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Australia divided on new ETS
Last week, in the biggest policy reversal of his prime ministership, aimed at wooing big businesses and the Liberal Party, Kevin Rudd announced important changes concerning Australia’s emission trading scheme. » Read more...
Japan has the worst GHG results: what does this mean for nuclear?
On 30 April, the Ministry of the Environment (MoE) announced the final data regarding the amount of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the 2007 fiscal year. » Read more...
The ‘eco-point’ scheme: Can eco-points be used to buy environmentally unfriendly products?
On 10 April, the Government and the ruling parties, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and New Komeito, officially compiled the nation’s largest-ever economic package, worth 56.8 trillion yen in total, including 15 trillion yen in fiscal spending. » Read more...
Australia's coal future is safe
As predicted in Climatico’s last national climate policy report, Australia has just taken the lead, along with Britain, in the development of Carbon Capture and Storage. » Read more...
Opinion: Tokyo Greenship Action--companies are interested in contributing to the environment but do not know what/how to do.
Though companies have money/people and are interested in contributing to the environment, they do not know what/how to do. » Read more...
27,000 hectares of the coastal area of Tokyo Bay to be flooded: Typhoon with sea level rise may bring unprecedented flood disaster
On April 2 2009, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) reported the results of examination of the storm surge flooding and the current defence capacity in the Tokyo Bay coastal area against flood tide at an expert panel on large-scale flood control measures of the central disaster management council. » Read more...
The outcomes: what did the G20 achieve for Climate Change?
[caption id="attachment_2998" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="The G20 leaders standing for their "] [/caption] The G20 Summit in London has now concluded, with US President Obama filling the main press briefing room for an hour-long press session. » Read more...
The G20 Summit - A Day in Review
As expected, the global economy took center stage at the G20 Summit held yesterday in London. » Read more...
G20 Live Blog
The Climatico Team will be providing a live-blog service on the climate change aspects of the G20 Summit and surrounding events in London, United Kingdom. » Read more...
How green will the London Summit outcomes be?
Author: Adeline Dontenville Expectations for the development of a ‘green stimulus’ to help revive the global economy have been downplayed in the past few days. » Read more...
Japanese GDP to shrink by 6 percent: Economic impact assessment of the mid-term goal plans (2020)
©WWF, Japan As explained in a previous article, the Japanese Government has been examining its mid-term goal of greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions (2020) and is going to announce it in June. » Read more...
EU looks to the rest of the world at Bonn
The climate conference in Bonn this week has given the EU another opportunity to reiterate its negotiating position leading to Copenhagen and attempt to maintain momentum in the negotiation process. » Read more...
Abnormally warm winter in Japan
©Mainichi Shinbun Japan had the abnormally warm winter this year possibly because of global warming. » Read more...
Japanese Green New Deal: Is this the right direction for Japan?
©Japan Wind Consultant Corporation On 29 September, in the Prime Minister's general policy speech, Prime Minister Taro Asa said, 'environmental and energy technology, in which Japan has its strength, has power to create new demand and jobs'. » Read more...
Climatico Report on National Climate Policy published, finds significant gap in adaptation funding
On March 5 2009 Climatico released its first assessment report of national climate policy across twelve of the G20 countries. » Read more...
Peat land palm oil plantations and the decision to join the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility – Is there a connection?
Indonesia has formally applied to the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, a sort-of precursor of the REDD scheme. » Read more...
Economic recession may enable Japan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 million tons in the fiscal year 2008.
According to the analysis of the Ministry of the Environment (MoE), it was estimated that Japan could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 50 million tons (CO2 equivalent), which is equivalent to a 4% reduction compared to the 1990 base year. » Read more...
Make Way for OPOEC – the Palm Oil cartel.
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="318" caption="Malaysian Palm Oil Futures up to August 2008. » Read more...
Eco Cute VS Ene Farm: Electricity or Gas? Battle over Next Generation Environmentally-friendly Water Heaters.
Ene Farm On 28 January, six companies, including Astomos Energy Corp., Osaka Gas Co., Seibu Gas Co., Tokyo Gas Co., Nippon Oil Corp., and Toho Gas Co., made a joint-statement that they were going to sell their home-use fuel cell system, ‘Ene Farm’, from this April. » Read more...
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