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Vice President Biden Keeps HFCs at Top of US Geo-Political Agenda During India Visit
Montreal Protocol HFC amendment presents biggest near-term mitigation opportunity Avoids 0.5?C of warming by end of century
Washington, DC - During his visit to India this week Vice President Joe Biden continued the Administration?s full court press on the HFC amendment under the Montreal Protocol, originally proposed by the US, Canada, and Mexico, and separately by the Federated States of Micronesia, Morocco, and the Maldives. President Obama made phasing down HFCs under?the?Montreal Protocol a central part of his Climate Action Plan announced 25 June, and reached an?agreement?with China President Xi to phase down HFCs using the Montreal Protocol at?their?Rancho Mirage summit 8 June.
Following a meeting with Prime Minister Singh, Vice President Biden?gave a?speech at the Bombay Stock Exchange?24 July about the need for both the US and India to address the problem of climate change. Biden stated, "One thing we can do together right now is address pollutants called hydrofluorocarbons, HFCs." ?He added, "Well, HFCs found in air conditioners and other products make an outsized contribution to climate change.?I hope that India will join the United States, China and more than 100 other countries to work within the Montreal Protocols to phase down the production and consumption of HFCs."
"When India agrees to the HFC amendment, as China's President Xi did in his summit last month with President Obama, the world will be assured of climate mitigation equivalent to 100 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2050?five to ten times more that the Kyoto Protocol has done to date," said Durwood Zaelke, President of the Institute of Governance & Sustainable Development. ?"This will avoid up to 0.5?C of warming by the end of the century, and significantly slow down climate impacts."
In addition to providing the biggest, fastest, cheapest, and most secure climate mitigation available in the near-term, phasing down HFC under the Montreal Protocol will also provide?political momentum for a successful COP 21 in Paris in 2015 when the UNFCC is?scheduled?to conclude a climate treaty to go into effect by 2020. ?"To get this?political?momentum, it is essential that we wrap up the HFC amendment this year?or early next year at an extraordinary meeting," Zaelke said."
Vice President Biden also addressed the importance of phasing down HFCs in his remarks last week on Asia-Pacific policy at George Washington University: ?He noted?"We just concluded an agreement with China to reduce the use of pollutants called HFCs that cause climate change.? And there?s no reason we cannot do more with India as well.? That?s why Secretary Kerry agreed to an enhanced dialogue with India on climate change just last month. "
Prime Minister Singh is visiting the White House as part of?a 6-day visit on 20 September. ?He will be in NY for the UN General Assembly first. ?The Montreal Protocol Meeting of Parties will?is schedule for 21-25 October in Bangkok.
VP Biden's remarks in India are here.
VP Biden's remarks at George Washington University are here.
Contact Info: Durwood Zaelke (202) 498-2457, zaelke@inece.org;
Erin Tulley (202) 338-1300, etulley@igsd.org
Website : Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development
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Global travel warning: US cites al-Qaida threat
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks to staff members at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. The Obama administration hasn't sent its top diplomat to Pakistan since 2011, and Kerry's trip is a chance for the former senator to get to know the newly elected prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, who came to power in Pakistan's first transition between civilian governments.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks to staff members at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. The Obama administration hasn't sent its top diplomat to Pakistan since 2011, and Kerry's trip is a chance for the former senator to get to know the newly elected prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, who came to power in Pakistan's first transition between civilian governments.
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Secretary of State John Kerry gives policy address on same-sex spouses applying for U.S. visas, Friday, Aug. 2, 2103, at the U.S. Embassy in London. The U.S. will immediately begin considering visa applications of gay and lesbian spouses in the same manner as heterosexual couples, Kerry said on Friday. (AP Photo/Jason Reed. Pool)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The United States issued an extraordinary global travel warning to Americans Friday about the threat of an al-Qaida attack and closed down 21 embassies and consulates across the Muslim world for the weekend.
The alert was the first of its kind since an announcement preceding the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This one comes with the scars still fresh from last year's deadly Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, and with the Obama administration and Congress determined to prevent any similar breach of an American Embassy or consulate.
"There is a significant threat stream and we're reacting to it," said Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He told ABC News in an interview to be aired Sunday that the threat was "more specific" than previous ones and the "intent is to attack Western, not just U.S. interests."
The State Department warning urged American travelers to take extra precautions overseas, citing potential dangers involved with public transportation systems and other prime sites for tourists and noting that previous terrorist attacks have centered on subway and rail networks as well as airplanes and boats. It suggested travelers sign up for State Department alerts and register with U.S. consulates in the countries they visit.
The statement said that al-Qaida or its allies might target either U.S. government or private American interests. The alert expires on Aug. 31.
The State Department said the potential for terrorism was particularly acute in the Middle East and North Africa, with a possible attack occurring on or coming from the Arabian Peninsula.
U.S. officials pointed specifically to Yemen, the home of al-Qaida's most dangerous offshoot and the network blamed for several notable terrorist plots on the United States, from the foiled Christmas Day 2009 effort to bomb an airliner over Detroit to the explosives-laden parcels intercepted the following year aboard cargo flights.
"Current information suggests that al-Qaida and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks both in the region and beyond, and that they may focus efforts to conduct attacks in the period between now and the end of August," a department statement said.
The alert was posted a day after the U.S. announced it would shut many diplomatic facilities Sunday. Spokeswoman Marie Harf said the department acted out of an "abundance of caution" and that some missions may stay closed for longer than a day. Sunday is a business day in Muslim countries, and the diplomatic offices affected stretch from Mauritania in northwest Africa to Afghanistan.
"I don't know if I can say there was a specific threat," said Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, the House Foreign Affairs Committee's top Democrat, who was briefed on the State Department's decision. "There is concern over the potentiality of violence."
Although the warning coincided with "Al-Quds Day," the last Friday of the Islamic month of Ramadan when people in Iran and some Arab countries express their solidarity with the Palestinians and their opposition to Israel, U.S. officials played down any connection. They said the threat wasn't directed toward a specific American diplomatic facility.
The concern by American officials over the Yemen-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is not new, given the terror branch's gains in territory and reach during Yemen's prolonged Arab Spring-related instability.
The group made significant territorial gains last year, capturing towns and cities in the south amid a power struggle in the capital that ended with the resignation of Yemen's longtime leader, Ali Abdullah Saleh. A U.S.-aided counteroffensive by the government has since pushed the militants back.
Yemen's current president, Abdo Rabby Mansour Hadi, met with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday, where both leaders cited strong counterterrorism cooperation. Earlier this week, Yemen's military reported a U.S. drone strike killed six alleged al-Qaida militants in the group's southern strongholds.
As recently as June, the group's commander, Qasim al-Rimi, released an Arabic-language video urging attacks on U.S. targets and praising the ethnic Chechen brothers accused of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings. "Making these bombs has become in everyone's ... reach," he said, according to the English subtitles on the video, reposted by private U.S. intelligence firm the IntelCenter.
"The blinking red intelligence appears to be pointing toward an Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula plot," said Seth Jones, counterterror expert at the Rand Corp., referring to the branch of al-Qaida known as AQAP.
Britain also took action Friday in Yemen, announcing it would close its embassy there on Sunday and Monday as a precaution.
Britain, which closely coordinates on intelligence matters with Washington, stopped short of releasing a similar region-wide alert but added that some embassy staff in Yemen had been withdrawn "due to security concerns." British embassies and consulates elsewhere in the Middle East were to remain open.
Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., the House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, said the embassy threat was linked to al-Qaida and concerned the Middle East and Central Asia.
"In this instance, we can take a step to better protect our personnel and, out of an abundance of caution, we should," Royce said. He declined to say if the National Security Agency's much-debated surveillance program helped reveal the threat.
The New York Times reported Friday night that American officials said the U.S. had intercepted electronic communications among senior operatives of al-Qaida.
Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence panel, also supported the department's decision to go public with its concerns.
"The most important thing we have to do is protect American lives," he said, describing the threat as "not the regular chitchat" picked up from would-be militants on the Internet or elsewhere.
The State Department issued another warning a year ago about potential violence connected to the Sept. 11 anniversary. Dozens of American installations were besieged by protests over reports of an anti-Islam video made by an American resident, and in Benghazi, Libya, the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed when militants assaulted a diplomatic post.
The administration no longer says Benghazi was related to the demonstrations. But the attack continues to be a flashpoint of contention with Republicans in Congress who say Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and others in the government misled the country about the nature of the attack after failing to provide adequate diplomatic protection.
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Associated Press writers Donna Cassata, Sagar Meghani and Kimberly Dozier in Washington and Jill Lawless in London contributed to this report.
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Rob Ford campaigns for Doug Holyday through byelection day
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Mayor Rob Ford was pushing for Doug Holyday right up to the end Thursday.
"Vote for Doug today," Ford told the crowd as he took part in Dave Bolland's Stanley Cup parade in Mimico. "Doug Holyday day!"
Ford said he hopes the polls will come in early Thursday night "and hopefully send the deputy mayor to Queen's Park."
As Toronto residents in Etobicoke-Lakeshore and Scarborough-Guildwood cast their ballots in the byelection, Ford said he wished he'd spent more time campaigning for the Progressive Conservatives in Scarborough.
The byelection has seen the Fords feud bitterly with the governing Liberals. On Wednesday, Transportation Minister Glen Murray lashed out at the mayor for getting involved in the byelection battles.
"I'm not going to respond to that," Ford said Thursday. "That's unbelievable what he said. You know what, everyone is involved. You got Stintz knocking on doors ... everyone is involved in politics and they should be involved.
"The provincial government affects us, you have to get involved ? if they are going to single us out, that's an embarrassment."
Holyday said he was feeling confident ahead of the ballots being counted.
He mentioned Ford called him Wednesday night to report he'd finished canvassing another area of the riding in Etobicoke and apologized to Holyday for stirring things up with the Liberals saying "I'm sorry if I caused any trouble."
Ahead of the vote, Councillor Doug Ford said the byelection weren't about the mayor or Ford Nation.
"It wasn't about Rob and Doug Ford, this is about supporting a friend of ours (Holyday)," Ford said.
"This is a referendum on the Liberals, that's what this is about, this is about all their scandals.
"We're here for the people and that's why we do this job."
Ford said the mayor's administration is still willing to work with the provincial government.
"We're there to work with them but we can't be bullied by Queen's Park and that's what they've been doing with us," he said. "Up to Ford Fest they were bullying us on subways, before that they took $150 million from the most vulnerable people in Toronto without a phone call.
"We want to work with them but we aren't going to bow down to them."
He stressed the Fords still see Peter Milczyn - Holyday's Liberal rival in Etobicoke-Lakeshore - as a member of the team at City Hall.
"There has never been one harsh word from Rob Ford or Doug Ford about Peter Milczyn," Ford said. "Peter just chose the wrong party, the party of scandals right now ? Peter is a good guy."
Source: http://www.torontosun.com/2013/08/01/rob-ford-campaigns-for-doug-holyday-through-byelection-day
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NC FRESH CATCH LABOR DAY WEEKEND FESTIVAL BRINGS FRESH NC SEAFOOD, BEER AND MUSIC TO DURHAM
of North Carolina, a farmer?s market BBQ with lamb, beef and chicken, cooking demonstrations from local chefs, craft beer, family activities and live music at the All People?s Grill Outdoor Pavillion. The 3 day NC Fresh Catch Labor Day Weekend Festival is a part of the Hills to Holy Water Music Arts Tour which has stops throughout the state. NC Fresh Catch events benefit a variety of non-profits, while bringing sustainability and fresh local flavors to every venue.
Each day of the NC Fresh Catch Labor Day Weekend Festival will have it?s own unique flavor. On Saturday, August 31st, attendees will be welcomed to a Latin- Caribbean Seafood Salsa. Sunday, September 1st, the theme is a Soul Classic Jazz & Blues BBQ, and the festival will end with a Funk Rock Labor Day Fish Fry on Monday, September 2nd. Music and activities for each day will complement the theme.
The NC Fresh Catch Labor Day Weekend Festival includes performances from a variety of talented, local musicians. Saturday come dance to the Latin and Reggae stylings of the Kata Band and Orchestra Gar Del, Sunday legendary jazz musician Stanley Baird will perform with his band the Stanley Baird Group, bluesman Bobby Hinton will also take the stage for his much anticipated return. Labor Day, the schedule will include The Aaron Mills Project and The Dyewells, ending with a closing set by some of The All People?s Grill?s finest. Specific details for each day can be found on the Hills to Holy Water Music Arts Tour website www.h2h2o.org
About NC Fresh Catch and the Hills to Holy Water Music Arts Tour:
NC Fresh Catch and the Hills to Holy Water Music Tour are proud to support North Carolina fishermen. All of the seafood purchased for each event is fresh from the waters off the North Carolina Coast from the Pamlico Sound to the Gulf Stream. The mission of NC Fresh Catch events is to leave a lasting impression on the taste buds of everyone that attends while supporting local non-profits, arts, chefs, and farms, as well as North Carolina fisherman.
Source: http://triangleartsandentertainment.org/event/nc-fresh-catch-labor-day-weekend-festival/
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Feeling left out can lead to risky financial decisions
[unable to retrieve full-text content]People who feel isolated are more inclined to make risker financial decisions for bigger payoffs, according to new research.
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