Climate indebted
Tags: ESSAY (Literary form); CLIMATIC changes -- International cooperation; CLIMATIC changes -- Prevention; FOSSIL fuels -- Environmental aspects; EMISSION control
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- Czech Republic backs climate deal. // Utility Week;11/14/2008, Vol. 29 Issue 26, p28
The article reports on a statement by James Hunt, the climate change envoy for the Czech Republic, that the country's incoming 2009 presidency of the European Union would support the proposed climate change package. Hunt claimed that Czech Republic would work to achieve adoption in the early...
- Contraction and convergence. Broad, John // Ecologist;Mar/Apr99, Vol. 29 Issue 2, p141
Focuses on fostering international negotiations on climate change and the establishment of an effective and inclusive political mechanism to curb the consumption of fossil fuels through the adoption of a global program dubbed `Contraction and Convergence'. Engineers of the program; Advantages...
- Energy white paper plans to burn all of Australia's coal, gas. McGrath, Chris // Green Left Weekly;11/21/2012, Issue 946, p11
The article discusses the need of controlling carbon emissions produced due to burning of fossil fuels and also discusses the policy of Australian government regarding climatic changes.
- Our precarious planet. Saier, Milton // Environmentalist;Dec2006, Vol. 26 Issue 4, p321
An essay is presented on the environmental issues affecting the Earth's condition. It offers a study on the presence of gaseous chemicals in the atmosphere. The author relates his experience during a discussion he had attended about the issues revolving around global warming. He notes that the...
- ILLUSIONS OF CLIMATE SCIENCE. KININMOTH, WILLIAM // Quadrant Magazine;Oct2008, Vol. 52 Issue 10, p12
The author offers views on the Australian government's efforts to prevent climate change. He believes that a widely accepted conviction that dangerous climate change is pending is required before the community will support the government's strategy to shut down fossil-fuel-dependent industries...
- No Fairness, No Deal. Dayaneni, Gopat; Nube, Mateo // Yes!;Winter2009, Issue 52, p30
The article focuses on how to break and stop climate change in the world. It cites that to stop the crisis on climate, a fairer world is needed to be built and all nations should collectively act to lessen global emissions. It states that to make the international climate agreement to be...
- Climate Change and Human Rights Law. Knox, John K. // Virginia Journal of International Law;Oct2009, Vol. 50 Issue 1, p163
An essay is presented on the application of human rights law to the domestic and global effects of climate change. It discusses how climate change may threat human rights, particularly of those in vulnerable communities, as well as the subsequent duty and response of states to protect their...
- Report Lights Fires Around the World On Need To Slow Climate Change. Reina, Peter // ENR: Engineering News-Record;2/12/2007, Vol. 258 Issue 6, p18
The article states that there is a 90% certainty that human use of fossil fuels is the main cause of climate change, according to a report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). IPCC's findings, based largely on peer-reviewed reports by hundreds of scientists...
- IT'S TOO EASY BEING GREEN. Ryssdal, Kai // Atlantic Monthly (10727825);Jul/Aug2010, Vol. 306 Issue 1, p40
The article discusses efforts made on behalf of altering climatic change including green marketing and personal energy use monitors. The author suggests that though environmental ideology has entered the social mainstream, people have not made the choices necessary for improvements to...
