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g20.utoronto.ca - 4/2/2009

G20 Information Centre

— g20.utoronto.ca — G20 Plans and Prospects (prepared by the G20 Research Group) G20 Leaders Summit, London, April 2, 2009... G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bankers, Horsham UK, March 14-15, 2009 Special Leaders Summit on the Financial Situation, Washington, November ... (more) G20 Information Centre

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Washington

Brazil

Canada

Sweden

Japan

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treehugger.com - 4/8/2009

"Plastic Bags are a Distraction" - Monbiot

— treehugger.com — Reusable bags give feel-good factor without real change George Monbiot is at it again. Not content with... shooting down the great green hopes for biochar , or taking on environmentalists' affinity to alternative medicines , the always ... (more) "Plastic Bags are a Distraction" - Monbiot

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George Monbiot

United Kingdom

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theenergycollective.com - 4/2/2009

G20 Live Blog

— theenergycollective.com — The Climatico Team will be providing a live blog service on the G20 Summit and surrounding events in... London, United Kingdom. This page will be updated throughout the day, bringing together insights from our press team as well as our global pool of analysts . Click here to refresh the ... (more) G20 Live Blog

Environment

Climate Change

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G20 and the environment II: Monbiot's return
Globalisation and the Environment — ... are some good idea and the tax haven solution is one of them but these are long term solutions to stop this happening again. There is no danger of that for a while. Over to George on the environment who is as always spot on. A great piece on the current farce over bank bailouts. Once we are well and truly past the planet's tipping point there can be no "planet bailout" however much money we throw at it assuming we return to our path of unstustainable growth. G20 forgets the environment [Guardian] Here is the text of the G20 ...

What's Happening OnEarth- Friday, April 3rd
Greenlight | OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC — ... Monbiot worries that "our leaders have learnt nothing from the financial crisis," and is outraged that "The environmental clauses - which contradict almost everything that goes before - have been tacked onto the end of the communique as an afterthought. No new money has been set aside. No new ideas are proposed; just the usual wishful thinking: let's call the whole package green and hope for the best."  [Guardian] ...

Friday Blog Roundup
My Green Element — ...  The G20 Summit, in which world leaders gathered for a day-long conference to discuss the most pressing global issues, took place in London yesterday. Considerable focus was placed on the economic crisis, but the conference fell short on addressing environmental issues, according to  ...

G20 summit - Apr 4
Energy Bulletin - — ... homepage Monbiot: G20 forgets the environment George Monbiot, Guardian Climate breakdown, peak oil and resource depletion all dwarf the financial crisis in financial and humanitarian terms --- Here is the text of the G20 communique, in compressed form. "We, the Leaders of the Group of Twenty, will use every cent we don't possess to rescue corporate capitalism from its contradictions and set the world economy back onto the path of unsustainable growth. We have already spent trillions of dollars of your money on bailing out the banks, so that they can be returned to their ...