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| Chinese leader seeks Japanese help on environment |
| 2008-05-10 16:26:00 |
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday voiced hope that Japan would share environmental technology with his country as he toured a state-of-the-art recycling factory.Hu, on a rare visit to Japan to mend ties between Asia's two largest economies, visited the Kawasaki PET Bottle Recycling Factory near Tokyo which processes used bottles and electronics devices."We want to introduce Japan's advanced technology on the environment to China," Hu said, adding that his administration will focus on green businesses.China's pollution has been rapidly growing as its economy soars, posing particular concern for neighbours such as Japan and South Korea.
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| 7th Arab Environment Forum |
| 2008-05-06 04:14:00 |
The forum aims at reinforcing the role of young people in protecting and safeguarding the environment, promoting their participation in national, regional and international events to spread environmental concepts among young people, and educating the young generation on the preservation of natural resources.The event will also seek to raise awareness of governmental bodies, civil society organizations and the general public about the hazards resulting from the different dangerous environmental practices and the depletion of natural resources.
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| Airbus, Boeing sign accord to cut air traffic impact on environment |
| 2008-04-23 07:58:00 |
GENEVA (AFP) — Rival aircraft manufacturers Airbus and Boeing put aside their differences and signed an agreement on Tuesday to work together to cut the impact of air traffic on the environment.The rare cooperation between the European and American giants was announced on the sidelines of the third aviation and environment summit in Geneva, where leading industry groups made a commitment to work against pollution.The agreement between the two manufacturers will see them working together to push for global inter-operability in air traffic management to optimise efficiencies.
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| Art and the environment mix in Earth Day event |
| 2008-04-18 11:47:00 |
Climate Day for Kids at Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Parkinvolves different activities by a number of community groups."SAM is trying to be more involved in Earth Day activities. It is something we want to make a tradition," says SAM environmental steward Jackie White.White, who became SAM's first environmental steward last summer, is based at the sculpture park, but her job involves looking at the sustainability issues of the museum as a whole. She works with the SAM Goes Green Team, the education department to develop environmental themes, and monitors the Olympic Sculpture Park's shoreline.
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| Saving the environment via the Bible |
| 2008-04-12 02:36:00 |
Do we have a moral obligation to protect the Earth?A growing number of religious leaders think so, and they’re incorporating that idea into their faith.On Sunday and Monday, Elachee Nature Science Center is sponsoring "Stewardship and Sustainability: A Challenge for Faith and Science."The free event begins with an interfaith service at 7 p.m. Sunday at Gainesville First United Methodist Church. At 7 p.m. Monday, there will be a public forum at First Presbyterian Church featuring a panel of environmental ethicists and theologians.
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| Kenya: Nema Issues New Rules to Curb Carbon Emissions |
| 2008-04-02 03:46:00 |
The National Environment Management Authority has introduced new regulations on gas emissions, signalling a possible rise in the cost of producing industrial goods.Under the rules, industrialists will be required to operate within set emission limits or face heavy penalties for failing to comply.Although Nema, the environment watchdog, says the aim is to curb rising levels of industrial pollution in the country, the rules will require industrialists to acquire new production techniques at a heavy cost.
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| Need for environment authors |
| 2008-03-23 19:38:00 |
Hi, from Tam Tree, hope you like the Ecology news blog.I need environment authors to help me coverage the world ecology news.Please send email if you like to participated in this effort. Thanks !tamtree@gmail.com
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| Clean environment attracts investors |
| 2008-03-20 06:32:00 |
TAUNG - BOCCIM Executive Director, Mrs Maria Machailo-Ellis, has challenged Batswana to keep their environment clean so as to attract more investors.Speaking at the Water Day celebration in Taung over the weekend, she promised that her organisation will encourage industries and businesses to do the same to that Botswana continued to be proud of its clean water.Mrs Machailo-Ellis cautioned that investors do not appreciate unclean environment and praised Ramotswa for doing exceptionally well in clean up competitions.
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| Tony Blair has called for a "global environment revolution" |
| 2008-03-16 06:20:00 |
The former prime minister has been joining international experts on climate change in a bid to drive forward efforts to reduce global carbon emissions.Mr Blair said: "We have reached the critical moment of decision on climate change. There are few if any, genuine doubters left."Even on the mildest application of the precautionary principles, failure to act on climate change now would be deeply and unforgivably irresponsible."
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| Ottawa wants to do 'better job' on environment |
| 2008-03-10 04:32:00 |
The report, released Thursday by environment commissioner Ron Thompson, gave the government an "unsatisfactory" grade in nine of 14 areas, including protection of endangered species, Great Lakes cleanup, control of invasive species such as zebra mussels and just keeping its own operations green.Progress has been made in assessing dangerous chemicals, managing pesticide safety and cleaning up contaminated sites, he said.While the report examines the actions of past governments, much of it examines action taken since 2004-2005.
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| Make environment safer for children |
| 2008-03-03 10:01:00 |
Children should have a right to develop in an environment that allows them to reach their full potential. As adults, we have an ethical responsibility to provide a healthy and safe environment for our children. Yet somehow, we haven't been able to provide that safe environment.Children do not get to choose that a toy is made with lead or cadmium. Toxic metals are permitted in plates, coffee mugs and cookware. Harmful chemicals and toxins are added to plastics that babies are exposed to.
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| No brakes on oilsands |
| 2008-02-26 05:21:00 |
EDMONTON - Conservative Leader Ed Stelmach signalled Monday he'll ignore a call from some of Canada's largest energy companies to control expansion in the oilsands to protect fragile lands. He also brushed aside a plea from the province's aboriginal chiefs to halt approval of new projects.Stelmach, who famously said he doesn't believe in "touching the brake" on development, dismissed as preliminary a call for an immediate suspension of government land-lease sales in three massive environmentally sensitive swaths of northern Alberta.
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| UN environment group sets up climate neutral forum |
| 2008-02-22 15:39:00 |
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched a new online network on Thursday to help countries, cities and firms aiming to be "climate neutral" exchange ideas on ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions.The Climate Neutral Network will connect people around the world who have committed to become climate neutral by reducing and offsetting their emissions of the gases blamed for heating the planet, said Achim Steiner, head of UNEP.
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| Third International Solar Conference |
| 2008-02-18 01:28:00 |
The five-day conference, which starts today, is part of the International Solar Cities Initiative and aims to support projects that reduce energy consumption and climate change.The conference will feature more than 90 speakers from 20 countries, including environmental activist and author Robert F Kennedy and federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett.The conference will also be an opportunity for South Australia to showcase its commitment to sustainability and climate change among business leaders and delegates.
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| Obama vs. McCain on the environment |
| 2008-02-14 00:59:00 |
But in the Green Realm, Brandon writes that both Obama and McCain have been endorsed by the League of Conservation Voters in past Senate races. Both support capping greenhouse gases to fight global warming, which they acknowledge is real and man-made; both oppose drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; both support expansion of nuclear power as a way to generate more electricity with little greenhouse gas pollution.
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| Heavy snow may help improve environment around China's largest desert |
| 2008-02-08 11:04:00 |
The heaviest and longest snow on record has caused tremendous difficulties in people's lives, but it may help the forestation on the southern edge of Takla Makan Desert, China's largest desert.The snow since mid-January has covered a remarkable area of 750,000 square kilometers in the south of the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Nearly 60 percent of the area has been covered with over 10-centimeter-deep snow until early February.
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| Musharraf calls for 'enabling environment' to resolve Kashmir issue |
| 2008-02-04 15:14:00 |
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Monday advocated the need for creating an "enabling environment" for the success of the Indo-Pak peace process and said the Kashmir issue could be resolved through "sincerity, courage and flexibility".In a message on the eve of the "Kashmir Solidarity Day" to be observed tomorrow across Pakistan, Musharraf said, "We firmly believe that an enabling environment is necessary for the success of the peace process."
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| NZ's clean, green image at risk |
| 2008-01-31 16:15:00 |
The 450-page report is the first summary of the New Zealand environment since 1997 and reveals "the pulse" of the physical wellbeing of New Zealand's land, water, air and biodiversity.It looks at areas such as the impact of waste, transport, energy consumption and identifies trends to assist with local and central government decision making.
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| Environment-friendly homes to be shown at China's Future House |
| 2008-01-20 16:08:00 |
The 10 houses will be on display for six years, including this year's Summer Olympics. Organizers anticipate that more than 5 million visitors will see them.A consortium that includes the Warrenville, Ill.-based Alternative Energy Living Foundation as principal managing sponsor, Florida International University as founding academic sponsor and the National Defense Council Foundation as the main general sponsor is backing the American entry.
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| Nigeria: For Safe Environment, Plant a Tree |
| 2008-01-16 01:55:00 |
From developing nations to industrial countries, global climate affects every one. Global warming is one of the most serious challenges facing the entire world today.To protect the health and economic well-being of current and future generations, most countries are trying to reduce the emissions of heat-trapping gasses by using the technology know-how and practical solutions of planting trees.
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| G-8 must address global economy / Environment not only crucial issue in Hokkaido summit agenda |
| 2008-01-09 18:29:00 |
The environment will be the biggest item on the agenda at the Group of Eight summit of major nations July 7-9 at the Lake Toya hot srping resort in Toyakocho, Hokkaido. Above all, finding ways to cope with global warming is sure to become a focal issue.But the world faces a host of other important problems as well. Given increasing concern about the global economic slowdown, it is necessary to speed preparations for economic discussions at the summit. If the world economy is thrown into chaos, causing a serious slowdown in world business, it is feared that efforts to protect the environment would be adversely affected.
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| A year for saving our environment |
| 2008-01-03 02:54:00 |
In fact, nothing is more important for the Earth's future than saving its environment from humans. And probably nothing is more difficult to achieve. As for the charge that global warming is science fiction, the fact that delegates from nearly 190 countries met in Bali last month to confront climate change should silence the skeptics. If the governments of virtually every country in the world can't agree exactly what to do about this crisis, they at least concur that it exists and demands urgent, comprehensive action.No wonder. In 2007, a series of landmark reports from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned of catastrophic consequences including devastating floods, droughts, severe weather and species extinction on massiv
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| The year in the environment |
| 2007-12-29 17:15:00 |
This year, Al Gore, the Man Who Was Almost President, received a stunning vindication from the Nobel Committee for his Paul Revere campaign about global warming. "The Earth has a fever, and the fever is rising," Gore said in his Nobel lecture in Oslo, Norway, in December as he accepted the Peace Prize, which he shared with the scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "The experts have told us it is not a passing affliction that will heal by itself. We asked for a second opinion -- and a third -- and a fourth -- and the consistent conclusion, restated with increasing distress, is that something basic is wrong. We are what is wrong, and we must make it right."
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| The Bush Administration’s Two Minds on the Environment |
| 2007-12-22 13:57:00 |
Everyone knows by now that the Bush Administration on Wednesday night denied California and its Republican governor permission to proceed with an ambitious plan to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and SUV’s.The administration argued, misleadingly, that California’s plan was unnecessary because the same reductions would be achieved in the new energy bill (they won’t). And it argued, disingenuously, that state mandates are inferior to a national mandate (which of course is the one thing the administration does not want).
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| Fix environment without U.S., Gore tells climate change summit |
| 2007-12-15 00:51:00 |
NUSA DUA, Indonesia -The Bush administration is the main obstacle to progress in international efforts to fight global warming, but the rest of the world should move on without it, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said Thursday night during a special appearance at the United Nations climate change summit."I am not an official of the United States and I am not bound by the diplomatic niceties," said Gore in an emotional speech to delegates that lasted close to an hour. "So I am going to speak an inconvenient truth: My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali. We all know that."
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| 'Everything we do can harm the environment' |
| 2007-12-08 00:58:00 |
While Indonesia's climate change delegation gather at the UN conference in Bali, many organizations in Jakarta are holding environmental campaigns, including tree seedling give-aways and planting activities. But while the world is watching the creation of a roadmap for a new international agreement on environment protection, many people continue to disregard important climate change management messages. Much of the city's population continue to dispose of their garbage into river systems, or exploit the city's groundwater, or build commercial premises on water catchment areas. So The Jakarta Post hit the streets this week to find out how to involve more people in environmental and climate change management practices.
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| Arab business leaders vow to preserve ecology |
| 2007-12-01 10:33:00 |
ABU DHABI – Arab business leaders have promised to take positive action against environmental damage at a conference held here yesterday.The Arab Corporate Environmental Responsibility Summit, attended by business leaders from the region, environmentalists and United Nations experts, concluded with a declaration on corporate environmental responsibility and cleaner production.“Being aware of the magnitude of environmental challenges facing the Arab region and the world, realising that low-carbon will be the economy of the future and recognising that taking the environment fully into account is key to achieving sustainable development,” the business leaders said in the declaration and resolved to take concrete steps in preserving and conserving the
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| Mexico Funds Will Protect Butterflies |
| 2007-11-26 12:49:00 |
President Felipe Calderon unveiled a sweeping plan Sunday to curb logging and protect millions of monarch butterflies that migrate to the mountains of central Mexico each winter, covering trees and bushes and attracting visitors from around the world.The plan will put $4.6 million toward additional equipment and advertising for the existing Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, covering a 124,000-acre swathe of trees and mountains that for thousands of years has served as the winter nesting ground to millions of orange- and black-winged monarch butterflies.
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| Plastic carrier bags should be restricted for clean environment |
| 2007-11-20 02:01:00 |
BEIJING, Nov. 19 -- We find the trail of plastic "flags" lining our main railroads embarrassing. We hate to see plastic bags flying in our face on windy days, or those permanently stuck on tree branches. Disposable plastic carrier bags we take home from shopping trips are a main source of such "white pollution". An obvious solution to it, therefore, is to reduce our use of such environmentally harmful packaging. This is both reasonable and simple.
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| Climate Panel Debates Warming Document |
| 2007-11-15 02:26:00 |
VALENCIA, Spain (AP) — A U.N. climate change conference argued over words and phrases Wednesday in drafting a scientific report that will guide governments for years to come on their global warming policies.One dispute involving the U.S. delegation centered on whether human activity could lead to "abrupt or irreversible" effects on the Earth's climate, said participants in the meeting.
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| China needs to double ecology protection efforts in Three Gorges Reservoir area |
| 2007-11-10 14:10:00 |
Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan has urged the governments of Chongqing Municipality and Hubei Province to double efforts in treating geological disasters and protecting the ecology in the Three Gorges Reservoir area. He was speaking during a field survey on the construction, operation and management of the world's largest water conservancy project launched in 1993 involving a budget investment of 180 billion yuan (22.5 billion U.S. dollars). Claiming the project had brought benefits in flood prevention, power generation and shipping, Zeng said all enterprises participating in the project should beware of production accidents, improve production safety and produce local ecology.
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| Global warming hurts |
| 2007-11-05 01:38:00 |
There is now “visible and unequivocal” evidence of the impacts of climate change, and consensus that human activities have been decisive in this change: global average temperatures have risen by about 0.7°C since 1906.A best estimate for this century’s rise is expected to be between a further 1.8°C and 2°C. Some scientists believe a 2°C increase in the global mean temperature above pre-industrial levels is a threshold beyond which the threat of major and irreversible damage becomes more plausible.
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| New eco-friendly cemetery opens |
| 2007-11-01 12:25:00 |
The first environmentally-friendly woodland burial site has been consecrated in the Forth Valley.The new £40,000 cemetery in Killearn, in rural Stirling, will have 700 lairs and will not feature headstones.Only coffins made of biodegradable material like cardboard and wicker will be used for burials.
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| Fires may have long-term consequences for California's landscape |
| 2007-10-27 16:38:00 |
The wind-driven infernos that are scarring vast swaths of Southern California's landscape may leave more than just a temporary path of destruction when they are finally extinguished.Because they have struck some regions still trying to recover from recent burns, the wildfires could leave a legacy of environmental devastation that will be evident for years to come. Some of it may never be reversed.Scientists say the changes could be profound, especially in areas that have been scorched multiple times in recent years.
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| Ecology fines port on light-rail project |
| 2007-10-24 11:44:00 |
The state Department of Ecology has fined the Port of Seattle and two contractors $20,000 for water quality violations at Sea-Tac International Airport.Ecology found that the port, which operates the airport, and the contractors allowed four releases of muddy stormwater from Sea-Tac north expressway project into storm systems that drain to Gilliam Creek and Des Moines Creek.The violations occurred in November and December 2006, and January and August this year.
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| UN climate chief urges action on global warming |
| 2007-10-19 12:38:00 |
TOKYO (AFP) — The head of the UN climate panel that shared the Nobel Peace Prize last week said Thursday there was still time for the world to turn around the global warming trend as he visited Japan for talks.Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told a press conference the Nobel prize committee's decision showed it believed climate change was a threat to world peace."This clearly indicates that they are aware of the fact that if we don't do something about the problem, peace and stability can be threatened," said the Indian scientist.
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| The climate is right for Al Gore's Nobel Prize |
| 2007-10-14 17:34:00 |
Compared to the U.S. presidency, it might feel like a consolation prize.But take a bow, Al Gore. You have every right to bust your buttons over this shiny new Nobel.I know a thing or two about prizes. Like almost anyone who's worked in the news business for 15 minutes or more, I've won an armload of them. Hardly any are worth the brass, glass, crystal or wood they're made of.
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| Greenpeace Urges Indonesia to Stop Forest Destruction |
| 2007-10-10 07:33:00 |
Indonesia must stop the destruction of its rainforests and commit to a moratorium on conversion of peat swamp forests into farmland, Greenpeace said on Tuesday.Indonesia had the fastest pace of deforestation in the world between 2000-2005, destroying an area of forest the size of 300 soccer pitches every hour, according to the environment group. The Greenpeace appeal came ahead of a UN climate change summit in December, where participants from 189 countries are expected to gather in Bali to discuss a new deal to fight global warming. The existing pact, the Kyoto Protocol, runs out in 2012.
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| Climate change disaster is upon us, warns UN |
| 2007-10-05 19:47:00 |
A record number of floods, droughts and storms around the world this year amount to a climate change "mega disaster", the United Nation's emergency relief coordinator, Sir John Holmes, has warned. Sir John, a British diplomat who is also known as the UN's under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said dire predictions about the impact of global warming on humanity were already coming true. "We are seeing the effects of climate change. Any year can be a freak but the pattern looks pretty clear to be honest. That's why we're trying ... to say, of course you've got to deal with mitigation of emissions, but this is here and now, this is with us already," he said.
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