wildsingapore news: Top Airlines Want Aviation Emissions In Climate Pact

SINGAPORE - Four leading airlines called on Thursday for aviation emissions to be included in a broader climate pact, after growing criticism from green groups that the sector was not doing enough to fight global warming.

No Right Turn: Climate change: extended II (see the post for links)

So what was behind the government's decision to extend the deadline for submissions to its climate change review at the last minute? According to CarbonNews, it was because several of New Zealand's biggest carbon polluters were in danger of not meeting the deadline and so grovelled for special treatment. In the interests of fairness, it was then extended for everybody.

Meanwhile, people who struggled to make the deadline have begun posting about their submissions. Morgue discusses his here, while Hot Topic's Gareth Renowden has posted his entire submission online [PDF]. You can read the highlights here.

Activists accuse Climate Change Secretary of 'hypocracy' | Plane Stupid - bringing the aviation industry back down to earth!

The Plane Stupid activists dressed in t-shirts reading 'Ed's Popular Mobilisation Team' in reference to Miliband's call late last year for popular mobilisation on climate change. They handed out flyers listing the 34 airports planned for expansion within the UK to the audience, demonstrating the apparent lack of government resolve for tackling the environmental issues that are crucial for safe-guarding our future. Demonstrating their disapproval of the government's pandering to corporate interests, many of the audience made paper aeroplanes, which took flight towards the Secretary of State.