Associated Press: Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore said Sunday that reducing carbon dioxide emissions is essential to the "survival of our civilization" _ and reiterated he had no plans to run for president. At a joint news conference with the U.N.’s chief climate scientist, Gore called for grass-roots movements worldwide to push political leaders into action to curb the emissions that contributed to global warming. "It is a question of the survival of our civilization," Gore …

Associated Press: Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore said Sunday that reducing CO2 emissions is essential to the “survival of our civilization” _ and reiterated he had “no plans” to run for U.S. president. Gore, speaking at a joint news conference with the chief U.N. climate scientist, said cutting emissions was “in our self-interest.” “It is a question of the survival of our civilization,” Gore told reporters in Oslo. The former U.S. vice president and the U.N.’s …

Indo-Asian News Service: Global warming may lead to a collapse in food production in South Asia by the end of the century, say the World Bank and scientists from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) who launched a $140 million initiative to develop "climate-ready" farming and forestry systems here Saturday. As over 10,000 delegates from 187 countries attended the Dec 3-14 UN conference on climate change, CGIAR called on the international community "to step up …

Afriquenligne: Delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Indonesia are wrestling with a proposal that would allow developing nations to earn billions of dollars through carbon trading by leaving idle forests such as those in Borneo, the Amazon and Congo basins. The news comes on the same day that it was announced that forest clearance in the Amazon Rainforest was falling compared to previous years. Delegates from about 190 countries are negotiating a plan for private …

Associated Press: Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations’ chief climate scientist met Norwegian leaders early Sunday to kick off the official program leading up to them accepting the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo on Monday. Gore and the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the coveted award for their efforts to draw the world’s attention to the dangers of global warming. When he arrived on Friday, Gore urged countries meeting at a climate …

AAP: Australian clean energy businesses are leaving the embarrassment of the past behind as they prepare to inject an additional $A20 billion into new projects over the next decade, following the Rudd government’s ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. Until now, the Australian renewable energy industry has lagged the rest of the developed world, and even some developing countries like China and India, due to a lack of political will and regulatory support. But the cloud has been …

Australian: RICH and poor countries failed today to agree on a plan to open up trade in green goods, with Brazil fearing a major US-EU proposal raised on the fringes of climate talks in Bali was a protectionist ruse. At the end of two days of talks involving officials from 32 nations, including 12 trade ministers, a final news conference descended into farce as Brazil and the United States swapped recriminations. The proposal involves cutting import tariffs on a list of 43 environmentally …

OneWorld U.S.: European plans to provide 20 per cent of EU energy from renewable sources - which are contained in a leaked draft of the EU renewable energy directive - have been warmly welcomed by Friends of the Earth. But, the environmental campaign group warned that plans for a huge increase in agro-fuels (biofuels) seriously undermine the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help the world’s poor. A leak of the draft directive (which is due to be published in January 2008), says that …

ePolitix: The government is to announce plans to build enough off-shore wind farms to power every home in Britain. Business secretary John Hutton is expected to announce the major expansion in renewable energy during a speech in Berlin on Monday. Up to 7,000 turbines could be installed around the UK’s coastline - more than two per mile - with the aim of producing 34 gigawatts of electricity by 2020. Currently wind is the source of only one gigawatt of power in the UK, and the …

Agence France-Presse: Global markets could become a leading tool for halting global warming, former US vice president Al Gore said on Sunday, a day before he was to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change. Gore, who will receive the prestigious prize along with the United Nations’ top climate panel, called for taxes on carbon dioxide emissions and the creation of a global emissions trading market to help stem global warming. "We have to find a way to enlist the energy and …