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COP16: Cancun – Corporate and Complicit

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on COP16: Cancun – Corporate and Complicit

photo: Antonio Rojas This following is a guest post from author, barrister and international environmental lawyer Polly Higgins. TreeHugger recently reviewed Higgins’ newest book book Eradicating Ecocide . Colonialism by the Sea It was a surreal setting for the latest episode of the world’s climate negotiations: mega-all-inclusive exclusive hotels stretching the whole way along a 3 kilometre-long promontory, promoting themselves and their private stretches o… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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China May Submit to Binding Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Target!

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on China May Submit to Binding Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Target!

Until this point, despite having the environmental impact and energy consumption of a wealthy nation, China has maintained that it is a developing nation and as such would not submit to any binding emission reductions. Photo: Ricky Qi / Creative Commons . Some truly interesting news coming out of the COP16 climate talks in Cancun:

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iPhone Skin is Really a Wind-Powered Charger

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on iPhone Skin is Really a Wind-Powered Charger

Image credit Tjeerd Veenhoven , via Gizmag One of the few complaints about the iPhone is the short battery life. Most people need to charge their phones on a nearly daily basis. The possibility for a low battery while away from a power outlet is pretty good, so off-grid charger concepts have come up often over the last few years. Most revolve around solar power, but the new iFan concept from Tjeerd Veenhoven utilizes the power of a good strong breeze. However, is it at… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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There’s No Longer A Happy Ending Where We Prevent Climate Change Anymore: Bill McKibben (Video)

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on There’s No Longer A Happy Ending Where We Prevent Climate Change Anymore: Bill McKibben (Video)

Down in Mexico at the COP16 climate conference, Andy Revkin of the New York Times just posted a video interview he did with environmental campaigner and thinker extraordinare

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Photo of the Year Reminds COP16 That People Are Waiting for Climate Change Solutions

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Photo of the Year Reminds COP16 That People Are Waiting for Climate Change Solutions

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Worldwide, Fossil Fuels Get 12 Times the Subsidies as Clean Energy

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Worldwide, Fossil Fuels Get 12 Times the Subsidies as Clean Energy

Photo: BLM , Creative Commons A consensus seems to be growing that since comprehensive energy reform is now a long ways off in the US, the least we can do is get rid of subsidies and handouts for fossil fuel companies. And this new report from the USC Marshall School of Business illustrates why: Worldwide, fossil fuels receive a staggering 12 times the amount in subsidies that clean energy does…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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COP16 May Fail to Stop Climate Change, But An Abolitionist Shift Will

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on COP16 May Fail to Stop Climate Change, But An Abolitionist Shift Will

photo: Jason McHuff / Creative Commons For months now, indeed for nearly all of 2010, the hopes for a global climate deal coming out of COP16, now underway in Cancun, Mexico, have been downplayed again and again. In fact, on the second day of talks Marc Gunther over at GreenBiz produced a list of

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Is It August 2010 or 2009? The State of International Climate Negotiations Offer Little Clue

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Ben and Kaz Askins via flickr Maybe the summer heat is going to my head, because a quick review of the state of global climate talks prior to COP16, now about four and half months away, just evokes a feeling deja vu : From island nations worried about their future saying no enough is being done, to delegates saying they have to pick up the pace to enact anything meaningful, to the US saying it’s committed to cutting greenhouse gases yet Congress utterly failing to do, well, anything. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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