Fortunately, one of the few positive repercussions of September 11 has been the sea-change in the political environment with respect to providing adequately for the armed forces and for homeland security.
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And scientific societies are starting to do more to help their members deal with the poisonous political environment around climate change.
However such a thorough economic valuation of the costs of climate change on the marine environment, specifically with regard to ocean acidification, had not been undertaken.
The nature of the cuts became clear this week with an announcement from the Greek Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change (YPEKA) that feed-in tariff rates would be reduced by 40 percent for those projects installed after February 1, 2013 and before January 31st, 2014.
"Environment ministers from all SAARC member countries except Sri Lanka were present in the meet and it was indeed a nice beginning towards dealing with the climate change on a regional basis, " said Nepalese environment minister Thakur Prasad Sharma after attending the informal meet.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has designated 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai as a United Nations Messenger of Peace with a special focus on the environment and climate change.
The right perspective, he added, will create the right environment where the best work will come forth even when teams are faced with change and uncertainty.
Yet the big issues climate change, energy and the environment can only be dealt with on a global level, he says: the challenge is to find ways to make locally-rooted politicians work together.
"For example, frogs and salamanders are very sensitive to environmental change, maybe because of the way their absorbent skin interacts with the environment, " Professor Edwards told BBC News Online.
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He says that his views on climate change and the environment are so strong that they led to clashes with senior staff at the company.
The Environment Department will this week request a law change so it can regulate parking with timed zones.
And Microsoft has made one simple and seemingly small change with the upcoming Internet Explorer 10 which could have very large implications for the basic business environment online.
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The Energy and Climate Change Committee (on Thursday at 9.30am) investigates the pros and cons with witnesses from the Environment Agency, the EU Commission Environment Directorate-General, and Energy Minister Greg Barker.
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