By Daniel Gros Director of the Centre for European Policy Studies.
Sometimes the most important news is what is not happening.
This summer has given us one such example: the climate change bill, for which the US President Barack Obama had pushed so hard, will not even be presented to the US Senate because it stands no [...]

HONG KONG — Even as China has set ambitious goals for itself in clean-energy production and reduction of global warming gases, the country’s surging demand for power from oil and coal has led to the largest six-month increase in the tonnage of human generated greenhouse gases ever by a single country.
China’s leaders are so concerned [...]

This analysis & posting by Michael Graham Richard of TreeHugger shows us where we are headed with our addiction to burning fossil carbon.
Total World Coal Consumption in 2008: 7,238,207,000 Short Tons!
When it comes to global warming and air pollution, coal is the number one enemy. We were curious to know which countries burned the most, [...]

Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said the EU has failed to convince the developing world that it is serious about global warming.
Speaking in an unusually candid manner during a European Parliament hearing on Wednesday (14 April), De Boer said the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen [...]

An economic assessment from APEC INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT GROUP
Sooner or later, mounting losses on commercial real estate could crash through the market’s 2009 optimism and send the economy and stocks into a double-dip downturn.
The major problem is that lawmakers and regulators are setting up investors into believing that commercial real estate (CRE) losses are being effectively [...]

Washington (CNN) — President Obama met with the Dalai Lama — the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader — at the White House on Thursday despite strong objections from Chinese government officials.

The meeting has the potential to further complicate Sino-U.S. tensions, which have been rising in recent months. China has warned it would damage Beijing’s ties to [...]

As US President Barack Obama gets ready to meet the Dalai Lama later today, news comes that China has been vigorously selling US government debt.
China dumped $US34.2 billion of Treasuries Dec 2009, its fastest rate of selling in a decade. At the end of 2009, China’s holdings of US government debt stood at $US755.4 billion. This [...]

Environmental activists are attacking a $60 billion deal that will keep Chinese power stations supplied with Australian coal for at least the next two decades. Under the agreement announced last week, the Australian coal and iron ore mining company Resourcehouse will build a new mining complex to give China Power International Development 30 million tonnes [...]

U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer will step down to join a consultancy group as an adviser, he said on Thursday, two months after a Copenhagen summit failed to support a legally binding climate pact.
His decision is not expected to further derail U.N.-led climate talks to agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, divided over [...]

By Bob Williamson
As has been highlighted in several articles such as, ‘Consumption in a finite world of resources. – How can we sustain a future that isn’t FINITE?’
‘The Most IMPORTANT Video You’ll Ever See and The SCARIEST Facts You’ll Ever Read!’
‘Undercover of Consumerism and Complacency, our democracy and self rule were usurped.’
‘Economic & Environmental Sustainability [...]