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UN calls on Australia to honour commercial commitments to carbon

admin /22 November, 2008

From the United Nations Climate Change Convention Framework

The United Nations Climate Change Framework has observed that industrialised nations are threatening the emerging carbon market, which rich countries proposed, as well as the entire accord process designed to lead to a new treaty on climate change in Copenhagen next year, because of a lack of action over their own emissions.”The emission quotas laid down in Kyoto are no longer abstract numbers on diplomatic papers, they are commercial contracts that govern the carbon market,” said head of the UN’s Climate Change Secretariat, Yvo de Boer. In preparation for next week’s meeting in Poland, many developing countries have agreed to comply with the harsh restrictions on their economic growth demanded by the United States in Bali, in an attempt to see the conference succeed.

 

Who is Monsanto anyway?

admin /22 November, 2008

Monsanto’s high-profile advertisements in Britain and the US depict the corporation as a visionary, world-historical force, working to bring state-of-the-art science and an environmentally responsible outlook to the solution of humanity’s pressing problems.

But just who is Monsanto? Where did they come from? How did they get to be the world’s second largest manufacturer of agricultural chemicals, one of the largest producers of seeds and soon – with the impending merger with American Home Products – the largest seller of prescription drugs in the United States? What do their workers, their customers, and the others whose lives they have impacted, have to say? Is Monsanto the “clean and green” company its advertisements promote, or is the new image merely a product of clever public relations? A look at the historical record offers some revealing clues, and may help us to better understand the company’s present-day practices?

Yankees contemplate depression

admin /22 November, 2008

From Globe Publishing

OVER THE PAST few months, Americans have been hearing the word “depression” with unfamiliar and alarming regularity. The financial crisis tearing through Wall Street is routinely described as the worst since the Great Depression, and the recession into which we are sinking looks deep enough, financial commentators warn, that a few poor policy decisions could put us in a depression of our own.

It’s a frightening possibility, but also in many ways an abstraction. The country has gone so long without a depression that it’s hard to know what it would be like to live through one.

Most of us, of course, think we know what a depression looks like. Open a history book and the images will be familiar: mobs at banks and lines at soup kitchens, stockbrokers in suits selling apples on the street, families piled with all their belongings into jalopies. Families scrimp on coffee and flour and sugar, rinsing off tinfoil to reuse it and re-mending their pants and dresses. A desperate government mobilizes legions of the unemployed to build bridges and airports, to blaze trails in national forests, to put on traveling plays and paint social-realist murals.

Australian sheep banned from car travel

admin /20 November, 2008

From The Land

Locals purchasing Australian sheep in Bahrain during the Eid Al Adha festival will be told “no truck, no sheep” under an initiative being implemented by Bahrain Livestock Company.

The move follows campaigning by animal rights groups who urged farmers to boycott selling to live exporters in the lead up to the festival due to the mishandling of animals by locals.

Fertiliser prices three times what they should be: AgForce

admin /20 November, 2008

From Queensland Country Life Plunging commodity prices are not being mirrored by falls in one of farming’s most important input costs, namely fertiliser. The issue is once again in the spotlight as producers weigh up shrinking harvest profits ahead of a summer crop season when planting equipment should be programmed to apply nitrogen and phosphorous, Continue Reading →

Supermarkets control fuel prices

admin /15 November, 2008

FuelWatch may have sunk in the Senate, but the days of real competition in the fuel industry are numbered anyway, according to Australia’s peak petrol station body.

Earlier today the Senate defeated the Federal Government’s proposed FuelWatch scheme after South Australian independent Nick Xenophon voted against the motion, which would have forced service stations to advertise petrol prices for the next day, giving consumers the chance to plan ahead.

Ron Bowden, CEO of the Service Station Association (SSA), said he was relieved with the Senate’s decision as it would have sounded an immediate death knell for Australia’s independent petrol stations.

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