Posts Tagged ‘Kyoto Protocol’

• Canada will withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol

  Just hours after returning from COP17 in South Africa, Peter Kent, Canada’s environment minister, announced that the country would use their legal right and become the first country to quit the Kyoto Protocol. Kent claimed that the Kyoto protocol “will …

• Inequality between rich and poor nations helps fuel a climate of mistrust and sabotages efforts to secure a climate deal

  The 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, which many have said was our last chance to take action against “the greatest threat the world has ever faced”, ended in a failure. For over 15 years delegates and …

• Oz Environmentalist Professor Tim Flannery supports disastrous Australian Carbon Trading ETS

  As evident from the failed G8 meeting at L’Aquila, Italy, the worst greenhouse gas polluters of the First World support cap-and –trade emissions trading scheme (ETS) approaches to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution despite contrary advice from top climate scientists …

• Top experts: Carbon Tax needed NOT Cap-and-Trade Emission Trading Scheme (ETS)

  A number of eminent scientists, economists and writers variously argue strongly FOR a global Carbon Tax that will directly put a price on greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and enable urgently required rapid transformation to a non-carbon economy. They variously argue …

• Watch: George Monbiot meets Yvo de Boer

  George Monbiot talks with Yvo de Boer, the current Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in the first of a series of interviews from the Guardian. In the video you can, for example, see Yvo …