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Will the U.N. Chill Out on Climate Change?

10,000 people from 86 countries have descended upon Poznan, Poland for yet-another United Nations meeting on climate change. This time, it’s the annual confab of the nations that signed the original U.N. climate treaty in Rio in 1992. That instrument gave rise to the infamous 1996 Kyoto Protocol on global warming, easily the greatest failure [...]

December 02, 2008 | Holger Thuss | Comments 0 |

Wind Watch: Wind Farm Threatens to Spoil the Albanian Coast

Albania’s government risks wrecking one of Europe’s last unspoiled environments ( and breaking its own laws) by allowing an Albanian subsidiary of an Italian company to build a wind farm on a coastal nature reserve and on part of a national park. The government has transferred more than 97 hectares of land to Italy’s Moncada [...]

December 01, 2008 | CFACT EU | Comments 0 |