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CLIMATE CHANGE-US: Too Little, Too Late for Copenhagen?
By Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON - The momentum that U.S. climate change legislation has picked up in recent weeks will not be enough to get it through prior to the Copenhagen climate talks that kick off Dec. 7. It has also come at a steep price for those most committed to seeing such legislation pass.
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MIDEAST: Israelis Show the Light to Palestinian Herders
By Mel Frykberg
SUSYA, West Bank - Hundreds of impoverished Palestinian herders and farmers living in caves and tents in a remote area of the Palestinian West Bank have been provided free electricity due to the ingenuity of two Israeli physicists.
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ENVIRONMENT: Rethinking Jobs for a Sustainable Economy
By Matthew Cardinale*
ATLANTA, Georgia - The possibility of environmental catastrophe has led many leaders, scholars and average citizens to reconsider an economy based on constant growth. It is becoming clear that people, especially in the United States, will need to consume less in the way of natural resources to avoid planetary peril.
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CLIMATE CHANGE-BOLIVIA: Climbing a 'Dead' Glacier
By Franz Chávez
CHACALTAYA, Bolivia - The rapid disappearance of glaciers and the subsequent exhaustion of water sources are pushing indigenous communities in the Bolivian highlands even further into poverty, Bolivian experts told IPS, adding that an increase in awareness about climate change is desperately needed.
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CANADA: Ontario Aggressively Woos Green Power Investors
By Peter Gorrie*
TORONTO - A "feed-in tariff" offering guaranteed premium prices for electricity from wind, solar, biomass and other green sources promises to attract large-scale international investors and developers, especially those aiming to erect wind turbines, to Canada's most populous province.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Budgeting Environmental Justice
Analysis by Julio Godoy
COPENHAGEN - There is a consensus that industrialised nations are mainly responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. It should be equally clear that such responsibility should have political consequences. But it isn't.
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ENERGY: World Bank Looks for the Cleaner Way
By Niclas Rolander
STOCKHOLM - With new energy and environment strategies in the pipeline, the World Bank and its critics are going head to head on issues of fossil fuel funding and clean energy. The Bank will now call in outside experts to ensure that its coal power financing is justifiable, but critics would prefer it to go for truly clean energy.
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MIDEAST: 'France, U.S. Pushing Arabs Into Nuclear Race'
By Fareed Mahdy*
ISTANBUL - The decision by the oil-rich United Arab Emirates to build nuclear reactors has unleashed frenetic, politically backed competition between giant corporations from France, the U.S., Japan and South Korea to win contracts estimated at more than 40 billion dollars.
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VENEZUELA: El Niño Dries Up Water, Power, Food Supply
By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS - The guanábana (soursop) trees in Victoria Martínez's small orchard have yielded none of their delicious fruit this year, which she blames on the scarcity of water, a problem as annoying as the power blackouts at her house close to Tocuyito, a sun-baked town 120 kilometres southwest of the Venezuelan capital.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: How Eco-Friendly Is Natural Gas?
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Natural gas, a non-renewable yet plentiful energy source, is being promoted by the gas industry as part of the solution to climate change. But experts say that its contribution to global warming is only slightly less than that of coal and oil.
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CANADA: Govt Threatens Tar Sands Activists with Anti-Terror Laws
By Chris Arsenault
VANCOUVER - The provincial government in Alberta, Canada is threatening to unleash its counterterrorism plan if activists continue using civil disobedience to protest the tar sands, Canada's fastest source of greenhouse gas emissions.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Carbon Capture Effort Collects Critics
By Julio Godoy*
BERLIN - The capture and underground storage of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, is a dubious method of effectively reducing the pollution that causes global warming, experts warn.
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ENERGY: Crisis Has Hurt Investment in Renewables
By Emilio Godoy
LEÓN, Mexico - In Latin America, Brazil is the leader in the development of renewable energies, while nations like Mexico, Peru, Chile and Argentina are taking slow steps to change their energy mix.
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Q&A: "We Can't Afford to Let the Planet Get Much Hotter"
Stephen Leahy interviews LESTER BROWN, founder of the Earth Policy Institute
UXBRIDGE, Canada - Lester Brown says his views sometimes appear extreme - because the mainstream media largely doesn't understand the urgency and challenges in avoiding catastrophic climate change.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Firms Divided Over Obama's Emissions Cuts
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - Momentum is building in Washington for an overhaul of climate policy, with President Barack Obama signing an executive order Monday directing federal agencies to monitor their greenhouse gas emissions and set targets to reduce their emissions by 2020.
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ENERGY-BRAZIL: Putting (Human) Waste to Work
By Fabiana Frayssinet
PETROPOLIS, Brazil - Biodigester technology, which originated in Asia as a natural process for treating sewage waste, is reemerging in Latin America as an integrated system providing cheap energy, improved sanitation, and even attractive landscaping.
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DEVELOPMENT: Resource Crunch Signals Larger Ecological Crisis
By Zarrín Caldwell
WASHINGTON - How would development programmes look if viewed from the position of scarcity, especially the scarcity of food, water, and energy?
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ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: Authorities May Sue Geothermal Energy Firm
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - The Council for the Defense of the State (CDE), the Chilean government's legal watchdog, is considering bringing a suit for environmental damages against an Italian-Chilean consortium carrying out geothermal studies a few kilometres away from the El Tatio geyser field, a tourist attraction in the northern region of Antofagasta.
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The war in Iraq, fear of one in Iran. Uncertainties in Europe over gas dependence on Russia. Greenhouse gases and the consequent fear of climate change. The battle over sources to power development in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The nuclear option, and its own dangers. One crisis after another round the world is at heart an energy crisis.