing deforestation, according to a new report by The Climate Group.
  
  
• 5 steps to clean up air pollution
  Jun 24, 2009 - Janice Nolen - Scientific American
  
  Even as the U.S. explores the complex challenges of global warming, air pollution remains widespread and dangerous. Millions of Americans live in areas that have recognized air pollution problems. Grave health effects—including death—are all too common. And the threat is not just to people: dirty air sickens and kills plants and animals and creates ugly haze that obscures spectacular views.
  
  
• Ely coal-fired power plant plan withdrawn
  Jun 23, 2009 - The Associated Press
  
  NV Energy has formally withdrawn its application to build the Ely Energy Center, a coal-fired power plant that was opposed by environmentalists and by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
  
  
• TERI launches specialised library on climate change
  Jun 19, 2009 - TERI
  
  TERI launches specialised library on climate change (SLCC).
  Please visit SLCC at http://www.teriin.org/slcc/
  
  
• 2.1 Million-year high measured for carbon dioxide in atmosphere
  Jun 18, 2009 - Jeremy van Loon - Bloomberg.com
  
  Carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere has risen to its highest level in at least 2.1 million years, according to a new investigation of the greenhouse gas’s role in ice ages over the millennia.
  
  
• The impact of global warmimg on human fatality rates
  Jun 17, 2009 - Scientific American
  
  Researchers believe that global warming is already responsible for some 150,000 deaths each year around the world, and fear that the number may well double by 2030 even if we start getting serious about emissions reductions today.
  
  
• New report provides authoritative assessment of national, regional impacts of global climate change
  Jun 16, 2009 - NOAA
  
  Climate change is already having visible impacts in the United States, and the choices we make now will determine the severity of its impacts in the future, according to a new and authoritative federal study assessing the current and anticipated domestic impacts of climate change.
  
  
• Asia set to become biggest climate change driver
  Jun 16, 2009 - Teresa Cerojano - The Associated Press
  
  Asia's share of global greenhouse gas emissions could rise to more than 40 percent by 2030, making it the world's main driver of climate change, experts warned Tuesday.
  
  
• Climate change costs aren't just long-term
  Jun 5, 2009 - Thomas Kostigen - First Enercast Financial
  
  While many cite climate change's long-term costs and problems down the road, it will claim 300,000 lives and cost $125 billion this year alone.
  
  
• U.S. responsible for 29 percent of CO2 emissions over past 150 years, triple China's share
  Jun 1, 2009 - Joseph Romm - grist
  
  Since the mid-1800s, U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas, accounted for 29% of the global total.  Those 328,000 million metric tons of cumulative emissions are the most of any country and more than three times the amount emitted by China over the same period (93,000 MtCO2), according to data from the World Resources Institute.
  
  
• Al Gore warns on latest climate trends
  May, 2009 - TED
  
  All Gore presents latest climate trends and debunks 'clean coal.'
  
  
• Nobel laureates compare climate crisis to threat from nuclear weapons
  May 29, 2009 - John Vidal - guardian.co.uk
  
  Prince Charles-hosted symposium says zero carbon economy is ultimate necessity and calls for urgent cuts in emissions
  
  
• CO2 emissions from energy use dropped in U.S. last year
  May 21, 2009 - Katherine Harmon - Scientific American
  
  Carbon dioxide emissions went the way of the U.S. economy last year—which, in this case, is good news. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports that U.S. emissions of the greenhouse gas dropped the most last year since at least 1990, when it began keeping tabs. The EIA says the overall 2.8 percent dip in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is likely linked to a combo of the slumping economy and high fuel prices.
  
  
• Climate change will overload humanitarian system, warns Oxfam
  Apr 21, 2009 - John Vidal - Guardian.co.uk
  
  Number of people affected by extreme weather has doubled in 30 years and is expected to reach 375 million a year by 2015
  
  
• U.S. carbon dioxide emissions up 20 percent since 1990
  Apr 15 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Matthew Preusch The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.
  
  The amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere in the United States increased 1.4 percent in 2007.
  
  
• Microfinance Institutions Begin to Incorporate Climate Change in Development Strategies
  Apr 14, 2009 - Robert Kropp - SocialFunds.com
  
  Report from CGAP finds that MFIs are well-positioned to contribute to energy efficiency in developing countries, but recommends shift in priorities from loans to financial services that include savings.
  
  
• Huge coalfield discovered in China's Xinjiang
  Apr 14, 2009 - AsiaPulse
  
  A huge coalfield with a reserve of three billion tons has been discovered at Aiding Lake in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, according to the Xinjiang Bureau of Coal Geology.
  
  
• Coal-fired power plants capacity to grow by 35 per cent in next 10 years
  Apr , 2009 - Engineerlive.com
  
  World coal-fired power plant capacity will grow from 1,759,000 MW in 2010 to 2,384,000 MW in 2020. Some 80,000 MW will be replaced. So there will be 705,000 MW of new coal-fired boilers built. The annual new boiler sales will average 70,000 MW. The annual investment will be $140 billion.  
  
  
• U.S. to host major economies talks on climate change April 27-28
  Mar 28, 2009 - The Associated Press
  
  President Barack Obama will host a meeting on climate change and energy in Washington on April 27-28 to help facilitate a global agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the White House said Saturday.
  
  
• Global warming to carry big costs for California
  Mar 12, 2009 - Samantha Young - The Associated Press
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. - From agricultural losses to devastation wrought by wildfires, California's economy is expected to see significant costs resulting from global warming in the decades ahead, according to a new report.
  
  
• Global Warming Worse Than Predicted - US Scientist
  Feb 16, 2009 - Julie Steenhuysen
  
  CHICAGO - The climate is heating up far faster than scientists had predicted, spurred by sharp increases in greenhouse gas emissions from developing countries like China and India, a top climate scientist said on Saturday.
  
  
• Climate warming gases rising faster than expected
  Feb 14, 2009 - Randolph E. Schmid -The Associated Press
  
  Despite widespread concern over global warming, humans are adding carbon to the atmosphere even faster than in the 1990s, researchers warned Saturday.
  
  
• Report: Some climate damage already irreversible
  Jan 26, 2009 - Randolph E. Schmid - Associated Press
  
  WASHINGTON — Many damaging effects of climate change are already basically irreversible, a team of international researchers declared Monday, warning that even if carbon emissions can somehow be halted temperatures around the globe will remain high until at least the year 3000.
  
  
• South Korea urged to take lead against climate change
  Dec 31, 2008 -- AsiaPulse
  
  WASHINGTON- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday urged his fellow South Koreans to take the lead in international efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that cause global warming.
  
  
• UN: greenhouse gases at new record highs
  Nov 25, 2008 - Eliane Engeler - Associated Press
  
  Greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere have reached new record highs and show no sign of leveling off, the U.N. weather agency said Tuesday.
  
  
• CHINA: Coal cost $248B in hidden expenses in ‘07
  Oct 29, 2008 - Greenpeace
  
  Climatewire: China’s use of coal power in 2007 cost the country $248 billion in health care costs, environmental damages and government subsidies, according to a report released Monday by Greenpeace.
  
  
• Study: World's CO2 emissions increase
  Sep 29, 2008 - UPI
  
  U.S. scientists say annual carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels and manufacturing worldwide have grown 38 percent since 1992.
  
  
• Global warming pollution increases 3 percent
  Sep 25, 2008- Seth Borenstein - The Associated Press
  
  Worldwide man-made emissions of carbon dioxide - the main gas that causes global warming - jumped 3 percent last year, international scientists said Thursday.
  
  
• Scientists call for curbing coal burning
  Sep 16, 2008 - UPI
  
  U.S. scientists say they've determined curbing carbon dioxide emissions from coal might avert climate danger.
  
  
• Wis. governor says no to coal for power plants
  Aug 1, 2008 - Scott Bauer - The Associated Press
  
  Gov. Jim Doyle's announcement Friday that Wisconsin will stop using coal at its power plants in Madison was hailed as a pivotal victory for the environment that makes the state a leader in seeking clean energy alternatives.
  
  
• Ga. judge halts construction of coal-fired plant
  Jun 30, 2008 - Greg Bluestein - The Associated Press
  
  ATLANTA (AP) -- The construction of a coal-fired power plant in Georgia was halted Monday when a judge ruled that the plant's builders must first obtain a permit from state regulators that limits the amount of carbon dioxide emissions.
  
  
• Living on the Ice Shelf: Humanity's Melt Down
  Jun 26, 2008 - Mike Davis - Truthout
  
  Our world, our old world that we have inhabited for the last 12,000 years, has ended, even if no newspaper in North America or Europe has yet printed its scientific obituary.
  
  
• World Energy Use Projected to Grow 50 Percent Between 2005 and 2030
  Jun 25, 2008 - EIA Reports U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
  
  World marketed energy consumption is projected to grow by 50 percent between 2005 and 2030, driven by robust economic growth and expanding populations in the world’s developing countries, according to the reference case projection from the International Energy Outlook 2008 (IEO2008) released today by the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
  
  
• White House issues climate report 4 years late
  May, 2008 - Seth Borenstein - The Associated Press
  
  Under a court order and four years late, the White House Thursday produced what it called a science-based "one-stop shop" of specific threats to the United States from man-made global warming.
  
  
• $45 Trillion Needed to Combat Warming
  Jun 6, 2008 - Joseph Coleman - Excite News
  
  The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to an energy study released Friday.

• G8 Environment Ministers Endorse Greenhouse Gas Cuts By 2050, Fail To Agree On 2020 Target, May 26
  
  
• Coal use set to increase in the global energy mix
  May 1, 2008 - Datamonitor
  
  A combination of strong demand, record oil and gas prices, concerns over energy security and a reluctance to recommit to nuclear energy, has seen a renaissance of coal in the European energy mix. This is a trend closely mirrored in the US and Asia. However, while coal might help to fill growing energy security gaps, it raises some profound environmental questions.
  
  
• UK Think Tank: Slow Global Response To Climate Change Has Security Risk, Apr 23, 2008
  
  
• California to Be Home to $600 Million Global Warming Research Center
  Apr 10, 2008 - San Jose Mercury News
  
  California will establish a high-profile, $600 million research center to devise solutions for global warming, the Public Utilities Commission decided in a 5-0 vote Thursday.
  
  
• CO2 From US Power Plants Said To Show Biggest Jump In Decade
  Mar 18, 2008 - Dow Jones & Co, Inc.
  
  The amount of carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas, released by the nation's power plants grew by nearly 3% last year, the largest annual increase in nearly a decade, an environmental group said Tuesday.
  
  
• China's carbon emissions rising faster than expected - study
  Mar 12, 2008 - XFN-ASIA
  
  China's carbon emissions have been increasing at an average rate of 11 pct per year since 2004, far higher than the 2-5 pct estimate set by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, according to a study by the University of California, Berkeley and UC San Diego.
  
  
• Northeast summers heading south (interactive)
  Feb 19, 2008 - The Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment and the Union of Concerned Scientists
  
  Scientists uded temperature and precipitation projects to calculate future summer climates for the Northesast. Highter temperatures and increased humidity will make most state's climates more like those in today's Mid-Atlantic or Southern regions.
  
  
• UN: climate change may cost $20 trillion
  Jan 31, 2008 - The Associated Press
  
  Global warming could cost the world up to $20 trillion over two decades for cleaner energy sources and do the most harm to people who can least afford to adapt, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns in a new report.
  
  
• Environmentalists Launch Assault to Halt Coal Plants
  Jan 20 - Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
  
  In federal and state courtrooms across the country, environmental groups are putting coal-fueled power plants on trial in a bid to slow the industry's biggest construction boom in decades.
  
  
• Japan PM to announce aid for poor nations to fight global warming
  Jan 10, 2008 - BBCMonitoring
  
  Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will announce a five-year 1 trillion yen package to help developing countries combat global warming when he attends a World Economic Forum meeting in Switzerland later this month, government sources said Thursday.
  
  
• Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity In A Divided World, UNDP Report 2007/2008
  
  
• PacifiCorp cancels Wyo. coal projects
  Dec 11, 2007 - The Associated Press
  
  PacifiCorp has scrapped plans for two coal-based power projects in southwest Wyoming, saying coal plant projects are no longer "viable" because of the uncertain political climate regarding carbon dioxide emissions.
  
  
• More Global Energy Firms Covet China Coal Industry
  Dec 11, 2007 - SinoCast
  
  More international energy companies expect to build a presence in China's fast-growing coal industry in line with the nation's related policies in the near future.
  
  
• Tucson firm has plan for towers to suck up CO2
  Nov 25, 2007 - McClatchy- Tribune Regional News - Tom Beal - The Arizona Daily Star
  
  A Tucson firm thinks it may have the answer to global warming: millions of carbon-dioxide-sucking towers that would allow us to merrily burn fossil fuel without killing the planet.
  
  
• Wind-fuelled 'supergrid' offers clean power to Europe
  Nov 25, 2007 - The Independent
  
  An audacious proposal to build a 5,000-mile electricity supergrid, stretching from Siberia to Morocco and Egypt to Iceland, would slash Europe's CO2 emissions by a quarter, scientists say.
  
  
• Energy experts say world must develop carbon capture to fight climate change
  Nov 15, 2007 - The Associated Press - Ariel David
  
  Since heavily polluting coal and ever-pricier oil will provide most of the world's power for decades to come, nations must make more efficient use of fossil fuels and learn to contain the tons of carbon dioxide industries spew each day, experts said Thursday.
  
  
• China to overtake US with world's highest CO2 emissions this year- IEA
  Nov 9, 2007 - XFN-Asia
  
  China will this year surpass the US in terms of carbon dioxide emissions and will become the world's biggest oil consumer by 2010, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said.
  
  
• China signals rejection of greenhouse gas caps, saying emissions needed to fight poverty
  Nov 9, 2007 - Joe McDonald - Associated Press
  
  A Chinese official gave the clearest sign yet that Beijing will reject binding caps on greenhouse gas emissions at a global meeting next month, saying Friday developing countries must be allowed to raise emissions to fight poverty.
  
  
• Bill Would Set High Standard for Coal Plants Residents Voted Down the Coal Gasification Plant in Wiscasset, but Developers Haven't Given Up Yet
  Nov 8, 2007 - Portland Press Herald
  
  After winning their fight to block construction of a coal gasification plant, opponents are continuing the battle in the Maine Legislature.
  
  
• China 'to be largest energy user'
  Nov 7, 2007 - BBC Monitoring
  
  China is set to become the world's largest consumer of energy by about 2010, according to a study by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
  
  
• Energy needs 'to grow inexorably'
  Nov 7, 2007 - BBC Monitoring
  
  The global demand for energy is set to grow inexorably through to 2030 if governments do not change their policies, warns a top energy official.
  
  
• China, India seen as key to energy, climate
  Nov 7, 2007 - The Associated Press
  
  What they do 'will also affect the rest of the world,' IEA says
  LONDON - Rapid economic growth in China and India will have devastating consequences for the world's energy supply if governments in those emerging countries do not ramp up efforts to curb demand and greenhouse gas emissions, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday.
  
  
• 2030 global CO2 emissions expected to surge 56% over 2005 level
  Nov 7, 2007 - The Associated Press
  
  London - Global carbon dioxide emissions in 2030 will likely be 56 percent higher than in 2005 due chiefly to burgeoning CO2 emissions from China and India, the International Energy Agency said in an annual report Wednesday.
  
  
• World's growing dependence on coal leaving a trail of environmental devastation
  Nov 4, 2007 - Michael Casey - The Associated Press
  
  It takes five to 10 days for the pollution from China's coal-fired plants to make its way to the United States, like a slow-moving storm.
  
  
• China shuts down 10 mln kilowatts of small power generators ahead of schedule
  Oct 26, 2007 - Xinhua
  
  China has already shut down small coal-fired generating units with an aggregate capacity of 10 million kilowatts so far this year, a target set for the whole year, in a bid to save energy and reduce emissions.
  
  
• Governor's commission completes two-year climate change report
  Oct 26, 2007 - The Associated Press
  
  A governor's commission charged with making recommendations on how to curb greenhouse gas emissions recommended that the state expand energy efficiency programs, support renewable energy and team up with its colleges and universities to develop a "green economy" in Vermont.
  
  
• Report: NC emissions reductions could create 300K jobs
  Oct 24, 2007 - The Associated Press
  
  Going green could bring some new jobs to North Carolina.
  
  
• Coal's Future Fading To Black
  Oct 10, 2007 - McClatchy- Tribune Information Services
  
  Florida, a state that has fought hard to preserve the ban on oil production off its shores, has effectively closed the door on another traditional source of energy.
  
  
• Princeton study tells how to reduce carbon dioxide
  Oct 8, 2007 - McClatchy- Tribune Information Services
  
  A 2004 Science magazine article by two Princeton University scientists is just now attracting widespread attention in the global warming field.
  
  
• Coal-Emission Cleanup a Challenge for Utilities
  Oct 8, 2007 - McClatchy- Tribune Information Services
  
  Coal-powered utilities, under intense pressure to cut carbon emissions, say the country needs the electricity that coal generates and they need time to enact controls on discharges. Groups like the Sierra Club, however, want an immediate end to coal's use -- in the United States and around the world -- to slow global warming.
  
  
• Climate Change: Scientists use algae to absorb carbon dioxide
  Sep 29, 2007 - IPS/GIN
  
  The possibility that algae could be used to capture carbon dioxide from the air is changing the negative reputation of these organisms, which are often seen as a plague caused by excessive fertilizer runoff. Until very recently, the proliferation of algae was interpreted as an undesirable consequence of the overuse of agro-chemicals, which has caused skin irritation in humans and the death of aquatic fauna from lack of oxygen.
  
  
• World Energy Revolution Needed For Climate, Says Condoleezza Rice
  Sep 25, 2007 - Reuters
  
  U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday the world needs a revolution on energy that transcends oil, gas and coal to prevent problems from climate change.
  
  
• Dirty Energy Threatens Health of 2 Billion -Study
  Sep 12, 2007 - Reuters
  
  The health of about 2 billion of the world's poor is being damaged because they lack access to clean energy, like electricity, and face exposure to smoke from open fires, scientists said on Thursday.
  
  
• Danger Gas Breakthrough; Scientist's Special Tubes Could Cut Power Station Emissions
  Aug 3, 2007  - Evening Chronicle
  
  ENGINEERS in the North East may have developed a way to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power stations to almost nothing. The team of experts from Newcastle University has been researching the effects of ceramic tubes to develop a new combustion process.
  
  
• To Dismay of Power Utilities, Coal Emissions Are Under Fire
  Jul 31, 2007 - Roanoke Times & World News
  
  The emergence of global warming as a mainstream concern has altered the political landscape for coal -- the abundant domestic fuel that provides half the nation's electricity and is a major driver of the economy of far Southwest Virginia.
  
  
• Climate Change Debate Hinges On Economics
  Jul 15, 2007 - Washington Post
  
  Here's the good news about climate change: Energy and climate experts say the world already possesses the technological know-how for trimming greenhouse gas emissions enough to slow the perilous rise in the Earth's temperatures.
  
  
• A Sudden Change of State Posted
  July 3, 2007 - George Monbiot - The Guardian
  
  A new paper suggests we have been greatly underestimating the impacts of climate change – and the size of the necessary response.
  
  
• China becomes top CO2 emitter, overtaking U.S.
  Jun 20, 2007 - The Associated Press
  
  China has overtaken the United States as the world's biggest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2), a Dutch research institution announced Tuesday.
  
  
• Reducing greenhouse gases would help economy
  Jun 15, 2007 - Jim Erickson - University of Michigan News Service
  
  A yearlong study by students and researchers at the University of Michigan said the state could reduce greenhouse gases 12% while at the same time adding $380 million to the economy and creating 3,400 new jobs if it required more renewable energy.
  
  
• U.N. scientists to lay out ways to head off worst of climate change, at least cost
  Apr 23, 2007 - Michael Casey - The Associated Press
  
  After two reports predicting a warmer Earth where life is fundamentally changed, a U.N.-sponsored scientific panel next month will issue a third study describing how a united world can avert the worst, by embracing technologies ranging from nuclear power to manure controls.
  
  
• World Web Of Electricity Charged Up
  Mar 9, 2007
  
  The key to fighting climate change is for the U.S. to take a leadership role in promoting a "new world wide web of electricity," according to Michael Powers, board member and spokesman for Global Energy Network Institute, a non-profit research and education group based in San Diego.
  
  
• Worries over global warming to boost use of renewables
  Feb 27, 2007 - Alister Doyle OSLO, Reuters
  
  Three decades after former U.S. President Jimmy Carter experimented with solar panels on the White House roof, grim U.N. warnings about climate change may kick-start wider global use of renewable energy.
  
  
• New alarms are rung on perils of global warming
  Feb 26, 2007 - Associated Press
  
  To head off the worst of climate change, the world\'s governments must pour tens of billions of dollars more than they are into clean-energy research and enforce sharp rollbacks in fossil-fuel emissions, a scientific panel reported to the United Nations on Tuesday.
  
  
• Top Global Warming Scientist Wants Halt on New Coal Power Plants, wants to bulldoze old ones
  Feb 26, 2007 - The Associated Press
  
  One of the world's top scientists on global warming called for the United States to stop building coal-fired power plants and eventually bulldoze older generators that don't capture and bury greenhouse gases.
  
  
• Report: Global warming panel warns gas emissions must be reversed in 13 years
  Feb 23, 2007 - Melissa Eddy The Associated Press
  
  A U.N.-backed panel of international scientists is to warn that dangerous gas emissions must decline by 2020 if global warming is to be halted, German media reported Friday.
  
  
• Climate Change Pushes Global Agenda
  Feb 20, 2007 - Timothy Wirth UNAUSA.org
  
  Over the last 12 months, events in the natural world and rising scientific consensus about the nature of the challenge of global climate change have pushed this issue to the top of the international agenda. The so-called and long-overstated "debate" about global warming is over, and a new discussion has begun over how to face the challenge. It is now not only being carried out in field laboratories and the halls of our great universities and scientific institutions, but in think tanks, at high-level international conferences, from the podiums of presidential candidates, and in legislatures around the world.
  
  
• California Moves Quickly To Block New Coal-Fired Power Plants, Jan 24, 2007
  
  
• Global Temperature Highest in Millennia: Global Temperature Highest in Thousands of Years, Researchers Tell Science Journal
  Sep 26, 2006 - The Associated Press

  WASHINGTON - The planet's temperature has climbed to levels not seen in thousands of years, warming that has begun to affect plants and animals, researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

• Earth Institute Researchers Present Their Work at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
  Dec 2, 2005 - Earth Institute News
  
  Wide array of topics includes climate change, social consequences of natural disasters (Keeling Curve presented)
  
  Scientists from The Earth Institute will arrive in San Francisco this week to attend the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), an annual gathering of more than 11,000 researchers from around the world who study the Earth and other planets. Representatives from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), the Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS), the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) and many other affiliates of The Earth Institute will present a wide range of geologic, geochemical and interdisciplinary research, including the following:
  
  
• The Big Meltdown: Something’s Happening at both Poles, March 31, 2005
  
  
• Report: Global Warming at Critical Point, January 25, 2005
  
  
• Low-cost renewable energy is key: Expert says rising prices of natural gas, fuels isn't enough
  Nov 30, 2000 - Jeff Smith - Denver Rocky Mountain News
  
  Increased use of renewable energy is likely to depend more on prices coming down rather than a crisis in natural gas costs and other conventional fuels, an expert said Wednesday.
  
  
• Climate change conference was all about clean energy
  Nov 27, 2000 - earthtimes.org
  
  THE HAGUE--All 400,000 kilowatt hours of electricity that powered the Climate Conference in The Hague were produced without emitting a single molecule of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. How? With the windmills and solar panels of Nuon International, the largest utility in the Netherlands.
  Editor's Note: Article refers to U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, The Hague, The Netherlands, November 2000
  
  
• Worldwatch report finds Earth is in a sorry state
  Jan 12, 1997 - Vicki Allen - Reuters - San Diego Union-Tribune
  
  WASHINGTON — Five years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, treaties to protect the atmosphere and biodiversity are foundering, the world's population is spiraling and more than 1 billion people cannot feed themselves, the Worldwatch Institute said yesterday.
  

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