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[TODAY PRESS RELEASES] EUROPA - Press Releases - Commission to provide €200 million for ...: The project aims to engage directly with general public and more specifically with farmers through on-farm bird surveys, a network of demonstration farms and a Biodiversity Award scheme, in order to raise awareness of the EU Birds Directive and promote positive land management. The objective is to create a positive profile for the Birds Directive among participating farmers and members of their local communities, as well as more widely among farmers and the public, through and media activities highlighting the importance of protecting both rare and widespread farmland birds.

[Climate JUSTICE!] Saving Kyoto - Climate JUSTICE!: Under the Bali Action Plan, which the US agreed to, it is required to take on comparable efforts to other Annex I countries under the Kyoto Protocol. (The details are being worked out in the AWG-LCA negotiations.) This is the concession the international community has already granted to the US, which should really just join the rest of the world in becoming a Party to the Kyoto Protocol, not least because it the biggest historical emitter of greenhouse gases and continues to be among the most polluting on an absolute and per-capita basis.

[EU Energy Policy Blog] Bubbles in the computation of carbon emission caps by EU Energy ...: Nordel annual reports show that Swedish hydro generation is also quite variable, which is important for a hydro/thermal electricity system. Specifically the standard deviation (a common measure of variability) of hydro generation over a five-year period (that is after taking into account that different factors “generally balance each other”) is roughly equivalent (at 1 ton of CO2/1 Mwh) to the reduction of emissions imposed on Sweden!

[IISD Linkages] AWG-LCA 7 AND AWG-KP 9 HIGHLIGHTS - Monday, 2 November 2009 ...: POTENTIAL CONSEQUENCES: The Gambia, on behalf of the AFRICAN GROUP, supported by ALGERIA, EGYPT, BOLIVIA and VENEZUELA called for all contact groups under the AWG-KP to be suspended until conclusion of work by the contact group on Annex I emission reductions. The EU expressed regret with the African Group’s proposal, highlighting that it is not realistic for one contact group to work faster than another.

[Carbon Finance] Doha failure could slow climate talks - observers: Matthew Stilwell, managing director at the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, cautioned that the WTO failure could see some delegations try to include trade issues in the climate change talks, potentially slowing the process.

[eScholarship Repository] eScholarship: Nuclear Energy Governance and the Politics of Social ...: the French government as a response to the Kyoto Protocol adjustment requirements indicates that nuclear energy saves citizens from additional environmental taxation; the internalization of externalities through governmental funds rather than an emissions trading system does not transpose the social cost equally to all strata, but it confines it within formal political institutions.

[TODAY PRESS RELEASES] EUROPA - Press Releases - Emissions trading: Commission welcomes ...: Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said: "Greenhouse gas emissions frominternational air transport are increasing faster than from any other sector inthe EU, and this growth threatens to undermine our overall progress in cuttingemissions. This agreement will enable the aviation sector to make a faircontribution to Europe's climate change targets as many other sectors arealready doing.

[Mr. Conservative] Mr. Conservative » It's Getting Colder: Thousands of scientists believe the Kyoto Protocol is based on fiction. The Russian Academy of Sciences concluded, “The Kyoto Protocol has no scientific foundation.” In the opinions of Russian and many other weather scientists, .

[Thomas Paine's Corner] Senator James Inhofe: Top Terrorist Threat to Planet Earth ...: Appropriating the work of meteorologist Tom Wigley, for example, Inhofe attributed to him his own belief that the Kyoto Protocol merited no U.S. support because it would have a miniscule long-term impact on climate change. Outraged by this misrepresentation, Wigley complained in a letter to senators Tom Daschle and Bill Frist that his real position was not that the Kyoto Protocol is futile and unworthy of support, but that it is only the first of many vital steps that the U.S. and world nations must take collectively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on fossil fuels.

[Open Europe Daily Press Summary] Open Europe - independent think tank calling for radical reform of ...: According to reports in Le Monde, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon is ready to step in and become President of the European Commission should Jose Manuel Barroso fail to be re-elected by MEPs next week, or if a second rejection of the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland leads to calls for a change of leadership at the European Commission. The Economist’s Charlemagne blog describes the story as ”˜a nuclear strike at Barroso’, and highlights Le Monde’s analysis that the prospect of Fillon’s candidacy would make members of the centre-right European People’s Party hesitate before voting for Mr Barroso, whom they had previously felt forced to vote for due to the lack of an alternative.

[Norton Rose Group - All custom feed] Norton Rose Group - UNFCCC global climate change negotiations blog ...: The Bangkok Talks started early for the Norton Rose Group team, with a presentation to many of the key Government negotiators from around the world, scheduled to be made at the Australian delegation’s International Climate Change Architecture Seminar at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre. Norton Rose Group was one of a handful of private sector organisations invited and able to attend this event.

[Climate Thinkers Blog] Unlocking the climate change problem - COP15 United Nations ...: Anthony Patt, Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria 31/07/2009 11:55The factory owner could install technology that would stop some or all of the pollution, but doesn’t, because the costs of the killed fish are external to his balance sheet. The simplest and most efficient way to solve this problem, the textbook demonstrates, is to internalize these costs.

[Bits] Coming Soon: A 40-Watt LED Light Bulb - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com: Since there are already fluorescent lights everywhere that needs to be lit in the daytime, i don’t see only 40 Watts as bring a problem since i don’t care to blind myself with light at night. And it’s not like since they invented this now you’re going to have to change every single light bulb everywhere to a 40 Watt LED.

[Watts Up With That?] Vaclav Klaus gets opt-out, EU clears hurdle to Lisbon treaty ...: “Proposals for legislative acts - regulations, directives and decisions - are normally prepared by the Commission department responsible for the dossier, which consults all the other departments whose work is related as well as the national authorities, interested parties and other stakeholders in the EU countries. At the end of the process, the proposal is formally adopted by the college of commissioners.

[Comments for Climate Audit] Back from Georgia Tech « Climate Audit: Got it now, only one transpose is incorrect, numerator should be \rho ^ T C_{yy} \rho ( skipped P-matrix, that shouldn't make any difference anyway ). The fact that Mann scales Ys by detrended std makes verification of these equations a bit difficult .

[Talking Philosophy] Talking Philosophy | My Ethical Garden: However, taking a deep interest in the way science and politics relate made me wonder how ”˜science’ can turn into moral imperatives, and I became sceptical of the claims made by environmentalists (as distinct from climate scientists). I do not believe that the scientific evidence of anthropogenic climate change necessarily creates any new ethics, and so we can approach climate problems in many more ways than just taking it for granted that they must be prevented by dramatically altering the way we live (which is a contemporary form of the is-ought fallacy, in my view).

[RealClimate] RealClimate: Save the World! Earn $25 million!: A computerise controlled system to distribute the water to every tree planting is also needed like the Israel doing nowaday. Some type of tree which require fewer water and can get large money returned need to be developed through using gene technology nowaday or future.

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