Climate change spurs fevers, report says
...spreads mosquitoes that carry the diseases and climate-change refugees start to migrate. A new report titled “The Sting of Climate Change,“ said recent data suggested that since the 1970s, climate change had contributed to 150,000 more deaths every year from...
Source: Globe and Mail
Latest business challenge is climate change
...of life as once-vast ice fields are reduced to open patches of ocean. John Streicker, former executive director, Northern Climate Exchange, showed photographs that track the drastic recession of the Arctic ice cap since the 1970s. The cap shrank 25 per cent...
Source: Vancouver Sun
What climate change? Meltdown trumps fears at APEC
...beginning with a dinner Thursday, are rock-bottom. The Pacific Economic Cooperation Council announced Wednesday that climate change was the summit's No. 7 priority, based on an annual survey of regional government officials, business people and academics....
Source: Miami Herald
The PIF and the EU Unite Against Climate Change
...Union join up to act against climate change The Pacific Island Forum and the EU have endorsed a joint Declaration on climate change that outline their common concerns for global warming and their common interest for an ambitious post Kyoto international agreement. With...
Source: Scoop - New Zealand News
Storms 'point to climate change'
...as those in Queensland this week, are an indicator of climate change. Picture: Marc Robertson Extremes consistent with climate change November usually a dry month for region Big storms a 'once-in-20-years event' ONE of Australia's leading climatologists has...
Source: NEWS.com.au
Doyle signs global climate change pact
...unleash the entrepreneurial spirit of Wisconsin,” Doyle said. “By working together with global partners, we will develop climate change strategies that will save us money, create jobs, help secure our world and improve our air and water,” said Doyle. Signers...
Source: Business Journal of Milwaukee
Gov. Schwarzenegger opens global climate change summit
...these negotiations and help lead the world toward a new era of global cooperation on climate change,\" Obama said. Tackling climate change can create millions of new jobs as the U.S. invests in technologies to promote solar and wind power, biofuels and cleaner...
Source: Daily Breeze
Act now on climate change, IUCN urges governments
...20, 2008 - IUCN is calling on governments at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland, to make strong commitments to reduce carbon emissions in the short-term, not just the long-term. \"Despite the current economic crisis, we want governments...
Source: YubaNet
UN climate change chief hails Obama commitments
...all of the countries in these negotiations,» he told The Associated Press. Obama on Tuesday issued a video message to a climate change conference held in California by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, saying he would establish annual targets to reduce U.S. carbon...
Source: PR-Inside.com
UN climate change chief hails Obama commitments
...the 2020 deadline Obama set for the United States. Scientists gathered by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warn that world temperatures could increase by up to 6 degrees Celsius by 2100 unless nations reduce their emissions. U.N. climate...
Source: Centre Daily Times
Climate-Change Extravaganzas Underway
...in transition” responsible for the '90s decline in world emissions rose 7.6 percent. Officials hope that next month's Climate Change Conference in Poznan will set the stage for an international climate-change deal at next year’s conference in Copenhagen –...
Source: Sierra Club Blog
Storms 'point to climate change'
... He cautioned against reading too much into the storms, saying that a series of events by themselves did not \"prove\" climate change one way or the other. Weather bureau records show that Brisbane generally has 11 rainy days during the month of November, but...
Source: Adelaide Now
Lawyers 'sprint' to be ready on climate change
...change is bad for the environment, but it may be good for business. Very, very good. \"Climate change is the growth sector,\" says Charles Campbell, chief financial officer at Superior Credit Union in Thunder Bay. \"Renewable energy has never been more economically...
Source: Financial Post
Big Brands Form Climate Change Business Coalition
...investing in climate-based solutions, especially “green-collar” jobs in low-income communities and others vulnerable to climate change’s economic impact. 7. Require 20 percent of electricity to be generated from renewable energy sources by 2020, and 30 percent...
Source: Environmental Leader
Africa agrees on climate change
... Friday, November 21, 2008 ALGIERS: African countries adopted late on Wednesday a united front on climate change, as efforts get underway to negotiate a replacement to the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, an Algerian official said. There...
Source: The News
South Africa: 'Slow Wake-Up' to Climate Change
...November 2008 The private sector had been slower than some of its overseas counterparts in appreciating the consequences of climate change for business, Environmental and Tourism Affairs Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said yesterday. He was marking the launch...
Source: AllAfrica.com
Pelosi Renews Markey’s Climate-Change Panel
...next year by Henry A. Waxman , D-Calif. Liberals feared that Dingell would not move aggressively enough to address climate change. The select committee has no legislative authority, but it has subpoena power to conduct investigations. Markey has held hearings...
Source: CQ Politics
Greenwatch: Malaria and dengue the sting in climate change
...Reuters Southeast Asia and South Pacific island nations face a growing threat from malaria and dengue fever as climate change spreads mosquitoes that carry the diseases and climate-change refugees start to migrate. A new report titled \"The Sting of Climate...
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Sun, Nike, Starbucks and More Meet for Climate Action
...is the direction in which we’re already quickly headed, and with President Elect Obama’s clearly voiced intent to work on climate change once in office, they’ll have all ears leaning their way. Nice of them to step up when it’s getting easy. Ahh, but we still...
Source: Treehugger
Obama promises leadership on climate change
...- Calling climate change an urgent challenge, President-elect Barack Obama promised Tuesday that Washington would take a leading role in combating it in the United States and throughout the world. \"My presidency will mark a new chapter in America's leadership...
Source: Santa Maria Times
Climate Change Helps Invasive Species Thrive
...that range northward because of climate change may be better at defending themselves against local enemies than native plants. So concludes a team of scientists including a University of Florida geneticist. The team's findings, reported in yesterday's online...
Source: RedOrbit
Obama Promises Leadership On Climate Change
...to invest in clean energy will have an ally in Washington. And any nation that's willing to join the cause of combating climate change will have an ally in the United States of America.\" Scientists, environmentalists and government and industry officials were...
Source: WNYW | Fox 5 New York
Tory climate change sceptics
...far assumed.\" David Heathcoat-Amory : \"The evidence in the Stern review relied heavily on the intergovernmental panel on climate change. I have read the bulk of both reports and I am aware of being in the presence of something similar to a secular religion...
Source: Times Online
Obama promises leadership on climate change
...- Calling climate change an urgent challenge, President-elect Barack Obama promised Tuesday that Washington would take a leading role in combating it in the United States and throughout the world. \"My presidency will mark a new chapter in America's leadership...
Source: Santa Maria Times
Climate change momentum fading
...somewhat,\" said Yuen Pau Woo, co-author of the report. \"You see the same shift in focus in the public away from climate change questions to questions of economic survival and growth,\" said Woo, president of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. The...
Source: Times of India
