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Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, launched the London Strategy?one of the first comprehensive Climate change adaptation strategies produced by any major city worldwide. ... Source: www.mayorwatch.co.uk --- 8 days ago
London Mayor Boris Johnson visited the Thames Barrier this morning to launch a new draft Strategy to prepare the capital for Climate change. ... Source: www.newsshopper.co.uk --- 8 days ago
THE Mayor of London pin-pointed London's Strategy to tackle Climate change this morning. ... Source: conservativehome.blogs.com --- 5 days ago
Today's Guardian has a detailed account of Boris Johnson's announcement yesterday of the Strategy London will take in tackling Climate change:"An increase in the number of rooftop gardens to soak up rainwater across the capital is among a series of... ... Source: offsetters.ca --- 2 days ago
Friday, 29 August 2008 Sustainable Business: Nina Winham You’ve got your marketing Strategy, your investment Strategy, your operations plan, your human resources Strategy. Probably a few other plans, strategies and to-do lists. Your company is on track and headed forward. But wait: have you thought about your Climate Strategy? read more ... Source: news.yahoo.com --- 2 days ago
AP - Climate change is forcing the British military to tailor its Strategy and equipment for more extreme weather, a junior defense minister said Wednesday. ... Source: green.yahoo.com --- 2 days ago
AP - Climate change is forcing the British military to tailor its Strategy and equipment for more extreme weather, a junior defense minister said Wednesday. ...
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The Brussels-based marketing & communications consultancy is revealing its new brand with a new corporate Strategy, visual identity, and company website. Under the tagline “Sustaining our Atmosphere”, Shecco will keep a key focus on CO2 while broadening its portfolio to support other Climate friendly technologies. ... Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov --- 9 days ago
Related Articles Science Podcast. Science. 2008 Aug 22;321(5892):1103b Authors: Science Podcast The 22 August 2008 show includes a new Strategy for developing antibiotics, predicting conscious decisions, updating a U.S. Climate change model, and more. PMID: 18719289 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] ...
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Mayor announces adaptation Strategy to prepare London for the effects of Climate change ... Source: www.salon.com --- 7 days ago
An intriguing flip side to Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's well documented stance favoring greatly expanded drilling for oil is Alaska's vulnerability to global warming. Average temperatures in Alaska have risen 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 50 years -- a rate considerably faster than experienced in the world as a whole. Glaciers are in retreat, wetlands are drying out, and some coastal villages are in serious danger of washing away, as the sea ice that once protected them against the full onslaught of winter ocean fury melts away. I was unable to find any on-the-record comment by Gov. Palin on the lawsuit filed by the seaside village of Kivalina against against eight energy companies, including Exxon-Mobil, alleging that the corporations had engaged in a "conspiracy" to "mislead the public about the science of global warming." But apparently, being the governor of Alaska means that one must recognize that yes, the ice is melting, and something must be done. Last September, Palin signed an executive order establishing a "Climate change subcabinet" to prepare a Climate change "Strategy" for Alaska. One of the first jobs of the subcabinet -- figuring out a priority list for state aid. Kivalina is on the list. Pro-drilling, and yet willing to acknowledge that Climate change is real -- again, a perfect match for John McCain. ... Source: thinkprogress.org --- 1 day ago
Our guest blogger is Daniel J. Weiss, a Senior Fellow and the Director of Climate Strategy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The McCain campaign just released an ad claiming that Gov. Palin (R-AK) “took on Big Oil.” Watch it: In fact, Palin is a champion for Big Oil. And in Sen. McCain’s acceptance speech [...] ... Source: thinkprogress.org --- 7 days ago
Our guest bloggers are Daniel J. Weiss, a Senior Fellow and Director of Climate Strategy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, and James Kvaal, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. With the choice of Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) as his running mate, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is not backing [...] ... Source: upcoming.yahoo.com --- 1 day ago
Come to this rare opportunity to listen to the second, highest-ranking female member of the EU's executive branch, Her Excellency, Vice-President Margot Wallstroem, as she discusses the future of transatlantic relations and new prospects for combating Climate change. She developed the Union's overall Strategy for sustainable development, co-developed a new initiative on Climate change, and was instrumental in concluding the ratification process of the Kyoto protocol. Check-in: 5:30 PM, Program: 6:00 PM For more information or to purchase tickets, visit the Council's website, call us at 415-293-4600, or email info@wacsf.org . ...
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In a surprise move this morning, John McCain chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. Palin, a conservative Republican, was the ethics commissioner of the Alaska Gas and Oil Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004 and has a reputation for integrity and fighting corruption. She has pushed to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling and to build a natural-gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope, and earlier this year she sued the Interior Department over its decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species. Palin recently proposed eliminating Alaska's gas tax and got the state legislature to pass a bill to provide each Alaskan $1,200 to help with energy bills. She also recently opposed a statewide ballot initiative to prohibit or restrict new mining operations that could affect salmon in the state's streams and rivers, even though she's an avid angler and hunter herself. She has created a committee to forge Alaska's Climate-change Strategy, and has made Alaska an observer (but not a member) of the Western Climate Initiative . But that doesn't mean she has any sort of beef with Big Oil (in fact, her husband is an oil production operator for BP on Alaska's North Slope). She said earlier this week, "When I look every day, the big oil company's building is right out there next to me, and it's quite a reminder that we should have mutually beneficial relationships with the oil industry." more in Gristmill: The e ... Source: www.sepiamutiny.com --- 12 days ago
Burma is a prize to be contested, and China and India are not-so-subtly vying for it. But in a world shaped by ethnic struggles, higher fuel prices, new energy pathways, and Climate-change-driven natural disasters like the recent cyclone, Burma also represents a microcosm of the strategic challenges that the United States will face. The U.S. Navy underscored these factors in its new maritime Strategy, released in late 2007, which indicated that the Navy will shift its attention from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific. The Marines, too, in their new “Vision and Strategy 2025” statement, highlight... ... Source: www.grist.org --- 7 days ago
London Mayor Boris Johnson unveiled a draft plan Friday to help the city mitigate and adapt to Climate change. Johnson put special attention to water conservation, calling for mandatory metering, increased efficiency, improved drainage, and rainwater harvesting. He also envisions more trees and green space. Environmentalists said the adaptation Strategy was a good step, but said measures to cut carbon emissions were missing from the equation. "It is essential that the capital prepares for the impacts of Climate change," says one Friends of the Earth campaigner. "But Boris Johnson is also committed to cutting London's carbon dioxide emissions by 60 percent by 2025 in order to prevent dangerous Climate change, and has so far failed to explain how he will achieve this." Some 15 percent of London is estimated to be at high risk of flooding from rising seas -- an area housing 1.25 million people, 480,000 buildings, 441 schools, 75 transit stations, 10 hospitals, and an airport. sources: Reuters , BBC News , BusinessGreen straight to the report: The London Climate change adaptation Strategy [PDF] ... Find more results for Climate Strategy on RSSMicro.com |
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Filed under: US Elections , Politics , USC The genius behind John McCain's pick of Sarah Palin is that he's just made the biggest and smartest Strategy shift of any campaign in the last 18 months. Realizing that a campaign on experience alone could not win (it certainly didn't work for Hillary), McCain smartly changed the focus to what that experience looks like: regular rhetoric versus a record of reform. Cynics in the Obama camp will try to say Palin's only qualification is her gender, but Palin's time in office shows that she's a reformer just like McCain. By choosing the Alaska governor, McCain has made this critical character trait the cornerstone of his candidacy, and neither Obama nor Biden has the ability to compete on this. One of McCain's best and most underplayed attributes this campaign season has been his willingness to depart from party orthodoxy on the basis of principle. He's bucked Bush on torture, led the mob against Jack Abramoff, worked with Ted Kennedy on immigration, co-authored campaign finance reform with Russ Feingold, and advocated action against Climate change in a party which pretends the environment is inconsequential. In a party which can spend as flagrantly and wastefully as the Democrats, McCain has challenged earmarks , investigated dubious pricetags , and promoted greater fiscal responsibility. In Alaska, Palin has shown similar courage. As chairwoman of an Alaskan energy commission, Palin investigated ...
With energy (and specifically gas prices) playing such a big role in the presidential campaign, it's not surprising that a good chunk of the recently unveiled Republican Party platform is devoted to energy policy. And while most of the platform's directives are, as usual, a pu-pu platter of dripping red meat served up for the party's conservative base, there are signs that the threat of manmade Climate change is starting to resonate even in the red states. It's tempting to mock the GOP conception of going green. The platform is loaded with such howlers as, "In the long run, American production should move to zero-emission sources, and our nation's fossil fuel resources are the bridge to that emissions-free future;" or, "No Strategy for reducing energy costs will be viable without a commitment to continued coal production and utilization;" or, my personal favorite, this masterpiece of obfuscation, "In caring for the land and water, private ownership has been the best guarantee of conscientious stewardship." But that's all pretty old hat. What should warm the hearts of environmentalists is that the GOP, whose congressional representatives have stridently fought against improved vehicle efficiency standards for the last two decades, now backs new technologies like lightweight composites that could dramatically improve mileage. The platform takes the courageous step of calling for an end to ethanol mandates, while saying we should ha ...
THE capital's green spaces are to grow in a bid to stifle Climate change. Mayor of London Boris Johnson announced plans to protect parks and roof gardens in the capital, which he claims will help absorb rainwater and reduce the risk of flooding. Mr Johnson was in Docklands on Friday, August 29, to launch London's Climate Change Adaptation Strategy at the Thames Barrier in Woolwich, the capital's major defence against rising water levels. Mr Johnson said: "A total of 1.25million Londoners are potentially at risk of flooding. "We're going to take specific measures which will allow us to meet the demands of big science, but also improve the quality of the urban landscape. "By planting more trees and protecting parks and roof gardens we're going to be making London more absorbent to rainfall. "We're going to be doing lots of things to make London better and make the consequences of Climate change less baleful." The new Strategy aims to raise public awareness of flood risk, which threatens 15 per cent of London. It promotes the introduction of compulsory water metering in all developments, with a billing system that provides incentives for efficient water use. The reduction of leaks from water mains around London has also been singled out as a priority. Mr Johnson claimed new developments - such as those in nearby Thames Gateway - would be expected to consider green space as part of their plans for the area. He said: "If you look at s ...