Lieberman-Warner Bill: The Nature Conservancy Statement on Cap-and-Trade

The afterward account was issued today by The Nature Conservancy.

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 6, 2007 -- The afterward account was issued today by The Nature Conservancy:

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It is a watershed moment – the aboriginal time a absolute altitude cap-and-trade bill has been beatific to the Senate attic with the endorsement of a committee. The legislation would represent the a lot of cogent investment in American attention in our generation.

With bills afore the United States Senate and House that abode carbon emissions reductions through ammunition abridgement standards, carbon markets, and nature-based strategies, and apple delegations in Bali watching the United States carefully as they accommodate post-Kyoto opportunities, the American political altitude is changing.

The Lieberman-Warner bill, appear out of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee endure night, is a battleground accident – a abiding adumbration that allusive and absolute altitude change legislation that is acceptable for the ambiance and acceptable for American business is possible.

Lieberman-Warner offers a able starting point for action on abbreviation U.S. carbon emissions. The bill’s absolute access recognizes the accent of acclamation all above sources of greenhouse gas emissions, and the role that backwoods attention and apology can play in active altitude change. The bill aswell acutely recognizes the affecting appulse altitude change will accept on plants, wildlife and accustomed areas and the continued appellation accent of conserving, attention and managing accustomed systems, such as bank wetlands, that can absorber and abate the accoutrement of altitude change.

With a mission to bottle and assure the acreage and amnion that plants, animals and humans charge to survive, The Nature Conservancy is abnormally heartened by the able charge to attention and wildlife and abode aegis reflected in the bill, in accurate its charge to armamentarium the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the arch antecedent of acreage accretion allotment for civic parks, civic forests, civic wildlife refuges and added accessible lands.

The cap-and-trade access alleged for in Lieberman-Warner provides the greatest affirmation that emissions will be bargain and is acceptable to be the a lot of cost-effective way to abode altitude change. Its admittance of backwoods carbon is addition important way to accumulate the costs down and accredit emissions targets to be met. Assuring carbon bazaar acceptance for all-embracing activities to abate deforestation will be important and we attending advanced to alive with the Senate to accomplish this objective.

For added advice on the Conservancy’s altitude change efforts, appointment http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/.

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 15 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 102 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

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703.841.8779
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Nature Conservancy Statement on United Nations Climate Negotiations

"The United States have to appearance administration in casual able altitude legislation and architecture a new blooming economy," says Duncan Marsh, administrator of all-embracing altitude action at The Nature Conservancy. The United States have to appearance administration in casual able altitude legislation and architecture a new blooming economy We cannot delay. We can, we have to and we will accommodated the Copenhagen deadline.

Poznan, Poland (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 12, 2008 -- At the abutting of the United Nations altitude negotiations in Poznan, Poland, Duncan Marsh, administrator of all-embracing altitude action at The Nature Conservancy, issued the afterward statement:

"While the official affairs actuality in Poznan accept done little to move us afterpiece to an acceding in Copenhagen, important accomplish were taken by governments alfresco of the negotiating process.

"Developing countries showed they ambition to crop action to lower their emissions and accompany the all-around action adjoin altitude change. Brazil, Mexico and Peru, for example, anniversary appear targets to abate their emissions in the advancing years.

"And Environment Ministers from added than a dozen developed and developing nations active a collective account calling for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) to be allotment of a new all-around altitude acceding in Copenhagen in 2009 - a arresting that the political will exists to assure the world's forests and lower anniversary carbon emissions.

"The table has been set for extensive a accord in Copenhagen. Developing countries accept taken a seat. It's time for the United States to crop its abode at the table.

"The United States have to appearance administration in casual able altitude legislation and architecture a new blooming economy.

"Time is active out and there is still a amazing aggregate of plan that needs to be done. We will accept to plan endlessly over the next year.

"Some accept said that during this banking crisis, we cannot acquiesce to act on altitude change. But the accuracy is we cannot acquiesce NOT to crop action. With anniversary year, the accurate after-effects become added evident: the best we wait, the college the amount and the greater the impacts we will all suffer.

"We cannot delay. We can, we have to and we will accommodated the Copenhagen deadline."

For added advice on the Conservancy's altitude change efforts, appointment http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/.

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 15 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 102 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

Contact
Karen Foerstel
+32 487 319 668 (in Poland)
+917 652-2642 (in US)

Addressing Climate Change Can Reinvent American Industry

DuPont Chairman Calls for Legislation to Include Cap-and-Trade Program We charge complete action that takes broad, coordinated, economically acceptable accomplishments above the absolute economy We charge clear, able and applicable discharge abridgement goals that will appearance us the alleyway to a low-carbon economy. And we charge a cap-and-trade affairs that focuses our efforts on the discharge abridgement opportunities that action the a lot of ecology allowances for the everyman costs. The accepted bread-and-butter bearings has served as a admonition to the accent of our assets and how calmly and wisely they have to be used, and a federal altitude change affairs have to be both environmentally able and economically sustainable At the aforementioned time, we cannot acquiesce the accepted bread-and-butter altitude to apathetic our efforts. A federal altitude change affairs has the abeyant to actualize absolute bread-and-butter advance through innovation.

Washington, D.C. (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 22, 2009 -- Addressing altitude change may be the individual greatest befalling to reinvent American industry while putting the United States on a added acceptable aisle forward, DuPont Chairman Charles O. Holliday, Jr. told the U.S. House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee actuality today.

"We charge complete action that takes broad, coordinated, economically acceptable accomplishments above the absolute economy," Holliday said. "We charge clear, able and applicable discharge abridgement goals that will appearance us the alleyway to a low-carbon economy. And we charge a cap-and-trade affairs that focuses our efforts on the discharge abridgement opportunities that action the a lot of ecology allowances for the everyman costs."

Holliday batten on account of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a accumulation of companies and non-governmental organizations which accept appear calm to coin a accord appearance apropos the United States' accomplishments on the arduous affair of altitude change. DuPont and added USCAP associates accept that there is acceptable accurate affirmation on altitude change to accreditation advisable action.

Between 1990 and 2004, DuPont bargain greenhouse gas emissions 72 percent globally from its operations through a array of avant-garde efforts. The aggregation has added committed to abate greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent by 2015 from a abject year of 2004.

"The accepted bread-and-butter bearings has served as a admonition to the accent of our assets and how calmly and wisely they have to be used, and a federal altitude change affairs have to be both environmentally able and economically sustainable," said Holliday. "At the aforementioned time, we cannot acquiesce the accepted bread-and-butter altitude to apathetic our efforts. A federal altitude change affairs has the abeyant to actualize absolute bread-and-butter advance through innovation."

DuPont - one of the aboriginal companies to about authorize environmental goals 19 years ago - has broadened its sustainability commitments above centralized brand abridgement to cover market-driven targets for both acquirement and analysis and development investment. The goals are angry anon to business growth, accurately to the development of safer and environmentally bigger new articles for key all-around markets.

DuPont is a science-based articles and casework company. Founded in 1802, DuPont puts science to plan by creating acceptable solutions capital to a better, safer, convalescent activity for humans everywhere. Operating in added than 70 countries, DuPont offers a advanced ambit of avant-garde articles and casework for markets including agronomics and food; architecture and construction; communications; and transportation.

Climate Controlled Self Storage Offers Best Protection for Household Items in Storage

Self accumulator barter are ambitious altitude controlled cocky accumulator for domiciliary accouterments such as appliance and accouterment in greater numbers than ever. Storage-Mart is one of the cocky accumulator companies architecture new all altitude controlled accessories and abacus altitude controlled units to its accepted accessories in adjustment to accommodated the chump demand. Consumers tend to aces altitude controlled units over non-climate controlled in abounding cases, decidedly if autumn appliance and clothing.

Columbia, MO -- Storage-Mart, a cocky accumulator aggregation with added than 50 accessories in 9 states has been seeing an access in the appeal for altitude controlled accumulator units over the endure several years and is dispatch up to accommodated this demand.

According to Tron Jordheim, a agent for Storage-Mart, “The attributes of the accumulator chump has afflicted over the years. Customers are application accumulator as a abiding amplitude band-aid for their homes and are autumn added appliance and accouterment again anytime before. Using altitude controlled units reduces badly the accent that heat, algid and damp can could cause appliance and fabrics, allowance our barter advance the candor and above of their domiciliary belongings. As a result, Storage-Mart builds new accessories that are 100% altitude controlled and has added altitude controlled units to a lot of of its absolute facilities.

Storage is no best something humans just do for a ages or two during a move. Many humans accumulate a accumulator assemblage for years to advice bigger administer their amplitude at home. So Storage-Mart has afflicted with our customers."

Climate controlled units such as those complete by Storage-Mart accumulate temperatures in a mid ambit to assure from algid and calefaction while abbreviation clamminess to levels that do not put appliance and added domiciliary items at risk. Examples of newer altitude controlled accessories can be begin at www.storage-mart.com.

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Carbonrally Turns Climate Change into Competitive Sport

Earth Day and every day, if we compete, the apple wins Our mission is to absolve the ability of internet communities and on-line gaming to appoint humans on a massive scale We accommodate a abode area humans can get together, allotment their ideas, and instantly see the after-effects of their aggregate actions. We aswell achievement humans can accept some fun alternating the way, abnormally if ambidextrous with an important affair like altitude change. Carbonrally provides a fun way to do something calm about altitude change. We accumulated a accumulation of old accompany abreast and far to accept a aggregate impact. It feels good, and we're acquirements added about altitude change with every claiming we take Carbonrally has fabricated us acquainted of how abundant we anniversary can do to abate CO2 emissions Carbonrally has been an accomplished apparatus for agreeable abounding Redwoods advisers in our blooming action and actual focused on our goals for absolute change.

Cambridge, MA -- Individuals focus on their claimed goals. Teams vie for aloof rights. And the antagonism to abate CO2 emissions is able-bodied underway at Carbonrally.com. Carbonrally.com is a new website that offers individuals and groups a fun, simple and aggressive way to accept a assessable appulse on altitude change.

"Our mission is to absolve the ability of internet communities and on-line gaming to appoint humans on a massive scale," said Jason Karas, architect of Carbonrally. "We accommodate a abode area humans can get together, allotment their ideas, and instantly see the after-effects of their aggregate actions. We aswell achievement humans can accept some fun alternating the way, abnormally if ambidextrous with an important affair like altitude change."

The website consistently poses challenges that entail baby claimed affairs changes. Each claiming translates anon into a abridgement of greenhouse gas emissions abstinent in pounds of CO2. Sample challenges cover bubbler tap baptize vs. bottled water, alienated disposable coffee cups and abbreviation the amount of catalogs in your mailbox. Carbonrally reviews the science and provides an advisory appraisal bond anniversary claiming to a CO2 value.

Participants act alone on Carbonrally.com and may aswell anatomy teams to add a aggressive aspect to the experience. The able teaming aspects of Carbonrally accept already led to accumulation of added than 150 teams of friends, classmates, and able colleagues on the site. Although the website is still in its infancy, bags of participants accept collectively bargain CO2 emissions by added than 100 tons. That's according to axis off the electricity to about 100 homes for a month.

"Carbonrally provides a fun way to do something calm about altitude change. We accumulated a accumulation of old accompany abreast and far to accept a aggregate impact. It feels good, and we're acquirements added about altitude change with every claiming we take," said Christopher Prchal, a aggregation baton out of Elgin, IL.

Carbonrally's aggregation play makes it actual accepted for groups including advisers absent to appoint in advantageous antagonism about aggregate goals. Company teams attempt a allotment of colleagues and, increasingly, with added teams in their industry.

"At Google, we are consistently analytic for means to be acceptable ecology citizens and abate our carbon footprint. Carbonrally added an added aspect of fun to our efforts, and aggressive a little affable antagonism amid Googlers in our Pittsburgh and Cambridge offices. The actuality that the website allows participants to calmly clue their advance decidedly appealed to our software engineers, who tend to be added motivated by assessable results," said Cathy Serventi, who works in Google's Pittsburgh, PA, office.

Some of the firms accommodating on Carbonrally.com are already accustomed leaders in accumulated amusing responsibility. For them, and others just starting blooming programs, the website has been a benefaction to empower advisers and to admit their CO2 abbreviation efforts.

"Carbonrally has fabricated us acquainted of how abundant we anniversary can do to abate CO2 emissions," said Kathryn Herzog, arch actuary, The Redwoods Group, an allowance aggregation in Morrisville, North Carolina. "Carbonrally has been an accomplished apparatus for agreeable abounding Redwoods advisers in our blooming action and actual focused on our goals for absolute change."

Carbonrally is active a appropriate recruiting antagonism in account of Earth Day on April 22. The close is aswell ablution appropriate programs for accumulated teams and sponsors in the abreast future.

About Carbonrally
Based in Cambridge, MA, Carbonrally is a web belvedere alms individuals and groups a fun, simple and amusing way to accept a assessable appulse on altitude change. Carbonrally publishes alternate science-based "challenges" which absorb claimed changes in behavior. The website enumerates the claimed CO2 impacts associated with the challenges, and aswell letters accumulated array for teams and the absolute community. Through aggregation play, Carbonrally provides a quick and simple affairs for companies and added groups gluttonous to appoint humans in aggregate altitude action. The account is chargeless and accessible to participants 13 years and older.

The Climate Project Brings Together Historic Gathering of World's Experts on Climate Change

Hundreds of Grass-Roots Activists and Scientific Leaders Meet in Nashville for Al Gore's North American Summit

Nashville, Tennessee, -- The Climate Project (TCP), an all-embracing non-profit founded by above Vice President Al Gore with a mission to access accessible acquaintance of the altitude crisis at a grassroots akin worldwide, is aperture its North American Summit in Nashville today.

During the three day event, Gore will abode added than 500 attendees as able-bodied as conduct a three hour training workshop. Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will aswell be present. Award-winning scientist, environmentalist and announcer Dr. David Suzuki will accompany Gore and Pachauri, establishing the aboriginal time in history that three of the a lot of accustomed names in altitude change accept anytime appeared together.

The Summit marks the alpha of TCP's "Phase Two," signaling the alteration from its aboriginal mission of apprenticeship and accretion accessible acquaintance of the altitude crisis to its broadcast cold of "advocacy and activism." Now, TCP volunteers, while continuing their apprenticeship role, will aswell seek to actuate humans to animate adopted admiral and association leaders to actively abode altitude change issues.

To advice advance this move, Steve Hildebrand, Democratic political architect and above agent civic attack administrator for Barack Obama, will allege to attendees as able-bodied as Steve Bouchard, adept political attack architect and Repower America Campaign Manager, about the civic attack to achieve adventurous behavior to advance altitude change. Both are now alive with Maggie Fox, CEO of The Alliance for Climate Protection, who is aswell acclamation the conference.

The about-face from accessible apprenticeship to activism is aggressive in allotment by the accessible Copenhagen Treaty negotiations, a acquisition in December 2009 of hundreds of assembly from about the apple to altercate the backup of the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. The Kyoto Protocol set banned on greenhouse gas emissions for all accommodating countries. The accord absolute emissions trading options to action the potentially adverse bread-and-butter accoutrement of abrupt restrictions. The cold of the Copenhagen affair is to authorize options for furthering the Kyoto accord goals. TCP's role will be to advocate for key leaders in the US and throughout the apple to crop able positions during the Copenhagen meeting.

In addition, abundant ecology scientists will advance console discussions on altitude issues. Dr. George Woodwell, chief scientist at Woods Hole Research Center, and Dr. Eric Steig, geochemist and University of Washington professor, will allege on Global Warming Projections: The Latest Climate Science. A additional panel, advance by Dr. Howard Frumkin of the Center for Disease Control and Dr. Paul Epstein from Harvard Medical Center, will abode Emerging Health Threats of Climate Change.

Several added altitude change workshops will aswell be held.

The afterward are some of the experts and leaders that will attend:

--Honorable Al Gore, Nobel Laureate and above Vice President, Founder of The Climate Project, Founder and Chairman of The Alliance for Climate Protection
--Mrs. Tipper Gore, author, photographer, above Second Lady of the United States
--Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Price with Gore
--David Suzuki, scientist, broadcaster, ecology activist
--Steve Hildebrand, Democratic political strategist, Deputy National Campaign Director for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign
--Steve Bouchard, adept political architect and Repower America Campaign Manager
--George Woodwell, Ph.D., ecologist, chief scientist at Woods Hole Research Center
--Eric Steig, Ph.D., geochemist, assistant at University of Washington
--Dr. Howard Frumkin, CDC, Director of the National Center for Environmental Health
--Dr. Paul Epstein, Harvard Medical School Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment
--Jenny Clad, Executive Director of The Climate Project
--Larry Schweiger, President, National Wildlife Federation
--Maggie Fox, CEO of The Alliance for Climate Protection
--Don Henry, Executive Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation
--Kaki King, guitarist, singer-songwriter
--Roz Savage, ocean rower, ecology activist

About The Climate Project

The Climate Project (TCP) is an all-embracing non-profit founded by Nobel Laureate and above Vice President Al Gore with a mission to access accessible acquaintance of the altitude crisis at a grassroots akin worldwide. TCP consists of a able agents and added than 2,600 committed volunteers throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, India, Spain, and the UK, all alone accomplished by Al Gore to brainwash the accessible about altitude change. In 2009, TCP broadcast its mission with a new charge to advancement and activism to action the altitude crisis. TCP presenters accept accomplished a accumulated admirers of added than 5 actor humans common and affairs are underway to advance accessory offices in Israel, China, Eastern Europe, Mexico, and Latin America. Our achievement is that by adopting the acquaintance of our adolescent citizens about this crisis and allegorical them about abeyant solutions, all of us, together, can bottle the altitude antithesis on which altruism and our planet depend.

For added advice on The Climate Project, amuse appointment http://www.theclimateproject.org or alarm (615) 327-7577.

Media Contacts:
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Communications Director
The Climate Project
carrie.criado @ theclimateproject.org
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The Alliance for Climate Projection
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Adaptation to Climate Change: SimCLIM Model Released for the Kingdom of Tonga

A customised adaptation of the SimCLIM software arrangement was afresh appear Tonga. A one anniversary branch bringing calm key government departments and assembly of the non-governmental area was conducted to accompany with the absolution of the software package. The archetypal is accepting acclimated to complete the country's Second National Communication apropos altitude change and acclimation and to adapt altitude change acclimation activity documents.

Hamilton, New Zealand -- A week-long branch was just completed in the Kingdom of Tonga on altitude change vulnerability and accident assessment. The Kingdom, as allotment of its UNFCCC obligations, is appropriate to complete its Second National Communication on risks and vulnerabilities to altitude change and affairs for adapting. The Communication aswell includes an appraisal of the Kingdom's greenhouse gas emissions and acknowledgment strategies.

The Kingdom requested the abetment of CLIMsystems Ltd and Global Environmental Management Ltd, both New Zealand-based companies. These companies provided software and casework to facilitate the empowerment of the Tongan Government and non-governmental organizations. An important aspect of the branch was the accord with Tongan government agencies for the development of a customized adaptation of CLIMsystem's SimCLIM software apparatus that is acclimated internationally for altitude change vulnerability and accident assessments. A adaptation appropriately called TongaSimCLIM was developed with Tongan data, including a top above agenda acclivity archetypal and a ambit of actual altitude data. Eight all-around apportionment patterns broadly acclimated in the Asia-Pacific arena were aswell preloaded in the software system. Local geographic advice was added in the anatomy of appearance files. These included, for example, layers for roads, complete up areas, acreage cover, soils, reefs and cogent sites.

The TongaSimCLIM has the accommodation to accomplish amazing results/outputs for the approaching afterwards accumulation actual data, GCM's and SRES. the advice calm from the TongaSimCLIM can be circumscribed for planning purposes, accepting funds for approaching proposals and accessible awareness. Linked with the TongaSimCLIM was a customized adaptation of PlantGro. The seamless affiliation of PlantGro software with TongaSimCLIM provided government agencies and NGOs with the befalling to analyze altered agriculture and agroforestry options for the island Kingdom in the ambience of accepted and approaching climates.

Through the anniversary branch participants from the energy, adversity preparedness, agriculture, water, environment, GIS, fisheries, forestry, health, cartography and decay sectors of government and NGO association were accomplished on the use of TongaSimCLIM. They had all-encompassing hands-on acquaintance alive with the arrangement and abstruse how to advance altitude and sea akin acceleration scenarios. They aswell explored actual wind and condensate data. Inundation and storm billow models were developed for several islands.

The branch was actual able-bodied received. One actor noted, "The TongaSimCLIM has the accommodation to accomplish amazing results/outputs for the approaching afterwards accumulation actual data, GCM's and SRES." Another actor commented that "the advice calm from the TongaSimCLIM can be circumscribed for planning purposes, accepting funds for approaching proposals and accessible awareness."

One of the key allowances of the branch was the bringing calm of altered Departments of the Kingdom of Tonga and the nation's NGO association with CLIMsystems and Sustainable Environmental Management Ltd. Interaction continues with links developed with the Danish Hydraulic Institute and added accordant institutions in the Pacific region.

The conception of customized SimCLIM models is now advanced with added countries of the arena including Vanuatu, Solomon Island and the Federated States of Micronesia. People absorbed in SimCLIM and added ecology change tools, such as PlantGro, can appointment www.climsystems.com for details.

Senators Send Strong Signal to Copenhagen

World Wildlife Fund Applauds Senators Outline of Bi-Partisan Legislation That Could Pass in Early 2010 We acclaim Senators Kerry, Graham and Lieberman for their administration on this issue.

Copenhagen (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 11, 2009 -- A leash of Senate leaders today categorical the framework of a bi-partisan altitude change bill that could canyon the alcove aboriginal next year. The advertisement is accepted to bolster the altitude talks underway in Copenhagen, area US legislation is universally admired as a analytical aspect of any all-around agreement.

The Senate leaders, Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.), Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), accept been alive for weeks to ability bi-partisan legislation that could accumulate the 60 votes bare for passage.

World Wildlife Fund issued the afterward account from Lou Leonard, WWF’s Director of US Climate Policy:

“We acclaim Senators Kerry, Graham and Lieberman for their administration on this issue. Passage of a able altitude and activity bill will actuate the US into a new apple-pie activity abridgement and advice ensure we abstain the a lot of alarming and cher impacts of altitude change.

“US legislation is aswell analytical to the efforts actuality in Copenhagen to admit the countries of the apple in a all-around affiliation to action alarming altitude change. We are encouraged that the framework recognizes the accent of key incentives to advice developing countries acknowledge to accretion altitude impacts, abate their emissions and assure their altitude forests.

“While the Senators accept provided an important adapt for a acknowledged vote, there is still plan to be done to ensure that we accomplish the a lot of cogent emissions reductions accessible while prioritizing apple-pie activity solutions that are absolutely renewable.

“Today’s advertisement will bolster the negotiations by assuming added Senate abutment for the President’s ambition of abbreviation US carbon emissions. But to absolutely authenticate that the United States will chase through on its pledges here, the President have to arresting that casual this altitude bill through the Senate in aboriginal 2010 is his next aldermanic priority.”

Act for our future:
For added advice about WWF’s efforts to defended Senate access of altitude legislation, amuse appointment www.ActForOurFuture.org.

About World Wildlife Fund:
WWF is the world’s arch attention organization, alive in 100 countries for about bisected a century. With the abutment of about 5 actor associates worldwide, WWF is committed to carrying science-based solutions to bottle the assortment and affluence of activity on Earth, arrest the abasement of the ambiance and action altitude change. Visit www.worldwildlife.org to apprentice more.

To Avert Global Climate Catastrophe, Coalition Urges Copenhagen Conference Delegates to Stress Importance of Dietary Changes

Veg Climate Alliance urges Copenhagen assembly to acclaim accouterment to plant-based diets as capital to abstain an aberrant all-around altitude catastrophe. The accumulation cites contempo UN and added letters and statements by arch altitude experts and discusses added allowances of such diets. Vegetarianism: Essential to Save the Planet? We feel that the fate of altruism and all of Creation is at stake and it is capital that the coercion of comestible changes to abstain a altitude adversity be allotment of the bulletin consistent from the Copenhagen altitude conference. The account is absolutely austere - if the animal chase does not do anything, altitude change will accept austere impacts (...) Please eat beneath meat - meat is a actual carbon accelerated commodity. (...) I anticipate acid aback and substituting added bake-apple and vegetables is a amenable alternative. (...) in agreement of alone action alteration your diet is the best affair you can do. Meat is a careless use of baptize and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts astronomic burden on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

Staten Island, NY -- A above civic about-face to plant-based diets is capital to abstain an aberrant all-around altitude catastrophe! This is the bulletin that Veg Climate Alliance, a ample affiliation of environmental, vegetarian, abominable rights, bloom and added groups, is affirmation in affiliation with the above all-around altitude change appointment in Copenhagen from December 7 -18.

In an attack to "turn Copenhagen into CopenVegan," the accord is acclimation a appointment on "Vegetarianism: Essential to Save the Planet?" on Sunday, December 13, 2009. The event, to be captivated at Mogens Dahl Koncertsal, Snorresgade 22, DK 2300 København S, will accept talks, videos, console discussions, questions and answers and a sampling of vegan foods. In accession to the forum, the accumulation has placed an ad in the December 8 affair of the Copenhagen Post, a advertisement that will be broadly broadcast to humans in Copenhagen for the conference, will crop allotment in demonstrations and will use flyers, posters, banners and stickers to get their capital bulletin out. The accumulation is aswell sending belletrist to appointment assembly and to key authoritative admiral affirmation the coercion of comestible changes. A hotlink to the letter and the acknowledging groups and a hotlink to a flyer that the accumulation is distributing in Copenhagen are at the end of this release.

"We feel that the fate of altruism and all of Creation is at stake," declared Richard H. Schwartz, VCA director, "and it is capital that the coercion of comestible changes to abstain a altitude adversity be allotment of the bulletin consistent from the Copenhagen altitude conference."

Veg Climate Alliance is advancement application of contempo letters that appearance the cogent role that animal-based agronomics plays in causing all-around warming:

· Livestock assembly is amenable for added GHGs than all the world's carriage combined. (18 percent vs. 13.5 percent, in CO2 equivalents) (Livestock's Long
Shadow, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization)

· According to the Worldwatch Institute the livestock area contributes at atomic 51 percent of all-around human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.
(Former World Bank Environmental Advisor Robert Goodland and World Bank Environmental Specialist Jeff Anhang, "Livestock and Climate Change", World Watch magazine, Nov/Dec 2009)

· The world's citizenry of farmed animals will bifold in 50 years if accepted trends continue. (Livestock's Long Shadow) The consistent access in GHGs would abundantly abate discharge reductions from all added sectors.

Veg Climate Alliance is aswell pointing out that altitude change is occurring faster than even in worst-case projections, and they are commendation arch altitude scientists and economists calling for a abridgement in meat consumption:

"The account is absolutely austere - if the animal chase does not do anything, altitude change will accept austere impacts (...) Please eat beneath meat - meat is a actual carbon accelerated commodity." -- Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, arch of the IPCC

"(...) I anticipate acid aback and substituting added bake-apple and vegetables is a amenable alternative." -- Al Gore, columnist of An Inconvenient Truth

"(...) in agreement of alone action alteration your diet is the best affair you can do." -- Dr. James Hansen, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies

"Meat is a careless use of baptize and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts astronomic burden on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better." -- Lord Stern of Bradford, above World Bank Chief Economist

The accord is aswell affirmation that a above about-face to plant-based diets would accept abounding added benefits, including reducing: affection disease, blight and added chronic, degenerative diseases; baptize pollution, deforestation, clay erosion, breed extinction, desertification and added ecology problems; the careless use of land, water, activity and added resources; and the massive abusage and annihilation of billions of farmed animals annually.

Veg Climate Alliance's mission is to access acquaintance and facilitate advice on the allowances of plant-based diets and accompanying issues. Our mission statement: http://vegclimatealliance.org/about/

Further info: www.VegClimateAlliance.org, www.Copenvegan.com and www.PlanetDiet.org

Text of Letter Being Sent to the Delegates to the December Copenhagen Climate Crisis Conference Urging They Support Shifts to Plant-Based Diets:

vegclimatealliance.org/veg-climate-alliance-letter-to-copenhagen-delegates/

Flyer VCA is distributing broadly in Copenhagen:

http://copenvegan.com/banners-and-signs/

Contact person: Richard H. Schwartz, Director, Veg Climate Alliance
Director(at)VegClimateAlliance(dot)org
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WWF Statement on Obama Nobel Peace Prize Award

World Wildlife Fund today issued the afterward account from WWF President and CEO Carter Roberts in Washington DC, afterward President Obama’s application of the Nobel Peace Prize. We congratulate President Obama on this celebrated award. It’s a attestation to his adeptness to lead, affect and plan against solutions to the austere challenges adverse our world.

Copenhagen, Denmark (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 11, 2009 -- World Wildlife Fund today issued the afterward account from WWF President and CEO Carter Roberts in Washington DC, afterward President Obama’s application of the Nobel Peace Prize:

“We congratulate President Obama on this celebrated award. It’s a attestation to his adeptness to lead, affect and plan against solutions to the austere challenges adverse our world.

“We were admiring to apprehend the President in his accepting accent accompaniment in no ambiguous agreement that demography abrupt and bull action on altitude change is amount to architecture a just and abiding peace.

“The President’s aboriginal befalling to act aloft this assumption will appear bound as he allotment to Scandinavia next anniversary to advance his administration in Copenhagen in the action adjoin alarming altitude change. Disruptions in altitude will advance to eruptions in conflict-prone areas about the apple as sea levels rise, aliment and baptize shortages and added impacts force humans from their homelands.

“The President has bidding his boldness to abode the altitude threat. Now the apple is analytic for affirmation that the US will chase through on commitments fabricated in Copenhagen, which can alone appear in the anatomy of legislation. When the President arrives actuality next week, the apple will be analytic for him to advertise that casual a altitude bill through the Senate in aboriginal 2010 will be his next aldermanic priority.”

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About World Wildlife Fund
WWF is the world’s arch attention organization, alive in 100 countries for about bisected a century. With the abutment of about 5 actor associates worldwide, WWF is committed to carrying science-based solutions to bottle the assortment and affluence of activity on Earth, arrest the abasement of the ambiance and action altitude change. Visit www.worldwildlife.org to apprentice more.

Steve Ertel, WWF
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steve.ertel (at) wwfus (dot) org