Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
An initiative intended to create tens of thousands of jobs in projects to improve the energy efficiency of US commercial buildings is being launched by President Barack Obama, kick-starting an initiative first launched in the 1990s. The administration has secured commitments from companies including General Electric, Alcoa, 3M and Cummins, …
A flagship green climate fund aimed at channelling billions of dollars to help poor countries tackle global warming has been put on ice at the Durban climate summit as a growing number of countries bicker over how it should work. Wealthy countries have promised to mobilise up to $100bn a …
New tensions and alignments are emerging at the UN talks here, reflecting subtle but far-reaching changes in the geopolitics of climate change. Delegates and veteran observers say the shifts challenge the very heart of the nearly two-decade-old climate process, which until now has neatly divided the world into two blocs …
The Obama administration said Thursday that a series of new air pollution rules for power plants would not cause power shortages, although the expert panel designated by the government to ensure electricity reliability warns that compliance with these rules could strain generating capacity. The Environmental Protection Agency, under fire from …
Volkswagen AG's new assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is the first auto plant to receive the top environmental award from the U.S. Green Building Council, the company said on Thursday. Frank Fischer, chief executive and chairman of Volkswagen Chattanooga, said that being green saves VW money on energy and water …
A petroleum spill near Suncor Energy's Denver-area refinery has been contained and does not come from the Canadian tar sands, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday. Earlier this week authorities discovered a petroleum substance oozing into Sand Creek in Commerce City, north of Denver near a refinery operated …
Southern Californians began recovering Thursday from unusually forceful Santa Ana winds that left thousands of homes without electricity and forced several communities to declare states of emergency. A worker trims a tree at a damaged gas station in Pasadena, Calif. The cities of Pasadena and Sierra Madre, both in the …
President Barack Obama called Thursday for an intensified fight against HIV/AIDS, directing an extra $50 million to the care and treatment of patients domestically and significantly raising the U.S. goal for the number of people globally who would receive lifesaving drugs in the next two years. The pledges, though involving …
US sourcing oil only from the west in eight years will leave sufficient energy for the rest of the world There is growing euphoria over America’s energy future. Energy experts around the globe have been claiming that the US will gain energy independence in the next eight years. Optimists have …
Londoners will next year be drinking water from a desalination plant – a type of facility more commonly associated with the arid Gulf region – if the current dry spell continues, Thames Water has warned. The company, which supplies water and sewerage services to 8.8m customers in the capital and …
The most prestigious market for Indian basmati rice, the USA, has put on hold all consignments of the rice being imported there. In a major setback to Indian basmati exporters, the US Food and Drug Authority has refused to accept basmati being exported to that country, on account of traces …
How many Indians make up one American? 11. One American currently emits 17 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year from the burning of fossil fuel, as compared on one Indian, who emits 1.5 tonnes. The problem at hand is that these emissions are needed for economic growth. And the world …
Qatar, the world’s biggest per capita emitter of carbon dioxide, will host the 2012 round of UN talks tasked with beating back the mounting threat of global warming, the UN’s top climate official said Tuesday. ‘The COP18 will be hosted next year in Qatar,’ Christina Figueres, executive secretary of the …
Under a new formula announced on Wednesday by Kenneth R. Feinberg, the administrator of the $20 billion fund set up by BP for victims of the 2010 oil spill, shrimp and crab fishermen along the Gulf Coast may be eligible for settlement payments significantly larger than what they were previously …
In 2009, the promulgation of US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tobacco regulation focused attention on cigarette flavor additives. The tobacco industry had prepared for this eventuality by initiating a research program focusing on additive toxicity. The objective of this study was to analyze Philip Morris' Project MIX as a …
With aviation falling under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme next year, European airlines are already hedging their exposure in the carbon markets. Vanya Dragomanovich looks at the potential impact on the emissions markets.
Carbon prices have plunged in both Europe and the US recently as the fragile global economy takes its toll. However, interest in green markets remains relatively unscathed, with voluntary emissions and biomass markets ones to watch in 2012, writes Pauline McCallion.
The continued economic acrimony in the eurozone and the continued slowdown of the U.S, economy has softened the international crude oil prices, raising hopes of another petrol price cut by the oil marketing companies (OMCs) when the matter comes up for review on November 30. With the Indian basket averaging …
From January 1 all airlines flying in and out of the European Union will need to meet a specific carbon emission requirement. Though protests have been voiced from various countries, the European Union is going ahead with the emission caps for the airlines. A senior oil industry official said, “We …
Countries will make a last ditch effort to save a dying Kyoto Protocol at global climate talks starting on Monday aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas emissions blamed by scientists for rising sea levels, intense storms and crop failures. Kyoto, which was adopted in 1997 and entered into force in …
