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• The Seabed Scramble

  Andy Rowell, May 27, 2008
  We just don’t know when to stop. It looks like we are going to chase every drop of oil under every remote sea-bed, no matter the consequences. A fevered scramble for control of the world’s seabed is going on – mostly in secret – at a little known office of the United Nations in New...
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• UK Demands Repayment of Climate Aid

  Andy Rowell, May 19, 2008
  Never trust a politician over climate change, that’s the lesson of this story. Britain’s £800m international project to help the poorest countries in the world adapt to climate change has come under fire after it emerged that almost all the money offered will have to be repaid with interest.

• Trade War Over Biofuel Subsidies

  Andy Rowell, April 28, 2008
  Oh the irony, the poor starve, yet the rich squabble over subsidies. European biodiesel producers have triggered a fresh transatlantic trade war by urging the EU to impose punitive duties on cheap imports from the US. They claim that low-priced imports of biofuels are putting many European producers out of business. Their American rivals immediately...
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• Rich States have Failed on Climate Leadership

  Andy Rowell, April 14, 2008
  Developing countries, including China and India, are unwilling to sign up to a new global climate change pact to replace Kyoto because the rich world has failed to set a clear example on cutting CO2. That’s the blunt message from Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He argues that...
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• “The state of our planet requires you to be ambitious”

  Andy Rowell, March 31, 2008
  Top climate negotiators from more than 160 nations launched a new round of talks in Bangkok today aimed at setting out what is meant to be the most ambitious treaty yet for battling global warming. Opening the five-day meeting with a video message, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged countries to work together to find...
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• Follow the Oil Money

  Andy Rowell, March 24, 2008
  Last week, on the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War, hundreds of people stood with Oil Change International in the streets in front of the American Petroleum Institute demanding a Separation of Oil & State. They know, just as we do, that oil was the central motivation of the war in Iraq, that oil money...
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• Blair to Save the Climate….

  Andy Rowell, March 14, 2008
  One can only be highly skeptical about the news that Tony Blair is to lead a new international team to try to tackle the intractable problem of a deal on climate change which has the backing of both China and America. The former British prime minister believes he can help prepare a blueprint for an...
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• US Ready to Accept “Binding” CO2 “Obligations”

  Andy Rowell, February 26, 2008
  The US is ready to accept “binding international obligations” on reducing greenhouse gas emissions if other nations do the same, according to officials. The US hopes the world’s major economies will conclude a “leaders’ declaration” before the July G8 summit. But the Bush administration is clearly looking for some kind of agreement from major developing...
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• Venezuela Threatens to Cut US Oil Supplies

  Andy Rowell, February 11, 2008
  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to cut off oil supplies to the US if it continues what he calls an economic war. “Take note Mr Bush, Mr Danger,” said Mr Chavez in his weekly televised address. “I will cut off oil supplies.” British and US courts froze assets belonging to Venezuela’s state energy company...
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• Bush’s Climate Talks “Engaging”

  Andy Rowell, February 4, 2008
  George Bush’s latest climate talks in Honolulu, Hawaii, have been described by delegates as the most frank and engaging climate negotiations so far. Last year’s meeting in Washington was meeting was described by angry EU delegates as a waste of time, but the BBC reports that this time the tone was very different.