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CLIMATE CHANGE: 2020 Deadline Is the Crucial "Litmus Test"
By Stephen Leahy
VIENNA - "So who here thinks there will be a meaningful deal in Copenhagen?" Few of the more than 600 energy ministers, officials and experts from 80 countries attending the Vienna Energy Conference raised their hands in response to the conference moderator's question about the final round of climate negotiations this December in Copenhagen.
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U.S.: House Passes Controversial Climate Legislation
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Amid furious lobbying on both sides, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly approved landmark legislation Friday designed to reduce the nation's greenhouse emissions that contribute to global warming 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050.
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DEVELOPMENT: Green Energy for All by 2030?
By Stephen Leahy
VIENNA - While industrialised countries struggle to switch from climate-damaging, carbon-based energy to greener energy sources, much of the world is desperately energy poor, with 1.6 billion people having no access to electricity and 2.4 billion relying on wood and dung for heat and cooking.
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SOUTH AMERICA: Anti-Nuclear Activists to Form Common Front
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - Environmental organisations in Chile plan to revive the anti-nuclear movement in the Southern Cone of South America, in response to vigorous lobbying by corporations and politicians in favour of nuclear energy in the region.
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ENVIRONMENT: Earth Can Generate Summer out of Winter
By Lowana Veal*
REYKJAVIK - Iceland manages to produce tomatoes, paprika and cucumbers all year round by harnessing geothermal energy locally, even though the growing season is short.
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Q&A: "The Global Crisis Is Really About a 140-dollar Barrel of Oil"*
Chris Arsenault interviews economist JEFF RUBIN
VANCOUVER - Sitting in the restaurant of Vancouver’s posh Fairmount Waterfront Hotel, the former chief economist for one of Canada’s largest banks doesn’t seem like the typical apocalyptic peak oil theorist.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Big Carbon Players Jockey for Advantage
By Stephen Leahy
NY-ÅLESUND, Svalbard, Norway - Political and business leaders may agree in principle that climate change is a serious threat, but there is a startling lack of consensus and a 'you-go-first' attitude on taking action, even amongst a small group of high-level decision makers disconnected from their cell phones here in the Arctic.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Science vs Politics at the Edge of the North Pole
By Stephen Leahy
NY-ÅLESUND, Svalbard, Norway - Spectacular views of mountains and glaciers here in the world's most northerly permanent human settlement contrasted with business and political leaders' pessimism and concern about the enormous gap between the action on climate that science deems necessary and what politics considers realistic.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: 'We Have Run Out of Time'
By Julio Godoy
ROME - New scientific research suggests that climate change is taking place faster than foreseen in studies considered so far, according to environmental experts at a forum on climate change called by the Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE).
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CLIMATE CHANGE: China Rallying South to Defend Right to Development
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - As the December deadline for reaching a global climate deal in Copenhagen approaches, China is claiming leadership - rallying emerging economies to defend their rights to development and strike bargaining positions with rich nations.
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ENVIRONMENT: The Greening of the French, Finally
By Alecia D. McKenzie
PARIS - Compost boxes on the balcony of small apartments. Queues at market stalls selling organic produce. Massive audiences for a film about the state of the earth. Unprecedented votes for environmental politicians in the European elections…
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ENVIRONMENT: Mexico Yet to Cross Clean Energy Threshold
By Emilio Godoy*
MEXICO CITY - Despite its great potential for energy from the sun, wind and water, Mexico has not taken advantage of the Clean Development Mechanism laid out in the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
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ENVIRONMENT-EUROPE: The Light Could Go All Green by 2050
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN - The EU could meet all its electricity demands from renewable energy sources such as wind and the sun by 2050 if governments take the right decisions now, leading environment and energy experts say.
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EUROPE: Big Plans, But Little Money to go Nuclear
By Zoltán Dujisin
BUDAPEST - Eastern Europe is promoting nuclear energy as the only way to tackle climate change and reduce dependence on Russian gas, in spite of costs of going nuclear that it cannot meet.
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ENERGY: New Moves to Bring More Light to Africa
By Alecia D. McKenzie
PARIS - Looking at night-time satellite pictures of Africa, most of the continent seems to be suffering a giant power cut, especially when compared with brightly lit Europe or the United States.
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POLITICS: U.S.-China Deal Crucial for New Climate Treaty
By Danielle Kurtzleben
WASHINGTON - Cooperation between the U.S. and China was at the forefront of discussions this week in Washington at two events focusing on the possibilities of a bilateral relationship between the two countries on cutting emissions.
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Q&A: "I Hope We Are Civilised When Climate Disaster Hits"
Stephen Leahy interviews Gaia Founder JAMES LOVELOCK*
TORONTO - "When the first great climate disaster strikes, I hope we will all pull together just as if our nation were being invaded," says British scientist James Lovelock in this exclusive Tierramérica interview.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Twilight of the Fossil Fuel Era?
By Stephen Leahy
UXBRIDGE, Canada - The world has turned a green corner toward a more sustainable future, with investments in clean energy outpacing fossil fuel power generation for the first time.
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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.