BASIC. Lekota serves 'divorce papers' on ANC - Mail & Guardian Online: The smart news source. Former defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota on Wednesday served ‘divorce papers” on the African National Congress and declared his intention of starting a new political formation to oppose the ANC in the coming elections. Lekota addressed a press conference at the studios of 702 Talk Radio in Sandton, Johannesburg, where he outlined plans to put together a ‘congress” in a few weeks where the name and policies of the new party would be decided upon. This party would contest the elections in 2009 and hopes to draw votes from the ANC, which might threaten the ruling party’s two-thirds majority.
Lekota was flanked by his former deputy minister, Mluleki George, as well as former trade union leader and president of the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) Willy Madisha and representatives of provinces, but no other key leaders were present. The new formation will be formalised once people in all provinces have been consulted, he said. After the party? Public_Trust_in_the_News.pdf (application/pdf Object) Greens rip Melbourne from Labor. Adam Bandt makes Green history Adam Bandt says he is likely to become the first Greens member elected to federal parliament in a general election. The Greens have won a historic lower house seat, claiming the electorate of Melbourne from Labor. Although the Greens' Adam Bandt is trailing the ALP's Cath Bowtell on a two-candidate preferred basis, Liberal preferences have helped propel him to a stunning victory.
With 20 per cent of the vote counted, Mr Bandt held 55.64 per cent of the two-party preferred count, a swing of 10.61 per cent against Labor. ''It's a sad result for Labor,'' Health Minister Nicole Roxon said on the Nine Network, when it looked like Ms Bowtel would lose. Advertisement Despite the loss, Victoria is the only state showing a swing towards the government. Claiming victory, a jubilant Mr Bandt said he would work hard to be a representative for all in the electorate. Ms Bowtell stood for the Labor Party after the retirement of sitting member Lindsay Tanner. Hassan touted by supporters as best choice for UN post. It’s two o’clock in the morning on the last day of the climate conference in Bali in December 2007, with weeks of negotiation seemingly nearing a dead end as rich and poor countries failed to reach consensus on key issues.
Just hours earlier, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivered speeches to give a boost to conference delegates to come up with something meaningful, with Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the UN Framework on Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) leaving the conference room in tears in a sign of how difficult the situation was. The challenge was to get the Bali conference to lay a foundation for a legally binding treaty, with clear carbon cut targets, to replace the Kyoto Protocol, without scaring off the US.
Led by then foreign minister Hassan Wirajuda, the Indonesian delegation managed to get developed and developing countries to agree on a compromised outcome just before the last plenary meeting. Penhagen talks stall as African bloc accuses UN of trying to kill Kyoto | Environment. Could not load plugins: File not found Environment editor John Vidal on why Kyoto remains so important Link to video: Copenhagen summit: African bloc accuses rich countries of 'killing Kyoto' One of the two negotiating tracks at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen broke up in drama and confusion today when the Africa group of countries followed by other developing countries accused the chair of the conference of trying to "kill" the Kyoto protocol.
They were also objecting to what they characterised as efforts to sideline the poorest countries. The crisis was then exacerbated after Australia said that rich countries should suspend talks about emission cuts. The UN and the chair of the conference, Denmark, tried hurriedly to repair the rifts as ministers began to arrive in Copenhagen for the high level political section of the talks. Earlier today, it was confirmed that the UK prime minister, Gordon Brown, will fly to Copenhagen tomorrow, two days earlier than planned. The Chinese bill is calculated - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009. The Climate Pool Notes. Reuters AlertNet - Climate Change.
Brown: 100 billion a year to the poor - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009. FT Energy Source | Waxman-Markey passes committee - but what’s to come? Henry Waxman, chairman of the committee and co-sponsor with Ed Markey, said the bill enjoyed “substantial support from industry, labour and environmental groups from across the country”.
This is true, but does not tell the whole story. While many companies have embraced cap-and-trade – Duke Energy, Cisco, DuPont, Caterpillar, among others – the compromises that have been made to get the bill to this stage have also made enemies. Some of these are broadly Republican in flavour, with the usual suspects in the form of free market thinktanks, anti-tax campaigners, some business coalitions, and of course global warming sceptics. Other groups representing rural America have also been taking a strong stand on the bill as they say it will drive up costs for them and put many farmers out of business. But the other voices attacking the bill have been from the green side. But the bill’s supporters say it is the only acceptable political compromise. Related story: China, U.S. agree on form of new dialogue. About.
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Funding. Environmental News. The Walrus >> Canada >> Magazine of the Year. Welcome to the Newseum | The Interactive Museum of News. UK | Budget cuts considered for Defra. The Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is facing budget cuts of between £130m and £270m. The prospective cutbacks come as the department faces bills for a series of countryside disasters such as bird flu, foot-and-mouth and bluetongue. It is understood to be considering cuts across the board, for agencies such as the Environment Agency and British Waterways and various farming projects.
The Campaign for the Protection of Rural England said this was "alarming". 'Lack of credibility' CPRE spokesman Tom Oliver said it was hard to see how the government would be able to deliver on its existing environmental commitments if "yet more cuts" were made. "It suggests that across the board, whether you're talking about landscape, wildlife, or access to the countryside or action on climate change, there is a real lack of credibility about government priorities if these cuts are being suggested.
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