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South Korea lights the way on carbon emissions with its £23bn green deal Seoul's huge financial stimulus package pledges 81% for a swath of environmental projects. But activists fear a wave of construction may increase the country's carbon footprintThe secretary for future vision is considering how many South Koreans it takes to change a million lightbulbs. No joke. Kim Sang-hyo, the president's extravagantly titled right-hand man, is trying to create more than 940,000 green jobs and improve his country's energy efficiency at the same time. Switching every bulb in every public building in South Korea to light-emitting diodes by the end of this year is one, very small, element in the master plan of what has been described as the greenest new deal on the planet.Since the start of the financial crisis last year, governments across the globe have been talking up the environmental content of their fiscal stimulus programmes and being judged by their efforts to save the planet. US president Barack Obama and the Chinese government have been praised for their ambit GuardianUK ranked low on youth wellbeing A table of young people's wellbeing in Europe has ranked the United Kingdom 24th out of 29 countries. BBCUK far down youth wellbeing table A table of young people's wellbeing in Europe has ranked the United Kingdom 24th out of 29 countries. BBCClimate change will overload aid system, warns Oxfam Number of people affected by extreme weather has doubled in 30 years and is expected to reach 375 million a year by 2015Emergency organisations could be overwhelmed within seven years by the rising number of people in poor countries affected by floods, droughts, heatwaves, wild fires, storms, landslides and other climate hazards.Analysis by Oxfam International of the 6,500 climate-related disasters recorded since 1980 show that the numbers of people affected by extreme weather events, many of which are linked to climate change, has doubled in just 30 years and is expected to increase a further 54% to more than 375 million people a year on average by 2015. The figure does not include people hit by other disasters such as wars, earthquakes and volcanoes.Worldwide emergency aid spending will have to be nearly doubled to at least $25bn (£17.2bn) a year to cope, says the report, The Right To Survive.'Climate change is set to overload the humanitarian system and destroy the lives and livelih GuardianPalo Alto leads nation in renewable energy participants More people participate in Palo Alto's renewable energy program than in any other city in the country, according to a report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. (SAP) (HPQ) (LMT) Biz JournalAnother country? The 'British model': With years of stable growth now consigned to the past, Wednesday's Budget comes amid anguish over whether the UK can regain a leading position FTEDAP Highlights Business Progress in Europe EDAP TMS SA , the global leader in therapeutic ultrasound, outlined the continuing progress of its European business, in both HIFU and lithotripsy activities. Topix.netWill Taxpayers Have to Bail Out EU Parliament Pension Fund The economic crisis has hit countless retirement funds, including that of members of the European parliament. They may take the controversial step this week to use taxpayers' money to top up the pensi... Chicago ChroniclePremature deaths caused by London pollution `three times higher than claimed` Campaign group writes to health secretary Alan Johnson calling for clarification of impact of poor air quality in capitalThe government was today challenged on the number of premature deaths caused by poor air quality as new figures suggested it may be three times higher than previously claimed.The Campaign for Clean Air in London (CCAL) has written to the health secretary, Alan Johnson, to ask for clarification on the 'full extent' of the health impact of poor air quality in Greater London.The group's query comes in the wake of a report by the European Environment Agency, published last month, which says 2,905 premature deaths in Greater London in 2005 were attributable to dangerous airborne particles (PM10s).The figure is almost treble the premature death rate cited in the London Air Quality Strategy, published under the former mayor Ken Livingstone in 2005.That report said there had been 1,031 premature deaths in the same year.The figure has since been used as a baseline during a Lo GuardianChanges in Regulations of U.K., Australian Lawyers Could Affect U.S. The United Kingdom and Australia may change the way they regulate the legal profession, and those changes could affect how lawyers are regulated in the United States, says Theodore Schneyer, a law professor at the University of Arizona. In a lecture at the Georgetown University Law Center Monday, Schneyer discussed measures in the U.K. and Australia designed to streamline regulation of the legal profession in the two countries. The problem is that they may conflict with rules adopted by states in the U.S. Law1 2 |
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