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EC Wants Shipping in Copenhagen Agreement
European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas wants shipping to be included in the climate change deal that succeeds the Kyoto Protocol. While global shipping is thought to contribute as much as 3 percent of overall carbon dioxide emissions, several complex factors forced its exclusion from Kyoto. Since then, shipping has largely been left out of climate…
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US Stimulus Package to Shore up Biofuels Sector
The Obama administration is reaching out to the struggling US ethanol industry with its new American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The stimulus package, which is designed to shock the US economy back into the black, includes several provisions for renewable energy and biofuels industries. Ethanol producers have been struggling with unpredictable corn prices, resulting from market…
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Madrid Agriculture Meeting Tackles ‘Forgotten’ Food Crisis
A meeting of the heads international organisations and representatives from 126 countries was convened in Madrid by the Spanish government to address ongoing problems caused by high food prices in the developing world. The crisis, which drew significant media attention over the summer, has recently been overshadowed by the turmoil in the global economy. The gathering…
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EU Considers New Approach in Illegal Logging Fight
EU lawmakers met in Brussels last month to discuss potential new measures aimed at curbing the import and sale of illegal timber in the 27-nation bloc. The proposed legislation, which has been criticised as both too harsh and too lax, would oblige European timber traders to “seek sufficient guarantees” that the products they sell have…
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Record Wildlife Contraband Seized in Vietnam
Hanoi authorities have made their largest-ever seizure of illegally-harvested wildlife products. After detaining a man found transporting a set of tiger bones and 10 kilograms of serow - a small antelope-like mammal found in Asia - bones and horns by motorbike, investigators were led to a stockpile of some two tonnes of tiger bones, bear…
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No Such Thing as Global Warming says Czech President
Climate change does not exist according to Czech President Václav Klaus. The controversial comments emerged at a 31 January meeting that was held on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Klaus has long been a harsh critic of environmental activism. In an op-ed in the Financial Times in…
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Events
Coming up in the next two weeks (6-20 February) 6-15 February, Lome and Sotouboua, Togo. CLIMATE AND RENEWABLE ENERGY WEEK. This event, organised by Jeunes Volontaires pour l’Environnement, ENDA Tiers Monde, and the Togo Ministry of Mining, Energy and Water in partnership with Friends of the Earth-Norway (NNV), aims to popularise use of renewable energy products.…
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Resources
If you have a relevant resource (books, papers, bulletins, etc.) you would like to see announced in this section, please forward a copy for review by the BioRes staff to Andrew Aziz at aaziz@ictsd.ch. REDUCING FISHING CAPACITY: BEST PRACTICES FOR DECOMMISSIONING SCHEMES. OECD Publishing, 23 January 2009. This paper argues that too many fishing vessels chasing…