http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/Bali-conference/Earth_Community-and-Politics_Bali-conference_18_193_728.html Press Review of the Earth from the most relevant websites. Keep in touch with the Earth and your future ! fr-FR http://www.earth-stream.com/logo-stream-Earth.png http://www.earth-stream.com Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:15:02 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/Bali-conference/New-Green-School-Opens-in-Bali_18_193_728_129300.html photo: The Green School Read more: An innovative new sustainable school opens in Bali. Students from all over the globe learn the latest in green living while living in paradise.... Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:19:33 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/Bali-conference/Australia-How-to-crash-a-planet-Just-follow-Garnaut_18_193_728_126420.html Green Left: On September 5, the government's climate change adviser, Professor Ross Garnaut, released his recommendations for medium-term cuts to Australian greenhouse gas emissions. To the outrage of environmentalists, Garnaut's report, Targets and trajectories, calls for reductions by 2020 of just 5% if there is no comprehensive international agreement on emissions reductions, or of 10% if there is. At the Bali climate summit last December many developed countries, although not Australia, ... Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:59:13 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/Bali-conference/Australia-urged-to-aim-for-10-emissions-cut_18_193_728_123247.html Financial Times: Australia should target a 10 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2020, the country's leading adviser on climate change said on Friday, calling the minimum 25 per cent level agreed at a global climate change conference last December in Bali "not immediately feasible". Australia's carbon dioxide emissions are equal to those of the US on a per capita basis and among the highest in the world, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Australia, which ranks 15th in overall ... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:30:44 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/Bali-conference/Australia-can-lead-way-on-climate_18_193_728_122793.html Canberra Times: Professor Garnaut's original review released in early July was clear that Australia's interests lay in the most ambitious targets for reducing global pollution levels. When the Garnaut Review recommends targets today it is important to bear in mind the political realities of the global negotiations which are walking on eggshells toward the deadline for an agreement at the end of next year. At the 2007 Bali climate talks, Australia shrugged off a reputation as a climate laggard and ... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:10:00 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/Bali-conference/Green-School-in-Bali-Focuses-on-Holistic-Education-and-Environmental-Stewardship_18_193_728_119801.html The Green School opens its doors Sept. 1, 2008 to preschool through eighth-grade students. According to the Green School’s post at Ode Magazine’s Web site, the school’s faculty and student body come from 16 countries. The school aims to united Western and Indonesian students and, presumably, viewpoints. If interested in more information, Meliana Salim is the person to contact (Marketing & Public Relations Manager: meliana@greenschool.org. Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:57:01 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/Bali-conference/Indonesia-to-remind-advanced-nation-about-Bali-Road-Map_18_193_728_97337.html Antara: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Indonesia would remind the developed nations about the Bali Road Map consensus when he attends the G-8 summit in Japan on Wednesday. "I will remind all parties about our common consensus on the Bali Road Map . I will tell both developing and developed nations to carry out their common obligations based on the responsive capability principle," the President said on the sidelines of his visit here on Tuesday. The Bali Road Map ... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:45:52 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/Bali-conference/Climate-body-urges-G8-to-set-binding-mid-term-goals-for-emission-_18_193_728_96833.html Xinhua: A non-governmental campaign on Monday urged the Group of Eight (G8) countries to set a definite mid-term goal for emission cuts of 25 to 40 percent. The Climate Action Campaign, coordinated by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), expressed hope that the G8 club would confirm their commitment to these goals, agreed upon by nations party to the Kyoto Protocol in Bali last December. At a press conference on the sidelines of the ongoing G8 summit here, the campaign said the world's ... Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:33:02 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/Bali-conference/Canada-s-Prime-Minister-Now-Blames-George-Bush-for-Climate-Inaction_18_193_728_95948.html Of all the people to jump on the Blame-Bush-Bandwagon, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper is now claiming that, ... global efforts to fight climate change are likely to go more smoothly once U.S. President George W. Bush leaves office early next year."Yes, this is the same Prime Minister whose government was viewed as one of the lone instigators (along with the United States) of climate inaction at the last major round of international talks on climate change in Bali, Indonesia. Mr. Harper is no doubt realizing that being seen as a government in bed with the Bush administration on environmental policy is no way to garner more political support in a country that views the environment as a top issue and the US president less favorably than North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il.A US national poll out today might also explain Harper's sudden Bush-bashing ways. The CNN poll shows that presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has jumped out ahead of his Republican rival John McCain by 5-points.Unimaginable change are in the air. Hopefully they will lead to changes in our ever-warming atmosphere.      stephen harper george w bush climate change global warming barack obama canadian government greenhouse gas Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:01:38 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/Bali-conference/In-Brief-UN-Rejects-Poison-Waste-Export-Ban_18_193_728_93268.html DELEGATES at a UN conference in Bali yesterday voted against a ban on toxic waste exports which African nations and other poor countries said would protect them from the stream of dangerous chemicals and old electronics damaging their health and environment. (c) 2008 Scotsman, The. Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:19:04 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/Bali-conference/International-meeting-on-hazardous-waste-begins_18_193_728_90835.html An international waste management meeting is being held in Bali, Indonesia to highlight the dangers of hazardous waste.  The five-day meeting with ministers from nearly 170 countries will focus on the impact hazardous waste has on human health and livelihoods.  They will also be considering setting up a new body on electronic and computer waste. The conference [...] Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:04:09 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/Bali-conference/Indonesia-Progress-falters-on-Bali-Roadmap-to-new-climate-deal_18_193_728_86423.html AFP Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:10:17 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/Bali-conference/Finding-the-Right-Balance_18_193_728_83255.html EPA granted the right to regulate carbon, April 2007. Congress passes energy legislation, December 2007. Conference of the Parties in Bali, December 2007. …Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act fails in the Senate, 2008. While it’s clear our nation has come a long way on the journey toward a sustainable future in just over a year, we still have some distance to go. The climate change legislation that recently failed to garner sufficient support in the U.S. Senate did not adequately address some of the critical issues facing our nation’s businesses; but, we are committed to continuing the work to get it right.... Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:32:37 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/Bali-conference/New-Zealand-Climate-change-talks-get-down-to-the-tricky-bits_18_193_728_81189.html New Zealand Herald: If the devil is in the details, climate change negotiators are about to enter purgatory. Two thousand delegates from 162 countries and dozens of specialist agencies are opening a two-week conference, the first to get into the nuts and bolts of a new global warming agreement to take effect after 2012. The meeting builds on a landmark accord reached in December on the Indonesian island of Bali which, for the first time, held out the promise that the United States, China and India ... Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:17:01 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/Bali-conference/The-Road-to-Copenhagen-Second-Stop_18_193_728_80990.html The second session of the UN working group on long term cooperative action has started in Bonn, Germany. The working group (AWGLCA), created in Bali, is mandated to consider action needed to create the conditions for action on climate change–both to reduce emissions and adapt to unavoidable changes, adequate to the current understanding of the [...] Mon, 19 May 2008 04:11:27 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/Bali-conference/Australia-The-sun-sets-on-Rudd-s-climate-change-credibility_18_193_728_74801.html Australian: KEVIN Rudd's climate change honeymoon ended last week. The hero of Bali received a public relations belting over what were relatively modest indiscretions in the environment section of Tuesday night's budget. That's the danger with playing to the grandstand on an issue as complex and expensive as climate change. During last year's epic election campaign, Labor didn't hold back with the green symbolism to maximise its political leverage over the Howard government. There was the ... Wed, 14 May 2008 15:51:50 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/Bali-conference/Indonesia-gets-into-hot-water_18_193_728_72917.html Asia Times: In the shadow of steep volcanic mountains, Indonesia is seeking to develop a cleaner future for its energy industry. Pressurized steam from a score or more of wells is piped to power generation plants a few kilometers away, feeding into the country's main Java-Bali power grid. There are no coal storage yards, no power plant smokestacks to mar the area's beauty or sully with soot the vegetable gardens that thrive in the rich volcanic soil. Indonesia appears ready to tap geothermal ... Thu, 08 May 2008 19:42:47 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/Bali-conference/Solutions-Switch-to-faucet-fuel-from-fossil-fuel-to-stop-global-warming_18_193_728_70784.html Climate destruction is more critical than we realize and we’re going to have to do more than just reduce greenhouse emissions, says engineer and scientist David Sanborn Scott. We must quit burning fossil fuels altogether. “We have lulled ourselves into believing we can resolve climate change simply by reducing fossil fuelling but that’s not enough,” Scott said. “We must eliminate all fossil fuelling.” Scott was frustrated by how little was actually said about solutions to global warming last December at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali. The focus, as usual, was on “coping strategies” which, ultimately, will be woefully inadequate. “I wrote a bitter email to several of my policy-guru friends, one of whom responded: ‘David, you must realize this conference was not about solutions, it was about ‘fairness’—fairness on whether developing nations should be expected to set emission reduction targets equivalent to those set for developed nations’. “Nobody even mentioned the single overarching strategy that can enable us to escape climate catastrophe.” For Scott, that strategy rests within the simplest element in the universe – hydrogen. An atom of hydrogen is odorless and non-toxic, with but one electron circling one proton. Yet, despite its simplicity, hydrogen contains more energy per unit mass than any other chemical fuel – almost three times as much as gasoline. And, unlike carbon-belching fossil fuels, the only waste product from hydrogen is pure water, giving it great advantages not only for generating clean electricity but also as a transportation fuel. Together, hydrogen and fossil-free electricity can fly airplanes, propel cars and run computers. And they’re interchangeable: Hydrogen can be converted into electricity; electricity into hydrogen, for a more versatile energy system. We already generate fossil-free electricity from hydro-power stations as well as some employing wind and solar power. The crucial n ... Mon, 05 May 2008 15:56:58 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/Bali-conference/China-faces-trade-war-climate-challenge_18_193_728_69062.html Asia Times: China in recent months has taken center stage in the international debate over global warming. It has surpassed the United States as the world's largest source of greenhouse gases, and it became developing nations' diplomatic champion at the recent United Nations climate negotiations in Bali. Now China may become the target of a full-fledged trade war that could destroy, or perhaps rescue, the chances of bringing rich and poor nations together to fight global warming. The focus on ... Sat, 03 May 2008 06:51:40 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Community-and-Politics/Bali-conference/WB-urged-to-follow-Bali-roadmap_18_193_728_68529.html Jakarta Post: Indonesian environmental guru Emil Salim has questioned a new World Bank climate change strategy, saying it should back the Bali climate roadmap rather than starting a new fund of its own. He said differences over climate change implementation strategies reflected market and policy contradictions arising when polluting countries were environmental service providers, while the bank itself was too linked to fossil fuel projects. "The World Bank executive board previously ...