Category: RT Newswire

USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.

Climate Forum Poland: Spotlight on Congo Forests

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Business Daily Africa (Nairobi, Kenya)
December 10, 2008

Climate change forum turns spotlight on Congo
by John Mbaria

<http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11682&Itemid=5822>

As discussions at the ongoing conference on climate change enters the second week
in Poznan, Poland, there is widespread realisation that Africa has one of the most
significant keys to the mitigation against the gravest consequences of the crisis
and should be adequately compensated to keep it intact.

The multi-million square kilometre Congo Basin Forests hold the key. But the world
is yet to agree on how to preserve this second largest of the world’s last major
carbon sinks.

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Forest Service Whiffs on Chance to Solve Two Critical Problems

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Forest Service Whiffs on Chance to Solve Two Critical Problems
Agency offers no remedy for wildlife and watersheds from oversized and decaying road
system

WASHINGTON-December 9. The U.S. Forest Service today chose to ignore its regulations
and pass on opportunities to address two of the most serious threats facing our
national forests-the impact of off-road vehicles (ORVs) and of our over-sized and
decaying forest roads system. Issuing new management guidelines today, the agency
provided direction on how land managers can elude existing safeguards rather than
comply with them.

“We could not be more disappointed with today’s announcement,” said Vera Smith, the
director of the recreation planning program for The Wilderness Society. “The
conservation community has worked diligently with the Forest Service over the past
three years to make this process a success for everyone.”

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[Tar Sands Sign-On Letter] Attention: All NGO and Indigenous Organizations

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Date:    Tue, December 9, 2008 9:52 am

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Science Paves Way for Climate Lawsuits

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This could be PRICELESS! Should have happened quite a while ago…

 

ASW

Science Paves Way for Climate Lawsuits

David Adam and Afua Hirsch  The Guardian, Tuesday December 9 2008

 

People affected by worsening storms, heatwaves and floods could soon  

be able to sue the oil and power companies they blame for global  

warming, a leading climate expert has said.

 

Myles Allen, a physicist at Oxford University, said a breakthrough  

that allows scientists to judge the role man-made climate change  

played in extreme weather events could see a rush to the courts over  

the next decade.

 

He said: “We are starting to get to the point that when an adverse  

weather event occurs we can quantify how much more likely it was made  

by human activity. And people adversely affected by climate change  

today are in a position to document and quantify their losses. This is  

going to be hugely important.”

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