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Roller Curby
High seas of South Pacific protected from bottom trawling |
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07 May 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Roller Curby High seas of South Pacific protected from bottom trawling A landmark agreement between 21 countries will restrict the controversial practice of bottom-trawling in the high seas of the South Pacific. The deal, which takes effect in September, affects a quarter of the world's oceans, and is the first step toward implementing a U.N. resolution on bottom-trawling from December. "It ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, fishing, international politics, news, oceans (all these topics) |
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Hey, That's Half the Battle
Bush chats with Merkel and Barroso, agrees climate change is a problem |
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01 May 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Hey, That's Half the Battle Bush chats with Merkel and Barroso, agrees climate change is a problem U.S. President George W. Bush met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and E.U. President Jose Manuel Barroso at the White House yesterday, chatting about international trade, air-travel policy, missile shields, and The Most Important Issue of Our Time. Though no climate action steps were agr ... |
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| Topics: Angela Merkel, G8, George Bush, international politics, politics (all these topics) |
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2020 Vision
E.U. adopts ambitious renewable-energy goal |
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09 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| 2020 Vision E.U. adopts ambitious renewable-energy goal It's a banner day for the European Union: wrapping up a two-day summit, its 27 member states have agreed on an ambitious green-energy goal. The plan -- to use 20 percent renewable energy by 2020 -- will "establish us as a world pioneer," says German Chancellor and summit chair Angela Merkel, who brokere ... |
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| Topics: Angela Merkel, energy, European Union, international politics, news, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Split over nuclear versus renewables threatens EU global warming pact
Spring summit underway |
Robert Delfs |
09 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| From an article in the Guardian: Divisions over nuclear power and renewable energy threatened to derail the EU's campaign to assume a global leadership role in the fight against climate change at the bloc's spring summit which began last night. [...] But France, backed by several east European countries, insisted carbon-free nuclear power be included within the EU energy mix and rejected [German Chancellor] Angela Merkel's proposal to make a 20 percent target for ... |
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| Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, energy, international politics, nuclear power, politics, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Vive la Discorde
E.U. leaders gather for summit, squabble over renewable-energy target |
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07 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Vive la Discorde E.U. leaders gather for summit, squabble over renewable-energy target As European Union leaders gather for a two-day summit that starts tomorrow, one question is dominating the agenda: what exactly did the Olsen twins buy on their recent Paris shopping spree? Once that's answered, the heads ... |
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| Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, European Union, international politics, news, politics, regulation, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Carbon reductions or poverty reduction?
Poor countries can't afford to tackle climate change |
Jason D Scorse |
15 Nov 2006 |
Gristmill |
| I know, I know, this is a false choice that skeptics use to stall action on climate change. Or is it? Check out this article from Reason. It makes some interesting points. Here's a quick summary: Developing countries do not have the funds to tackle climate change, period. This then requires a massive investment on the part of rich countries. It also requires massive emissions reductions in rich countries, which will be costly in the short to medium run. Poo ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, international politics, politics (all these topics) |
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The Revolution Will Be Criticized
Why the new 'Green Revolution' in Africa may be misguided |
Tom Philpott |
27 Sep 2006 |
Victual Reality |
| Why the new "Green Revolution" in Africa may be misguided By Tom Philpott 27 Sep 2006 In a bid to move "tens of millions of people out of extreme poverty" and "significantly" reduce hunger, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has teamed with the Rockefeller Foundation to launch a new "Green Revolution" in Africa. These high-profile foundations have committed a combined $150 million toward fulfilling their admirable ... |
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| Topics: Africa, agriculture, industrial ag, international politics, Victual Reality (all these topics) |
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Update on Blair & Schwarzenegger's climate kissypoo
Leaders agree to share technology; carbon-trading system a possibility, not a done deal |
Lisa Hymas |
31 Jul 2006 |
Gristmill |
| The AP overstated the extent of the climate agreement announced today between British PM Tony Blair and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (and thus Daily Grist overstated it too). Now that the deal's been officially unveiled, a few clarifications: The two didn't agree to launch a new trans-Atlantic carbon-trading market, though they will look into the possibility. Rather, they said the U.K. and California would cooperate on research into cleaner fuels and technologies ... |
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| Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, climate, international politics, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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A geo-green third party?
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David Roberts |
19 Jun 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Thomas Friedman -- la moustache de la sagesse -- has a column up (NYT $elect; reprinted in full here) suggesting that his "geo-green" shtick would be a good basis for a third party presidential candidacy. God love The Mustache for bringing energy issues to a broad audience, but this column is dopey. Let's start with this: What might a Geo-Green third party platform look like? Its centerpiece would be a $1 a gallon gasoline tax, called "The Pa ... |
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| Topics: energy, international politics, national security, oil, politics (all these topics) |
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Chavez makes a play
New scheme for OPEC would make Venezuela's oil reserves world's largest |
David Roberts |
05 Apr 2006 |
Gristmill |
| There's some big stuff happening in Venezuela these days. In an interview with the BBC, President Hugo Chavez announced a bid that could change the entire world oil situation. He wants OPEC to set its long-term oil target price at $50/barrel. Why? At $50, large portions of Venezuela's copious heavy crude in the Orinoco Tar Sands become economically viable, and Venezuela's official oil reserves automatically skyrocket to 312 billion barrels -- surpassing Saudi Arabia's ... |
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| Topics: international politics, oil, oil sands, Venezuela (all these topics) |
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The mother of all link posts
Everything you ever wanted to know about ... everything |
David Roberts |
22 Feb 2006 |
Gristmill |
| So much material. So little time. So many complicated issues. So little expertise. How about a big fat linky post! Treehugger has a fantastic interview with Hunter Lovins, long-time champion of sustainability, now president of Natural Capitalism Solutions, Inc. She talks about her current international work, focusing on Afghanistan. I particularly like this exchange, which is relevant to our discussion of poverty earlier: Do you believe that economic developm ... |
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| Topics: Amory Lovins, consumerism, eco-terrorism, hybrids, international politics, politics (all these topics) |
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Are WEO There Yet?
Why we need a World Environment Organization |
Ethan Goffman |
27 Oct 2005 |
Soapbox |
| With climate change manifesting itself in the melting of Arctic glaciers and the drowning of small Pacific islands, in widespread species extinction, forest loss, desertification, and impending water shortages, the scope of environmental problems has changed. Long-term alteration of the earth's climate is moving us into terra incognita that's difficult or impossible to reverse. Recently, Hurricane Katrin ... |
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| Topics: international politics, politics (all these topics) |
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Calling Africa to action on climate
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Lisa Hymas |
02 Dec 2004 |
Gristmill |
| Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai and George W. Bush agree on one thing: developing nations need to do more to curb the threat of climate change. (Of course, they don't agree on the much more vexing question of whether overdeveloped nations -- one highly overdeveloped nation in particular -- should do anything to address the ballooning problem ...)Speaking last week at a UNEP climate workshop, Maathai, who presently serves as Kenya's deputy environment minister, t ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, politics (all these topics) |
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Pump it up
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Chip Giller |
08 Oct 2004 |
Gristmill |
| Thomas Friedman is back at The New York Times after a two-month hiatus. I don't always agree with his stands (and enjoyed the alternative voices that appeared in The Times during his absence), but find it heartening that his second op-ed upon returning has an environmental bent:Of all the shortsighted policies of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, none have [Editor's Note: Grist editors would not have let slip this misuse of have] been worse than their oppos ... |
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| Topics: elections, energy, international politics, oil, politics (all these topics) |
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Shaken, Not Yet Stirred
Kyoto will shake things up in the U.S., whether Americans like it or not |
Amanda Griscom Little |
07 Oct 2004 |
Muckraker |
| Last Thursday, when the Russian cabinet moved to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, international leaders called it the dawn of a new era. Putin (left) and Bush take opposing views on Kyoto. Photo: Eric Draper, WhiteHouse.gov Top officials from Canada, Japan, the European Union, and other Kyoto-supporting countries applauded Russia's progress toward ratification, which wi ... |
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| Topics: climate, international politics, Kyoto Protocol, Muckraker, politics (all these topics) |
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Do the Right Thing
Frist sides with right-wingers to stymie widely supported sea treaty |
Amanda Griscom |
17 Jun 2004 |
Muckraker |
| How's this for a once-in-a-blue-moon scenario? Six major environmental groups endorse a sweeping international treaty strongly supported by the American Petroleum Institute and other industry groups. Do you sea what I sea? Photo: NOAA. On May 12, top dogs from the Natural Resources Defense Council, National Environmental Trust, Ocean Conservancy, and three other green organizati ... |
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| Topics: international politics, Muckraker, oceans, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics) |
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It's Not Over 'Til the Fat Lady Sings
Climate talks are on the rocks, but not dead yet |
Amanda Griscom |
03 Dec 2003 |
Muckraker |
| The hippest catwalk in Milan this week. Photo: IISD. Milan is famous for opera and fashion, so perhaps it's appropriate that the United Nations' Kyoto Protocol conference, being held in the Italian city this week and next, has so far been characterized by high drama and public spectacle. Some 180 negotiators from around the world have been treated to rumors of deliberate sabotage ... |
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| Topics: climate, international politics, Kyoto Protocol, mercury, Muckraker, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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Rules of the Game
It's time to end the race to the bottom |
Elizabeth Sawin |
21 Nov 2002 |
Global Citizen |
| Here's a simple game that makes a not-so-simple point. Stand in a line, with several friends. Each of you hold your right index finger out in front of your body. Now place a long stick across all of your fingers, balanced upon them. Your collective goal is to lower the stick to the ground. There is only one rule. Each finger must remain in contact with the stick at all times. If anyone's finger loses con ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, economy, international politics, politics (all these topics) |
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Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned When I Was a Zygote
Survival sometimes calls for cooperation, not competition |
Elizabeth Sawin |
11 Oct 2001 |
Global Citizen |
| "Human beings will never cooperate. War and fighting are part of our very make-up. We're competitive, violent animals." That's what the cynics say, and sometimes it seems as though there is plenty of evidence to support their case. The recent attacks on New York and Washington. Bosnia. Rwanda. Over-fished oceans and over-harvested fores ... |
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| Topics: international politics, politics (all these topics) |
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Thoughts in the Presence of Fear
A post-Sept. 11 manifesto for environmentalists |
Wendell Berry |
11 Oct 2001 |
Soapbox |
| I. The time will soon come when we will not be able to remember the horrors of Sept. 11 without remembering also the unquestioning technological and economic optimism that ended on that day. II. This optimism rested on the proposition that we were living in a "new world order" and a "new economy" that would "grow" on and on, bringing a prosperity of which ev ... |
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| Topics: economy, innovation, international politics, national security, politics, tech (all these topics) |
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El Nino -- and El Other Nino
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26 Jan 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| El Nino -- and El Other Nino In its first move on global warming, the Bush administration has asked that the next international summit on climate change be delayed two months. When talks to hammer out the details of the Kyoto treaty collapsed last November at The Hague, Netherlands, the chair of the talks, Jan Pronk, scheduled another session for this May. But U.S. State Department spokesperson ... |
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| Topics: climate change adaptation, international politics, politics (all these topics) |
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Loy vey!
Did the top U.S. negotiator at The Hague climate talks drop the ball? |
Ben White |
04 Dec 2000 |
Muckraker |
| Lots of grumbling lately from environmental insiders displeased with the way Frank Loy handled negotiating duties for the U.S. during the fruitless climate change talks at The Hague, Netherlands. The main complaint: Bad clock management. Pretty boy Loy. Photo: Courtesy of IISD. Without getting too mired in bad sports metaphors, the knock on Loy, the undersecretary of state for global affair ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, international politics, Muckraker, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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That Sinking Feeling
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27 Nov 2000 |
Daily Grist |
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| Topics: climate change adaptation, international politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Planet of the Aches
The U.S. balks at a global solution to global warming |
Bill McKibben |
22 Nov 2000 |
Main Dish |
| THE HAGUE, Netherlands If you walk straight out the front door of this convention hall and skirt the sandbagged dike that activists built during a weekend demonstration, you find yourself at the front door of a squat building with a U.N. flag flying from a pole. Enter it (past a pair of metal detectors) and you find yourself in the chambers of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, Dispatches, international politics, Kyoto Protocol, Netherlands (all these topics) |
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Everything But the Carbon Sink
Climate negotiators in The Hague have their work cut out for them |
Bill McKibben |
17 Nov 2000 |
Main Dish |
| THE HAGUE, Netherlands This month's international climate negotiations in The Hague, though full of sound and fury, are about one thing and one thing only: using policy in an attempt to bridge the wide gap between science and politics. If you keep that in mind, you'll have some sense of whether the session is a success or not -- a better sense, probably, than you'll get f ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, climate change adaptation, Dispatches, international politics, Kyoto Protocol, Netherlands (all these topics) |
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