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MEP tells EU to get its act together to fight climate change after recent flooding chaos in the region
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Liberal Democrat MEP for the South West Sir Graham Watson has called on the European Union to do more to prevent climate change to avert future occurrences of flooding as experienced in the region in November and over the Christmas period. Late on...
Ignoring natural capital could see countries’ credit ratings downgraded
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See on Scoop.it – The Great Transition “A report by the UN Environment Programme’s Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) says loss of soils, forests, and fisheries, as well as rising resource costs, are likely to become increasingly importan...
Nappy Ever After, a laundry service for nappies
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Nappy Ever After is a company in London that offers a service to wash cotton nappies. This system is perfect for those parents who want to change from single-use to...
The 2012 Climate Disasters should wake up the USA
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2012 might become a pivotal year in US history. Never before has the country been hit by a such a devastating combination of severe droughts and hurricanes in the very same year, the economic cost of which may run up to some $ 60 billion. For the fir...
Prepare for Warm World, Says PwC
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In the climate change debate, growing doubts about hitting temperature target.
Climate summit: EU and world must raise ambition, say environment MEPs
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The UN climate summit in Doha (COP 18) should spur the EU and other countries around the world to step up their action to limit global warming, say Environment Committee MEPs in a resolution adopted on 6 November. A majority called for the EU to aim...
PwC: Supply Chains Threatened by Six-Degree Global Warming
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See on Scoop.it – The Great Transition Some 85 percent of companies have more complex supply chains as a result of globalization, and adjusted climate forecasts mean businesses should expect climate change to have an even more destructive...
Our Video Guest: Sonja Vermeulen, Head of Research, CCAFS
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The aim of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is to address the increasing challenge of global warming and declining food security on agricultural practices, policies and measures through a strategic c...
“Rapid and deep emissions reductions may not be easy, but 4°C to 6°C will be much worse”
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"So we have no historical precedents for anything greater than 1% per annum reduction in emissions. We’re saying we need nearer 10% per annum, and this is something we need to be doing today. And therefore, we can draw a very clear conclusion f...
Sustainable cities must look beyond city limits
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"City leaders aspiring to transform their cities into models of sustainability must look beyond city limits and include in their calculation the global flow of goods and materials into their realm, argue researchers in the Royal Swedish Academy o...
National Climatic Data Center's Jim Kossin: Not fair to say that Sandy was associated with climate change
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Kudos to the National Geographic for publishing this assessment by Jim Kossin, atmospheric research scientist in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center:Could Hurricane Sandy be the result of climate chan...
How clean is your house’s international trade record?
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As a western European country, the UK might pride itself in its efforts to lower emissions. And there has been success on this front. Carbon emissions in Great Britain have fallen since 2008, following a steady increase for over 100 years in line wit...
Global warming alarmists try to exploit the Sandy tragedy
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“The terrifying truth is that America faces a future full of Frankenstorms. Climate change raises sea levels and supersizes storms. The threat of killer winds and crushing storm surges will grow by the year unless we get serious about tackling...
How To Appeal ECHA Decisions
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Certain ECHA decisions can be appealed before the Board of Appeal of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). Such decisions are itemized in Article 91 of the REACH Regulation. How it works: companies submit their appeal, and the announcement...
Willam O'Keefe on why it is wrong to blame global warming for hurricane Sandy
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As expected, warmists have been quick to use Hurricane Sandy in their global warming scaremongering propaganda. William O'Keefe, Chief Executive Officer of the George C. Marshall Institute puts the issue in perspective:What we know is that the d...
Faire avancer l’agenda du changement climatique et de la croissance verte dans le Pacifique
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Le changement climatique affecte déjà de manière disproportionnée les îles du Pacifique. Bien que les insulaires aient peu contribué aux causes de ce changement, moins de 0.03% des émissions de gaz à effet de serre actuels, ils font partie de...
"Global warming" hits Germany: Coldest and snowiest day in decades
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Germans are experiencing a severe bout of "global warming": An outbreak of cold weather has already in October, for the first time in decades, brought close to -6° temperatures and a thick (up to 20cm) snow cover to large areas of the country.&...
Warmist David Attenborough openly hoping for a disaster to hit North America
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Attenborough hoping for a disasterNaturalist - and warmist - David Attenborough is desperately hoping for a "disaster" to happen in "the most powerful nation in the world, North America" in order to wake up the climate heretics:One of the world'...
Commission gathers views on ways to follow-up Rio+20
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The United Nations Rio+20 world summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, aimed to secure renewed political commitment to sustainable development. To follow up on the conference, the European Commission wishes to develop specific actions and concr...
Economic Crisis Shakes Old Paradigms
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“As our global economic and ecological crises converge, neither neoliberalism nor Keynesianism can cure what ails us.” (Source: Foreign Policy in Focus) Excellent analysis of the flawed remedies for the twin economy-ecology crises by Walden Bello...
Awaiting important decisions on climate and the environment
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Important issues such as the Council Conclusions on Rio+20, the preparation for the Doha Summit on climate change and the draft Regulation for the recycling of ships, are on the EU Environment Ministers agenda for the Council meeting taking place on...
Green trade can deliver significant benefits to Europe and the world
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At the beginning of September, leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), agreed to dramatically cut tariffs on a selection of clean and energy efficient equipment. Custom tariffs will be cut from 35 to 5%. This initiative which is wort...
More then a drop of water
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The problem of water in society goes far beyond rainfall. It is not enough to simply seek shelter under an umbrella. The way that we use water has a profound impact on our planet. It is is inextricably linked to issues such as flooding, conflict...
Updated Chesar tool
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ECHA's new Chesar version is designed to support the preparation of better chemical safety reports.New functionality includes:an exposure estimation tooltargeted risk assessment bolstered reporting re: releases to waste library of stan...
Climate change and the green growth agenda in the Pacific
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Most Pacific islands are experiencing impacts on community livelihoods, infrastructure, water supply, coastal and forest ecosystems, fisheries, agriculture, and human health. The consequences of sea level rise, sea temperature increases, ocean acidif...
Progress made in stopping decline of livestock genetic diversity
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While many countries are taking action to halt the erosion of livestock genetic resources, crucial for food and agriculture, a substantial gap remains that needs to be urgently addressed. Reports from 80 countries on the progress made in implementing...
Welcome agreement to prevent biodiversity loss
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The Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment of Cyprus and chair of the Environment Council of the EU, Mr Sofoclis Aletraris, and the Environment Commissioner of the EU, Mr Janez Potočnik, have welcomed the agreement achieved on th...
EU bioenergy policies increase carbon emissions
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Bioenergy made up over two thirds of the EU’s primary renewable energy production in 2009, according to Eurostat, and will account for more than half of EU states emissions reductions planned for 2020, according to their National Renewable Energy A...
"Creative" warmist scientists finally find a way to show that global warming increases violent conflicts
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"Global warming leads to wars and increasing violence" has been one the warmists' favorite propaganda claims already for years. The problem, though, is that this claim is not supported by serious studies. This is e.g. what Nils Petter Gledi...
"Climate Change and the GDP-led Growth Model" by Andrew Simms
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Watch Andrew Simms, Fellow at the New Economics Foundation (NEF) in London, discuss climate change and the flaws of the GDP-based growth model. This talk was recorded at the conference ‘From (un)economic growth to future well-being’ organ...
EU biofuels more beneficial to big industry than environment
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In the EU, the biofuels industry serves to enrich the large industrial groups more than the environment, according to a recent study published by the International Journal of Environment and Health. Because of the emphasis placed on first-generation...
EU:n kasvu- ja työllisyyssopimuksen täytäntöönpano
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Kesäkuun 2012 Eurooppa-neuvosto hyväksyi kasvu- ja työllisyyssopimuksen (EUCO 76/12 päätelmien kohta 1 sekä liite sivulta 7). Lokakuun Eurooppa-neuvosto (EUCO 156/12) kehotti (itseään?) ohjelman ripeään ja päättäväiseen toimeenpanoon:...
Greatest mass of sea ice ever in Antarctica leaves warmist "experts" almost speechless
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The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center last week confirmed that Antarctica is surrounded by the greatest mass of sea ice ever recorded there, 19.44 million square kilometres. And it is growing, although slowly. This of course...
Book Review: Why should sociology be interested in climate change?
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This book explores the significance of human behaviour to understanding the causes and impacts of changing climates and to assessing varied ways of responding to these changes. So far the discipline that has represented and modelled such human behavi...
What’s Wrong with Putting a Price on Nature?
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See on Scoop.it – The Great Transition The concept of pricing ecosystem services and allowing them to be bought and sold has gained wide acceptance among conservationists in recent years. Excellent article in Yale’s Environment 360...
Breaking the Barriers to Zero Waste: The Role of the Community
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Join the UK Zero Waste Alliance to end waste through community action. This conference will bring together people from across the UK to understand how we can work together to change the way we think about “waste” and to … Continue read...
Revealed: Bristol's capital city competitors for the @EU_GreenCapital 2015 title
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The capital of the West Country, Bristol, will face competition from the capital cities of Brussels, Dublin and Ljubljana for the 2015 European Green Capital award as the list of eight applicant cities was revealed by the European Commission today.
Donna Laframboise: " IPCC is filled with environmental activists"
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Alarmist mainstream media continue to portrait the IPCC as a body made up of the world's top scientists and experts. Donna Lafromboise, the Toronto based investigative journalist, has found out that the reality looks somewhat different:So what did La...
REACH Review Report Status
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Arret!Word on the street is that environmental NGOs have accused the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) of leniency in enforcing the REACH regulation on chemical safety. Groups say incomplete dossiers and lack of transparency are undermining legis...
"It´s Green to Talk" - Young People demad Europe listen to their voices on climate change
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HUNDREDS of green teens are working with a London MEP to transform the way Europe deals with climate change.Green party member Jean Lambert is backing a special manifesto, written by young people from across Europe and Africa, to demand MEPs listen t...
9th Regional Briefing: Building Reslience to Climate Change and Greening the Economy in the Pacific
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The ACP-EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), in collaboration with the Embassy of Vanuatu and with the Pacific Group of Ambassadors, will organise the 9th regional Briefing on 'Building Resilience to Climate Change and Gr...
When loyalty blocks climate action - Polish parliament pledges allegiance
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The Polish government has a sad reputation for adopting unilateral, even obscure approaches when it comes to our country’s energy policy. What now came as a very disappointing surprise is that the Polish parliament joined the opportunistic chorus o...
The EU should mobilise an Alliance of the Willing against Climate Change
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Between November 26th and December 7th the international community will again come together and discuss on what to do against climate change. It will be the 18th time since 1990 that the world will meet under the auspices of the UN Framework of Clima...
Video: Notes for a better Europe
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European spending is often considered unnecessary, beaurocratic, and even damaging. We're the last ones to deny that in Bankwatch. Yet, we are convinced that EU spending - if it is done right - can truly serve the public interest by creating jobs, r...
An encounter with the skeptics
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Phew! I have actually started university. You may have noticed that it’s gone a bit quiet around this blow. I’ll do my best to keep posting. For my last lecture I had to deal with climate skeptics, which was a really … interesting...
If extreme weather becomes the norm, starvation awaits | George Monbiot
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With forecasts currently based only on averages, food production may splutter out even sooner than we fearedI believe we might have made a mistake: a mistake whose consequences, if I am right, would be hard to overstate. I think the forecasts fo...
Application submitted: Bristol will compete for the 2015 European Green Capital title
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Following the Capital of the West County's great bid presentation and near success back in June for the status of European Green Capital 2014, the team behind the Bristol Green Capital Bid have been working hard to meet today’s 5pm deadline for ent...
What are the French and NGOs doing to slow Sustainable Palm Oil?
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French retailers like Casino supermarket have been slapping “no palm oil” labels on bags of crisps and a proliferating list of other goods for some time. Egged on by NGOs, many French retailers have been taking palm oil out of products because of...
Obama's Department of the Interior is "forging ahead with several initiatives related to climate change and global warming"
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The Summit Voice reports that "Climate change may not be front and center in the current presidential campaign, but behind the scenes, the Obama administration has been forging ahead with several initiatives related to climate science and global warm...
The global financial crisis and the prospects for ‘Green Growth’
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“The global financial crisis offers a big opportunity for progressive politicians to reenergise the green agenda.” (Source: Policy Network) British energy expert Dieter Helm provides a good analysis of why EU climate policy has failed to make a d...
The association of Italian Zero Waste towns has been created
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In a meeting celebrated in Capannori on October 13 representatives from 16 Italian regions agreed to formally constitute the Association of Italian Zero Waste Towns. Currently 107 towns in Italy alone have committed to move towards Zero Waste and pha...
Badger ‘blood all over the countryside’ can be averted says Queen guitarist Brian May as he takes fight against badger cull pilots in the South West to Brussels
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Legendary Queen guitarist and animal welfare campaigner, Dr Brian May, was in Brussels today to continue his campaign against the proposed badgers culls in the region and met with regional MEPs Julie Girling and Sir Graham Watson. He also held meeti...
How bringing Rio+20 home makes sense in the midst of the crisis
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As the Rio+20 outcome was not as ambitious as we Europeans would have wished, we want to keep up the momentum and motivate all EU actors and governments to take forward and practice sustainable development measures (economic, social and environmental...
The conference “The Power of the Mind” – Club of Rome celebrates 40 years since the first report on the state and future of the world
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The National Bank of the Romania (BNR) and the Romanian Association for the Club of Rome(ARCOR) organize today,2 october 2012, the International Conference “The Power of the Mind” in which will be celebrated the 40th anniversary at the first repo...
Is climate change a euphemism for growth?
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"One question that stops conversations cold is, ‘What if our greatest societal challenge is not climate but growth?’ Climate change is really just an ambiguous term or understatement for the problem at the root of our energy productio...
The art of Zero Waste!
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Waste and art have always gone hand in hand. It was the fantastic artist Leonardo Da Vinci who 500 years ago wrote “there is no such thing as waste” and he knew what he was talking about! Artists have long been using second-hand materials...
ERIKA: LEARNING THE LESSON
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Number of View: 112Almost 13 years ago, the Erika oil tanker sank off the coast of Brittany, causing a major environmental disaster. Last week, the French Cour de Cassation confirmed the civil liability of the certification company, the ship’s owne...
Dernier Briefing de Bruxelles sur le développement: Changement climatique, agriculture et sécurité alimentaire
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Le dernier Briefing, intitulé «Changement climatique, agriculture et sécurité alimentaire : approches éprouvées et nouveaux investissements», s’est tenu le 27 Septembre, 2012, et a été organisé par le CTA en collaboration avec le prog...
Australia´s Queensland government shows how to deal with Greenpeace
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The Queensland government in Australia shows how to deal with Greenpeace: "The Queensland government places no weight on any report that Greenpeace prepares.''They are scaremongers of the first order and never let the facts get in the way of the...
ABC New´s warmist climate change reporter: "I am not an advocate to try to stop global warming"
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ABC New´s veteran climate change reporter, warmist Bill Blakemore: "I’m not an advocate to try to stop global warming"!Judge yourself. Are these the views of a "fair and accurate" journalist?:"It’s warming. It’s caused by a huma...
Radical Simplicity and the Middle-Class – Exploring the Lifestyle Implications of a ‘Great Disruption’
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See on Scoop.it – The Great Transition “How would the ordinary middle-class consumer – I should say middle-class citizen – deal with a lifestyle of radical simplicity? By radical simplicity I essentially mean a very low but bi...
Green Economy: an ecological contradiction or a governance challenge?
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The on-going crisis is revealing the unsustainability of the economic debt-ridden practices of the last decades. High public and private debts combined with high unemployment and low economic activity have put the EU in the most difficult situation s...
European media have lost interest in international climate change conferences
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The European Union still pretends to be the global warming "superpower" at various UN sponsored climate change/global warming conferences, telling and, in the case of airlines, forcing other countries to conform with their "progressive" climate legis...
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s the EU’s chemicals legislation
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It has been said, admittedly by me, that the REACH Regulation (EU chemicals law) is a lot like the Airbus A-380. The first time you saw it you stood in amazement at the sheer size of the thing and thought to yourself that there’s no way on God’s...
Alarmist "study": 1000 children a day are dying because of climate change
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Alarmists still seem to think that scaremongering is a winning strategy: Nearly 1,000 children a day are now dying because of climate change, according to a path-breaking study published Wednesday (PDF), and the annual death toll stands at 400,0...
Climate change is already damaging global economy, report finds
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Economic impact of global warming is costing the world more than $1.2 trillion a year, wiping 1.6% annually from global GDP… (Source: The Guardian) By 2030, the researchers estimate, the cost of climate change and air pollution combined will ri...
Florence Zero Waste Altermeeting: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and REDESIGN
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The inclusion of the 4 R to the group of the old “big 3” is one of the main conclusions of the Zero Waste Altermeeting that took place in Florence from 15 to 17 September. Indeed, more than 60 speakers of the highest level (including academia...
Sea levels rise by 3mm a year – new data
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Just a quick post to highlight some new data from the European Space Agency. Global sea levels have been rising by 3mm a year in the past 18 years, according to satellite data gathered by ESA and the French space agency CNES. In some areas, sea lev...
The poisoned tea of global warming
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There’s been two scary news items this week – the first one being that coral reefs are declining much faster than previously expected, the other one is about research showing that the North Sea is warmer than ever before (both in German).
