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The passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (Acesa) in the US House of Representatives on Saturday has been hailed by US President Barack Obama as a “historic” step. But even before the legislation becomes law, daggers have been drawn.
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Sunday,28 June, 2009 | Hits: 75
For India to preserve its crucial ecological system, it must look beyond endangered species’ protection
The upcoming dialogues on global warming and the state of the urban environment are grist for the mill in today’s media. But they ought not to detract from a critical dimension of the new century’s ecological dilemmas, one in which India will be a key arena.
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Thursday,18 June, 2009 | Hits: 111
Climate negotiations can succeed only if developed countries stop weaseling out of their historical culpability.
The Bonn climate talks ended last Friday with little to show by way of results. However, the deadline for agreement is December 2009 and in such negotiations, at this stage, we consider it progress if countries agree on what they disagree about. This seems to have happened and differences were consolidated into a form that allows the negotiation to move forward.
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Wednesday,17 June, 2009 | Hits: 114
What is climate change and why should we be concerned? Can i9t be used interchangeably with global warming? David Adam gives as all the answers.
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Monday,15 June, 2009 | Hits: 103
There in need to educate people about the importance of conserving natural resources for a prosperous tomorrow, writes Iftikar Rashid Wani.
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Sunday,14 June, 2009 | Hits: 106
Arindam Mukherjee details how you can add your might to the fight against global warming.
Every time you drive, fly, run appliances at home and keep your homes either heated or air-conditioned, you produce and emit carbon dioxide, trapping heart in the atmosphere. As society continues to increase its demand for electricity and fossil fuels, more greenhouse pollute air and add to the growing concern of global warming and if carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases continue to build up in the air, rising temperature will make life on earth virtually unbearable. Every year in the USA alone, over 32 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions are released into the air, over three-quarters of these into the created by burning fossil fuels for transportation.
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Tuesday,09 June, 2009 | Hits: 106
The stark reality of climate change hits us when we see a boulder saying gaumukh 1891. in just one hundred years the glacier has retreated by 2 kms.
It’s the new buzzword in the tourism industry — they call it ‘doomsday tourism’. The urge to see the natural wonders of the world before they are gone. Suddenly the number of people visiting the Arctic and the Antarctic to witness firsthand the icebergs falling is on the rise. I have similar plans but closer home.
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Friday,05 June, 2009 | Hits: 130
Open the United Nations environment Programme’s Web site and go to the page that deals with the World Environment Day. You will come across a ‘Do something Daily’ tip-Simple things you can do to protest the environment. One such message reads: “When you need a pad for lists and messages, turn over an old document and write on the back of the instead,” Simple, yet thought provoking. A gentle reminder for a whole lot of us who would not think twice about tearing off a sheet of paper from a pad or a notebook to scribble a brief message, to just a telephone number. One can almost hear a tree being felled-after all, wood is the key raw material for making paper.AMBITIOUS PROGRAMME:This message of the United nation Web site (www.unep.org/web/2009/english) ties in with an ambitious programme taken up by the UNEP to get countries and people to save and protect the environment. In 2007, UNEP launched a worldwide tree planting campaign under a theme titled ‘plant for the planet: Billion tree campaign.’ Then the UNEP set its sights even higher-it want to plant seven billion trees, one for every person on the planet, by the end of 2009. In this task, it wants governments, businesses, civil society, and the common people to sign on.The UNEP’s effort to involve as wide a section of the population as possible relates to this year’s theme for the World Environment Day itself: “Your planet needs you Unite to combat climate change.” Nearly six months after the World Environmental Day, all nations will meet in Copenhagen, Denmark, to discuss issues related to climate change. The leaders, it is hoped. Will hammer out at the December meeting an agreement that commits all concerned to achieving specified targets and goals....
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Thursday,04 June, 2009 | Hits: 93
The body seeks to reduce global CO2 emission from computers by 54 mm tons per annum or equivalent to the fumes from 11 million cars: A global movement started by Google and Intel in 2007 to reduce the carbon footprint of computers drastically has come to India.The Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI), a nonprofit group of eco-conscious consumers, business and conservation organizations that also include the likes of CSC, Dell, HP, Intel Lenovo and Microsoft, seeks to reduce the global CO2 emission from the operation of computer by 54 million tones per annum, That is the same as the annual output of 11 million cars or 10-20 coal-fired power plants, says the CSCI.
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Thursday,04 June, 2009 | Hits: 145
The slight woman in the slate-gray monk robe was taking a meditative walk in the woods when she happened upon bulldozers.She had spent more than a decade in solitude, leaving her rural monastery only for outings in the nearby forest, But this hike, on a spring day in 2001, was different. The harsh whine of the n-machines, their garish colors contrasting with the lush green of the woods, almost made her weep....
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Thursday,14 May, 2009 | Hits: 79
