New Interface

As the goal is to make this site an online magazine with at least bi-weekly updates, I have updated the interface to what we will leave the beta stage and go live with. Hopefully this will allow users to find information easier and participate in the site.

Convergence of World Leaders Marks Turning Point in Fight against Climate Change

California Program Executive Director Mike Sweeney will represent The Nature Conservancy in a historic summit organized by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that will — for the first time — bring together governors from across the U.S. and leaders from Brazil, Indonesia, China and other developing countries to establish a process to lower the world’s carbon emissions and fight climate change.

Give the rainforests our word and bond

Faced with a global credit crunch, the governments of the world are coming together to act with urgency. But faced with a far more serious climate crunch, we have yet to show our mettle.

Coal to remain world’s top power source: IEA

LONDON (Reuters) - Coal, which produces more climate-warming carbon dioxide than oil or gas, will remain the world’s main source of power until 2030 and nuclear will lose market share, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday.

Expectations of slower economic growth have led the IEA to downgrade its 2030 world electricity demand forecast to 23,141 terawatt hours (TWh), but the share of coal generated power would rise to 44 percent by 2015 from 41 percent in 2006.

Nations move on how to put ‘natural assets’ at the top of agenda

CLOSE to 100 nations have concluded a review of how science can better guide policy by examining the merits of a new scientific body able to put the loss of biodiversity, ecosystems and their multi-trillion dollar services at the top of the political agenda.

Wildlife groups see end of Bush abuse

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. conservation groups on Thursday hailed the imminent end of “environmental abuse and neglect” by the Bush administration and promised to work with President-elect Barack Obama to reverse this course.

“The Bush administration has done a lot of damage to our nation’s environmental protections over the last eight years,” said Mike Daulton, the National Audubon Society’s legislative director.

California gets dire warning on global warming

Global warming will have a broad and devastating impact on California’s economy over the next century, according to a report released Thursday.

Roads and bridges, the water supply, agriculture, public health and even winter skiing all will be affected by global climate change, said the report by University of California-Berkeley agricultural and resource economics professors David Roland-Holst and Fredrich Kahrl.