A Sad Day in Canada | Climate Change Bill C-311 | Motion Defeated

Please distribute widely.
Pursuant to the urgent appeal sent out the other day.
Thanks so much to each and everyone of you and to everyone else across the country who worked to get Bill C-311 moved up on the agenda of the Environment Committee.  We had hoped to have the motion voted on in public [...]

Globe & Mail | Canada Continues to be an International Disgrace on the Climate Change Front

Emissions rules won’t take effect for six years
Prentice announces delay in development of climate change regulations to match proposed U.S. timetable

Bruce Cheadle
Ottawa — The Canadian Press, Thursday, May. 28, 2009 04:28PM EDT

Canadian rules limiting industrial greenhouse gas emissions won’t even be developed until next year and will not take legal effect for up to [...]

Beyond Abstraction: Moving The Public on Climate Action

28 May 2009: Report
Beyond Abstraction: Moving The Public on Climate Action
Most Americans believe climate change is a serious problem but are not committed to making the hard choices needed to deal with it. Recent research begins to explain some of the reasons why.
by doug struck
Humans have been wired [...]

Talks Ray Anderson on the business logic of sustainability

At his carpet company, Ray Anderson has increased sales and doubled profits while turning the traditional “take / make / waste” industrial system on its head. In a gentle, understated way, he shares a powerful vision for sustainable commerce.

Gwynne Dyer | Climate Wars

Any crash course to a broad understanding of the scale, complexity and urgency of the climate crisis should include this informative, one-hour lecture by journalist, syndicated columnist and military historian, Gwynne Dyer, based on his new book, Climate Wars (video by TVO and recorded at the University of Toronto, Dec. 8, 2008).
MORE GwynneDyer.com Climate Wars [...]

Climate Change & Global Warming – Get Involved | Oxfam GB

more about "Climate Change & Global Warming – Get…", posted with vodpod

Cap and trade won’t cut it | Pt. 2
The Waxman-Markey bill, the Democratic Party’s first attempt at comprehensive climate change legislation since the election of Barack Obama as president, promises to reduce US emissions by 17% by 2020, and 83% by 2050. These numbers however, do not account for a practice [...]

Cap and trade won’t cut it | Part 1
Under pressure from the Obama administration, the House Energy and Commerce Committee has put forward its proposal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the US. The plan calls for the creation of a cap-and-trade market, as the mechanism to begin reducing the United [...]

* Business Climate change summit hijacked by biggest polluters, critics claim

Climate change summit hijacked by biggest polluters, critics claim
• Shell could help shape post-Kyoto agenda
• Majority of attending firms want ‘business as usual’

Terry Macalister
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 24 May 2009 20.25 BST
Article history

A vital meeting in Copenhagen this weekend that will help shape [...]

Study: Global Warming Could Be Twice as Extreme

[The Report: Science and Policy of Global Change]

Science News
Climate Change Odds Much Worse Than Thought
ScienceDaily (May 20, 2009) — The most comprehensive modeling yet carried out on the likelihood of how much hotter the Earth’s climate will get in this century shows that without rapid and massive action, the problem [...]