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Spain to open world’s biggest solar power tower

14 January, 2009

Photo credit: afloresm The Guardian reports that in the Andalucian deserts, 20 miles outside Seville, the Spanish company Abengoa will soon open up the world biggest solar power tower. Over 1,000 mirrors, each “about half the size of a tennis … Continue reading

George Monbiot: The new European climate deal is carbon colonialism

12 December, 2008

Photo credit: World Economic Forum George Monbiot writes today on the Guardian that the new EU emissions agreement is a disaster and calls it carbon colonialism. So much for the Europeans leading the way on climate change. Even as our … Continue reading

Embarrassment: EU leaders fail to agree on a strong climate deal

12 December, 2008

Photo credit: rockcohen Leaders from the European Union (EU) have just agreed on a new watered-down climate deal to tackle global warming. The actual emissions cuts could amount to as little as 4% by 2020. Yesterday UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon … Continue reading

49 countries support a 350 ppm climate target in Poznań

5 December, 2008

I just got this email and video from 350, the global grassroots climate movement: It’s 3 in the morning in Poland and I need your help with an experiment. Can you take 2 minutes watch an animation and help take … Continue reading

Change will come as USA elects Barack Obama

5 November, 2008

The people have spoken. And they have clearly chosen Barack Obama as the next President of the United States of America. Hopefully the election outcome will result in USA moving away from its current destructive climate and environmental politics and … Continue reading

Climate change is happening much faster than previously expected

23 October, 2008

Photo credit: azrainman A new report from WWF says that climate change is happening much faster than the scientists have predicated earlier. The report says that we must take action on a global scale to avert devastating climate effects such … Continue reading

Italy and Poland tries to weaken EU’s climate goals

17 October, 2008

photo credit: rockcohen The governments of Italy and Poland are, as I write this, trying to weaken the already weak climate goals that the European Union agreed on in January. Italy and Poland blames their will to inaction against climate … Continue reading

“There is no need to spend a penny of public money on greening the motor industry”

16 October, 2008

photo credit: Nrbelex George Monbiot says that the motor industry has long sabotaged eco-innovations and that they are now demanding billions to cut its carbon emissions. The green subsidy for car makers, Monbiot says, is just a disguised corporate bail-out. … Continue reading

“Europe, it’s time to lead”

2 October, 2008

“Europe, it’s time to lead” and “keep global warming below 2°C”. That is what a new campaign from Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, WWF and the Climate Action Network Europe is demanding. And they want you to help put pressure … Continue reading

The image shows the sun shining through the clouds on the Sahara desert in Morocco. Photo by: GETA.80.

Solar power from Africa could power all of Europe

7 August, 2008

The French President Nicolas Sarkozy earlier this summer launched, with the support of EU, a new Mediterranean union with the aim to “tackle issues such as regional unrest, immigration to pollution.” The new international body will include 16 non-EU states … Continue reading

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