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[Health and Environment Alliance] European Parliament Agora on Climate Change, June 12 -13: is about the future of Europe and of the whole world. We must take our responsibility for the next generations, and the European Union must be the leader in this struggle", said European Parliament President Hans-Gert Pöttering, adding that "this Agora is the way the European Parliament wants to answer to those concerns and reinstitute a tradition from ancient Greece".
[Climate Action Blog] Climate News Roundup: June 30 - July 3, 2008: Canada and the U.S. are the worst countries in the G8 when it comes to taking effective measures to forestall the risk of rapid and uncontrolled climate change, according to an assessment of the major industrialized countries compiled by a European-based environmental consulting firm. Toronto Globe and Mail, Ontario.
[Global Labor Strategies] Labor Charts a New Course on China: There have been some previous attempts to create a dialogue with the ACFTU, particularly in the 1980s when China adopted a market economy and opened up to foreign investment. While some individual unions and Global Labor Federations have maintained contact over the years through various joint projects, most unions severed formal relations following the suppression of the pro-democracy movement in 1989.
[skyscrapercity] Canada - Australia Relations thread: The Prime Minister is expected to meet his Canadian counterpart, Stephen Harper, to discuss climate change on the sidelines of the G8 meeting, which will kick off today in the northern Japanese resort town of Toyako.
[SWJ Blog] 10 July SWJ News, Op-Ed, and Events Roundup: “Iran’s development of ballistic missiles is a violation of UN Security Council resolutions and completely inconsistent with Iran's obligations to the world,” White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said to reporters traveling with President Bush in Japan. “The Iranians should stop the development of ballistic missiles, which could be used as a delivery vehicle for a potential nuclear weapon, immediately.” The test “addresses the doubts raised by the Russians that the Iranians won’t have a longer-range ballistic missile for 10 to 20 years,” Defense Secretary Robert M.
[keit's blog] Can a Million Tons of Sulfur Dioxide Combat Climate Change?: On a recent morning in his Carnegie Institution office on the Stanford campus, he’s dressed casually in a sweater and jeans, eagerly examining results from a new climate model run that was designed to explore possible consequences of geoengineering. As Caldeira tinkers with the software, he jokes that his talent with computers basically ensured that he would spend more time in an office than out leading research expeditions.
[Newsletterarchive.org] Seattle Times Business Events Calendar: Education (WWEE) will host its 2008 Benefit Breakfast to recognize and celebrate the success achieved by WWEE graduates. At this fundraising event, breakfast guests will have the opportunity to hear WWEE graduate speakers share their personal stories of triumph over adversityReservations are required.
[crofty's blog] Political Issues: McCain–Introduced the Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2007 (with Joe Lieberman of Connecticut). The Act is designed to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions.
[Biodun Iginla's Weblog] From BBC News, London, UK: US and EU urged to cut biofuels: “The US and Europe also need to take action to reduce mandates, subsidies and tariffs benefiting grain and oil seed biofuels that take food off the table for millions,” he said.
[olyecology weblog] 369 - Earth's Tree News: They also sequester more atmospheric carbon to counteract climate change than second-growth forests do. In addition, old-growth forests are fundamental pillars of BC's multi-billion dollar tourism industry and are of great cultural .
[Blog Kwan] White House Press Briefing on G8 Summit in Toyako, Japan: With respect to Doha, we anticipate that the leaders will discuss the importance of achieving an ambitious conclusion to the Doha Round, focusing on the three market access pillars of the negotiation: agriculture, industrial goods, and services. The United States believes that the Doha negotiations have made progress in recent days, although there is much work ahead of us. The United States will continue our intensive efforts to resolve differences, and if other developed and major developing countries work with us in that spirit, we can achieve success.
[SWJ Blog] 8 July SWJ News, Op-Ed, and Events Roundup: India’s prime minister went to the Group of 8 summit meeting in Japan on Monday with his government intact and enough political strength to complete a landmark nuclear agreement with the United States, ending months of speculation that either his government or the agreement, on which he has staked his reputation, would collapse. The prime minister, Manmohan Singh, told reporters traveling with him to the summit meeting that his administration would “soon” complete an agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, though he did not offer a date, his spokesman, Sanjaya Baru, said here.
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