AP: Carbon taxes, add-ons to international air fares and a levy on cross-border money movements…
Month: August 2010
U.N. climate finance group mulls tax on banks
Reuters: A U.N. climate finance group is studying funding sources to support countries vulnerable to…
Biofuel Study Looks At Cost To Wildlife, Environmental Diversity
redOrbit: Whether we can grow bio-energy crops such as switchgrass and forage sorghum isn’t the…
A ‘crystal ball’ for predicting the effects of global climate change
ScienceDaily: In trying to predict how species will respond to climate change caused by global…
80% of rainforests could adversely impacted by logging, deforestation, climate change by 2100
Mongabay: The world’s tropical forests may suffer large-scale degradation and deforestation by the end of…
Rainforest Life Faces Double Threat to Existence
LiveScience: It’s a case of pick your poison for nearly half of all the plants…
Investors ask oil majors for offshore drilling safety plans
Reuters: A group of investors including the two largest U.S. public pension funds asked 27…
Climate change could destroy 80 per cent of rainforest by next century
Telegraph: Rainforests currently hold more than half of all the plant and animal species on…
Russia: Vladimir Putin bans grain exports as drought and wildfires ravage crops
Guardian: Russia’s prime minister, Vladimir Putin, has announced a ban on grain exports after millions…
Setback to hopes of Tobin tax to pay for climate aid
Guardian: Much of the $100bn a year needed by 2020 to compensate poor countries for…