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China to West: You must be kidding Accuses us of 'green imperialism'	David Roberts	26 Jun 2007	Gristmill
More or less echoing what I said here, China is telling the West to shove its climate hectoring where the sun don't shine: Asian business and government leaders have accused rich countries of hypocrisy, saying they run polluting industries with cheap labour in China and then blame the country for worsening climate change. 'This is green imperialism,' Nor Mohamed Yakcop, Malaysia's deputy finance minister, told a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum on eas ...
Topics: China, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics (all these topics)

Time to put the notion of 'energy independence' to bed So says Jim Henley, and yours truly	David Roberts	19 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Jim Henley says that "energy independence" is the most ridiculous phrase in the American political lexicon: The concept of "energy independence" is a sham. I think it's generally code for "Then we can stop being nice to the fvcking A-rabs," but this gets gussied up with terms like "instability" and references to Hugo Chavez, who has been around a lot less long than the Magic Words. (It is often also code for " ...
Topics: climate, energy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

The geopolitics of 'energy independence' More than meets the eye	Jon Rynn	15 Jun 2007	Gristmill
If you think that the current governmental and corporate interest in ethanol has something to do with global warming, think again. It is dawning on the U.S. government that (1) most of the remaining supplies of oil are in unfriendly hands, and (2) that there isn't enough oil remaining to feed a constantly growing global demand. With oil production plateauing, governments can turn to three main strategies to maintain fuel supplies: (1) consume what's left of the planet by ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, ethanol, international politics, oil (all these topics)

Can You Hear the Drums, Hu Jintao? Sweden hosts Chinese president, global environment ministers		12 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Can You Hear the Drums, Hu Jintao? Sweden hosts Chinese president, global environment ministers What we learned today: while researching eco-news from Sweden, you might stumble upon some juicy tidbits. Like the fact that tennis player Björn Borg was severely bitten by a dog this weekend, or that the organizers of a future museum dedicated to ABBA have found a location in Stockholm! ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, news, Sweden (all these topics)

Jon Stewart on the G8	David Roberts	09 Jun 2007	Gristmill

Topics: G8, international politics, TV (all these topics)

A Jury Of Your Pyrrhus G8 climate deal is failure or triumph, depending whom you ask		08 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
A Jury Of Your Pyrrhus G8 climate deal is failure or triumph, depending whom you ask Welcome to another installment of "Days of Our G8 Lives." Yesterday, the G8 agreed to a climate deal it's been fine-tuning for weeks. It notably did not commit to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's goal of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions 50 percent by 2050, but it did say countries would "con ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, news (all these topics)

The Real Gains As the G8 summit wraps up, a global movement gains steam	Michael Levitin	08 Jun 2007	Dispatches
is a freelance journalist living in Berlin. He has written for Newsweek, Slate, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 Friday, 08 Jun 2007 CAMP ROSTOCK, Germany Klaus had tromped through forests and across fields, marching 15 miles back here to his ramshackle tent at 3:00 in the morning, so it's understandable that he was too beat to be euphoric. He'd taken whacks from billy clubs and swallo ...
Topics: climate, Dispatches, international politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

Howard emulates his hero Australia tries to distract from Kyoto	David Roberts	07 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Looks like somebody's been taking lessons from Bush. Get this:'The Kyoto model -- top-down, prescriptive, legalistic and Euro-centric -- simply won't fly in a rising Asia-Pacific region,' Howard told an Asia Society Australasia dinner.Gag.
Topics: Australia, climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, politics (all these topics)

More on the G8 climate statement The U.S. outmaneuvered European leaders, yet again	David Roberts	07 Jun 2007	Gristmill
All right, the more I read about this G8 climate agreement the more it becomes clear that the Bush administration completely outplayed the other developed countries on this. That, at least, they're good at. Blair, Merkel, and Sarkozy all went into the summit staking their credibility on forcing an agreement: mandatory emissions cuts based on a shared target. The U.S. said: fck you. They begged. They pleaded. The U.S. repeated: fck you. Meanwhile, the U.S. made a ca ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, G8, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

'Breakthrough' at G8: U.S. agrees to consider a process of setting a goal to agree on a commitment to agreeing on a process Progress ... we think	David Roberts	07 Jun 2007	Gristmill
I confess I haven't had the intestinal fortitude to closely follow the negotiations at the G8, but it looks like they've come up with something being billed as a "breakthrough." This phrasing in the Washington Post story is curious: The goal is to agree to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, Merkel said, hailing the decision as a 'huge success.' "The goal is to agree"? Does that mean they've agreed to agree, or that they agreed to try ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, G8, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

We're Sorry, Angela G8 participants report climate-agreement highs and lows		07 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
We're Sorry, Angela G8 participants report climate-agreement highs and lows We can't possibly do justice to the intricacies of this week's G8 summit in this space. So brace for some injustice: German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants the G8 to agree to cut greenhouse-gas emissions 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. U.S. President George Bush doesn't dig that plan, and wants to involve China ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, news (all these topics)

Ecuador to world: Help us, and we won't drill in the rainforest Ultimatum to the rest of the world	Kit Stolz	06 Jun 2007	Gristmill
In response to intense pressure from indigenous and environmental organizations opposed to drilling for oil in an Amazon rainforest, this May Ecuador asked the world for financial help, according to the Environmental News Service. The oil fields under Yasuni National Park are estimated to contain 900 million to 1 billion barrels of oil, about one-quarter of Ecuador's total reserves. In about a year, international oil companies will be allowed to bid for the right to dr ...
Topics: biodiversity, Ecuador, energy, international politics, oil, politics (all these topics)

OPEC threatens cut in investment because of biofuels Agrifuels creating insecurity of demand for their oil	Ron Steenblik	06 Jun 2007	Gristmill
According to an article by Javier Blas and Ed Crooks in the Financial Times (London), the Secretary-General of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Abdalla El-Badri, warned Western countries yesterday that their efforts to develop biofuels as an alternative energy source risked driving the price of oil 'through the roof'. Oh, the irony of it all.One of the main arguments used by proponents of the U.S. Government's heavily subsidized drive to d ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, international politics, oil (all these topics)

Or As We Like to Call It, Inept Development Clean Development Mechanism comes under fire for incompetence		05 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Or As We Like to Call It, Inept Development Clean Development Mechanism comes under fire for incompetence World Environment Day not depressing enough yet? Check this out: the Clean Development Mechanism, a key emissions-reduction program under the Kyoto Protocol, is riddled with incompetence, rule-breaking, and possible fraud, The Guardian reports. The CDM allows nations to fund green-energ ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, news (all these topics)

After the Storm Reflections from the scene of this weekend's G8 protests	Michael Levitin	05 Jun 2007	Dispatches
is a freelance journalist living in Berlin. He has written for Newsweek, Slate, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 Tuesday, 05 Jun 2007 ROSTOCK, Germany If you dress head to foot in black, set cars on fire, launch stones and beer bottles at police, and brave hand-to-hand scuffles amid clouds of tear gas with choppers thundering overhead, best bet is you'll make the evening news. Which i ...
Topics: climate, Dispatches, international politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

More on climate change and national security Scary stuff	Joseph Romm	03 Jun 2007	Gristmill
More and more experts are saying global warming is as grave a threat to our national security (PDF) as terrorism and nuclear proliferation. Some in the media are coming to the same view. The Financial Times set up their coverage with the following scenario, pulled from a Pentagon memo: Picture Japan, suffering from flooding along its coastal cities and contamination of its fresh water supply, eyeing Russia's Sakhalin Island oil and gas reserves as an energy ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, international politics, nuclear power (all these topics)

But don't take my word for it ... Top scientists appeal to WTO	Andrew Sharpless	01 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The other day I told you how there's a good chance we could see an end to commercial overfishing subsidies through WTO negotiations. And my organization is not alone in making the case to the World Trade Organization. At least 125 scientists from 27 countries feel the same way and sent a letter to the WTO making it clear that 'an ambitious outcome in the ongoing WTO fisheries subsidies negotiations is vital to the future of the world's fisheries.'The scientists who ...
Topics: fishing, international politics, oceans, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Hey, At Least He Pronounced It Right Bush announces climate plan, world squirms uncomfortably		01 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Hey, At Least He Pronounced It Right Bush announces climate plan, world squirms uncomfortably The world gave George W. Bush lemons, and he made some dee-licious lemonade. Yesterday, Bush said the U.S. would take the lead on the climate issue, convening a series of meetings of the world's top 10 to 15 polluting nations and setting long-term goals for cutting emissions. Coming amid criticis ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, George Bush, international politics, news (all these topics)

Oxfam: Rich must pay the bulk of climate change bill Wealthy nations should be held accountable for their actions	Tom Athanasiou	31 May 2007	Gristmill
Oxfam has just taken a big step -- it wasn't easy, and they deserve heaps of kudos for it. It has called for a mandatory, global adaptation-funding regime, one that's on the right scale, or at least the right order of magnitude. It would make national obligations to pay -- to help poor and vulnerable communities adapt to the now inevitable impacts of climate change -- contingent on historical responsibility for the impacts of climate change, and on ability to pay. ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, international politics (all these topics)

Bush's 'new climate strategy' Shockingly, it's the same as the old climate strategy	David Roberts	31 May 2007	Gristmill
Today's headlines are full of the news that President Bush is "unveiling a new climate strategy." If your immediate reaction is cynicism, well ... looks like you learned something over the last seven years. Let's look a little closer. In a speech today, Bush said he wants to convene a series of meetings of the 15 major GHG emitting countries to hammer out 'global emissions goals.' To give credit where it's due, there is considerable symbolic significance ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Just Say Noh Forty nations condemn Japan's 'scientific' whale hunt		31 May 2007	Daily Grist
Just Say Noh Forty nations condemn Japan's "scientific" whale hunt The International Whaling Commission has been meeting in Anchorage this week, and as always, Japan is making a splash. Yesterday saw fierce debate over a resolution condemning that country's "scientific hunt," in which it's allowed to kill about 1,000 Antarctic whales. The resolution, sponsored ...
Topics: fishing, international politics, Japan, news, oceans, politics, whaling (all these topics)

Fishing subsidies stink WTO talks could end fishing subsidies	Andrew Sharpless	30 May 2007	Gristmill
Most ocean conservationists are on pins and needles in anticipation of the results of this week's International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting. But I'm also thinking about another three-letter acronym and how much good may be coming out of it. W-T-O. That's right, the World Trade Organization. In Geneva (and at the current Doha round) there's serious talk of cutting government subsidies for commercial fishing -- the fundamental driver for the unsustainable expl ...
Topics: fishing, international politics, oceans (all these topics)

U.S. again blocking international climate accord Sun rises in east	David Roberts	30 May 2007	Gristmill
I suppose everyone's heard by now that the U.S. plans to stiff Germany and the UK on climate change at the upcoming G8 summit. German and British leaders will no doubt express grave concern to the media, and then when it becomes obvious the U.S. won't budge, try to recast their utter ineffectuality as some sort of progress. One hardly knows what to say about this stuff any more. Jerome a Paris has a go at it, but doesn't offer any real proposal for how the U.S. can b ...
Topics: climate, international politics (all these topics)

We've Got Frenzy In Low Places U.S. continues to stonewall climate progress ahead of G8 summit		29 May 2007	Daily Grist
We've Got Frenzy In Low Places U.S. continues to stonewall climate progress ahead of G8 summit In the diplomatic scramble leading up to next week's G8 summit, there are two sides: the Bush administration and the rest of the world. The burning issue, of course, is climate change. Following weeks of grumbling from both sides, leaked documents show that U.S. red pens have ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, climate change mitigation, G8, international politics, news (all these topics)

Noam Chomsky on ethanol He ain't fer it	David Roberts	24 May 2007	Gristmill
So darn shrill: A leading goal of US foreign policy has long been to create a global order in which US corporations have free access to markets, resources and investment opportunities. The objective is commonly called 'free trade,' a posture that collapses quickly on examination. It's not unlike what Britain, a predecessor in world domination, imagined during the latter part of the 19th century, when it embraced free trade, after 150 years of state intervention a ...
Topics: energy, ethanol, international politics, politics (all these topics)

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