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Draft Energy, Climate Bill Provides Sneak Peak at US Environment Policy
Environmentalists are praising a new draft bill released by Congressional Democrats in the US as a bold plan to combat climate change. But critics say the proposal will need to be drastically reworked in order to get the approval of the US Senate. The 648-page American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, introduced Henry Waxman…
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Bonn Climate Change Conference Gets Underway
While the outcome of the G20 meeting in London has been taking centre stage, over 2,000 world leaders and activists have gathered in Bonn, Germany to reach a consensus about the direction to take regarding climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. These nine days of meetings, which commenced on 29 March mark the first major…
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Canada, US Look to Restrict Shipping Emissions
Canada and the US have asked the UN International Maritime Organization (IMO) to establish a massive shipping pollution buffer zone extending 370 km off the two country’s coastlines. Under the plan, all ships engaged in international trade that either call at ports in, or navigate through, the ‘Emissions Control Area’ (ECA) would be forced to…
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Luxembourg to Ban GM Maize Cultivation
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is scheduled to become the fifth EU country to effectively ban cultivation of Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) crop MON810. The microstate made the decision after recent national studies failed to conclude that the crop as ‘completely innocuous’. The move comes after two failed attempts in as many months by the European…
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Angola Moves toward Biofuels Production
An Angolan-Brazilian consortium says it is moving ahead with plans to establish a major biofuels production facility in the Angolan province of Malanje. The US$258 million project - scheduled for completion by 2012 - will include a 30 thousand hectare area for sugarcane cultivation and a plant for processing the crop into sugar and ethanol.…
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Events
Coming up in the next two weeks (3-17 April) 4 April, Venice, Italy. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FINANCIAL CRISIS AND CLIMATE POLICY. This conference, organised in collaboration with the European Centre for Living Technology (ECLT), will bring four panelists together to look at the ways in which the financial crisis is affecting climate change policy on the…
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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 Bridges staff to Andrew Aziz at aaziz@ictsd.ch. GLOBAL GREEN NEW DEAL. By the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), March 2009. This policy brief presents three broad objectives. In the…