Published on October 23rd, 2009
Now that the polar bear is about to receive over 128 million acres of critical habitat designation, the state of Alaska is taking legal action to challenge the decision.
Following the announcement that threatened polar bears are set to receive over 128 million acres of critical habitat designation, Alaska Governor Sean Parnell and Attorney General Dan Sullivan responded by taking legal action against federal protection of polar bears.
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags:
alaska,
Alaska Governor,
center for biological diversity,
Climate Change,
critical habitat designation,
Dan Sullivan,
endangered species,
endangered species act,
environment,
exploratory oil drilling,
global warming,
greenpeace,
lawsuit,
Natural Resources Defense Council,
oil development,
polar bear,
Sean Parnell
Published on October 22nd, 2009
File Photo: Hillary Clinton and the Indian Environment Minister in New Delhi
..and then takes a U-Turn the very next day!
In a reported letter to the Prime Minister of India, Mr. Jairam Ramesh, the Indian Environment Minister proposed a radical shift in India’s stand on climate change–away from its national position on climate negotiations–which India has backed since 1990 and which was defended robustly even in UN talks in Bangkok earlier this month.
Minutes after the news spread, political parties sitting in the opposition were quick to respond. Within the next few hours, the Environment Minister issued a clarifying statement for national media and the entire Nation!
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags:
annexe 1,
Climate Change,
climate policy,
COP,
COP15,
Copenhagen,
environment,
environmental politics,
global warming,
Hillary Clinton,
India,
india climate policy,
itc,
Kyoto,
USA
Published on October 18th, 2009
Chaired by President M. Nasheed, the Government of Maldives recently concluded the world’s first ever underwater cabinet meeting. The small island nation of Maldives will perhaps be the first country to go under water, if predictions based on climate change models come true.
The underwater meeting was called to raise this concern and put pressure on the West to act NOW, and for a fair deal at COP in Copenhagen this December. A day after the event, extensively covered by the media (View on: CNN | BBC), the Government of India has announced the setting up of a National institute for long-term research on climate change.
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags:
Climate Change,
climate instutute,
Climate Research,
COP,
COP15,
Copenhagen,
economics,
ecosystem service,
environment,
global warming,
India,
isro,
Jairam Ramesh,
Maldives
Published on October 10th, 2009
Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed has told his cabinet members to get ready for an underwater cabinet meeting later this month.
Maldives is a collection of islands and atolls in the Indian Ocean that is less than 2 meters above sea level. Therefore, it is the first country expected to go underwater due to climate change.
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags:
biosphere,
Climate Change,
climate conference,
global warming,
indian ocean,
islands,
Maldives,
tourism,
UN,
United Nations,
US
Published on October 7th, 2009
Following action by Nike, the nation’s leading utility company, and others, Apple resigned from the US Chamber of Commerce this week, and in force.
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags:
activism,
Apple,
Business,
Chamber of Commerce,
Climate Change,
climate change legislation,
climate legislation,
co2 emissions,
environmentalism,
EPA,
global warming,
greenhouse gas emissions,
Nike,
US Chamber of Commerce
Published on October 7th, 2009
Water scarcity resulting from climate change is the number one issue the world will have to grapple with in the future, according to chief climate scientist and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri.
On the one hand, we will have more water around us with sea level rising. On the other hand, though, drought caused by climate change will leave possibly billions of people without clean water.
This will cause great health and global security issues. Most of these problems will be caused by water imbalances.
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags:
africa,
Asia,
Brazil,
Canada,
carbon emissions,
clean water,
Climate Change,
co2,
conflict,
economy,
food,
global warming,
greenhouse gas emissions,
IPCC,
Latin America,
middle east,
Nobel Peace Prize,
Nobel Prize,
Pachauri,
peace,
Rajendra Pachauri,
Security,
United States,
US,
war,
water,
water resources,
water scarcity,
West,
western united states
Published on October 6th, 2009
Even as the world prepares for the grand climate meet at Copenhagen this December, a large part of South India has gone under water. And while talks have already begun on coming up with an equitable deal and the very fear that there may be none, over 300 people have already lost their lives while millions are displaced and missing in this global warming related freak weather event, predicted well in advance by the IPCC in its Fourth Assessment Report in 2007.
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags:
adaptation,
Climate Change,
COP,
Copenhagen,
drought,
emissions,
equity,
extreme weather,
flooding,
floods,
food security,
global warming,
greenhouse,
impacts,
IPCC,
south india,
UNFCCC
Published on October 6th, 2009
700 people stripped naked in French vineyards this week. Why? To try to influence world leaders to do more regarding climate change.
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags:
climate action,
Climate Change,
climate conference,
Copenhagen,
France,
G20,
global warming,
greenpeace,
Jintao,
Lula,
Merkel,
naked people,
Obama,
Sarkozy,
Tusk,
Zapatero
Published on October 4th, 2009
Nike just announced that it is leaving its position on the US Chamber of Commerce board of directors because of the business organization’s opposition to climate action.
Nike doesn’t beat around the bush on why it is leaving the board.
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags:
Business,
Chamber of Commerce,
climate,
climate action,
Climate Change,
climate legislation,
climate policy,
Congress,
EPA,
global warming,
Nike,
Senate,
US
Published on October 4th, 2009
A preliminary report issued last week by federal and local biologists and veterinarians from the U.S. Geographic Survey (USGS), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Alaska SeaLife Center and the North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management, found the 131 walruses likely died from being trampled to death by other walruses. The dead animals, mostly calves and yearlings, were spotted in September on Icy Cape on the Chukchi Sea, southwest of Barrow, Alaska. Read the rest of this entry »
