Stormy
weather but no sign of a thaw in frozen attitudes
Guardian December 27 2000
Global warming an incontrovertible fact?
Anger
as oil giants triple pump profits
Times December 23 2000
Government orders price cuts at the pumps as profit margins
soar threefold since the end of the fuel crisis.
Going
nuts for a hydrogen-fuelled future
New Scientist December
09 2000
Scientists say hazelnuts could provide hydrogen to power
the fuel-celled vehicles of the future.
World's
largest windmills start contributing to UK national grid
Independent December
8 2000
Britain's first offshore wind farm opened off the coast of
Blyth, Northumberland.
U.S.,
Canada formally sign clean air treaty
CNN December 08 2000
An agreement between the US and Canada will require power
plants and other industrial sources to cut their nitrogen
oxide emissions by 50 percent to 75 percent by 2004.
Ukrainians
beg Britain to reject nuclear plants
Independent December
03 2000
Ukrainian environmentalists visit London to persuade Britain
and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development not
to provide funding for two new nuclear reactors in the former
Soviet republic.
New
effort to restart climate summit
Independent December
03 2000
Tony Blair and EU leaders will attempt to revive the climate
change deal at the European Union summit in Nice this week.
Scores
of Russians die in big freeze
CNN
December
01 2000
Forty-one deaths from hypothermia reported in the Moscow
area over the last eight weeks as power and heating cuts continue.
Freezing
Russians protest over power 'disgrace'
CNN December 01 2000
Protests against power and heating cuts as local officials
claim that central government's high tariffs for fuel and
energy make it impossible to keep heating and electricity
plants running.
Prescott's
race to save deal on climate change
Telegraph
November 27 2000
Final attempt at agreement on climate change before President
Clinton leaves office at the end of January.
John
Prescott storms out as Climate Talks Fail
Sunday
Times November 26 2000
"I'm gutted, the talks are off - they are all gone." - John
Prescott
US
makes concessions on climate demands
Telegraph
November 24 2000
The US makes concessions over its demand to use existing
forests as carbon 'sinks'.
Small
is beautiful
Guardian
November 22 2000
Fuelcells, solar panels and wind turbines, which generate
heat and electricity in the home are at the forefront of some
of the most exciting technological advances in energy.
US
'trying to wriggle out of fossil fuel pact'
Telegraph
November 22 2000
America proposes to count the carbon dioxide soaked up by
its existing crops and forests instead of cutting its greenhouse
gas emissions.
Prescott
addresses climate change conference at the Hague
10
Downing Street Newsroom
November 21 2000
"Mr President the consequences of climate change will
make no distinction between countries, rich or poor. Indeed
developing countries, who have done the least to cause climate
change, are the most vulnerable to catastrophe."
Nations
in standoff over issues at global warming conference
CNN
November
21 2000
Deadlock over
commitments to reduce greenhouse gasses.
GM
to produce its first fuelcell vehicle
Ananova
November
17 2000
General Motors
to build its first fuelcell vehicle.
Ministers
heat up war against greenhouse gases
Independent
November
17 2000
Michael Meacher, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, and
ministers from more than 170 countries attending talks in
The Hague discuss plans to combat the effects of global warming.
New
fuel might not be so 'green'
ITN
November 17 2000
Government hits back at researchers who claim that the new
low sulphur fuels might cause more damage to the environment
than regular diesel.
Blyth
spirit can lead to greener Britain
Guardian
November 17 2000
Britain's first
wind farm at Blyth, Northumberland, could herald a greener
future.
Scientists
claim nothing will stop climate change.
Sunday Times
November 12 2000
"The US has just 5% of the world's population but it emits
a quarter of all the gases" says environment minister Michael
Meacher.
Road
fumes 'kill more Londoners than car crashes'
Independent October 13
2000
Transport and air pollution are "two of the biggest problems
facing the capital" claims London Mayor, Ken Livingston.
Sheikh
Yamani predicts price crash as age of oil ends
Telegraph June 25 2000
New technologies such as fuelcells and hydrogen will seriously reduce
the need for oil production.
"Thirty years from now there will be a huge amount of oil - and no buyers.
Oil will be left in the ground. The Stone Age came to an end, not because
we had a lack of stones, and the oil age will come to an end not because
we have a lack of oil." - Sheik Yamani
