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Thu, 11 Mar 10
Deforestation conference to turn plans to action
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100310/ap_on_re_eu/eu_climate_forests
Associated Press: French President Nicolas Sarkozy will open a daylong conference Thursday of some 40 nations to start turning plans into action to save the world's forests and help rein in the noxious gases blamed for climate change. Ministers from countries of the Amazon and Congo river basins and Indonesia -- whose massive forests, most at risk, are at the heart of efforts to end deforestation -- were among those attending the one-day conference. A follow-up meeting is scheduled for May in Oslo, ...

Thu, 11 Mar 10
China to stick to climate change stand, expects India to follow suit
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/China-to-stick-to-climate-change-stand-expects-India-to-follow-suit/articleshow/5668686.cms
Times of India: China said it will not deviate from its stand on climate change even after it gave qualified approval to the Copenhagen climate accord on Tuesday. It expects India to stick to its stand as well, a senior Chinese official said on Wednesday. "In future negotiations and cooperation on climate change, we will continue to be good partners. The government of India and China have signed an MOU enhancing our climate partnership," Xie Zhenhua, vice minister of the National Development and ...

Thu, 11 Mar 10
Solar power could provide 10% of US energy: report
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100310/sc_afp/uscongresspoliticssolarenergy
Agence France-Presse: The United States could source 10 percent of its electricity from solar power by 2030, a report said Tuesday, winning support from a US lawmaker who wants to boost the number of US solar panels. The report, produced by the independent environmental group Environment America, was presented to Congress with backing from Senator Bernie Sanders who in February introduced legislation to install 10 million solar panels across the United States within a decade. Sanders praised the ...

Thu, 11 Mar 10
World's top scientists to review climate panel
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100310/ap_on_sc/un_sci_climate_panel
Associated Press: At a tumultuous time in U.N.-led climate negotiations, one of the world's most credible scientific groups agreed Wednesday to plug the recent cracks in the authoritative reports of the United Nations' Nobel Prize-winning global warming panel. "We enter this process with no preconceived conclusions," said Robbert Dijkgraaf, a Dutch mathematical physicist who co-chairs the group, the InterAcademy Council of 15 nations' national academies of science. U.N. Secretary-General Ban ...

Thu, 11 Mar 10
Scientists to review climate body
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8561004.stm
BBC: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the world's science academies to review work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Work will be co-ordinated by the Inter-Academy Council, which brings together bodies such as the UK's Royal Society. The IPCC has been under pressure over small errors in its last major assessment of climate science in 2007. Mr Ban said the overall concept of man-made climate change was robust, and action to curb emissions badly ...

Thu, 11 Mar 10
UK academy aids study to regain climate data trust
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6292PZ20100310?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29
Reuters: Britain's science academy said on Wednesday it would take part in a review of U.N. climate science intended to restore trust after a 2007 report was found to have exaggerated evidence for global warming. "I can confirm that we are one of the parties (on the review panel)," Bill Hartnett, a spokesman for The Royal Society, said. The independent review will be launched at the United Nations headquarters late on Wednesday in New York. The U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on ...

Thu, 11 Mar 10
Feed-in tariff 'killing off' burgeoning UK small turbine industry
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/10/feed-in-tariffs-turbine-solar
Guardian: UK small wind turbine manufacturers say they will lose out to foreign solar panel manufacturers in the race to cash in on the UK government's new feed-in tariff scheme. They claim their products will be penalised because solar panel owners will receive higher government subsidies than wind turbine buyers. As the arrangement stands, a wind turbine would qualify for 26.7-34.5p per KWh in government subsidies, while solar panels would typically bring in 41p per KWh. Turbine ...

Thu, 11 Mar 10
Are new biofuels the ethical answer?
http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/are-new-biofuels-the-ethical-answer-.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment
SciDev.Net: New biofuels offer a sustainable source of energy but we must consider the ethical and social implications, say Joyce Tait and Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka. Biofuels were first pioneered in the early days of car manufacturing. Cheap fossil fuels soon overtook them as our fuel of choice, but concerns about climate change have revived interest in them -- global biofuel production doubled between 2000 and 2007, and is expected to double again by 2011. 'First generation' biofuels, ...

Thu, 11 Mar 10
China unsure on warming cause, to stick with CO2 cuts
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62924T20100310?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29
Reuters: China's top climate negotiator said on Wednesday that the cause of global warming was still not clear but the problems it was creating were so serious that the world must anyway act to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Xie Zhenhua, vice-chairman of the powerful National Development and Reform Commission, also warned the United States it should not use domestic divisions over climate change as an excuse to pass its responsibilities off onto other countries. "There are still two ...

Thu, 11 Mar 10
'Famine marriages' just one byproduct of climate change
http://australia.to/2010/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1418:rights-famine-marriages-just-one-byproduct-of-climate-change&catid=94:breaking-news&Itemid=156
Inter Press Service: The negative fallout from climate change is having a devastatingly lopsided impact on women compared to men, from higher death rates during natural disasters to heavier household and care burdens. In the 1991 cyclone disasters that killed 140,000 in Bangladesh, 90 percent of victims were reportedly women; in the 2004 Asian Tsunami, an estimated 70 to 80 percent of overall deaths were women. And following the 2005 Hurricane Katrina in the United States, African-American women, ...