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(Xinhua) Backgrounder: Key facts about G8 summit
A world of troubles to tackle
(The Economist) The G8 leaders, meeting in Japan, have many challenges but few tools
Pricey oil, the food crisis and the credit crunch: the new challenges either have their roots beyond the G8, or have quickly raced across […]

Chil Heward is bringing Robin Griffiths as his guest.
Robin joined Phillips & Drew in 1966, having taken a degree in Economics at Nottingham University. He went on to be a partner at WI Carr, the first British stock broker to have offices in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Part of this firm […]

June 28, 2008
As drylands get drier and violence grows, new crises resembling Darfur will arise.
Jeffrey Sachs
NEWSWEEK
The world will experience a growing risk of conflicts over food, energy and water in coming years. The population rises each year by about 80 million people, with most of the increase in impoverished regions already facing […]

With thanks to Professor Paul Quirk of UBC and Foad Mardukhi who maintains an impressive listserv on many topics of interest.

22 June
Higher Learning Adapts To a Greening Attitude
Students Lead Drive Reshaping Curricula
By Susan Kinzie
Washington Post Staff Writer
The environmental fervor sweeping college campuses has reached beyond the push to recycle plastics and offer organic food and […]

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Canada & the Climate Change Conference (Bali)

June 17
Feds under fire over Kyoto Protocol in court and at UN
(National Post) OTTAWA — The Harper government is fighting off challenges in court and at the United Nations for allegedly not meeting its obligations under the […]

June 5
The Race for Survival
(Newsweek June 9) Enlisting endangered species in the fight against global warming is either a brilliant tactical maneuver—or an arrogant abuse of the law.
… And it certainly isn’t any part of Kempthorne’s plan for the polar bear to save the Earth. That was Siegel’s idea: that the law requires […]

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May 31
Montreal Climate Exchange starts trading
Activity on Canada’s first carbon-trading market kicked off Friday with the launch of the Montreal Climate Exchange.
A joint venture between the Montreal Exchange and the Chicago Climate Exchange, the new exchange will allow the trading of futures contracts on greenhouse gases.
Each contract is equal to 100 […]

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May 30
From the German point of view: Canada’s hypocritical stance on climate change
By Bob McDonald, host of the CBC science radio program Quirks & Quarks.
There might have been a few hidden smirks among delegates in Germany this week, when Prime Minister Stephen Harper boasted about Canada’s commitment […]

Genetically modified oilseed rape, one of the four main commercial GM crops. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty
Background: The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety; SciDevnet GM crops and Agriculture & Environment; Monsanto vs Percy Schmeiser
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May 24
Sowing seeds of discontent
Since the dawn of civilization, farmers have saved seeds from the harvest and […]

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, […]