Expanding waistlines are not just tipping scales but may also push the mercury higher around the world, according to a new study. As humanity becomes more rotund, more resources are needed to cool, nourish and transport the extra weight, a trend that can contribute to climate change by requiring the consumption of more fossil fuels and resulting in more greenhouse gas emissions.
Bank executives, investors, companies like Wal-Mart and Woolworths, and 57 countries yesterday pledged to measure their levels of wealth by the health of their natural resources. In an agreement spearheaded by the World Bank at the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, the countries and 86 private companies agreed to employ a "green" accounting system that values natural assets like clean air, water, forests and ecosystems along with traditional measures like gross domestic product.
Americans are more aware of climate change than the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, according to a new poll released yesterday by Yale and George Mason universities. (Greenwire, )
The White House yesterday threatened to veto the latest version of House legislation designed to fast-track the controversial Keystone XL pipeline between Canada's oil sands and Gulf Coast refineries. (E&ENews PM, )
Senate Democrats pride themselves on being on the side of science on global warming issues. But in their rush to link Monday's Oklahoma tornado with man-made climate change, Sens. Barbara Boxer and Sheldon Whitehouse might have overstated the state of climate change research. (E&ENews PM, )
A desperate attempt at rescue. (ClimateWire, )
Southern Co. subsidiary Mississippi Power on Monday said it was replacing its CEO amid steep cost overruns at its signature carbon capture and sequestration project. (Greenwire, )
California must expedite approval of water sales to protect agriculture during what's expected to be a dry summer and fall, Gov. Jerry Brown said in an executive order Monday. (Greenwire, )
