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27.04.2012
Southern Africa: Region Most Affected By Climate Change
Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity and the grand irony is that humans might be the architects of their own downfall, said Derek Hanekom, South Africa's Deputy Minister of Science and Technology at the signing of a declaration that will establish a regional science centre to support cross-border research into climate change.
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26.04.2012
Countries Losing Steam On Climate Change Initiatives
Energy ministers from around the world met in London this week and got a scolding. The International Energy Agency warned the ministers that they are falling way behind in their efforts to wean the world from dirty sources of energy. Nations are nowhere near being on track to avert significant climate change in the coming decades.
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29.04.2011
Business Roundtable Urges EPA to Stop Greenhouse Gas Rules
The Business Roundtable, a group of chief executives officers from companies such as General Electric Co. (GE) and Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), urged the Obama administration to abandon efforts to regulate greenhouse gases from industrial polluters.
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27.04.2011
Korea and IMO join forces against CO2
The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and South Korea have announced an aid programme for the east Asian region targeting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction in shipping. The move is the latest sign of the growing push by Asian economies to embrace the opportunities of the green economy, not just in shipping and ports but across the industrial spectrum.
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27.04.2011
AFB to host regional climate change workshop
LATIN America and the Caribbean's ability to adapt to the devastating impacts of climate change is expected to improve with the hosting of a major capacity-building workshop in the region this year.
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26.04.2011
Manuel appointed to UN Green Climate Fund Committee
South Africa’s National Planning Commission Minister Trevor Manuel has been appointed to the transitional committee responsible for the design of the Green Climate Fund, which would be established under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as agreed at the 16th Conference of the Parties in Cancun in 2010.
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26.04.2011
Japan greenhouse gas emissions hit record low in 2009/10
Japan's greenhouse gas emissions hit a record low in the year to March 2010, data showed on Tuesday, but emissions may rise this fiscal year despite an expected economic slowdown if the country turns to fossil fuels to make up for lost nuclear power in the wake of last month's devastating earthquake and tsunami.
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25.04.2011
UN targets black carbon emissions
MANILA, Philippines – United Nations member-countries are considering strategies to reduce black carbon emissions, one of the air pollutants identified by scientists as an important link to climate change because of its role in contributing to global warming.
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25.04.2011
Trade shifts help rich meet climate goals: study
OSLO (Reuters) - The shift in manufacturing to emerging nations is doing more to curb rich countries' greenhouse gas emissions than measures they are taking to meet the U.N. pact to fight climate change, a study showed.
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19.04.2011
UN finds NZ credibility gap on emissions
A United Nations review has found a large credibility gap between New Zealand's target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and the measures in place to achieve it.
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19.04.2011
Supreme Court to hear major climate change case
The last time the Supreme Court heard a major case about climate change, the judges split along ideological lines and ultimately favored the argument that the Clean Air Act gave the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the authority to regulate carbon emissions. The decision in Massachusetts v EPA set the stage for the current battle on Capitol Hill that now sees Republicans fighting to rein in the EPA’s extended power to regulate.
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19.04.2011
Greenhouse gas levels increase
AUSTRALIA'S greenhouse gas emissions rose 0.5 per cent last year, driven in part by a large jump in iron and steel production as the nation shrugged off the effects of the global financial crisis.
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18.04.2011
Tropical countries aim for global forest pact
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Representatives from more than 30 countries are expected to hammer out a formal agreement for future discussions on forest and climate issues when they meet next month in the Republic of Congo, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
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18.04.2011
SA ‘needs to push for progress on climate promises’
IN THE build-up to the United Nations (UN) climate change talks in Durban in December, SA needed to help push governments worldwide to make progress on several issues, Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said on Friday.
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