Environmental Law

In Other News (June 3)

By Dennis Pfaff and Kevin Livingston, Editors

• NASA Officials "reduced, marginalized or mischaracterized climate change science" information made available to the general public but an agency investigation finds such policies have been changed, reports The New York Times. 
• The rain in Spain is not keeping up with demands and conflict over water there is likely an example of the kinds of battles that await a warming world, according to The New York Times.
• Canada's two largest provinces have struck an agreement in principle to set up a market system to curtail greenhouse gas emissions, contending the national government's plans are inadequate, reports Reuters.
• World leaders are gathering in Rome amid skyrocketing global food prices, to discuss the situation, with topics such as global warming and the use of crops for biofuels, says ABC News. A group representing the biofuels industry argues for an examination of the issue "without prejudice." 
• The aviation industry is apprehensive about federal climate change legislation that became the subject of debate in the Senate this week, fearing it will boost already high fuel prices, says this article in Aviation Week.  
• In the African nation of Burkina Faso, climate change has already produced unpredictable rainfall and "much more extreme" weather, writes Jan Egeland, the United Nations Secretary General's special adviser on conflict in an article run by allAfrica.com. 
• The United Nations' climate chief Yvo de Boer says the profiles of all three presidential candidates point to a major change in the United States' policies on global warming after President Bush leaves the White House, according to AFP. 
   

Full post as published by Climate Law Update on June 03, 2008 (boomark / email).