(December 6, 2009) The global carbon credit market will grow in leaps and bounds if government leaders attending this week’s climate change conference in Copenhagen commit to stiffer reduction targets for CO2 emissions. The value of the carbon market—currently worth as much as $126-billion—may grow to as much as $1.9 trillion by 2020.
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Water, the new green worry
(December 6, 2009) China’s woes on water have highlighted a another threat for business to solve.
Breach in the global-warming bunker rattles climate science at the worst time
(December 4, 2009) Leaked e-mails from Britain’s Climatic Research Unit threaten to undermine Copenhagen summit on carbon emissions.
A climate skeptic’s guide to fun and profit
(December 4, 2009) Donald Coxe pitches the most outrageous, politically incorrect investment idea of all: How to profit from global cooling
Beijing to hike water price to fight shortage: report
(December 2, 2009) Probe International, a leading development policy group, said in June last year that China’s capital could run out of water in five to 10 years, a situation that could lead to economic collapse.
Standing with the skeptics
(December 2, 2009) The correspondence I have received on Climategate — the leak two weeks ago of emails and computer files from Britain’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) that show global warming to be grossly misrepresented, if not an out-and-out fraud — can essentially be sorted into two categories: “Why isn’t this a bigger story?” or “Why does this matter?”
Carbon Credit Database
(December 2, 2009) The carbon credit market is quickly turning into one of the largest markets in the global economy. And as governments continue to step up their efforts to combat climate change, they’re increasingly turning to carbon credits as a means to do so.
Beijing announces water price hike
(December 2, 2009) The hike in Beijing’s water price aims to encourage conservation and recycling in a bid to ease water shortages in the city. By subsidizing low-income residents, officials say the price hike will not impose an excessive financial burden on ordinary people.
National Mekong Committee urged to take people-centered role on Mekong mainstream dams
(December 2, 2009) On the final day (December 1st) of the Mekong River Commission’s (MRC) call for public submissions to its Strategic Environmental Assessment on the Mekong mainstream dams, the Save the Mekong Coalition sent a letter to the Chairpersons of the National Mekong Committees (NMCs) of Lao PDR, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, urging for a strong and trusted consultative process at the national and local level on development options for the river, which guarantees the participation of all riparian communities who would be affected by the eleven dams proposed on the lower Mekong mainstream.
The Web Discloses Inconvenient Climate Truths
(November 30, 2009) For anyone who doubts the power of the Internet to shine light on darkness, the news of the month is how digital technology helped uncover a secretive group of scientists who suppressed data, froze others out of the debate, and flouted freedom-of-information laws.
Fair Prices for Farmers: Simple Idea, Complex Reality
Despite good intentions, most consumers who shop according to their social convictions don’t know how much of their money makes it to the people they hope to help. Critics say too many fair trade dollars wind up in the pockets of retailers and middlemen, including nonprofit organizations.
Ethiopia’s Tekeze Dam fiasco
(November 28, 2009) The recently completed Tekeze hydroelectric dam in Ethiopia is said to be the largest public works project in Africa. It also could turn in to the biggest blunder with disastrous environmental impact, as the investigative report below tries to illustrate. There is so much secrecy surrounding the project that it is not even clear who really paid for it, although the ruling Woyanne junta claims that it has provided all the funding.
Google’s climate ‘scholars’
(November 27, 2009) Methods used to tabulate the number of experts who are skeptical of climate change leave something to be desired.
100,000 face drinking water shortages in central China city
(November 27, 2009) The decline of water level in the Xiangjiang River, a major tributary of the Yangtze River, has affected the drinking water supply for more than 100,000 people in central China’s Xiangtan City.
How to Forge a Consensus
(November 26, 2009) The impression left by the Climategate emails is that the global warming game has been rigged from the start.
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