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COPENHAGEN, Nov 20 (IPS/IFEJ) - Whether a new internationally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse gases and forestall climate change will be signed next month remains to be seen. What is clear though, is that if there is a...
U.S. President Barack Obama tours the Great Wall in Badaling, China on Wednesday, November 18. This is a CAP repost by Julian L. Wong and Andrew Light . The United States and China announced on Tuesday a package of cooperative...
China Raises Nonresidential Electricity Rates; More Hikes Planned, To Promote Energy Saving (AP) SHANGHAI (AP) - China raised electricity rates for businesses and industries Friday, part of a long-term effort to adjust prices...
The prospect of shivering through another January without gas for heating fills many people in Eastern Europe with understandable horror. Yet, a fight is shaping up between Russia and Ukraine that could leave them without vital...
George Monbiot's latest article on peak oil is introduced thus: "It’s probably too late to prepare for peak oil, but we can at least try to salvage food production." Of course governments are doing nothing to transition to the...
Notice of motion I move that the Senate: a) Notes that: i. Neither the former Howard government nor the Rudd government implemented the first recommendation of the 2007 Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee...
by: Brendan Coffey November 19, 2009 | about: Looking back at each of the past four decades, there was one sector that would have been the “home run” sector to be invested in. Other areas provided good returns to be sure, but...
NEW YORK - A global sell-off on equity markets dragged down crude prices by nearly three per cent Thursday, the first decline this week. The price for a barrel of crude dropped by more than US$1 im...
In the course of his current trip to Asia, US President Barack Obama has insured that the upcoming United Nations Climate Conference, due to take place in Copenhagen December 7-18, will be nothing more than a talk shop. An...
More evidence that the "Obama Era" is changing absolutely nothing (emphasis added):U.S. pressures International Energy Agency on peak oil timelineWhy would Western industrialized countries want to downplay the arrival of peak...
