Al Attiyah: Climate change is Qatar's biggest long-term challenge

RTCC: Qatar`s National Vision 2030 ?sustainability? agenda is aimed at ensuring the state`s long-term economic survival The State of Qatar is proud to host the 2012 round of this gathering of nations dedicated to working together to combat climate change. Since our selection last December, we have been working diligently to prepare for a productive chapter in this ongoing work. In our capacity as host of COP18/CMP8, we continue to do everything we can to ensure that the Conference is open, inclusive...

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Scientists say freakish weather could become the norm due to global warming

Daily News: The U.S. was blasted by monster storms and scorched by record heat waves in 2012 -- freakish weather that could become commonplace because of global warming, scientists warn. But climate activists hope the destructive weather could have a side benefit of forcing President Obama off the bench when it comes to the issue of climate change. American political leaders will have a chance to strike a new note on the issue when UN climate talks resume Monday with a two-week conference in Qatar. "There...

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Australia pays 'fair share' of climate fund: Oxfam

AAP: Aid organisation Oxfam says Australia has paid its "fair share" of the $30 billion pledged three years ago to help developing countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to unavoidable climate change. But Oxfam says rich countries need to commit new funding through to 2020 when environment ministers gather in Doha this week for the next round of UN climate talks. In Copenhagen in 2009 developed countries pledged to spend $100 billion-a-year by 2020 to help poorer countries deal...

URL: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/australia-pays-fair-share-of-climate-fund-oxfam-20121125-2a13l.html

Northwest Port Expansions will Fuel Coal Industry’s Contributions to Mass Extinction

Deep Green Resistance: In the arid Powder River Basin of Northern Wyoming and Southern Montana, the long roots of sagebrush draw water from deep beneath the soil. The ability to access water in this way makes sagebrush an important star of the Basin`s biotic constellation. Species of grasses and herbs are allowed to thrive on the moisture that the sagebrush draws toward the surface. Elk, mule deer, and pronghorn antelope access the water stored in the plant`s pale gray, three-pointed leaves. Greater sage-grouse eat...

URL: http://dgrnewsservice.org/2012/11/24/northwest-port-expansions-will-fuel-coal-industrys-contributions-to-mass-extinction/
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Swallowing Rain Forest, Brazilian Cities Surge in Amazon

New York Times: The Amazon has been viewed for ages as a vast quilt of rain forest interspersed by remote river outposts. But the surging population growth of cities in the jungle is turning that rural vision on its head and alarming scientists, as an array of new industrial projects transforms the Amazon into Brazil's fastest-growing region. The torrid expansion of rain forest cities is visible in places like Parauapebas, which has changed in a generation from an obscure frontier settlement with gold miners and...

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/world/americas/swallowing-rain-forest-brazilian-cities-surge-in-amazon.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1&
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Australia: Growing food in the desert: is this the solution to the world's food crisis?

Guardian: The scrubby desert outside Port Augusta, three hours from Adelaide, is not the kind of countryside you see in Australian tourist brochures. The backdrop to an area of coal-fired power stations, lead smelting and mining, the coastal landscape is spiked with saltbush that can live on a trickle of brackish seawater seeping up through the arid soil. Poisonous king brown snakes, redback spiders, the odd kangaroo and emu are seen occasionally, flies constantly. When the local landowners who graze a few...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/24/growing-food-in-the-desert-crisis
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United Kingdom: Flood risk rises as more heavy rain is forecast

Independent: Severe flood alerts were issued last night with warnings that lives could be at risk as relentless rain continued to pelt Britain. The three most serious warnings were released by the Environment Agency (EA) for areas in Cornwall where rising river levels were threatening to deluge roads and villages. On top of these alarms, a further 104 lower-grade, but still serious, flood warnings were issued across western England, as well as another 206 flood "alerts" – early-stage indicators for households...

URL: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/flood-risk-rises-as-more-heavy-rain-is-forecast-8348428.html

Writer blasting climate change had agenda

The Gazette: The Gazette recently published a guest column by Amy Ridenour of the National Center for Public Policy Research ("Candidates realize most voters view it as a canard," Nov. 18). She blasted those who believe climate change is real and that the burning of fossil fuels contributes to global warming. She states that "global warming isn't happening" and that the world isn't getting warmer. In reality, however, global warming is causing dramatic changes worldwide. Sea levels are rising, temperatures...

URL: http://thegazette.com/2012/11/24/writer-blasting-climate-change-had-agenda/

Rubio's evasion a sign of GOP's war on science

New York Times: Earlier this week, GQ magazine published an interview with Sen. Marco Rubio, whom many consider a contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, in which Rubio was asked how old the Earth is. After declaring "I'm not a scientist, man," the senator went into desperate evasive action, ending with the declaration that "it's one of the great mysteries." It's funny stuff, and conservatives would like us to forget about it as soon as possible. Hey, they say, he was just pandering to likely...

URL: http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Krugman-Rubio-s-evasion-a-sign-of-GOP-s-war-on-4062325.php

Making believers in climate change

Press-Enterprise: A post-election survey of voters found that a majority of Americans understand Hurricane Sandy was made worse by climate change. The survey also found strong majorities of voters connecting climate change to the record high summer temperatures witnessed in 2012 as well as this year's extraordinary drought. The survey by Penn Schoen Berland found that 60 percent of Americans who voted in the 2012 presidential election agree with the statement that "global warming made Hurricane Sandy worse." The...

URL: http://blog.pe.com/environment/2012/11/24/hurricane-sandy-making-people-believe-in-climate-change/
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Losing battle against climate change

Oman Daily Observer: THE Pacific island nation of Kiribati at first appears to be a South Sea paradise, with its long sandy beaches, coconut palms, absence of industry and few cars - but the reality is less appealing. The beaches are fouled with human excrement, there are rubbish heaps everywhere, and wrecked cars line the roads. Tarawa, a chain of islands 30 kilometres long linked by causeways, is the capital of the nation of around 103,000. The capital is overpopulated, expensive, plagued by unemployment and...

URL: http://main.omanobserver.om/node/130558

The Philippines to push for extension of Kyoto treaty

Philippine Daily Inquirer: The Philippines will push for a five-year extension of the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty that binds developed nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions, at the next round of climate change talks in Doha, Qatar beginning on Monday. Climate Change Commission vice chair and executive director Mary Ann Lucille Sering said the Philippines would seek a shorter term for the second commitment period than that of the European Union, which is proposing an eight-year extension of the pact. "We...

URL: http://globalnation.inquirer.net/57671/ph-to-push-for-extension-of-treaty-on-reducing-greenhouse-gases

New Zealand: Our forgotten environment

Gisborne Herald: THE 18th session of the UNFCCC climate talks take place next week in Doha, Qatar where representatives of all nations will meet to face the threat of climate change. But how sincere is New Zealand? Prompted by the devastation of Superstorm Sandy, newly re-elected US President Barack Obama has finally spoken out on climate change -- acknowledging there has been inadequate action on the issue. He stated that his country had an obligation to face up, so as not to burden future generations....

URL: http://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/opinion/column/?id=30358

'How Rich Nations Undermine Climate Change Financing'

Guardian Nigeria: AS Climate Change negotiations begin on Monday in Doha, Qatar, a study has revealed how rich and industralised countries renege on previous pledges. The research listed eight unfulfilled promises on climate finance. The study, The Guardian gathered, is the most detailed analysis to date of how well, or otherwise, rich nations have kept promises to provide poorer ones with funds to tackle climate change. Incidentally, it would be officially released tomorrow to coincide with the formal opening...

URL: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=105789:how-rich-nations-undermine-climate-change-financing-&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

Obama at centre stage as crucial round of climate talks begins

Postmedia News: As the United Nations annual climate change conference begins in Doha Monday, all eyes will be on U.S. President Barack Obama to see if he is ready to lead the world towards an ambitious agreement on reducing greenhouse gases. The United States has committed to keeping the global mean temperature rise to two degrees Celsius but has not backed up this commitment with a willingness to sign an international agreement that would bind the country to carbon reductions that meet this goal. Without America's...

URL: http://www.canada.com/Obama%20centre%20stage%20crucial%20round%20climate%20talks%20begins/7602286/story.html

Britain revives regulation in a push for renewable energy

New York Times: The British government announced on Friday far-reaching changes in energy regulation intended to encourage development of renewable energy and nuclear power while ensuring that the country can still meet its electricity needs. The changes will gradually quadruple the charges levied on consumers and businesses to help support electricity generation from low-carbon sources, to a total of about £9.8 billion, or $15.7 billion, in the 2020-21 fiscal year, from £2.35 billion now. The government forecasts...

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/24/business/britain-revives-regulation-in-a-push-for-renewable-energy.html

Airbus wins 60-plane China order after EU retreat on CO2 charges

Bloomberg: Airbus SAS won an order for 60 A320 planes from state-backed China Eastern Airlines Corp. (670), less than two weeks after the European Union backed down in a dispute with the government in Beijing over jetliner-emission levies. China Eastern received a "substantive" discount to the list price of $5.4 billion for the single-aisle planes, it said in a statement from Shanghai yesterday, adding that Toulouse, France-based Airbus also agreed to take 18 regional jets off its hands. EU plans to impose...

URL: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-23/china-eastern-orders-60-a320s-sells-18-regional-jets-to-airbus.html
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Rain pours down on saturated Britain

Guardian: The misery continued for thousands of householders and travellers as torrential rain once again pounded down on parts of the UK this weekend. More wet weather is on the way, but the Met Office says it may be replaced by a fresh hazard – ice and snow – later in the week. Up to 60mm of rain is expected, much of it falling on ground already flooded after days of atrocious weather across southern England, the Midlands and Wales. Alerts were in place at notorious flood-risk hotspots including Tewkesbury...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/nov/24/rain-pours-down-on-saturated-britain

Rhode Island feeling effects of climate change

WPRI: The recently-formed Rhode Island Climate Change Commission has released its first ever report, and the group says the state needs to start adapting to the ever-changing climate. The commission was created to protect all of Rhode Island's assets, from natural beauty to manmade structures. The group of 20 members come from health care, public, academic, advocate and professional communities. The commission's co-chair, Rep. Chris Blazejewski, tells us the team's goal is to "look at ways that we can...

URL: http://www.foxprovidence.com/dpps/news/local_news/region_1/providence-ri-feeling-effects-of-climate-change-green-team_5020309
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Freeway Blogging for climate change

AMERICAblog: Freeway Blogging is the invention of -- or at the very least it`s been raised to an art form by -- a man out west who calls himself, the Freeway Blogger. It`s a brilliant idea, and simple as hell. He posts politically poignant signs over the freeways, so ten thousand people an hour can read them while in traffic. Freeway has been doing this since the early Bush years. These are a few of my all-time favorites: On Thanksgiving Day, Freeway decided to do some global warming "posts". Here`s his...

URL: http://americablog.com/2012/11/freeway-blogging-climate-change-global-warming.html
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Rising Seas, Vanishing Coastlines

New York Times: THE oceans have risen and fallen throughout Earth's history, following the planet's natural temperature cycles. Twenty thousand years ago, what is now New York City was at the edge of a giant ice sheet, and the sea was roughly 400 feet lower. But as the last ice age thawed, the sea rose to where it is today. Now we are in a new warming phase, and the oceans are rising again after thousands of years of stability. As scientists who study sea level change and storm surge, we fear that Hurricane Sandy...

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/opinion/sunday/rising-seas-vanishing-coastlines.html?_r=0

Fracking the Great Lakes

EcoWatch: The Great Lakes hold 20 percent of the world's fresh surface water. The good news is that legacy contaminants are decreasing more quickly than previously reported in three of the Great Lakes, but have stayed virtually the same in two other lakes, according to new research. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), the pesticide DDT and other banned compounds dropped about 50 percent in fish in Lakes Michigan, Ontario and Huron from 1999 through 2009, although there were no significant changes in Lakes Superior...

URL: http://ecowatch.org/2012/fracking-the-great-lakes/
Enclosure: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23085469

Prospering public transportation

Living on Earth: With more and more people riding the train, public transportation systems are becoming increasingly crowded. Yet many are deep into debt; for instance Boston's system, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is 130 million dollars in the red. George Washington University Transportation researcher Christopher Leinberger discusses his plan to revitalize public transportation and curb climate change with host Steve Curwood. Transcript CURWOOD: It's Living on Earth, I'm Steve Curwood. As...

URL: http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=12-P13-00047&segmentID=3
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Doha conference seeks faster response to climate change

Gulf-Times: A top UN official has said that the Climate Change Conference (COP18/CMP8) in Doha, beginning on Monday, must deliver its objectives to speed up global action towards a low-emission future where everyone has the chance of a sustainable life. Christiana Figueres, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) executive secretary, stated that Doha was as important as any COP before it. "Governments have agreed it is imperative to stay at least below a two-degree average global temperature...

URL: http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=545924&version=1&template_id=57&parent_id=56

Hope for UN climate talks

Living on Earth: Talks open in Doha, Qatar November 26th for the 18th round of U.N. climate change negotiations. But climate change projections are increasingly dire and few express hope for consensus. Host Steve Curwood talks with Jennifer Morgan, Director of the Climate and Energy Program at the World Resources Institute. Transcript CURWOOD: From the Jennifer and Ted Stanley Studios in Boston, this is Living on Earth. I'm Steve Curwood. Talks open in Doha, Qatar, for the 18th round of U.N. climate change...

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For energy security, Japan urged to diversify sources

Japan Times: Japan needs not only to maintain a diverse energy mix - including nuclear power - but also diversify the ways of securing imported fuel in the face of the changing global supply-demand structure, a former executive director of the International Energy Agency said at a recent seminar in Tokyo. Robert Dujarric (left) from Temple University's Japan Campus, discusses Japan's energy diplomacy during an Oct. 30 seminar in Tokyo as his co-panelist Nobuo Tanaka from the Institute of Energy Economics listens....

URL: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20121124d2.html

200 flood warnings as Britain braces itself for more heavy rain

Telegraph: Areas the country already left waterlogged by heavy rain earlier in the week were warned they faced the risk of further flooding over the weekend. The Environment Agency said surface water and flooding were likely over the weekend in south west, central and north west England and Wales. In all 44 flood warnings were issued by the Environment Agency and another 155 flood alerts. The agency said river flooding is likely with the possibility of significant disruption, particularly across Devon,...

URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/9700528/200-flood-warnings-as-Britain-braces-itself-for-more-heavy-rain.html

Sweden: Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Drained Wetlands Equal To Industrial Sources

RedOrbit: Greenhouse gas emissions originating from drained wetlands are roughly equal to that given off by industrial factories, a team of Swedish researchers claim in a new study. Experts from the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) were commissioned by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency to analyze and compile a report about the amount of greenhouse gases given off by forests and agricultural fields on areas that once had been wetlands. They discovered...

URL: http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112736067/greenhouse-gas-emissions-sweden-wetlands-drained-112412/
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The demise of coal-fired power plants

Washington Post: Peter Furniss, the fair-haired chief executive of Footprint Power, gives a tour of the aging coal and oil plant that towers over sailboats in this historic harbor. The Ivy League-educated lawyer, clad in unsoiled work boots and a pinstripe jacket, circles a mound of coal and walks inside a rusting oil storage tank. He gingerly steps into a tunnel where a conveyer belt carries coal into the plant's furnaces. Inside the plant, Furniss points out the Roman arches and graceful columns in the turbine...

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-demise-of-coal-fired-power-plants/2012/11/21/e7ca1e6e-fdda-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html

Children cite 'pollution' as greatest environmental concern

Environmental News Network: A comprehensive survey of youngsters from around the world has discovered the biggest concern they have about the environment they live in is pollution. The global poll of more than 6,000 children in 47 countries found that, although almost one in three 10-to-12-year-olds had personally experienced such catastrophes as drought, flood or fires, their most pressing ecological concern is not natural disasters but the growing threat of pollution. More than one in four children (29%) cited various forms...

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Counting Carbon - Measuring Carbon Stocks in Logging Concessions in Cameroon

AlertNet: Deep inside a logging concession in southern Cameroon, scientists from the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) are measuring the carbon content of a huge tree, selectively felled by a timber company. They're hoping to bolster scientific evidence that shows sustainable timber production in forests logged by private companies and local communities could increase carbon stocks - thus reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. When logging is conducted selectively...

URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/201211220903.html?utm_source=REDD%2B+Digest+-+23+November+2012&utm_campaign=REDD+digest+9-11-12&utm_medium=email

After Storm, Dry Floors Prove Value of Exceeding City Code

New York Times: In the countdown to Hurricane Sandy last month, construction workers on a teeming pier in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, rushed to strap down materials and move forklifts and excavators into half-built structures to shield them from the tempest to come. But the real storm preparations had been accomplished six years earlier, when Sims Metal Management approved a design for a state-of-the-art city recycling plant that is rising at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal. Reviewing projections for local sea-level...

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/24/science/earth/new-york-reassessing-building-code-to-limit-storm-damage.html
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The "Doom and Gloom" Message Won't Help Climate Change

Huffington Post: Doom and gloom predictions about future climate change do little to help solve the problem. International organizations, environmental groups and government delegates heading to Doha next week for the latest round of United Nations negotiations on climate change should heed this message. It seems like we're already off to a poor start. The World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Bank all released reports this week forecasting a grim future if we...

URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/jason-thistlethwaite/climate-change-doha_b_2179039.html

Will storm-struck US deliver at climate talks?

Associated Press: During a year with a monster storm and scorching heat waves, Americans have experienced the kind of freakish weather that many scientists say will occur more often on a warming planet. And as a re-elected president talks about global warming again, climate activists are cautiously optimistic that the U.S. will be more than a disinterested bystander when the U.N. climate talks resume Monday with a two-week conference in Qatar. "I think there will be expectations from countries to hear a new...

URL: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CLIMATE_TALKS?SITE=TXDAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Doha climate change conference chance for youth

Daily Star: With days to go before the United Nations conference on climate change opens for the first time in an Arab country, young Lebanese activists, alongside their regional counterparts, see the occasion as a chance to advance action on this important issue. Representing the Arab Youth Climate Movement in Lebanon, Ali Fakhri, media campaigner with IndyACT, an environmental nongovernmental organization, spoke to The Daily Star about the pivotal opportunity the conference represents for action on climate...

URL: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2012/Nov-24/196039-doha-climate-change-conference-chance-for-youth.ashx#axzz2D7LUUDEZ
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EU Needs One Tool to Fight Economic, Climate Crisis: Hedegaard

Bloomberg: European Union Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard oversees the world's biggest emissions-trading system and the 27-nations bloc's strategy to fight global warming. Since taking up her post in 2010 she has been urging member states for more efforts to contain the rise of temperatures, which scientists say may cause more heat waves, flooding and intense storms. Before heading to the United Nations' climate talks in Qatar's capital city, she spoke with Ewa Krukowska, the EU climate and energy...

URL: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-23/eu-needs-one-tool-to-fight-economic-climate-crisis-hedegaard
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Ghana To Get 50m For Sustainable Management Of Forests

Modern Ghana: Ghana and Burkina Faso have received endorsement of their far-reaching plans for sustainably managing their forest sectors as part of their goals for climate-resilient economic development. The endorsements came from the Forest Investment Programme (FIP), one of the four programmes of the US $7.2 billion Climate Investment Funds (CIF), with support of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and other partners including the World Bank Group. Under the Forest Investment Program (FIP), Burkina Faso was...

URL: http://www.modernghana.com/news/431717/1/ghana-to-get-50m-for-sustainable-management-of-for.html?utm_source=REDD%2B+Digest+-+23+November+2012&utm_campaign=REDD+digest+9-11-12&utm_medium=email

Germany May Abstain in EU Carbon Vote as Ministers Clash

Bloomberg: Germany's economy and environment ministers are at odds over whether to back a European Union plan to curb oversupply of carbon permits, raising uncertainty over the fate of the measure aimed at supporting prices in the world's biggest emission market. Environment Minister Peter Altmaier told reporters today he supports a proposal by the European Commission to delay auctions of 900 million carbon permits starting in 2013 after the price of allowances sank to a record in April. Economy Minister...

URL: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-23/germany-may-fail-to-back-eu-carbon-market-fix-as-ministers-clash

Major talks as climate change action falters

Antigua Observer: St. John`s Antigua- Chief Environment Officer Dianne Black-Layne will lead a team from Antigua & Barbuda to Doha, Qatar for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP18), starting on Monday, where world leaders will resume talks aimed at securing a global deal on climate by 2015. It`s a crucial time for climate change and development, coming only six months after the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development. A report by the UN says global attempts to curb emissions of CO2 are falling well...

URL: http://www.antiguaobserver.com/?p=84191

Issues to Watch at the Doha Climate Negotiations (COP 18)

WRI: As the U.N. climate change conference in Doha, Qatar (COP 18) rapidly approaches, the urgency of climate action has never been more evident. Extreme weather has wreaked havoc in many corners of the globe, most recently with Hurricane Sandy, which resulted in loss of life and severe economic hardship in all the countries in its pathway. Many countries--from the United States to those with far less capacity to respond--are still trying to comprehend what happened and how much it will cost to get back...

URL: http://insights.wri.org/news/2012/11/issues-watch-doha-climate-negotiations-cop-18?utm_source=REDD%2B+Digest+-+23+November+2012&utm_campaign=REDD+digest+9-11-12&utm_medium=email

UK on flood alert with heavy rain forecast for weekend

Guardian: Flooding across the UK is set to worsen this weekend with "substantial" heavy rainfall forecast in the next 24 hours. The Environment Agency (EA) has 52 flood warnings and 159 less serious flood alerts in place with England, Wales and Scotland expected to see one inch of rain fall on Saturday and winds of up to 60mph. The agency said nearly 300 properties had already flooded across the UK since Tuesday. On Thursday night a man died when he became trapped in his 4x4 after it became wedged under...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/nov/24/uk-flood-warnings-heavy-rain-forecast
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Nearly 200 nations in climate talks

Sky News: Nearly 200 nations are gathering in Qatar's capital, Doha, for a new round of climate talks as a rush of reports warn extreme weather events like superstorm Sandy may become commonplace if efforts fail. Negotiators meet from Monday for two weeks under the UN banner to review commitments to cutting climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions. Ramping up the pressure, expert reports warned in recent days that existing mitigation pledges are not nearly enough to limit warming to a manageable two...

URL: http://www.skynews.com.au/topstories/article.aspx?id=819804&vId=

Canada: Climate change has implications for defence

Victoria Times Colonist: Canadians are an extraordinary bunch. Nowhere else on the planet will strangers have a riveting conversation about the weather within five minutes of meeting. Regardless of our province, we seem to lay claim to the phrase, "if you don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes." Be careful what you wish for. Much has been written about climate change, especially about its causes. The Canadian scholars and scientists authoring this climate work are world-class; however, what is missing in the discourse...

URL: http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/Climate+change+implications+defence/7605524/story.html

UK energy deal triples renewable subsidy by 2020

Reuters: British government support for low-carbon electricity generation will triple by 2020 after the energy and finance ministries on Friday reached a deal over costly reforms. The agreement is expected to boost the share of renewables in Britain's energy mix to 30 percent by 2020, outpacing European Union targets of 20 percent, and create thousands of new jobs. "Today we've reached a landmark agreement on energy policy that's going to deliver a clear, durable signal to investors," British Prime...

URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/23/us-energy-subsidy-idUSBRE8AM0ML20121123?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29

Dunes that saved NY island from Sandy are now gone

Associated Press: New Yorkers who cherish Fire Island as an idyllic summertime getaway feared the worst when the 32-mile-long barrier island took a direct hit from Superstorm Sandy's powerful surge. The wall of water swamped nearly the entire island, destroyed or washed away about 200 homes and scraped sand dunes down to nothing. Still, residents are counting their blessings. That's because more than 4,000 structures survived, at least enough to be repaired. And some are crediting the carefully maintained wall...

URL: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/23/15390793-nys-fire-island-saved-from-sandy-by-dunes-but-those-are-gone-now?lite
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Britain braced for more wet and windy weather after flooding

Guardian: A motorist has died after becoming trapped in his car in floodwater and police were searching for a second man feared drowned as Britain braced itself for more wet and windy weather this weekend. Downing Street said 300 properties were mopping up after the deluge and by Friday night the Environment Agency had issued more than 200 flood warnings and alerts. Another 40mm of rain is expected to fall this weekend and gale-force winds were predicted to batter the south of Britain as an area of low...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/nov/23/britain-braced-wet-weather-flooding
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The Ugly Truth About Food Waste in America

National Public Radio: Each year, Americans waste 33 million tons of food. Dana Gunders, a scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, and author Jonathan Bloom discuss the economic and environmental impacts of food waste, and what can be done to fight the growing problem.

URL: http://www.npr.org/2012/11/23/165774988/npr-the-ugly-truth-about-food-waste-in-america?ft=1&f=1025

Reports Warn Europe Is Nearing Irreversible Threat From Catastrophic Climate Change

redOrbit: A newly released report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) is warning that Europe is on the verge of catastrophic climate change if it does not act on commitments made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That report joins another from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) stating that the cuts needed to curb global warming has widened as there is now one-fifth more carbon in the atmosphere than there was in 2000. The EEA announced in their report on Wednesday that the past decade...

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Doha climate talks: EU weakened over new emissions targets

Guardian: The European Union will enter crucial global climate talks that begin next week with a weakened bargaining position because it has already met its targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions eight years ahead of time and has no plans to put more ambitious cuts on the table. Europe's longstanding goal has been to cut emissions by 20% by 2020, compared to a 1990 baseline. But emissions are already below that level, according to analyses verified by the European Environment Agency, the bloc's green watchdog....

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/23/doha-climate-talks-eu-weakened-emissions
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United Kingdom: Mankind must go green or die, says Prince Charles

Independent: The Prince of Wales has warned that mankind is on the brink of "committing suicide on a grand scale" unless urgent progress is made in tackling green issues such as carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, intensive farming and resource depletion. Adopting uncharacteristically apocalyptic language, the Prince said the world was heading towards a "terrifying point of no return" and that future generations faced an "unimaginable future" on a toxic planet. In a pre-recorded speech broadcast in acceptance...

URL: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mankind-must-go-green-or-die-says-prince-charles-8347524.html

United Kingdom: Four Arrested in Protest of Proposed Nuke Plant

EcoWatch: Protestors block the road leading into Hinkley Point in the UK where a proposed nuclear power station is to be built. Photo credit: Stop New Nuclear This morning, as the energy bill was making headlines in the UK, 10 people were setting up a non-violent blockade protesting the proposed Hinkley Point nuclear power station. It`s a sure sign that building new reactors will be an uphill struggle. The first new nuclear power station in the UK for decades is supposed to be built in Hinkley Point,...

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United Kingdom: The £200bn gamble on our energy future

Guardian: There is a simple way to think about the complex energy policy decisions made today: it is a £200bn bet on the UK's energy future. What's more, the money on the table belongs to you. Win or lose, every electricity and gas customer will pick up the tab for this wager for decades to come. In such a high-rolling game, you would have hoped for cool heads. Instead, "unholy war" was waged behind the Westminster scenes, a senior participant told me. Worse, the boiling row within the coalition was driven...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2012/nov/23/energy-bill-wind-power-davey-osborne
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United States: Sinkholes in Far Rockaway Caused by Storm-Damaged Pipes, City Says

New York Times: Residents in Far Rockaway, Queens, have endured their share of hardships caused by Hurricane Sandy, with many still recovering from flooded basements and the loss of electricity. But as the flooding receded, some said, they began noticing a problem they had not anticipated: sinkholes were appearing in areas that had seemed solid and stable before the storm. "I'm worried that my house is going to sink," Eleanor Alexandre said recently, surveying one of the holes, which was several feet behind her...

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United Kingdom: Flooding: what you should do and how to claim on your insurance

Guardian: The Midlands and south-west England have been battered by rain and gales, flooding homes and businesses and causing tens of thousands of pounds of damage. The band of heavy rain, accompanied by winds of 70mph, trundled across much of the country from the north-west, bringing with it chaos. But forecasters have said a brief reprieve on Friday would be followed by another weather front arriving at the weekend, this time from the south-west. Here's your guide to protecting yourself from, and dealing...

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Creating a Vital Long View for Gauging Environmental Change

New York Times: Last year, Michael SanClements, an ecologist affiliated with the Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research at the University of Colorado, sent a Dot Earth "Postcard" about a project studying soil microbes in Antarctica. Here`s a fresh contribution from SanClements, along with colleague Jeff Taylor, from the other end of the planet - Alaska`s Arctic tundra. They are both staff scientists with the National Ecological Observatory Network, an initiative supported by the National Science Foundation...

URL: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/23/creating-a-vital-long-view-for-gauging-environmental-change/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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Effort to Curb Coolant Falters, Sometimes at Home

New York Times: When Mark Spector's central air-conditioning system stopped cooling his Trumbull, Conn., home this summer, he sent an S O S to his repairman. What happened next illustrates the myriad challenges the United States faces as it tries to phase out the popular but environmentally devastating cooling gas that was in Mr. Spector's unit. The Environmental Protection Agency has tried to reduce use of this gas, HCFC-22, which depletes the ozone layer and contributes to global warming, by imposing strict quotas...

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/23/science/earth/air-conditioner-repairs-undermine-coolant-restrictions.html
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Obama's Action On Climate Change Boils Down To Two Words

Guardian: Barack Obama is being pressed for proof of his intent to act on climate change ahead of next week's United Nations global warming summit in Doha. The proof might boil down to just two words: two degrees. An early statement at Doha that America remains committed to the global goal of limiting warming to 2C above pre-industrial levels would be a clear sign. Every statement from US diplomats at the Doha negotiations will be closely scrutinised for signs that Obama will indeed make climate change...

URL: http://www.businessinsider.com/obamas-action-on-climate-change-2012-11
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REDD+ almost at the finish line: Doha preview

EDF: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) is one of the policy areas in international climate negotiations that has made the most progress in the last few years. With the cutting and burning of trees contributing to about 15% of global carbon dioxide emissions, any realistic plan to reduce global warming pollution sufficiently – and in time to avoid dangerous consequences – must rely in part on preserving tropical forests, and REDD+ policies are key to doing just that....

URL: http://blogs.edf.org/climatetalks/2012/11/21/redd-almost-at-the-finish-line-doha-preview/

Look Beyond the Rainforest

IDN: It is human development, or at least the quest for it, which caused the conversion of billions of hectares of forests into man-made deserts. It prompted, in the middle of the 19th century, the French novelist Chateaubriand to state that "forests precede civilizations, deserts follow them". In other words, human beings are the only desert making species. To reverse the tide and change such an inherent habit, we must think and operate outside of the "forest" box. We must look beyond the rainforest...

URL: http://www.indepthnews.info/index.php/global-issues/1285-look-beyond-the-rainforest

UN climate change chief getting frustrated with United States

Washington Examiner: Christiana Figueres, who leads the United Nations negotiations to get governments to reduce carbon emissions in the world, regards Hurricane Sandy as "yet another wake-up call" for Americans to get on board with her climate change policy. "Yes, I certainly do think that this is yet another wake-up call," Figueres said of Hurricane Sandy to Yale Environment 360 in an interview published by The Guardian."I did hear President Obama say quite categorically in his acceptance speech that he is not going...

URL: http://washingtonexaminer.com/un-climate-change-chief-getting-frustrated-with-united-states/article/2514204

Climate change and impact on NE water resources

Assam Times: Various aspects of impacts of climate change on the water resources of the NE region as well as results from contemporary research relevant to the region and especially the Upper Brahmaputra basin area were in focus in a one day workshop on 'Adapting to Climate Change Impacts on Water in the Upper Brahmaputra basin in Northeast India' that was held at the Shankardev Sabha Kakhya of the Dibrugarh Hanumanbux Surajmal Kanoi (DHSK) College on November 17th, 2012. The workshop was organised by Aaranyak...

URL: http://www.assamtimes.org/knowledge-development/7836.html

Shrinking Ozone Hole, Growing Hopes

Inter Press Service: Argentine scientists agree that there are signs of recovery of the ozone layer that protects life on earth by filtering out the sun`s harmful ultraviolet radiation, but they are cautious about saying that the problem is on its way to a solution. "This year was benign, but the problem has not been solved. The ozone hole could expand to a record size in 2013," Gerardo Carbajal, head of the Department of Atmospheric Monitoring and Geophysics (VAyGEO), told IPS. According to Carbajal, whose department...

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Another Path to Biofuels

New York Times: Last week I wrote about two companies that are racing to be first in commercial-scale production of motor fuel from nonfood sources. A large group of other companies is pursuing various other strategies, one or two steps behind. One of those companies is planning to use algae. SEE AlgaeAfter its water is removed, this algae is destined to excrete biofuels. The company, SEE Algae Technology of Austria, is building a 2.5-acre factory on a sugar plantation near Recife, Brazil, that will use genetically...

URL: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/23/do-not-publish-another-path-to-biofuels-two-actually/

Temperatures are Up

Environmental News Network: Feel warmer? Maybe not everywhere but global temperatures were the fifth highest on record for October. Meanwhile arctic sea ice doubles from last month, yet remains second lowest on record for October. The globally-averaged temperature for October 2012 was the fifth warmest October since record keeping began in 1880. October 2012 also marks the 36th consecutive October and 332nd consecutive month with a global temperature above the 20th century average. Higher-than-average monthly temperatures...

URL: http://www.enn.com/climate/article/45250?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ClimateChangeNews-Enn+%28Climate+Change+News+-+ENN%29

Climate talks factbox: Major nations' positions

Reuters: More than 190 countries are meeting in Doha, Qatar, from November 26 to December 7 to make progress on a new deal to fight climate change, due to be agreed by 2015 and come into force in 2020. The current emissions-cutting pact, the Kyoto Protocol, commits most developed states to binding targets for cutting emissions but expires at the end of this year. It may be extended for a period of five or eight years, but several industrialised countries have already said they will not sign up to further...

URL: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-talks-factbox-major-nations-positions-20121123-29ugn.html

Doubts as Qatar hosts climate talks

Agence France-Presse: Qatar has much to prove in the coming days as the fossil fuel producing nation with the world's largest per capita carbon footprint hosts the 18th UN climate change conference. Environmentalists question whether the tiny emirate has the diplomatic muscle, and more importantly, the political will, to play a positive role in the critical two-week huddle that kicks off next Monday in Doha. The oil- and gas-guzzling Gulf nation, seeking to expand its global reach and recently awarded the 2022 football...

URL: http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/environment/doubts-as-qatar-hosts-climate-talks-1.1429331

Scientists suggest raising coastline something to consider in era of global warming

Associated Press: People along the coast have a few options in an era of global warming expected to bring more frequent, intense storms and the kind of devastation recently seen with Superstorm Sandy: They can move back from the shore, elevate buildings or build levees to keep the floods at bay. But a pair of scientists at Georgia Tech and Clemson suggest another alternative, although it sounds a bit like science fiction. Their research shows it is possible to raise the coastline itself. Leonid Germanovich of...

URL: http://www.goupstate.com/article/20121122/WIRE/121129909
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UN Carbon Offset Daily Supply Rises Most in More Than a Year

Bloomberg: The United Nations issued today the most Certified Emission Reduction carbon offsets in more than a year, according to UN data compiled by Bloomberg. The executive board of the UN's Clean Development Mechanism, the body responsible for regulating CERs, delivered 9.3 million metric tons of credits to the market today, the UN data show. That's more than 10 times as many as yesterday and the biggest issuance in a single day since Sept. 16, 2011. Carbon offsets are generated by clean-technology...

URL: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-23/un-carbon-offset-daily-supply-rises-most-in-more-than-a-year

Six charts on climate change that should have you very, very worried - Quartz

Quartz: Two major organizations released climate change reports this month warning of doom and gloom if we stick to our current course and fail to take more aggressive measures. A World Bank report imagines a world 4 degrees warmer, the temperature predicted by century`s end barring changes, and says it aims to shock people into action by sharing devastating scenarios of flood, famine, drought and cyclones. Meanwhile, a report from the US National Research Council, commissioned by the US Central Intelligence...

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Sweden: Drained wetlands give off same amount of greenhouse gases as industry

ScienceDaily: Drained wetlands in Sweden account for the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as Swedish industry. This is shown by a summary of research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Forests and agricultural fields on drained previous wetlands make up between five and ten percent of Sweden's surface area. When these wetlands are drained, they become a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. "We note that drained wetlands which have...

URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121123092742.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29

A short history of prolonged climate treaty talks

New York Times: If you want to review the history of climate diplomacy before you start seeing coverage from Doha, Qatar, next Monday of the 18th round of negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, two choices are to click on the 83-second animation above or click here for my past coverage for The Times. To monitor the talks as they unfold, your best bet is likely Twitter. Track posts using the conference tag #cop18 or follow some of the Twitter accounts helpfully rounded up...

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United Kingdom: Wind farms to increase energy bills by £178 a year

Telegraph: Under the biggest reforms to the energy market in decades, households and businesses will have to pay £7.6billion a year towards the cost of building "greener' power stations by 2020. This is three times the current level of £2.35 billion per year, as bill-payers are forced to remunerate companies for several new nuclear plants, thousands of wind turbines and potentially "green' fossil fuel stations. Energy bills have more than doubled since 2004 to more than £1,300 a year per household, largely...

URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/9697609/Wind-farms-to-increase-energy-bills-by-178-a-year.html
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We're too close to the sea

Washington Post: Hurricane Sandy confirmed what Irene and Katrina had suggested: We will retreat from the edge of the sea. We should do so in a planned, organized manner that protects citizens' interests and the ecological, economic, recreational and aesthetic values of our coasts. This endeavor will require major changes in the way we manage coastal lands. Coastal storms have killed thousands of people and have caused more than $250 billion in damages in the past 12 years. Costs are increasing with each...

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-too-close-to-the-sea/2012/11/21/a644add2-334b-11e2-bfd5-e202b6d7b501_story.html

Ahead of Climate Talks, UN Report Warns Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Increasing

allAfrica: As countries prepare to meet next week at a major United Nations meeting on climate change, the world body today released a new report which finds that the concentration of warming gases like carbon dioxide (CO2) has increased by 20 per cent since 2000. The Emissions Gap Report, coordinated by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Climate Foundation, also shows that greenhouse gas emissions levels are now around 14 per cent above where they need to be in 2020. "If no swift action...

URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/201211230781.html

Extreme weather and climate change

Reuters: Calls for swift action to tackle emissions ahead of Doha climate talks.

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What's at stake in Doha climate talks

Nature: Diplomats from around the world will gather for the United Nations (UN) climate talks next week in Doha, Qatar, where negotiators hope to agree a second phase of the Kyoto Protocol and lay the groundwork for a new global treaty that will take force by 2020. Nature takes a look at what is expected from the 18th annual Conference of the Parties (COP 18), which runs from 26 November to 7 December. What is happening with the Kyoto Protocol? At last year's meeting in Durban, South Africa, the big...

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World to feel the heat, Vietnam more so

Thanh Nien News: A new World Bank report, "Turn Down the Heat", says if the global community fails to act on climate change, the world will be four degrees Celsius warmer at the end of the century. Laura Altinger, Senior Environmental Economist for the Washington-based lender in Vietnam, spoke to Vietweek on the implications of this information for the nation: why it is more vulnerable and what it can do to mitigate the impacts. Vietweek: The new report says the world is set to heat up by four degrees by the...

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Communicating climate change: success or failure?

RTCC: The ultimate measure of success for communicating research into climate change and energy is that global emissions should be falling. Unfortunately, emissions are rising at levels previously never thought of. Why is this, given the tens of thousands of scientific papers and consultancy reports, the thousands of academics, government advisers and environmental campaigners that tell us emissions must fall? Several thousand of these people will be in Doha for COP18, but are these people working...

URL: http://www.rtcc.org/communicating-climate-change-success-or-failure/
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Climate change evident across Europe, confirming urgent need for adaptation

ScienceDaily: Climate change is affecting all regions in Europe, causing a wide range of impacts on society and the environment. Further impacts are expected in the future, potentially causing high damage costs, according to the latest assessment published by the European Environment Agency this week. The report, 'Climate change, impacts and vulnerability in Europe 2012' finds that higher average temperatures have been observed across Europe as well as decreasing precipitation in southern regions and increasing...

URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121123092138.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29
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Timeline: How the world found out about global warming

Reuters: A U.N. conference in Qatar next week is the latest attempt to combat global warming after mounting evidence that human activity is disrupting the climate. Here is a timeline of the road to action on global warming: 300 BC - Theophrastus, a student of the Greek philosopher Aristotle, documents that human activity can affect climate. He observes that drainage of marshes cools an area around Thessaly and that clearing of forests near Philippi warms the climate. 1896 - Sweden's Svante Arrhenius...

URL: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=timeline-how-the-world-found-out-ab

'Obstacles' for Scotland's green target

Guardian: Ambitious plans to meet 100% of Scotland's electricity needs from renewables by 2020 could fail unless fast action is taken to improve infrastructure, financing and the planning regime, MSPs have warned. The Scottish parliament's economy, energy and tourism committee said that the "challenging" target to generate the equivalent of 100% of Scotland's electricity from green sources was achievable, but only if a series of obstacles were overcome. Its inquiry, which featured a combative evidence...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/23/scotland-green-energy-target
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Cuomo, Christie and building consensus

National Public Radio: The governors of New York and New Jersey are beginning to plan for the rebuilding of their states after Superstorm Sandy. Before the storm, Govs. Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie were known for their forcefulness - and big ambitions. But, their massive task comes at a time of political transition for both of them. 'It's Got To Be Done' The ongoing storm response has kept the governors of New York and New Jersey in the national spotlight for weeks now. So much so that New Jersey Gov....

URL: http://www.npr.org/2012/11/23/165722910/cuomo-christie-and-building-consensus
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United Kingdom: A truce over wind farms...but how long will it last?

Telegraph: The Conservatives and Lib Dems are claiming a victory after striking an agreement paving way for a new generation of nuclear power stations and wind farms. The peace deal, allowing £7.6 billion to be put on bills over the next eight years, follows a bitter split between Chancellor George Osborne and Ed Davey, the Energy Secretary, that threatened to tear the Coalition apart over the its green agenda. At the heart of the fight, the Prime Minister and the Chancellor have been increasingly worried...

URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/9698624/A-truce-over-wind-farms...but-how-long-will-it-last.html
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When the damage is done

IRIN: UN climate change talks in Doha could be on the verge of adding a focus on "loss and damage" to its framing of the global response to climate change. The new issue area would supplement existing emphases on the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change - underscoring the growing realization that simply adjusting to a warmer world may no longer be an option. There is no agreed-upon definition for "loss and damage", but the phrase broadly refers to a range of harms incurred in developing countries...

URL: http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96867/CLIMATE-CHANGE-When-the-damage-is-done
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Climate change evident across Europe, confirming urgent need for adaptation

Nanowerk News: Climate change is affecting all regions in Europe, causing a wide range of impacts on society and the environment. Further impacts are expected in the future, potentially causing high damage costs, according to the latest assessment published by the European Environment Agency this week. The report, 'Climate change, impacts and vulnerability in Europe 2012' finds that higher average temperatures have been observed across Europe as well as decreasing precipitation in southern regions and increasing...

URL: http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/green/newsid=27618.php
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Scottish Parliament rejects Trump's anti-wind farm campaign

BusinessGreen: Scottish MSPs have dismissed claims by US tycoon Donald Trump that wind farms will destroy the country's tourism industry, following an inquiry into Scotland's renewable energy targets. The Scottish government's Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee, today reported on their findings, concluding Scotland can feasibly deliver 100 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. However, the report argues the goal can only be met if the government and industry overcome a series of barriers...

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Doha climate talks live chat: what's at stake for poor countries?

Guardian: Next week, thousands will travel to Doha, Qatar, for the next round of climate change talks at COP (Conference of the Parties) 18. It's a crucial time for climate change and development, coming only six months after the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, and as discussions intensify around the post-2015 development agenda. The Kyoto protocol – the only global agreement on cutting greenhouse emissions – is set to expire at the end of this year. A recent report (pdf) commissioned by the...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/nov/23/doha-climate-talks-live-chat
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Ecuador: Yasuní national park project reaches $300m

Guardian: More than $300m (£188m) has been promised to stop the exploitation of 846m barrels of oil below the Yasuní national park in Ecuador, one of the world's most biologically rich areas of rainforest, new figures show. Ecuador's idea to leave the oil in the soil under the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) area of the park and ask the world to compensate it with half its monetary value was hailed as a revolutionary, if idealistic, new conservation idea when it was first proposed in 2007. But critics...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/23/yasuni-oil-ground-project

The Worldwide Vulnerability of Forests

New York Times: One of the great scientific tasks of the day is to understand how and why trees die. It may seem like a question that would have been answered many decades ago, but it was not -- at least not at a detailed physiological level. Now, amid growing signs worldwide that forests are at risk as the climate changes, scientists are trying to catch up to events. Lately, more and more evidence is pointing toward a mechanism known as hydraulic failure as the culprit in many large-scale forest die-backs. This...

URL: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/23/the-worldwide-vulnerability-of-forests/
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Fighting Sandy debris-removal crooks: There's an app for that

Reuters: A devastating storm like Sandy can bring out the crooks - and not just opportunistic looters and burglars. Officials dealing with the destruction in the U.S. Northeast say one of their biggest headaches is debris-removal fraud committed by greedy contractors who inflate their share of the millions in cleanup funds doled out by federal agencies. But new digital technology created by private companies and municipalities in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Irene is making it much easier to stop...

URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/23/us-usa-newyork-debrisfraud-idUSBRE8AM0BU20121123?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29

Amid Grumbling, Qatar Set to Host Climate Change Summit

U-T San Diego: When the tiny desert nation of Qatar was chosen to host the latest round of United Nations climate change negotiations, environmentalists were stunned. Talks were already in trouble, and now the high-level discussions were moving to a member of OPEC that had shown little interest in climate change and appointed a former oil minister to lead the negotiations, which start Monday. The country's economic boom, driven by vast oil and gas reserves, has led to free electricity for citizens and an...

URL: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/nov/23/tp-amid-grumbling-qatar-set-to-host-climate/

Stark warnings on climate change must be heeded by business

Guardian: Shocking is the only way to describe the extraordinarily cynical comments made by Milton Catelin, chief executive of the World Coal Association, to the Financial Times this month [Subscription], in trying to downplay any idea that climate change may make coal a risky investment. "I don't know why you would assume action on climate change is more likely than action on poverty," was Catelin's cavalier reassurance to allay any investor anxiety after a new report from the Carbon Tracker thinktank...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/blog/climate-change-warnings-doha-coal-fossil-fuel
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All About Wall Rot

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Contractors who specialize in repairing rotten walls won't run out of work any time soon. The epidemic of wall-rot problems that began more than 20 years ago shows no signs of abating. In fact, wet-wall specialists are often called to investigate problems in developments where most of the homes have rotting walls — and in some cases, these homes are only six years old.

URL: http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/all-about-wall-rot

US politicians urged to seize the moment on climate change after Sandy

Guardian: Hurricane Sandy might be fresh in the American public's memory, but for advocates seeking action on climate change time is running out. At a recent event, engineering, disaster preparation and climate science professors at Columbia University urged lawmakers to take advantage of the public's post Hurricane Sandy interest in global warming and push through bold policies. "Memory fades very fast," said civil engineering professor George Deodatis at the university event Monday. "The next six months...

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Trees worldwide a sip away from dehydration

Science News: Trees in most forests, even wet ones, live perilously close to the limits of their inner plumbing systems, a global survey of forests finds. Seventy percent of the 226 tree species in forests around the world routinely function near the point where a serious drought would stop water transport from their roots to their leaves, says plant physiologist Brendan Choat of the University of Western Sydney in Richmond, Australia. Trees even in moist, lush places operate with only a slim safety margin...

URL: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/346630/description/Trees_worldwide_a_sip_away_from_dehydration

First cap-and-trade auction a bust for California budget

Sacramento Bee: State environmental leaders this week hailed California's first auction of carbon emissions credits a huge success. But budget writers are hardly thrilled. A low price for credits and minimal demand for future offsets suggest California will see a mere fraction of the $1 billion that Gov. Jerry Brown and lawmakers estimated the state would receive this fiscal year. If demand remains similar in two forthcoming auctions, the state would generate only about $140 million, the nonpartisan Legislative...

URL: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/11/22/5003856/first-cap-and-trade-auction-a.html

Emperor penguins use sea ice to catch a breather

Telegraph: The changing habitat of the Antarctic is thought to favour some penguins, such as Gentoos, which spend little time on sea ice, while threatening others including Adélies which have declined across the region as ice recedes. Now the first ever detailed study of emperor penguin activity during their long foraging trips at the water's edge has found that they rely on the solid land to rest and stay safe from predators. However, the emperor pengins did not use the ice to travel long distances and,...

URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9693639/Emperor-penguins-use-sea-ice-to-catch-a-breather.html

Scientists say new signs of global warming in Russian Arctic

Agence France-Presse: The Russian Arctic is losing ice cover and being inhabited by species from the south in the latest sign of climate change, according to a group of Russian scientists. The scientists spent three months in the Arctic's Franz Josef Land. "We have explored 42 of the archipelago's 191 islands and concluded a reduction of the ice sheet from the last Soviet expeditions in 1957," said head of the expedition Maria Gavrilo, an ornithologist. Her group of eight scientists, including experts in paleography...

URL: http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Scientists_say_new_signs_of_global_warming_in_Russian_Arctic_999.html
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Global aims on climate 'off target'

Sydney Morning Herald: A MASSIVE gap exists between pledges by nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and the cuts needed to limit climate change to safe levels, the world's lead environmental agency has warned. In a report released just days before the next round of international climate talks in Doha, the UN Environment Program says countries must rapidly lift efforts to cut emissions if global warming is to be kept to 2 degrees - the scientifically recognised safe level. The UN's Emissions Gap Report...

URL: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/global-aims-on-climate-off-target-20121121-29q5x.html
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GE places mega-order for Ford plug-in hybrid

BusinessGreen: General Electric (GE) has signed a major deal to buy thousands of Ford electric cars, in what will been seen as a major boost to the emerging market for low emission vehicles. Ford confirmed yesterday that it will deliver 2,000 C-Max Energi plug-in hybrids to GE's corporate fleet, and will also help to promote GE's electric and natural gas refuelling stations to commercial buyers. The sale represents the largest order for Ford's plug-in cars to-date, and comes just a month after the C-Max went...

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Climate change is much worse than we thought

Record-Searchlight: I'm not sure I picked global warming or it picked me but I knew something in 2006 that many did not want to accept. I grasped the fact that anthropogenic climate change would be the most important issue any of us would ever face. With the possible exception of worldwide thermonuclear war, I understood that radically transforming our climate was the only concern that threatened the continuation of the human experiment. And more practically, I knew that unless we solved this problem all other problems...

URL: http://blogs.redding.com/dcraig/archives/2012/11/climate-change-39.html

2020 Global Agreement, Fate of Kyoto Protocol in Hands of U.N. Climate Negotiators

Bloomberg: Climate delegates from more than 190 nations will begin two weeks of negotiations Nov. 26 in Doha, Qatar, to hammer out a plan for a 2020 agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions and, for countries that remain committed to the Kyoto Protocol, to decide on a second commitment period. The meetings "will be a success," Christiana Figueres, executive secretary to the negotiations, said in remarks leading up to the Doha talks, formally known as the 18th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the U.N....

URL: http://www.bna.com/week-ahead-2020-b17179871027/

Vt utility finishes wind farm; will get tax break

WVPS-FM: Vermont's largest electric utility has finished work on the last of its 21-turbine wind power project on Lowell Mountain in time to meet an end-of-year deadline to receive federal tax credits for the project. Green Mountain Power Vice President Robert Dostis says the final turbine was hooked up to the electric grid Tuesday night. He says testing will continue for the next couple weeks, but the project has met its end-of-the-year deadline. Dostis tells Vermont Public Radio (http://bit.ly/Unj1Z1...

URL: http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/2012/11/22/utility-finishes-wind-farm-will-get-tax-break/qfpIUrhPBV2IkdiC07xcBP/story.html

Corporates must make climate change their business

Canberra Times: When Hurricane Sandy hit the United States east coast on October 30, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development annual meeting was simultaneously kicking off in Seoul, South Korea. As top executives from nearly 200 global companies met to discuss how to scale up business solutions for sustainability, all eyes were half a world away, riveted to the unfolding story of destruction. These images stood as a grave reminder that the response to climate change is more urgent than ever and that...

URL: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/opinion/hurricane-sandy-a-wakeup-call-for-industry-20121121-29qj5.html
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Climate change: US transit systems not ready for more wild weather

Daily Camera: The nation's lifelines -- its roads, airports, railways and transit systems -- are getting hammered by extreme weather beyond what their builders imagined, leaving states and cities searching for ways to brace for more catastrophes like Superstorm Sandy. Even as they prepare for a new normal of intense rain, historic floods and record heat waves, some transportation planners find it too politically sensitive to say aloud the source of their weather worries: climate change. Political differences...

URL: http://www.dailycamera.com/science-environment/ci_22046452/climate-change-u-s-transit-systems-not-ready

Planners reword climate change concerns

Associated Press: The nation's lifelines - its roads, airports, railways and transit systems - are getting hammered by extreme weather beyond what their builders imagined, leaving states and cities searching for ways to brace for more catastrophes like Superstorm Sandy. Even as they prepare for a new normal of intense rain, historic floods and record heat waves, some transportation planners find it too politically sensitive to say aloud the source of their weather worries: climate change. Political differences...

URL: http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Planners-reword-climate-change-concerns-4058832.php
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Scotland Schools the States on Offshore Wind Initiatives


While the United States is busy charging headlong towards a fiscal cliff and the likely expiration of the wind energy Production Tax Credit, the country of Scotland is busy showing everyone how things really ought to be done.

URL: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/11/scotland-schools-washington-on-offshore-wind-initiatives?cmpid=rss

60 percent of lower 48 states now in drought

Associated Press: The worst U.S. drought in decades has deepened again after more than a month of encouraging reports of slowly improving conditions, a drought-tracking consortium said Wednesday, as scientists struggled for an explanation other than a simple lack of rain. While more than half of the continental U.S. has been in a drought since summer, rain storms had appeared to be easing the situation week by week since late September. But that promising run ended with Wednesday's weekly U.S. Drought Monitor report,...

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Pakistan on the 'dark side of climate change'

The News International: Former Environment Minister for State and Regional Councilor of the IUCN Malik Amin Aslam said that Pakistan was in control of the situation surrounding the refugees of climate change. He made the observation at the "Dialogue with Business on Resilience, Climate Change and the Private Sector in Sustainable Coastal Management" event, organised by the IUCN on Tuesday at a local hotel. He pointed out that Pakistan was one of the first countries affected in the world and on the "dark side of climate...

URL: http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-4-144283-Pakistan-on-the-dark-side-of-climate-change

China vows emissions cutting efforts ahead of Doha conference

Xinhua: China reiterated on Wednesday that it is resolute in reducing emissions and working to see its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions peak at an earlier date. China will never follow the development mode of developed countries, whose emissions usually peaked when their per capita gross domestic product (GDP) stood at nearly 40,000 to 50,000 U.S. dollars, Xie Zhenhua, China's chief negotiator to the UN climate change talks, said upon the release of a government report addressing climate change. Xie...

URL: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-11/22/c_123983609.htm

Drought Puts Trees the World Over ‘At the Edge’

Climate Central: As the climate warms, scientists expect an increase in droughts around the world, causing all sorts of problems for water supplies, agriculture, and energy production. Forests will be affected too, naturally, but a new study released Wednesday in Nature shows just how widespread the effects could be. After looking at 226 tree species at 81 locations around the world, two dozen experts from around the world have determined that fully 70 percent of trees are likely to suffer if conditions get drier...

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French lawmaker urges united global response to climate change

Xinhua: World leaders must take immediate and joint actions against climate change, Vice President of the French National Assembly Denis Baupin said Wednesday on the sidelines of the Cities and Climate Change Summit held in the Colombian capital of Bogota. Baupin, renowned worldwide as the politician that cut the number of private cars on Paris streets by 25 percent while working in the Deputy Mayor's Office, said in an interview with Xinhua that climate success could only be achieved by coordinated efforts...

URL: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/indepth/2012-11/22/c_131991991.htm

Prince Charles flicks switch on UK's 'first' biogas to grid plant

BusinessGreen: The country's "first" commercial-scale biomethane plant connected directly to the grid was opened by The Prince of Wales yesterday. The 5MW anaerobic digestor should be capable of supplying renewable gas to 56,000 new-build homes when at maximum capacity in the summer with output falling by around 4,000 homes in the winter. The plant, which has been generating electricity for 500 homes since April sits on Duchy of Cornwall land just outside Poundbury, the urban extension to the Dorset county...

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Sweden Won't Heed Industry Call for Higher Wind Energy Targets


Sweden will not respond to calls from wind-power developers to boost targets for alternative energy output, for fear of undermining investor confidence.

URL: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/11/sweden-wont-heed-industry-call-for-higher-wind-energy-targets?cmpid=rss

Australia: Climate change should send a chill through banks

Financial Review: Much thinking about climate change in corporate Australia has assumed that the economic impacts would be gradual, so there would be adequate time for adaptation as those impacts became better understood. The lowest recorded extent of Arctic sea ice this September must give pause. As the National Snow and Ice Data Centre said on releasing the data: "While we have long known that as the planet warms up, changes would be seen first and most pronounced in the Arctic, few of us were prepared for how...

URL: http://afr.com/p/opinion/climate_change_should_send_chill_78Dg4mC0g1EM6ggKRDJIkL

Experts: Prepare for climate change

Delmarva Now: Coastal communities including the Eastern Shore of Virginia need to begin to prepare for changes in the climate, according to two experts who spoke at the NASA Visitor's Center at Wallops about adapting to climate change. The climate is changing at "an increasingly rapid rate," so much that scientists can no longer use the past to predict the future, said Joel D. Scheraga, Senior Advisor for Climate Adaptation at the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Policy. Scheraga in addition to his...

URL: http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20121122/CB01/311220002?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1

Cabinet to clear India's tough stand at Doha climate meet

Indian Express: The Union Cabinet will approve on Thursday a tough negotiation approach for India at the Climate talks in the 18th Conference of Parties in Doha starting next week. As the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol is scheduled to be operationalised by January 1, 2013, by the developed countries, India wants to insist on unconditional adoption of the emission limitation commitments by the developed country parties as listed in the "Annex B" of the Kyoto Protocol by December 31, 2012. India...

URL: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/cabinet-to-clear-india-s-tough-stand-at-doha-climate-meet/1034396/

China: Emissions will not peak until GDP increases fivefold

BusinessGreen: China says its emissions will keep rising until its per capita GDP is around five times its current rate, further dampening hopes that the world's largest polluter will agree in principle to ambitious binding emission reduction targets at this month's Doha Climate Change Summit. Heading into the conference, Xie Zhenhua, China's chief negotiator, told state news agency Xinhua it would be unfair and unreasonable to expect the county to make absolute cuts in emissions when its per capita GDP stands...

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