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[Beyond the blur in realtime] Wipro supporting a low carbon economy with WWF: Some of the areas of joint work would be related to IT solutions as drivers for low carbon economy such as virtual meeting enablers, environment friendly ICT products, devices and systems that drive energy efficiency of a variety of economic assets and advocacy for ecologically sustainable standard practices in the IT industry. Other areas of joint work would include optimizing the ecological footprint of Wipro’s own operations and biodiversity conservation through pilots on Wipro’s campuses and WWF priority sites.

[New America Blogs - New Voices, Innovative Ideas, Post-Partisan Policy] Climate News Roundup: August 1 - August 7, 2008: JAPAN - EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS: Japan Environment Minister Calls For 25%-Plus Cut In Emissions 8/5/2008 - Japan should aim to have its greenhouse gas emissions down by more than 25% from the 1990 level around the 2020-30 period, Environment Minister Tetsuo Saito said Monday.  "I would like to make an announcement at the appropriate time next year," Saito said in reference to setting a medium-term greenhouse gas emissions reduction target for the country.  On the carbon credit trading system that is to launch in October on a trial basis, Saito said: "We need to create a full-scale system that is linked with the world's markets by 2012, which is when the Kyoto Protocol expires."

[Asia Portal - In Focus] China’s involvement in climate change mitigation: “Climate change mitigation in developing countries. Brazil, China, India, Mexico, South Africa, and Turkey.” PEW Center on Global Climate Change, available at http://www.pnl.gov/aisu/pubs/CCMitDevCo.pdf ...

[Latest News] Swaminathan nurtures his foundation to adulthood: MSSRF has also pioneered a gene bank development in India for cereals, pulses and herbal medicines, and has a Genetic Resource Centre since 1990, which has been studying climate change and sea level rise for nearly two decades now. It has engineered a series of salinity-resistant crops and done pioneering research in use of radio-elements to create salt resistant mutants of rice, mangroves and several other crops.

 [The Way Things Break] Avoiding the “”˜technology trap’ trap”: When I finally decided to listen instead of spout, Natalie told me about her particular interest in the use of technology to empower people towards their own, non-governmental responses to climate change. How can technology be put in the hands of people so they can save the earth without waiting for the politicians to finally realize we have an emergency on our hands?

[Latest News] Here comes an eco-friendly cookbook: Pachauri, and former member of the Indian cricket team Ajay Jadeja. Maxine Olson, the resident representative of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), was also present on the occasion.

 [earthnews] India develops a ”˜policy framework’ to deal with climate change: Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a climate change skeptic and the leading Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, seized on when the report was released. The senator’s Web site features the quote prominently, as well as news analyses criticizing India for refusing to accept targets.

[Canopy Meg's Blog] 5th International Canopy Conference 2009: Forest canopies also provide goods and services to support diverse human activities. Thus interactions between forests and humanity offer opportunities to explore sustainable use of such resources, particularly for sustaining local livelihoods.

 [1read's Weblog] THE WORLD today!: willingness to take a partial loss on loan/s, an overhaul of the Federal Housing Administration, stronger regulations of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, giving them a permanent authority to increase home loans from $417.000 to $625.000, $15 Billion in housing-related tax incentives, including a refundable tax credit of up to $7.500 or 10% of the purchase price for first home owners on purchase of unoccupied housing to slow the fall of plunging home prices, an amount of $150 Million to expand counseling for borrowers to prevent foreclosure, establishing stricter disclosure rules and payment requirements for lenders, a Housing Trust Fund of $5 Billion to cover expenses related to the foreclosure rescue plan for three years to be used to create affordable rental housing, financial councelling and mortgage restructuring, and a $3,9 Billion emergency aid to stabilize hard-hit communities by purchasing vacant and foreclosed properties. The long-sought housing relief legislation, raising the national debt ceiling to $10,6 Trillion to accomodate rescue plan for the mortgage companies, existing already federal debt of $9,5 Trillion, made its final passage overwhelmingly through the Senate and was signed into law by President Bush early Wednesday. To stabilize troubled housing companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with a combined capital structure of about $83 Billion, debts of more than $1,5 Trillion, exposures of more than $5,3 Trillion and unprecedented losses of $11 Billion in the last nine months, expecting heavy new quarterly losses as foreclosures continue and housing crisis will last into 2009, suffering both firms increasingly under-capitalisation, the Treasury Department took two steps, which could cost over $25 Billion for the next two years, but according to the IMF upwards of $100 Billion, making plans to increase the amount they can borrow from the Government and enabling the Government to directly invest in the firms if conditions get worse, suggesting the creation of a new regulatory agency the Federal Housing Finance Agency, authorizing the Federal Reserve separately direct lending to the two companies if necessary, - important emergency measures forming now an essential part of the new housing rescue law. Meanwhile home loan rates approached their highest levels in 5 years, reaching the average rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages 6,71%.

 [Cambridge Forecast Group Blog] CLIMATE CHANGE INDIA: CSE: 6th State of India’s Environment - a citizens’ report Rich lands, poor people: Is sustainable mining possible? * Mine No More: A tabloid. =============================. Editorial: The mean world of climate change (By Sunita Narain) ...

[Energy Tough Love Blog] So What Do The Children Have To Say About The Environmental Rapists?: Despite the US Government’s decision not to sign the Kyoto Protocol,students take action for clean energyUSA - Sundance Festival

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