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1131.Members of €32bn Danish pension funds to vote on fossil fuel divestment (2015-03-02)
... Series of resolutions asks six of Denmark’s pension funds to drop their ‘black money’ investments in coal, oil and gas projects that cause climate change. Hundreds of thousands of academics, engineers and lawyers in Denmark are set to vote on divesting their €32bn (£23bn) pension funds from the fossil fuels that drive climate change. The... ...
1132.Global warming slowdown probably due to natural cycles, study finds (2015-02-27)
... Manmade warming in past decade has likely been offset by cooling from natural cycles in the Pacific and Atlantic – but effect will reverse in coming decades. Manmade global warming over the past decade has probably been partly offset by the cooling effect of natural variability in the Earth’s climate system, a team of climate... ...
1133.UK should be given power to regulate GM crops, MPs say (2015-02-26)
... Science and technology committee damns EU rules on authorisations for genentically-modified crops as politicised and unscientific. The UK should be handed the regulatory power to green light genetically-modified crops because the EU’s GM rules are politicised and unscientific, an influential committee of MPs have said. ...
1134.World’s first all-female patrol protecting South Africa’s rhinos (2015-02-26)
... Unarmed Black Mambas recruited from local communities are guarding nature reserve inside the Greater Kruger national par. The battle against the poaching that kills a rhino every seven hours in South Africa has acquired a new weapon: women. The Black Mambas are all young women from local communities, and they patrol inside the Greater Kruger... ...
1135.Shell shelves plan for tar sands project in face of low oil prices (2015-02-25)
... Shell has shelved plans for a major new tar sands mine in Canada, the largest project yet to fall victim to low oil prices. The company has withdrawn its application for the 200,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Pierre River project and will instead concentrate on boosting the profitability of its existing 255,000-bpd oil sands operations. ...
1136.UK will need to import over half of its food within a generation, farmers warn (2015-02-24)
... Rising population will hit UK’s self sufficiency if government continues to ignore British food production, say NFU. More than half of the UK’s food will come from overseas within a generation, as a rising population and stalling farm productivity combine to erode what remains of the UK’s self-sufficiency, according to farming leaders. The UK’s failure... ...
1137.EU wants Paris climate deal to cut carbon emissions 60% by 2050 (2015-02-24)
... A major UN climate summit in Paris later this year should call on countries to make tough carbon cuts to avoid dangerous global warming, EU document says. The world’s states should commit to a legally binding emissions cut of 60% by 2050, with five-yearly reviews, in a Paris Protocol to replace the moribund Kyoto agreement... ...
1138.UK on track to meet its renewable energy targets (2015-02-23)
... Wind power has surged while gas use has fallen by over a fifth, putting UK on course to meet 2020 clean energy and climate goal. The UK is on track to meet its renewable energy goals, with wind power substituting for gas and coal use and driving down greenhouse gas emissions, according to new analyses. ...
1139.Balkan dam boom threatens Europe’s last wild waterways (2015-02-20)
... Environmental concerns have pushed one flagship dam project to the brink of cancellation but a ‘gold rush on the rivers’ of south-east Europe puts these unique ecosystems and their wildlife, including the critically endangered Balkan lynx, in jeopardy. ...
1140.Harvard prepares to fight fossil fuel divestment case in court (2015-02-19)
... World’s richest university will appear in court on Friday to seek dismissmal of lawsuit brought by students calling for it to pull investments out of coal, oil and gas companies. Lawyers for Harvard University will appear in court on Friday afternoon to fight off attempts to force the world’s richest university to dump coal, oil... ...
