CLIMATE CLIPS: CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS, POLITICS & SCIENCE
October 3, 2007

Harper at odds with UN chief over Kyoto
National Post

Interest in a looser "flexible" approach to combatting global warming is now in the ascendancy, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told world leaders Monday at an unprecedented United Nations summit on climate change. 
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Canada appeasing U.S. on global warming treaty, critics say
CanWest News Service

The Harper government heads into a major climate change summit in Washington today, promoting a contentious plan that could allow countries such as the United States and China to increase their greenhouse gas pollution under the next international treaty on global warming, a senior aide to Environment Minister John Baird indicated Wednesday. 
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Related article: 
World leaders press U.S. to act on climate change



Environmentalists reject APEC climate-change agreement
CBC News

Environmentalists have dismissed the climate-change declaration signed Saturday by the leaders of 21 Pacific Rim countries, including Canada. 
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B.C. premier rolls out sweeping green plan
CBC News

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell laid out more details of his green plan Friday, including the promise of legislation to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions 33 per cent below current levels by 2020. 
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Say no to Gateway, NDP leader says
Vancouver Sun

The provincial government should focus on transit first and not on its Gateway program if it hopes to solve Metro Vancouver's congestion problems, NDP leader Carole James told the Union of B.C. Municipalities today. 
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Climate change top issue, CEOs declare
The Globe and Mail

Canada's top chief executive officers have reached an “unprecedented consensus” on the need to combat global warming and their obligation to do more to help. 
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Related article: 
Quebec introduces carbon tax, Canada CEOs urge more

Read the full text of Clean Growth: Building a Canadian Environmental Superpower, the policy declaration of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.



Switch off for traditional bulbs in the UK
BBC News

Plans to phase out the traditional lightbulb by 2011 have been announced by UK Environment Secretary Hilary Benn. 
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Tourism industry faces rising climate change threat
Reuters

Booming demand for international travel is exacerbating climate change pressures and threatening many coastal, mountain and outdoor destinations, United Nations experts said on Monday. 
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Pope to make climate action a moral obligation
The Independent

The Pope is expected to use his first address to the United Nations to deliver a powerful warning over climate change in a move to adopt protection of the environment as a "moral" cause for the Catholic Church and its billion-strong following. 
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UN experts agree to earlier deadline on eliminating ozone-depleting chemicals
The Gazette

Environmental experts took an important step last night toward halting destruction of the atmosphere's ozone layer by agreeing to move up a freeze on the use of some ozone-depleting gases to 2013 for developing countries. 
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To go green, live closer to work, report says
Los Angeles Times

New study says planning compact, mixed-use communities instead of suburbs would help save the p***t.
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Read the David Suzuki Foundation report Understanding Sprawl, which contains a toolkit called Driven to Action that can help citizens protect their communities from sprawling development.