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Although it would, of course, be a cheap and churlish shot to highlight the vast environmental cost of flying all the delegates to Denmark's capital for a talkathon – so I won't – our report today on the number of businesses turning their back on the event should be of concern to all those who back the summit.  

The Sudanese government downplayed on Saturday calls made by Amnesty International (AI) to arrest Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir during his participation next month in climate summit hosted by Denmark. AI calls echoed its hostile stance toward Sudan, and the invitation to attend the summit is extended to the Sudanese government not the Sudanese President, Sudanese minister of state in the information ministry Kamal Obaid said in a press release. Earlier, Christopher Keith Hall, the Senior Legal Adv

The International Criminal Court needs the cooperation of its member states. Under the Rome Statute, which established the ICC, Denmark has a duty to arrest and surrender any person within its territory who is subject to an arrest warrant issued by the ICC   -Christopher Keith Hall

 

There are only two kinds of people that are in favour of nuclear power , namely those who are ill-informed and those that stand to profit from it. There is no such thing as a safe nuclear power station. Not a single insurance company anywhere in the world has ever been willing to insure any nuclear power station.  

The Kyoto Protocol, the precursor to Copenhagen, had included the pledge of financial assistance, and failure to comply could be fatal for next month's talks in the Danish capital, the paper reported him as saying. Badri said it was the richer oil-consuming countries that needed to acknowledge their responsibility for most of the carbon dioxide emitted to date. They should not block poorer countries from raising living standards for their own people.  

Consumers who haven't yet ordered Barnes & Noble's electronic book reader, the Nook, won't see one before Christmas. The earliest that anyone who ordered the $259 device Friday — or orders one later — will receive it is Jan. 4, the nation's largest bookseller said Friday. "While we increased production based on the high consumer interest, we've sold out of our initial Nook allotment available for delivery before the holidays," the company said in a statement.  

Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he's a scavenger, prying bits of scrap steel from the ruins of his old factory and selling them for a pittance. For others beyond this manufacturing graveyard, however, Ukraine's economic collapse has produced a potential multibillion-dollar bonanza. In an era of climate change regulation and carbon trading, Ukraine, ironically, is profiting from the smokeless smokestacks of its industrial shutdown.  

The news that hackers have published a huge series of emails from the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia is causing great excitement in global warming denial circles. The most serious excerpt is this: Phil Jones in discussing the presentation of temperature reconstructions stated that "I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline."  

Global warming will have a severe impact on Arab states where water is already scarce, a regional report warned Thursday ahead of next month's Copenhagen environment summit. Some of the most feared effects include depletion of agricultural land, spread of disease and endangerment of many plant and animal species, the 2009 Report of the Arab Forum for Environment and Development said. The AFED report, released in Beirut, said sea level rise will mostly threaten Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and T  

Poland is to sell 15 million euros' (22 million dollars) worth of carbon credits to Ireland, the Polish environment minister said Saturday. Maciej Nowicki said he expected an agreement for selling unused carbon dioxide emission rights to Ireland to be signed in the next week or two. On November 9 Poland signed a deal to sell carbon credits worth 25 million euros to Spain.