Climate Changer

The international fight to control climate change heads to a new arena in next month. This and some more optimistic news were announced yesterday by the international informational agencies. As we have found, it is about when the Senate is going to debate a bill that could cut total U.S. global warming emissions by 66 percent by 2050. This great news are giving us much doze of hope, that the policy of the George W. Bush might be changed. As our readers know, The US is the only major industrialized nation outside the carbon-capping Kyoto Protocol.
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All members of G8 must set shorter-term goals for axing greenhouse gases than 2050 in order to help guide billions of dollars of investment, was announced today.
United Nations (UN) climate chief Yvo de Boer from The Netherlands, has told front of the media that a policy outlined by President George W. Bush last

month that would cap U.S. emissions in 2025 was “not enough” to confront global warming.

“We are at a stage where we really need to see leadership from the G8,”is one of the accents of Yvo de Boer’s speech before flying to Kobe, Japan, where May 24-26 is going to be the meeting of G8 environment ministers that will prepare a July G8 summit.
Yvo de Boer noted also that the G8 should set a target of halving world emissions by 2050
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The China-U.S. Climate Change Forum at the University of California, Berkeley. It will bring together invited leaders from the Chinese and American scientific, business, policy and non-profit communities to discuss global climate crisis solutions and to spur new research. Former U.S. President Al Gore will make a special presentation.

8:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m., Tuesday, May 23, and Wednesday, May 24.

Al Gore’s talk is at 7:30 p.m. today (Tuesday, 23rd)

The majority of the conference will be held at Wheeler Hall Auditorium, UC Berkeley. The presentation by Al Gore will be at Zellerbach Auditorium on campus. A map is online here.
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Prepared by the Fiscal Affairs Department (In consultation with other departments) and approved by Teresa Ter-Minassian,Director, Fiscal Affairs Department at the International Monetary Fund this report was public announced at February 2008. It affects various topics, related to the climate change, there are financial statement, the potential role of the Fund in addressing them, several related to our previous themes like projects runt by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, few new to us initiatives of the World Economic Outlook (WEO), fossil fuels, bio fuels, the campaign for reducing the Greenhouse gas emissions and carbon dioxide and many many others, that you may know from our pages. Check this full report here (pdf).
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We Said WHAT? Assembly Bill 32 today at Sacramento! The seminar series for non-specialists on the science, technology and policy aspects of climate change that should start today, May 22nd 2008 at 12:00 PM should be presented by:

Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis
John Muir Institute of the Environment, UC Davis
UC Davis Air Quality Research Center
UC Institute for Research on Climate Change and its Societal Impacts

For more info, contacts: Prof. Terry Nathan (trnathan@ucdavis.edu) Dr. Philip Duffy (pduffy@llnl.gov)