----- Forwarded Message ---- From: bakri arbie <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: arbie bakri <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, December 12, 2009 6:58:18 AM Subject: Fw: Heating up in Copenhagen --- On Fri, 12/11/09, OECD Observer e-Alert <[email protected]> wrote: >From: OECD Observer e-Alert <[email protected]> >Subject: Heating up in Copenhagen >To: [email protected] >Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 9:04 AM > > >Observer e-Alert No. 10, 2009 (No 133) > > >Special poll >------------ >What do you think would work best for cutting greenhouse gas emissions? >--------------------------- >http://www.oecdobserver.org > > >Any collar you want >------------------- >What exactly are "green jobs"? >------------------------------------------------------ >http://www.oecdobserver.org/story.php/eid/127/aid/3073 > > >The biggest threat to recovery >------------------------------ >As world leaders prepare for the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen next >week, bold action will be needed. A priority must be to move their economies >towards a low-carbon future. By James P. Leape, Director General of WWF >International and Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD. >------------------------------------------------------- >http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/3074 > > >Charting a disastrous course >---------------------------- >Wonder what the likely impact on the planet of a 4 °C rise in the global >average temperature would look like geographically? This map of the world >gives an idea. > >------------------------------------------------------ >http://www.oecdobserver.org/story.php/eid/127/aid/3117 > > >The issues >---------- >How to register GHG mitigation actions post-2012; how to track financial >flows; assessing national and sectoral mitigation potential; sectoral >approaches and the carbon market; developing country assistance; biodiversity. >The OECD has prepared a comprehensive range of expert working documents to >help drive decisionmaking in Copenhagen. >----------------------------- >http://www.oecd.org/cop15 >http://www.oecd.org/env/cc > >The case for nuclear energy >-------------------------------------------- >Nuclear energy was excluded from the two international flexibility mechanisms >of the Kyoto > Protocol. Is it time to include it, asks Luis Echávarri, Director-General of > the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency? >----------------------------------------------------- >http://www.oecdobserver.org/story.php/eid/127/aid/3125 > >Struggling with green goals >--------------------------- >Despite their progress in developing green laws and policies, OECD countries >are >not on track to achieve some of their key environmental goals and commitments. >------------------------------------------------------ >http://www.oecdobserver.org/story.php/eid/127/aid/2965 > >Renewable force >--------------- >Did you know that the first concentrated solar steam engine was >built near Cairo in 1914? A century later, solar energy is again putting >the region on the cusp of new > exploits, this time in renewable energy. >------------------------------------------------------ >http://www.oecdobserver.org/story.php/eid/127/aid/3115 > >Transport conundrum >------------------- >A public transport strategy that encourages people to give up their trucks and >cars to use electric trolley buses, tramways and rail can help make a real >dent in pollution, traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions. But try >telling that to Australians living in the outback. >-------------------------------------------------------- >http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/2868/ > > >Riddle of the sands >------------------- >Frankie, our tireless hero from Global.org, checks out renewable energy in the > desert. >----------------------------------------------------------- >http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/categoryfront.php/id/1071/ > > >For more articles on climate change click here. >----------------------------------------- >http://www.oecdobserver.org/climatechange > >Recession advice >---------------- >Sign up to the print edition and get a special low two-year rate. >------------------------------------------ >http://www.oecdobserver.org/subscribe.html > > >OECD Observer 2009. >All rights reserved. > >-- >To stop getting these messages, please send mail to: >[email protected] >or visit the free alert field at http://www.oecdobserver.org/to deselect > >
