India

 India's economic growth is shortsighted

with the Indian economy growing at a breathtaking pace, the urban Indian consumer has never had it so good. There are more cars, more ipods, more mobile phones than what anybody could have imagined

Publication Date: 
14/02/2007
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Environment, Economy, Energy Policy, Waste Disposal, Hazardous Products, Fossil Fuels, Economic Development, Industry, Auto Industry, Information, Media, India, Toxic Wastes, Petrol
Fisheries

 Marine fisheries growing as energy intensive centres

Marine fisheries have become very energy intensive

Publication Date: 
14/07/2006
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Fisheries, Marine Fisheries, Fossil Fuels, Statistics
India

 Time to Plug in

The International Conference for Renewable Energies is to be held in Bonn, Germany. But here is a sector dwarfed by fossil fuels, and although governments can proactively root for renewables, and some have, the options given to developing countries are qu

Publication Date: 
30/05/2004
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Solar Radiation, Global Warming, Energy Policy, Renewable Energy, Biomass, Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Energy Surveys, Energy Technology, Fossil Fuels, Electricity, Biogas, Legislation, Governance, OECD, Germany, United States Of America (US), India
Environment

 The rich polluter

ExxonMobil has emitted five per cent of CO2 pollutant since 1882

Publication Date: 
14/03/2004
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Environment, Fossil Fuels, New Zealand, Carbon Dioxide
Environment

 The obvious choice

The world has reached an environmental crossroads, according to the third Global Environment Outlook (geo-3) report. And the choice between greed and humanity will decide the fate of millions of

Publication Date: 
29/06/2002
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Environment, Population, Fossil Fuels, UN, Global
Health

 Mercury laced food

Sun, sea and snow bring mercury down to the Earth and in the food

Publication Date: 
29/09/2001
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Food Contamination, Canada, Ozone Layer, Mercury, Fossil Fuels, Environmental Science, Research, N C America, Toxins
Health

 GHGs and health

Reducing emissions of greenhouse gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels not only will put the brakes on global warming, but would also benefit public health, according to an international

Publication Date: 
14/09/2001
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Pollution, Global Warming, Health, Emissions Trading, Fossil Fuels
Economy

 Shying away

australia has rejected a proposal to introduce carbon tax for curbing the emissions of greenhouse gases. The proposal was made by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Develop

Publication Date: 
14/09/2001
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Eco Tax, Green House Gases, Economy, Emissions Trading, Fossil Fuels, Australia
Forests

 Sunk again

Another report lambastes the theory of land carbon sinks

Publication Date: 
14/08/2001
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Forests, Carbon Dioxide, Global Warming, Kyoto Protocol, Fossil Fuels, Environmental Science
Energy

 A voice for renewables

a global network of non-governmental organisations ( ngo s), business associations and scientific institutions has launched the World Council for Renewable Energies ( wcre ), to

Publication Date: 
30/07/2001
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Nuclear Power, Renewable Energy, Energy, Fossil Fuels, NGO, Global

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