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This week a study on peak oil by a German military think tank was leaked on the Internet. The document shows that the German government is closely studying the issue of peak oil, and is aware of the potential for serious consequences as oil production declines. The study is reminiscent of the Hirsch Report, commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy, that warned of the risks posed by peak oil.

The document warns of the potential for regional shortages, market failures, and a shift in political power toward those capable of exporting oil. This report describes potential outcomes that require planning and preparation. The scenarios outlined in the paper are exactly the kinds of drivers that lead me to advocate for greater regional energy self-sufficiency. The report clearly lays out just how vulnerable Europe will be because of its continuing dependence upon Russia for both oil and gas, and notes that Russia will be in a very strong political bargaining position as a result.

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Russia submitted for registration its first carbon emissions reduction project under a special United Nations procedure, a step that can signal “a substantial increase” of followers, the UN regulator said today.

The joint implementation project, created under a UN Kyoto Protocol mechanism, will be located at the Shaturskaya Thermal Power Plant near Moscow, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change said in a statement from Bonn today. The so-called JI projects generate tradeable emissions-reductions units that countries can use to meet their obligations to cut greenhouse gases under the UN climate-protection treaty.

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Russians are not used to heat waves. When the high temperatures that have overwhelmed Russia over the past six weeks first arrived in June, some 1,200 Russians drowned at the country's beaches. "The majority of those who drowned were drunk," the Emergencies Ministry concluded in mid-July, citing the Russian habit of taking vodka to cool off by the sea. But while overconsumption of vodka is a familiar scourge in Russia, extreme heat is not, and as the worst heat wave on record spawns wildfires that are destroying entire villages, Russian officials have made what for them is a startling admission: global warming is very real.

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the offices of the activist environmental group, Baikal Environmental Wave had their offices raided by Russian police. Their website was shutdown, computers confiscated and the employees led away.

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Scientists have uncovered what appears to be a further dramatic increase in the leakage of methane gas that is seeping from the Arctic seabed.

Methane is about 20 times more potent than CO2 in trapping solar heat.

The findings come from measurements of carbon fluxes around the north of Russia, led by Igor Semiletov from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.

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Russian and Italian engineering companies are reportedly working together to develop a massive iron ore mine that will “decimate” Mount Pinpet or “Pinetree Mountain” in the eastern Burmese state of Shan.

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In April, Vladimir Putin and his ministers approved a new climate 'doctrine' – well, that's how they call these things in Moscow – which for the first time officially recognizes severe risks of global warming and calls for immediate action.

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