Reuters reports here at Yahoo News: WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is poised to announce loan guarantees to help kick-start the country’s nuclear power industry, which hasn’t built a new plant in more than three decades.
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German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen talks to SPIEGEL here in this interview about the failure of the Copenhagen climate summit, why neither China nor the US can take the lead in the fight against global warming and Germany’s role in the new world order. AFP reports here at Yahoo News: KHARTOUM – Sudan, angling to become Africa’s leading exporter of ethanol, has sent out its first shipment of the bio-fuel to the Netherlands, an official with the state-owned Kenana company said on Monday. CNet reports here at News.com: Ford says its hybrid sales are up 67 percent this year, despite an 11 percent slump industry wide. Spiegel Online reports here: These days, screwing with the environment could cost you: The failed summit in Copenhagen has spawned the idea for a carbon surcharge in global trade. Just how serious are the threats from Western politicians against China & Co.? International lawyers and environmental economists are skeptical. BBC News reports here: The biggest step Copenhagen could have taken to stimulate the green economy would have been to send a strong signal that the price of carbon dioxide pollution will rise. Airlines and power companies, for example, don’t yet know whether upgrading to cleaner technology will be economically worthwhile. AFP reports here at Yahoo News: DHAKA – Bangladesh, one of the nations most vulnerable to global warming, will seek 15 percent of a 30-billion-dollar climate change fund committed at the Copenhagen summit, the environment minister said Tuesday. BBC News reports here: Gordon Brown will accuse a small group of countries of holding the Copenhagen climate summit talks to ransom. AP reports here at Yahoo News: An unlikely source of energy has emerged to meet international demands that the United States do more to fight global warming: It’s cleaner than coal, cheaper than oil and a 90-year supply is under our feet. Spiegel Online reports here: “What a disaster. The climate summit in Copenhagen has failed because of the hardball politicking of the United States, China and several other countries — and because people just can’t seem to fathom how catastrophic climate change will be. They probably won’t have long to wait before things become [...] |
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