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Australia And US Bonnie And Clyde Of Global Warming Sydney (AFP) Nov 15, 2006 
Former United States vice-president Al Gore Wednesday described the US and Australia as the "Bonnie and Clyde" of the global climate crisis for failing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Gore, now an environmental activist, likened the two countries to the notorious American bank robbers during a visit to Australia to promote his film on global warming -- "An inconvenient truth". The Kyoto Protocol aims to restrict the emission of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, and the US and Australia are the only two developed countries that haven't ratified the pact. "I sincerely believe if Australia joined the rest of the world community in the Kyoto process, then the pressure on Bush would be enormous, just enormous," Gore told reporters in Sydney.
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Wireless Energy Transfer Can Potentially Charge Cell Phones Without Cords
College Park, MD (SPX) Nov 16, 2006Recharging your laptop computer -- and also your cell phone and a variety of other gadgets -- might one day be doable in the same convenient way many people now surf the Web: wirelessly. Marin Soljacic of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will present research by himself and his colleagues Aristeidis Karalis and John Joannopoulos on the physics of electromagnetic fields, showing how wireless energy could power future gadgets. Large-Scale Uranium Enrichment Probable In Iran Says Russian Expert 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 16, 2006Iran will be able to create powerful facilities to enrich uranium within a few years, a Russian nuclear expert said Wednesday. Iran is at the center of an ongoing international dispute over its nuclear program, which it insists is aimed purely at producing nuclear-generated electricity, despite accusations that the program has military goals. Czech Power Plant Faces Two Month Shut Down 
Prague (AFP) Nov 15, 2006The first reactor of the Czech nuclear power station at Temelin will be shut down for two months in early 2007 following problems with fuel performance, a plant official said on Wednesday. "We need to change a part of the fuel casings in order to limit geometric alterations," said Jiri Borovec, production director at the Czech electricity company (CEZ), which runs the plant in the southwest. |
Aviation Industry Alarmed At New EU Emission Rules
Brussels (AFP) Nov 15, 2006The aviation industry voiced concern Wednesday at European Commission plans to hit airlines with carbon dioxide emissions rules from 2011. All airline flights leaving or entering the European Union would have to respect carbon dioxide emission rules from 2011, according to the draft proposal, which will be presented on December 20 by the EU's executive arm. Annan Launches Climate Fund Scheme For Africa 
Nairobi (AFP) Nov 15, 2006United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan, supported by five UN agencies, launched a scheme on Wednesday to help the world's poorest, mostly African, countries benefit from an innovative mechanism to combat global warming. Dubbed the Nairobi Framework, the initiative aims to encourage rich countries to invest in green projects, particularly in African countries, under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). Britain To Turn Up The Heat On Climate Change 
London (AFP) Nov 15, 2006The British government will publish a long-awaited bill on tackling climate change in the forthcoming session of parliament, Queen Elizabeth II announced Wednesday. One of the key tenets of Prime Minister Tony Blair's final few months in office will therefore involve attempting to set a legacy on slowing global warming -- which his Downing Street office has branded "the biggest long-term threat that we now face". |
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EU Chief Defends Euro Bloc Emissions Trading Scheme
Berlin (AFP) Nov 15, 2006European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Wednesday defended the European Union's innovative emissions trading scheme which has been criticised by economists and the World Wildlife Fund. The scheme "had shown how cost-effective solutions to reduce greenhouse gases can be found, which oblige companies to find their own ways to reduce emissions", Barroso wrote in the German daily Berliner Zeitung. Specter Of Possible Harm Threatens Nanotech Development 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 16, 2006Society is in danger of squandering the powerful potential of nanotechnology due to a lack of clear information about its risks, conclude 14 top international scientists in a major paper published in the November 16th issue of the journal Nature. The paper, "Safe Handling of Nanotechnology," identifies Five Grand Challenges for research on nanotechnology risk that must be met if the technology is to reach its full promise. Ukraine, Poland Urge Faster Odessa-Brody Oil Pipeline Extension 
Kiev (RIA Novosti) Nov 16, 2006Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski have made the extension of the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline to Poland a cooperation priority, the Ukrainian presidential press service said Wednesday. The pipeline was initially designed to supply Caspian oil to Northern Europe, but has instead been used "in reverse mode" since 2004 to transport Russian oil south to the Mediterranean basin. |
China VP Stresses Safe, Clean Mining Operations
Beijing (AFP) Nov 14, 2006China's Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan called Tuesday for cleaner, safer and sustainible operations in the country's mining industry, saddled with a poor environemental and safety record. "(We must) pursue reasonable planning of resource exploitation, step up the monitoring of inspection, excavation, processing and transport to prevent damaging the resources and the environment," Zeng told a mining conference in Beijing, according to the Chinese government website. US Objects To French Tax Proposal 
Nairobi (AFP) Nov 15, 2006The United States on Wednesday set down an early marker of objections to a French proposal for an EU carbon tax on industrial products from countries that refuse to join the Kyoto Protocol on cutting greenhouse gases from 2012. The top US official at the United Nations climate talks in Nairobi said the proposed tax hit at the principle that countries could take a differentiated approach to tackling global warming, whether members of the Kyoto Protocol or not. Australia Gets Heated Over French Global Warming Threat 
Sydney (AFP) Nov 15, 2006Australia hit back at France Wednesday over its threat to impose a tax on industrial goods from countries that ignore the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Prime Minister John Howard described the plan as "silly", while the mass-circulation Daily Telegraph headlined its report: "Back off, Frogs". Running across a picture of a French nuclear bomb explosion in the Pacific in 1971, a subheading read: "The French did this to our backyard and they have de Gaulle to attack us on Kyoto." |
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