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P Please consider the environment before printing

See also The Biofuel Backlash and
Toxic chemicals and Environment on wednesday-night.com
We also recommend Andrew Coyne’s column If not Kyoto, what? of May 24, 2006. We haven’t advanced a whole lot since then.

3 May 2008
Burning money
By Henry Aubin
The hope that some new oil-free technology will rescue […]

Although the early days of the campaign were regrettably short on serious exploration of issues and the candidates’ positions, their websites supply considerable information. However until the Democrats unite behind one candidate, we decided to follow the issues in one post, except for Foreign Policy and NAFTA. Later, there will be separate posts for each […]

THE AVIATION AND CARBON MARKETS

EVENT OF THE YEAR
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a Specialized Agency of the United Nations, will be holding a unique Workshop on Aviation and Carbon Markets on 18/19 June 2008 and has the pleasure to invite your company to be part of this […]

No one should miss Alex Shoumatoff’s piece on the Arctic Oil Rush
In addition to a wealth of information about the Russian expedition and the attitudes of interested nations towards UNCLOS and other treaties (”(Basically, the U.S. doesn’t ratify anything that cramps its style. It has still not ratified the Kyoto Protocol, which Russia has, […]

April 18
Billionaire Texas oil man makes big bets on wind
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legendary Texas oil man T. Boone Pickens has gone green with a plan to spend $10 billion to build the world’s biggest wind farm. But he’s not doing it out of generosity - he expects to turn a buck.
Next month, Pickens’ company, Mesa […]

April 18
Bush’s CO2 Plan Is “Neanderthal” - German Minister
(Planet Ark) BERLIN - US President George W Bush’s plan to halt a rise in US greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 could undermine, rather than support, efforts to combat climate change, German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said.
April 16
Bush Sets Greenhouse Gas Emissions Goal
WASHINGTON — President Bush called […]

Trucks are loaded with sugar cane, which will be used to produce biofuels, in Brazil. Photograph: Paulo Whitaker/Reuters
More on Biofuels
April 17
Brazil Lula Defends Biofuels From Growing Criticism
(Reuters Planet Ark) BRASILIA - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended Brazil’s production of biofuels on Wednesday, rejecting criticism that they are furthering a surge in global food […]

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

Sachs appeal
April 16
Charlie Rose: A conversation with Jeffrey Sachs
Mar 27th 2008
The Economist print edition
IF GILBERT AND SULLIVAN were looking for the very model of a modern intellectual, they would surely pick Jeffrey Sachs. He is so “right on” that when Time magazine featured him in its global […]

World Bank IMF
IMF’s Global economic prospects for 2009 (.pdf)
April 11
Climate Change Rises On World Bank Agenda
(Reuters Planet Ark) WASHINGTON - Climate change is now one of the World Bank’s top concerns because of its expected impact on health and economic growth in developing countries, the bank’s lead environmental economist said.
Latin […]

This Wednesday, it is a somewhat random-access agenda. Despite (or perhaps because of) our careful monitoring of topics of interest, we find that many are in the category of “been there, done that” too recently and there is little obvious progress in the files. However, there are others that have been somewhat neglected in […]