Posted in Climate, Ecology on 2008-07-04 | No Comments »
Evolving policies and practices for addressing global warming will present the forest products industry with great challenges and opportunities, a report released yesterday by an environmental think tank said.
http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=DocDet&id=MzA1NzI
Posted in Ecology, Europe, Policy on 2008-06-06 | No Comments »
EU demands for customers to know the environmental impact of household products could force brands to adopt eco-labels soon – whether they like it or not.
Brussels policy-makers are planning a far-reaching expansion of mandatory labelling and “eco-design” requirements in the European Union, as part of a push to cut carbon dioxide emissions, resource use and [...]
Posted in Ecology, Economics on 2008-06-06 | No Comments »
Environmental damage and species loss costs between 1.35 and 3.1 trillion euros (2.1 to 4.8 trillion dollars) every year, according to a report released Thursday at a major UN conference on biodiversity.
The study, commissioned by the European Union (EU) and the German government, [...]
Posted in Ecology, Education on 2008-06-04 | No Comments »
There is a lack of awareness in the business community of the business impact and dependence on ecosystems, concluded the ecosystems group of the WBCSD’s 2007 Future Leaders Team (FLT).
Maintaining healthy ecosystems is arguably as important as the climate change issue; however, significantly more attention has been paid to the latter in recent years. So, [...]
Posted in Ecology, Policy on 2008-06-02 | No Comments »
Over 190 countries agreed on measures to halt biodiversity loss by 2010 at a UN conference that came to an end in Bonn on 30 May. But environmental groups criticised the lack of political will on display and questioned the direction the conference was going.
UN conference agrees action on biodiversity loss
Posted in Ecology, Policy on 2008-05-29 | 1 Comment »
Germany has pledged 500 million euros ($786.2 million) by 2012 to help protect the world’s forests, a move activists said could give impetus to U.N. talks on preserving the earth’s biodiversity.
Chancellor Angela Merkel, who won praise from environmentalists last year for her part in pushing through EU and G8 deals to fight climate change, made [...]
Posted in CO2-Emission, Ecology on 2008-05-23 | No Comments »
Carbon dioxide spewed by human activities has made ocean water so acidic that it is eating away at the shells and skeletons of starfish, coral, clams and other sea creatures, scientists said on Thursday.
Marine researchers knew that ocean acidification, as it’s called, was occurring in deep water far from land. What they called “truly astonishing” [...]
Posted in Climate, Ecology on 2008-05-20 | No Comments »
One in eight of the world’s birds are at risk of extinction as climate change puts birds under great pressure, a leading conservation group warned on Monday.
Climate change hitting bird species, shows study
Posted in Ecology on 2008-05-02 | No Comments »
Researchers say low-oxygen zones in the oceans where sea life is threatened or cannot survive at all are growing.
In a report published in the journal Science, the researchers say it’s because global warming is raising ocean temperatures. And they say continued expansion of these zones could have dramatic consequences for both sea life and coastal [...]
Posted in Ecology, Energy, Environment, Policy on 2008-04-24 | No Comments »
The rejection of the Lewis wind farm this week highlights how environmentalists are lining up against each other in countryside battles.
Environmentalists are used to fighting battles. But with environmentalism going mainstream - wind farms, biofuels and nuclear power stations, for example, are fast becoming some of the most controversial issues in British politics today - [...]
