Update from Bali: `Roadmap’ May Call for 25-40% Emissions Cuts
Posted on December 8, 2007 - Filed Under climate crisis
Developed countries may be asked to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by as much as 40 percent by 2020 as part of a negotiating mandate for a new global climate change treaty, said a United Nations official overseeing talks in Bali, according to Bloomberg.
The conservative Wall Street Journal doesn’t think much of the conference.
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Read More..>>Hedge Funds and Greenhouse Gases
Posted on December 7, 2007 - Filed Under climate crisis
Much of the talk on hedge funds this year has been on the losses they have incurred from the sub-prime mortgage collapse. But here’s an interesting story from Reuters, on the new bets funds are making on greenhouse gas emissions. As representatives from 190 nations gather in Bali to decide on what should follow Kyoto, […]
Read More..>>And Then There Was One…
Posted on December 3, 2007 - Filed Under Africa, climate crisis
The United States is now the only major industrialized nation to not sign onto the Kyoto Protocol. The newly elected leader of Australia, Kevin Rudd, announced today his nation had signed onto the pact.
This announcement comes as the Bali Conference begins which seeks to create a road map for a new international agreement on […]