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16.03.2012
Climate change to increase respiratory diseases
Worldwide increases in the incidences of asthma, allergies, infectious and cardiovascular diseases will result from a variety of impacts of global climate change, including rising temperatures, worsening ozone levels in urban areas, the spread of desertification, and expansions of the ranges of communicable diseases as the planet heats up, the professional organization representing respiratory and airway physicians stated in a new position paper released today.
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15.03.2012
Golbal funding vital to take on climate change: Survey
New Delhi: Global funding is vital for countries like India to address concerns related to climate change as mitigation efforts ultimately involve costs, says the Economic Survey 2011-12, which for the first time has made a pointed reference to the challenge posed by climate change.
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14.03.2012
E.ON says will do measured CO2 buying from 2013
(Reuters) - Germany's E.ON (EONGn.DE), a big carbon dioxide polluter, on Wednesday said its strategy for the next phase of the European Union emissions trading regime beginning in 2013 was to buy bit by bit.
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05.03.2012
UN Says 2011 Disasters Were Costliest Ever
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The economic cost of disasters in 2011 was the highest in history — with a pricetag of at least $380 billion, mainly due to earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand, a U.N. envoy said Monday.
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05.03.2012
Study shows oceans becoming much more acidic
The world's oceans are turning acidic at what could be the fastest pace of any time in the past 300 million years, even more rapidly than during a monster emission of planet-warming carbon 56 million years ago, European and US scientists say in a new study.
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31.03.2011
RI supports S. Korea’s bid to host summit
JAKARTA: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (right) offered support for South Korea’s candidacy to host a climate change summit in 2012 because of the latter’s strong leadership and commitment in environmental affairs.
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29.03.2011
Compromise needed as Kyoto Protocol to expire
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak’s special envoy for climate change, Han Seung-soo, is in town for three days after visiting India and Singapore as part of a trip in Asia. He shares his views with The Jakarta Post’s Mustaqim Adamrah. Here are excerpts of the interview.
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29.03.2011
Africa well placed to transition to green economy: UN
Africa is well poised to take advantage of a host of opportunities on the continent for building a ‘green economy,’ one that generates decent jobs in an environmentally sustainable way, a senior United Nations official said on Monday.
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28.03.2011
Ugandan Wins First UNEP Environment Award for Africa
Nairobi — Youth are the future of nations and leaders of tomorrow, or so the saying goes.But for one Ugandan woman, Patricia Okoed-Bukumunhe, this time-worn cliché took on a new meaning when she considered the environmental challenges her two young daughters, aged five and eight, would inherit due to the devastating effects of climate change.
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28.03.2011
First green trade mission heads to US
In tune with government efforts to boost British business abroad, six companies including a loft lagger and a zero-carbon beer-maker will accompany the Climate Change Minister, Greg Barker, to the US today on the UK's first green trade mission.
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25.03.2011
UPDATE 1-UN climate chief watchful of Japan nuclear mishap
(Reuters) - Climate change officials are watching to see if Japan's nuclear accident will prompt wealthy countries to scrap their own nuclear energy plans in favor of more traditional fuels that worsen global warming, a U.N. official said on Thursday.
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25.03.2011
UN climate chief urges governments to deliver on Cancun pledges
The UN's top climate change official has issued a timely call for governments to accelerate efforts to deliver on last year's Cancun Accords, ahead of the year's first official round of international climate negotiations in Bangkok next month.
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