Protest crashes Rees' first leaders' address to ALP | The Daily Telegraph

Mr Rees had just begun his first address to the party faithful as leader when four protestors walked onto the conference floor at the Sydney Entertainment Centre carrying a banner calling for an end to coal-powered fire stations.

The four shouted at ALP delegates not to be "climate change skeptics like the Liberal Party" but they won few friends with delegates soon drowning their protests out with boos and jeers.

[Would you like to live within sight of an oil refinery, or underneath a 6-square mile solar farm?]: Supervisor opposes massive solar project in San Bernardino County* | Greenspace | Los Angeles Times

Conservationists, however, are concerned about its impacts on several rare bat, bird, plant and reptile species including the threatened California desert tortoise.

U.N.'s Ban to fast in solidarity with world's hungry

The FAO has called the Nov. 16-18 summit with the hope of winning a clear pledge by world leaders to spend $44 billion a year to help poor nations become self-sufficient in food.
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Okabe said Ban was expected to say in his address to the summit that it was unacceptable that so many people were hungry when the world had more than enough food.

"He will also highlight the human cost of the recent food, energy and economic crises and say that these crises are a wake-up call for tomorrow," she said, adding that Ban would also stress the link between food security and climate change.

CBC News - Edmonton - Canada-U.S. carbon [swindle] strategy must match: minister

Any efforts Canada might make toward greenhouse gas reduction must depend on what the U.S. does, federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice said Friday in Edmonton.

"If the United States does not make substantial efforts, going forward, there is nothing that Canada can do, on our own," Prentice said.

"Our own mitigation efforts will be futile as a practical matter. In fact, we should probably at that point simply focus on adaptation."