The Press Association: Poor 'hardest hit' by fuel policies

People in fuel poverty are being hardest hit by climate change policies - without seeing much benefit from efforts to reduce energy use, a Government advisory group has warned.

According to the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group, energy bills have increased by 125% in the past six years, with the number of households in fuel poverty in England quadrupling as a result.

"Expert" challenges media on climate change knowledge

Chairman of the Editorial Board Committee of the Nation Media Group Limited (NMG), Mr Francis Okomo-Okello, said in Arusha last week that the issue of climate change has yet to be addressed with the seriousness it deserves in East Africa’s public policy discourse and agenda.

“As change agents, East Africa’s media therefore have a critical role to play in shaping opinion and guiding public debate through the dissemination of information about climate change,” he told a workshop on reporting about climate change in East Africa.

The workshop that brought together seven journalists from Tanzania and seven others from Kenya was supported by The Knight Centre for Environmental Journalism at the Michigan State University in the US.

India climate [scam] meet ahead of Mexico to push tech deal | Energy & Oil | Reuters

The BASIC countries say countries such as Australia, Canada, and the United States should immediately provide countries like China and India technology to store carbon dioxide emissions underground.
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Developing nations want new technology and billions of dollars in aid to help them move away from fossil fuels, the main source of mankind's planet-warming greenhouse gases, as part of a deal at the year-end U.N. talks in the Mexican resort of Cancun.

[Europe leading the way in reducing fossil fuel use?]: Frankfurt airport passenger numbers up 7 percent on year in June, 1.4 percent in 1st half

Fraport says air freight tonnage at Frankfurt airport was up 29.9 percent in June and 32.2 percent in the first half.