News: ‘Actors & Narratives’ Archive
‘UNITED NATIONS — Some 100 heads of state gathered at the United Nations on Tuesday for an unprecedented daylong conference on combating climate change, which President Obama and other leaders acknowledged was a difficult issue to agree on but was crucial for the future health of the planet.’
via U.N. Climate Conference Opens With Call for Unity – NYTimes.com.
‘Big Oil is going to be an increasingly important investor in alternative energy. Venture-capital money has dried up. But with oil at $70 a barrel, the internal venture arms of the major oil firms are increasing the amount and percentage of in-vestment going to alternatives.
… If the new projects coming online this summer are any indicator, alternatives may soon be awash in black gold.’
via Big Oil Goes Green | Newsweek Environment | Newsweek.com.
‘KATHMANDU Reuters – Nepal’s sherpa community is sending a piece of rock from Mount Everest to U.S. President Barack Obama to underscore the impact of global warming on the Himalayas.’
via Everest memento for Obama to show climate change impact | Green Business | Reuters.
‘LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The United States and China are in a head-to-head race to become the world’s top market for solar power, and panel makers are wasting no time making plans to cash in on the growth promise of both markets despite the global recession.’
via China, U.S. to dominate solar market | Green Business | Reuters.
‘BEIJING Reuters – China will have to retool its engines of economic growth to help the world avoid increasingly dangerous levels of greenhouse gas emissions in coming decades, a leading expert on the economic impact of climate change said.’
via World must help China shift to clean growth: Stern | Green Business | Reuters.
Reuters video of climate scientist Gavin Schmidt, describing possible outcomes of Copenhagen CO2 reduction targets for 2020 and 2050 as “commensurate with the scale of the problem we face”.
‘NEW YORK (Reuters) – First Solar Inc said on Tuesday it plans to build the world’s largest solar plant in China in the first major foray by a U.S. company into the Asian nation’s fast growing alternative energy sector.’
via First Solar to build huge Chinese solar plant | Reuters.
‘OSLO Reuters – The share of renewable energy will have to rise “dramatically” if the world is to have a chance of limiting global warming to a maximum 2 Celsius 3.6 Fahrenheit temperature rise, a leading expert said Wednesday.’
via Dramatic rise in renewables needed for 2 Celsius goal | Green Business | Reuters.
‘OSLO (Reuters) – Prospects for a new U.N. climate pact in Copenhagen have brightened but negotiations must speed up to meet a December deadline, the head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat said on Tuesday.’
via Prospects for U.N. climate deal brighter: de Boer | Industry Summits | Reuters.
‘Hopes for an agreement being reached at a United Nations summit in December “hang in the balance,” undermined by a climate of suspicion between rich and poor countries, said Foreign Secretary David Miliband, speaking at a press conference with his brother, Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband.’
via The Associated Press: UK: Global deal on climate change at risk.