Global Environmental Change Report articles from November 2004

Global Environmental Change Report archives from November 2004

The 2004 hurricane season: global warming in action?(Focus Report)
November 1, 2004... Folks in the southeastern portions of the United States and the Caribbean have been "blown away" by the seemingly endless progression of hurricanes and tropical storms to hit their shores this year. No fewer than four storms of hurricane...

British leaders make climate issues a priority.(Policy and Economics)
November 1, 2004... "It is now that timely action can avert disaster," declared British Prime Minister Tony Blair in a speech marking the 10th anniversary of the Prince of Wales' Business and the Environment Program. Blair's 14 September 2004 address focused on...

EU-15 turn down emissions.(Policy and Economics)
November 1, 2004... The most recent figures from the European Environment Agency (EEA) show a slight decrease in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the 15 pre-2004 European Union members (EU-15). Cumulatively, the EU-15's GHG emissions fell by 0.5 percent...

Mexico takes lead.(Policy and Economics)
November 1, 2004... In August 2004, Mexico became the first country to adopt internationally accepted standards to measure and report business greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Mexico's Secretariat for the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), the World...

The power of Glaciers.(Science Update)
November 1, 2004... Time was when vast sheets of ice covered much of the world's land mass, wreaking havoc with ecosystems and leaving a changed planet in their wake. Glaciers and ice sheets may again have the power to change the world, but this time the player...

Northern climates seeing evidence of climate change.(Science Update)
November 1, 2004... Evidence of a changing climate surrounds scientists studying northern climates. In a seabed just 1,300 kilometers from the North Pole, researchers have discovered blue mussels, a species usually found in warmer waters off the Eastern United...

Cars get cleaner.(Industry Watch)
November 1, 2004... Obligating carmakers to bring the future of fuel-efficient cars into the present, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) voted 8 to 0 to approve a regulation requiring automakers to sell vehicles with reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions...

Japan's GHG reduction strategy: the four-fold path.(Industry Watch)
November 1, 2004... Japan's commitment under the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty to reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) worldwide between 2008 and 2012, is a reduction of 6 percent below the country's 1990 baseline emissions. However, the latest figures show...

Russian ratification boosts carbon market.(Emissions Trading)
November 1, 2004... After years of what some might call "waffling" on the issue of ratifying the Kyoto Protocol on climate change (see GECR, July 2004, p. 4), the Russian Cabinet of Ministers endorsed the treaty on 30 September 2004. According to a report in the...

TransAlta and TEPCO go whole hog with CDM.(Emissions Trading)
November 1, 2004... In late August, Canadian power generator TransAlta Corporation and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) joined with Chilean agricultural leader Agricola Super Limitada (Agrosuper) in a landmark transaction under the Clean Development...

European Union Council adopts linking directive.(Emissions Trading)
November 1, 2004... At the meeting of the European Union (EU) Council in Brussels, Belgium on 13 September 2004, the EU Council adopted a "linking directive," establishing a scheme for green-house gas (GHG) emission allowance trading within the European...

Artists Power Alternative Bank.(In Brief)
November 1, 2004... Artists Power Alternative Bank: Three members of the Japanese music industry have a yen to support environmental projects. Musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, music producer Takeshi Kobayashi, and Kazutoshi Sakurai, a member of the pop band "Mr....