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Originally Posted by madbadgalaxyman
Bob,
Should we leave it to "the great and the good, and the powerful" to discuss these issues?
The main "emissions" in the climate change area, seem to come from the mouths of policy-makers and opinion-makers!
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Looks like some action is comming from those that madbadgalaxyman derides:-
From the ABC News Website yesterday:-
Country commitments
- Barbados: 29 per cent of electricity will be green by 2029
- Denmark: Aims to be fossil fuel free by 2050
- Georgia: Aiming to be carbon neutral by 2050
- Ireland: Reduce greenhouse gases by 80 per cent by 2050
- Mexico: More than one third of electricity-generating capacity
- Ethiopia: Zero net emissions by 2025
- France: One billion USD to the green climate fund over the next few years
- Iceland: Commitment to become an entirely fossil free economy
- Korea: Next year it will become the first Asian country with a national carbon trading scheme
- Chile: 45 per cent of energy to be green by 2025
- Finland: Phasing out coal in power stations by 2025
- Monaco: Goal to reduce carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050
- Costa Rica: 100 per cent of energy to be green
- Indonesia: Will cut emissions by 26 per cent by 2020 and says that will rise to 40 per cent with international help
- Brunei: 63 per cent reduction in energy consumption by 2035
- EU: Committed to cutting emissions by 80 to 95 per cent by 2050
- UK: On track to cut emissions by 80 per cent by 2050
- China: Reiterated commitment to cut carbon intensity by 40 to 45 per cent of 2005 levels by 2020, committed $US6 million to advance South-South cooperation on climate change
And from the same Website today:-
Barack Obama to announce world's largest marine sanctuary in Pacific Ocean
Posted 31 minutes agoThu 25 Sep 2014, 3:01pm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/562...x2-340x227.jpg Photo: The marine sanctuary will help protect animals with long migratory ranges such as sea turtles. (R.D Kirkby & B.S Kirkby)
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Map: Pacific
United States president Barack Obama will create the world's largest marine sanctuary in the Pacific Ocean in a bid to protect sea life from climate change.
Mr Obama will sign a proclamation designating the marine reserve in the south-central Pacific Ocean, thereby making it off-limits to development and commercial fishing, according to a statement from the White House.
"The administration identified expanding the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument as an area of particular interest because science has shown that large marine protected areas can help rebuild biodiversity, support fish populations, and improve overall ecosystem resilience," the statement said.
Such areas are under threat from climate change because carbon pollution is causing the oceans to acidify, which can damage marine life including corals and harm ocean ecosystems, the statement added.
The proclamation will expand the reserve to six times its current size, resulting in 1,269,094 square kilometres of protected area.
Mr Obama is using his executive powers to make the designation, bypassing the US legislature.
He ordered his administration in June to chart a way to expand the existing sea reserve.
The White House said the move would protect many animals including those with long migratory ranges such as sea turtles, marine mammals and manta rays.
The area "is also home to millions of seabirds that forage over hundreds of miles and bring food back to their rookeries on the islands and atolls," the statement said.
Recreational and traditional fishing will still be allowed.
Mr Obama is able to designate the marine reserve using the country's Antiquities Act, which has been used by 16 presidents since 1906 to protect natural and historic features in America, the White House said.
However, I could not find what Australia is doing!!!