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Letter to the MEPS
Monday, 1st July 2013 To: Members of the European Parliament Brussels Dear Member of the European Parliament What MEPs should be debating instead of backloading As you prepare to vote again on the proposal to backload 900 million permits from the EU ETS, 42...
Dead whale tales and other horrors
Telegraphng Photos and news reports of dead whales washing up on the shores of Ghana in recent weeks raise very serious worries about the state of the marine environment there. If it were a question of one or two whales washing up, perhaps there would be no cause for...
Open letter to the President of Ecuador as the date approaches for assessment of the Yasuní-ITT initiative
Mr. President Correa: We wish to register our opposition to the way that the Yasuni-ITT initiative is being dismantled without proper public discussion and review and to what appear to be attempts to make petroleum exploitation in Yasuni National Park a fait accompli....
Brazil to hold 1st pre-salt auction in October
La Prensa Rio de Janeiro, May 23 (EFE).- Brazil's first auction of contracts to develop offshore oil and gas reserves in the pre-salt region will be held in October, or earlier than previously scheduled, the government said Thursday. The government's National Council...
“Unburnable” fuels, How to keep the oil in the soil
Brussels, May 21, 2013 Today, a global coalition of economists and activists release a 200p report on a variety of initiatives to leave "unburnable" fuels in the soil. The EU funded EJOLT network studied a range of campaigns and innovative proposals that aim to stem...
Brazil’s 11th bidding round for oil and gas exploration blocks receives record bids
World Oil BRASÍLIA -- The 11th Bidding Round for Oil and Gas Exploration Blocks held yesterday by the Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) in Rio de Janeiro received a $1.4 billion in bids for exploration rights. The 797.81% premium...
Yasunizing the World (2)
Triplecrisis.com Joan Martinez Alier, Guest Blogger In May 2013, the international press has become alive to the fact thatthere is a lot of unburnable fossil fuels. "Unburnable" carbon hasbecome a buzz word in The Economist and in The New York Times. If theoil, gas...
The Last Time Atmospheric CO2 was at 400 parts per million Humans Didn’t Exist
ScienceBlogs Posted by Peter Gleick on May 10, 2013 The planet has passed a disturbing landmark, a marker on a continuing highway to climate disruption. On May 9th, the NOAA and the Mauna Loa observatory reported that atmospheric CO2 levels touched 400 parts per...
Yasunizing the world?
THE AFRICA REPORT When Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate, published the first articles on climate change in 1896, the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere was 300 parts per million (ppm). It is now reaching 400 ppm and rising 2 ppm per...
California, Don’t let Shell Roast the Planet!
Oilwatch International Statement on Rejecting California REDDEarth Day, April 22, 2013 Californians are renowned for being environmental savvy so we at Oilwatch International were dismayed to learn that the State of California may let climate criminals like Shell and...
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