* Experts in Congo for talks on saving big three forests * Poor countries need incentives to save forest By Jonny Hogg GEMENA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, May 31 (Reuters) “Environmental experts from 35 countries were meeting in the Congo Republic, DRC’s smaller neighbour, on Tuesday for a week-long summit seeking ways to protect the world’s three largest rainforests — the Amazon in South America, the Congo in Central Africa and the Borneo-Mekong in Indonesia. The outcome of the summit could play a role in the preservation of some 80 percent of the world’s remaining tropical forest, seen by Continue reading
May 2011
Why the WSJ is right in questioning the IPCC
OPINION:
We think the Wall Street Journal is right in criticizing the IPCC’s report on Renewable Energy.
A Manhattan Program for Improved Cookstoves
The US Department of Energy announces a Manhattan Project for improved cookstoves. The goal? To produce cookstoves that reduce emissions by 90% and produce fuel savings of 50%.
Of Pretty Women, the cleanness of clean cookstoves, and the sysiphian pursuit of financial promises
When it comes to “clean cookstoves,” to paraphrase a former US president, “it depends what your definition of the word “clean” is…
We’re under attack at TCP! Help us!
A ransom note from the kidnappers of our website and our director….