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Allen Heath Woburn, Lower Hutt – Sunday Star-Times (Wellington, New Zealand)

Wind over coal THE GREEN Party are upset at the Copenhagen results yet they themselves have
opposed every renewable energy project proposed in New Zealand on either
aesthetic grounds or the fact that they suffer from Nimby (not in my backyard)
syndrome. They have driven massive campaigns to

U.S. cap and trade looks out of reach in 2010

Copenhagen Accord’s lack of emissions targets will make it difficult for lawmakers to argue that the U.S. should have a cap while China and other big polluters do not.

Business Leaders See Progress Amid Uncertainty in Climate Talks

Utilities and energy financiers worried about the uncertainty surrounding U.S. energy policy are taking refuge in what they see as Copenhagen’s shining achievement: China and India are discussing formal targets for limiting industrial greenhouse gas emissions. <<Full story in the New York Times >>

Copenhagen event boosts Bay State wind turbine co. ; Parents’ call to duty; Prof: Games are fun, but play down pain of modern warfare – Boston Herald (Boston, Ma)

Talk about a worldwide plug for your company. Wilbraham’s FloDesign Wind Turbine has been inundated with calls from
companies and potential investors from around the globe since U.S. Energy
Secretary Stephen Chu touted the firm’s technology at the climate-change summit
in Copenhagen last

Copenhagen Accord Boosts Renewable Energy Outlook

Although there were many disagreements at the Copenhagen Climate Change talks, many of the major countries, including the U.S., China, and India, left the conference having pledged to make significant investments in renewable energy. << Read full story >>

U.N. climate talks end with bare minimum agreement

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – U.N. climate talks ended with a bare-minimum agreement on Saturday when delegates “noted” an accord struck by the United States, China and other emerging powers that falls far short of the conference’s original goals.

U.N. climate talks end with bare minimum agreement

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – U.N. climate talks ended with a bare-minimum agreement on Saturday when delegates “noted” an accord struck by the United States, China and other emerging powers that falls far short of the conference’s original goals.

Wind of change a step closer to reality – Birmingham Post (Birmingham, Uk)

The Midland company planning to build a pounds 1.3 billion offshore
wind farm which could provide more than one per cent of the nation’s energy is
poised to submit planning permission for a key part of its site in Norfolk. As the Copenhagen Summit on climate change draws to a close, Warwick

From Copenhagen: Renewable Energy Gets Boost as Climate Talks Stall

In the midst of a turbulent week of demonstrations outside the Climate summit in Copenhagen, in which the police released teargas and arrested hundreds of people, the U.S. announced new initiatives and legislation that will give renewable energy a significant boost at home and in developing countries.

John Kerry uncertain of fate of cap and trade

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – U.S. Senator John Kerry raised the possibility on Wednesday that a major energy and climate change bill he is trying to craft might not contain the “cap and trade” mechanism for reducing carbon dioxide emissions.