Green News 11/30
NWF has just released a new report (pdf) called Climate Change and Great Lakes Water Resources. According to the Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives Coalition:
A considerable portion of the report by Noah D. Hall, professor of law at Wayne State University and Bret B. Stuntz a Michigan attorney and geologist, focuses on a quickly shrinking ice cap in the Rockies and the melting of Greenland and the polar caps. These simultaneous events will significantly deplete the available fresh water.
In case you weren't already aware, coal is over.
Delegates from around the world will meet in Bali next week, to begin negotiations on a successor agreement to the Kyoto protocol. In advance, over 150 global business leaders have signed the Bali Communique, which calls for:
- a comprehensive, legally binding United Nations framework to tackle climate change
- emission reduction targets to be guided primarily by science
- those countries that have already industrialised to make the greatest effort
- world leaders to seize the window of opportunity and agree a work plan of negotiations to ensure an agreement can come into force post 2012 (when the existing Kyoto Protocol expires)
The Bali negotiations even have their own theme song.
Japan and China have just reached an agreement under which Japan will offer technical assistance to China in their efforts to reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
Naomi Klein explains how guns are beating green on Wall Street.
Bernies Sanders: Global Warming is Reversible:
As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism. It is a time for vision and international leadership. It is a time for transforming our energy system from the polluting and carbon-emitting technologies of the nineteenth century into the unlimited and extraordinary energy possibilities of the twenty-first. When we do that we will not only solve the global warming crisis; we will open up unimaginable opportunities for improving life all over the planet.
A new assessment from Mckinsey and Company, a leading management consulting firm, details more than 250 measures which would get us close to where we need to be in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The NRDC Switchboard has more.
Quick Hits
Study Details How US Could CUt 28% of GHGs
When Biofuel is Bad for the Environment
EPA Concerns Slow Fuel Economy Talks
EPA Notifies BP of Major Clean Air Violations
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