Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ Environmental organizations throughout the world say the World Bank is not fit to be the custodian of the billions of dollars being set aside by industrialised countries to combat climate change.
More than 140 organisations issued a statement in Poznan today in which they make it clear they do not trust the bank, [...]
Filed under: climate change, greenwash, power generation | No Comments »
Posted on December 8th, 2008 by Green Assembly
BANGKOK ~ Ancient techniques pioneered by pre-Columbian Amazonian Indians are about to be pressed into service in Britain and Central America in the most serious commercial attempt yet to reverse global warming, according to an article in the UK’s Independent newspaper.
Trials are to be started early nest year (2009), backed with venture capital from Silicon [...]
Filed under: carbon capture, climate change | No Comments »
Posted on December 5th, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ A coalition of US activists has launched a US$ multi-million campaign to debunk the myth that burning coal is clean.
The Reality Coalition, comprising the Alliance for Climate Protection, League of Conservation Voters, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Sierra Club, are uniting to tell the simple truth that there is [...]
Filed under: Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, coal | No Comments »
Posted on December 4th, 2008 by Green Assembly
TOKYO ~ The UN’s climate change body has suspended one of its leading auditing companies after a spot check revealed ‘irregularities’.
Currently hosting climate change talks in Poland, the UNFCCC has found that Norway’s Det Norske Veritas (DNV) is guilty of “non-conformity” in carrying out work in the name of the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
CDM [...]
Filed under: United Nations, carbon emissions, climate change | No Comments »
Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ Indonesia’s president is reneging on the promise he made to halve his country’s greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation by 2009, environmentalists said today.
At the July 2008 Hokkaido G8 meeting, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made a commitment to reduce his country’s greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation by 50 percent within 18 months.
“Six months [...]
Filed under: Indonesia, coal, deforestation, oil palm, palm oil | No Comments »
Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by Green Assembly
YOKOHAMA ~ The UN’s International Tropical Timber Council (ITTC) has announced funding of US$8.6 million to help reduce deforestation in the tropics in addition to the $3.1 million committed earlier this year bringing the total pledged in 2008 to a staggering $11.7 million.
The ITTC announced the news in a statement which also revealed that only [...]
Filed under: carbon trading, deforestation, palm oil | 1 Comment »
Posted on December 1st, 2008 by Green Assembly
JAKARTA ~ International proposals to protect forests as a way of stopping climate change could displace 1.6 billion people and will also fail to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, campaigners warn.
From today until 12 December, the Polish city of Poznań is hosting crucial United Nations climate talks amidst fears that forest carbon trading will [...]
Filed under: Indonesia, climate change, deforestation, forests | No Comments »