Environmental Law

In Other News (May 5)

By Dennis Pfaff and Kevin Livingston, Editors

• The Asian Development Bank's head announces a new fund to combat damage caused by climate change, writes The Economic Times of India. 
• Scientists suggest species living in the tropics may be in more serious danger than those living near the Arctic, reports the CBC.
• The world can reach a significant new climate change agreement by the end of next year, if current talks keep up their momentum, the head of the United Nations climate panel says, according to Reuters.
• A connection between rising shark attacks and global warming? Perhaps, the Guardian newspaper writes.
• A new book that offers "a profound academic, spiritual, theological, exegetical, politically grounded and energizing rendering of the global climate and sustainability crisis" is positively reviewed by The Christian Century. 
• Sempra Energy Chairman Donald E. Felsinger says there is enough scientific evidence in place that "we need to take action" to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to an interview with the New York Times appearing over the weekend
• The Bush administration literally chose to "add more fuel to the global warming fire" by moving ahead to open the Chukchi Sea to drilling, argues the Audubon Magazine.
• Ethanol mandates "are just an appetizer for a much larger big business feast should a liberal Congress be paired with a liberal White House," argues a posting on the Heritage Foundation's blog, The Foundry.   
  
  

Full post as published by Climate Law Update on May 05, 2008 (boomark / email).