The Economist
May 31st 2007
How business is starting to tackle climate change, and how governments need to help
THE current row over climate change sounds all too familiar. Germany, host of this year's G8 summit, is trying to get the world to agree on what to do when the Kyoto protocol on curbing greenhouse gases runs out in 2012. America, which dislikes the tough targets that the Europeans want the world to sign up to, is proposing separate negotiations between the world's big emitters. Environmentalists accuse it of trying to sidetrack the issue. The line-up is much like the one that led to America's withdrawal from the Kyoto agreement in 2001.
Yet to conclude from this that nothing has changed would be wrong. Attitudes have shifted sharply over the past six years, most importantly among businesspeople.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
"Cleaning up" according to The Economist
What is Global Warming?
Wikipedia defines Global Warming as
Global warming refers to the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
11th Hour Trailer
Please watch the trailer for the forthcoming film "11th Hour" starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
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