Carbon cap and trade at risk as Japan considers climate bill
Tokyo, Japan: Japan is at risk of undermining its own recent commitments on carbon emissions reductions during a confused – and confusing – debate on forthcoming climate legislation, WWF said today.
WWF is calling on a high-level Cabinet Member Committee meeting regarding climate change on Thursday to stick with the already outlined absolute emissions reductions of 25 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 agreed under the Copenhagen Accord framework, and with the ‘cap and trade’ scheme outlined as a key mechanism
for achieving the target.
The climate bill, to be presented to the full cabinet including Prime Minister Hatoyama on Friday, is being criticized by heavy industry labour unions for possible job loss while some government ministries are promoting a carbon intensity framework for emissions reductions.
Intensity-based emissions trading schemes however seriously undermines the environmental integrity of the bill - absolute emissions would increase with production even[...]
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Accessing Climate Change Data and a Custom Panel Function for Filled Polygons
GCS Model Grids
Recently finished some collaborative work with Vishal, related to visualizing climate change data for the SEI. This project was funded in part by the California Energy Commission, with additional technical support from the Google Earth Team. One of the final products was an interactive, multi-scale Google Earth application, based on PostGIS, PHP, and R. Interaction with the KMZ application results in several presentations of climate projections, fire risk projections, urban population growth projections, and other related information. Charts are dynamically generated from the PostGIS database, and returned to the web browser. In addition, an HTTP-based interface makes it simple to download CSV-formatted data directly from the CEC server. Some of our R code seemed like a good candidate for sharing, so I have posted a complete example below-- illustrating how to access climate projection data from the CEC server, a couple custom functions for fancy lattice graphics, and more.
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Albuquerque Journal: Meet one of those fellows who worries about climate change, yet keeps tossing brickbats at those calling for big low-carbon rules now or yesterdayalready.
The Albuquerque Journal, bless its publisher’s heart, insists on trying to make a profit by not giving its product away entirely free on the internet. But the hurdles to reaching stories are not all that high and well worth it for this one. Science writer John Fleck has a front page column called A Third [...]
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Climate Change: Who Pays for Emissions in Global Trade?
Time Magazine: Popularly, China is a villain in climate change. Many people who attended last year's chaotic U.N. climate-change talks in Copenhagen -- especially those who belonged to the U.S. delegation -- singled out China as the main reason the summit nearly collapsed. Chinese diplomats ... — full article at time.com
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Resource Conservationist (State Climate Change Specialist) - Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service - Modesto, CA
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U.K. academy to review UN climate change science - Vancouver Sun
s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) acknowledged in January its report had exaggerated the pace of ... The Royal Society is a member of the InterAcademy Council," Hartnett added, referring to a grouping of the world's science academies ...
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EU to push world powers on fast-start climate funding
Brussels - European Union finance ministers are to urge world powers to stick to their word and come up with 10 billion dollars of funding this year to help poor states fight climate change when they meet in Brussels on Tuesday. The EU, Japan and the...
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Reuters: Japan weakens climate bill, pressured by industry
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan watered down legislation to fight climate change Thursday after weeks of wrangling within the government over plans for an emissions trading system that has met stiff resistance from industry.
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Obama pushes climate change in White House meeting
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Reuters - President Barack Obama, weighing in on the Senate's efforts to pass a climate change bill, gathered Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday to try to jumpstart an overhaul of U.S. energy policy.
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United Nations review of how world assesses risk of climate change
The head of the United Nations (UN) has announced a review of how the world
examines the risk of global warming following a series of scandals around
the science of climate change.
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