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The company, Asia Pacific Resources International, says it wants to create a ring of industrial tree plantations around the Kampar Peninsula's core to preserve it.

Google Inc. plans to invest funds in one or more renewable energy projects, a company executive said yesterday.

Snub-nosed and squat, with a no-frills, cramped cabin, the little Peugeot Ion is unlikely to win any design awards. But if current industry trends continue, it may one day be remembered as a trailblazer of zero-emission cars.

Consolidation in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investment research industry certainly ranks as one of the year's most important stories for the growing number of sustainability investors, who in the absence of regulatory mandates for transparent corporate report on so-called extra-financial considerations rely on such researchers for their investment analysis and decision-making.

The company, Asia Pacific Resources International, says it wants to create a ring of industrial tree plantations around the Kampar Peninsula's core to preserve it.

The world has emitted extra greenhouse gases this century equivalent to the annual totals of China and the United States above a maximum for avoiding the worst of climate change, a study estimated on Tuesday.

While nations bicker over the size of emissions cuts and climate funds, saving forests has turned out to be among the least contentious issues in U.N. climate talks and has achieved the most progress.

If the evidence is overwhelming that man-made climate change is already upon us and set to wreak planetary havoc, why do so many people refuse to believe it?

For anyone trying to understand why the United States is having such a hard time joining an international effort to combat global warming, a short drive west from Washington to one of the smaller states in the country might explain a lot.

The Australian government's plans to cut carbon emissions were headed for defeat in a hostile Senate after the elevation of a new opposition leader opposed to carbon trade laws, setting a trigger for an early 2010 election.

An expert group set up by the European Commission has begun screening a list of forty-nine "potentially critical" raw materials whose availability to industry could come under threat as global competition for natural resources intensifies, EurActiv has learned.

As the market for E10 gasoline (a mixture of 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent petroleum-derived gasoline) becomes saturated, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the ethanol industry are urgently seeking ways to push back the "blending wall" .

Top Indian officials dismissed a draft climate change proposal by Denmark that expects developing economies to peak their greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, news reports said Monday.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper withstands internal and external calls for a more ambitious approach to climate change mitigation ahead of the Copenhagen conference.

MBABANE Monday, November 30, 2009 (IRIN) - After two decades of drought the urgent prayers in Swaziland's annual incwala ceremony, a month-long ritual in which ancestral spirits are petitioned for good rains, have been answered with weeks of torrential downpours. Floods now threaten food security.

JOHANNESBURG Friday, November 27, 2009 (IRIN) - Eat less meat, have smaller herds of animals, switch to more efficient stoves that pollute less, and develop more sustainable public transport systems are some of the lifestyle changes and technical fixes that could save millions of lives and reduce global warming.

According to Reuters, the host of the upcoming UN conference is working on a draft text that aims to unite expectations from industrialized and developing nations.

The world's leaders must prioritize the issue of global warming above all else, the Dalai Lama said Monday, adding that he feels encouraged by December's climate change conference in Copenhagen.

The EU might be prepared to come to climate negotiations in Copenhagen without all new funding for developing countries’ adaptation for climate change, writes the Guardian.

While in the past carbon credit prices have been highly volatile, in a larger post-Copenhagen market the credits may be seen by investors as solid ground.