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28.09.2012 Mitigating damage: Draft for climate change policy approved
The cabinet on Wednesday approved the draft of National Policy on Climate Change, which is a policy framework aimed at mitigating damage amid rapid climatic changes.
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28.09.2012 Solomons PM 'deeply troubled' by climate change inaction
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo has used his address to the UN General Assembly to call on developed nations to do more to tackle climate change.
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28.09.2012 At UN General Debate, small island states seek aid for growth, climate change mitigation
Small island states took to the podium of the United Nations General Assembly today to call on the international community to support their development in the face of the global economic crisis and not dismiss their needs by categorizing them as medium income, while also highlighting the threats they face from climate change and rising sea levels.
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27.09.2012 Rockefeller and UN join forces to highlight women’s climate role
The Rockefeller Foundation will fund a new UN programme highlighting the role women have in addressing climate change.
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27.09.2012 EU and US drift apart on climate change
In 2008, as European Union legislators were setting the rules for the second phase of the EU's cap-and-trade system – the emissions trading scheme (ETS) – there was plenty of traffic between Washington, DC and Brussels, and plenty of understanding between politicians on both sides.
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27.09.2012 Kiribati leader tells UN climate change the greatest moral challenge of our time
The President of Kiribati has told the UN General Assembly that climate change must be resolved before it is too late for the frontline nations and for the whole of humanity.
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26.09.2012 Climate change finance promises not being kept, says new DARA report
Governments are failing to keep the promises made on finance during the Cancun and Copenhagen climate change summits, according to the new DARA Climate Vulnerability Report.
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26.09.2012 Speedy action on climate change sought
The presidents of the Marshall Islands and Nauru urged the United Nations to speed up legally binding agreements to curb global warming emissions.
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26.09.2012 Climate change is already damaging global economy, report finds
Climate change is already contributing to the deaths of nearly 400,000 people a year and costing the world more than $1.2 trillion, wiping 1.6% annually from global GDP, according to a new study.
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25.09.2012 Climate Commission outlines solar opportunity in Queensland
The Climate Commission has released its latest state report, this time focussing on the dangers of climate change to Queensland. While highlighting the risks, the report, The Critical Decade: Queensland climate impacts and opportunities, also spotlights the opportunities, such as solar power.
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25.09.2012 Mitt Romney raises EU concerns for climate talks
EU officials are privately alarmed at the chilling effect that a Mitt Romney win in the US presidential election could have on global climate talks, EurActiv has learned.
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25.09.2012 Undecided US voters support climate change action
A new national survey released Monday finds that 7 percent of likely US voters remain undecided about whom they will vote for President. However, the majority of these undecided voters say presidential candidates' positions on global warming will be one of several important factors determining how they cast their votes in November.
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24.09.2012 Norway helps Vietnam cope with climate change
The Vietnam Red Cross in coordination with its Norway partner organized a seminar in Hanoi from September 24-26 to share experience in disaster risk reduction (DRR).
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24.09.2012 All eyes on New York as climate change debate moves to the Big Apple
New York is the stage for a week of climate change debate starting at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday.
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24.09.2012 Science must guide climate change debate – Elizabeth May
Canada’s leading politicians are ‘feigning outrage’ while doing nothing to cut the country’s carbon emissions, according to Green Party chief Elizabeth May.
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21.09.2012 Comment: Why Russia’s climate change policy is like a cargo cult
What is Russia’s real position on climate change? It says it will not take part in a ‘useless’ Kyoto Protocol extension period (KP2), despite recently appearing to support it. It boasts oil and gas reserves and a President who holds climate sceptic views. And yet you can bet Russia will call for a global deal, more action and release a ‘proposal for action’ come COP18 in Doha. So who, and what should we believe?
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21.09.2012 Kew Gathers Crop Relatives to Help Climate Adaptation
The U.K.’s Royal Botanic Gardens Kew plans to start collecting wild relatives of 26 crop plants in a partnership with the Global Crop Diversity Trust to prepare for climate change in the future.
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20.09.2012 Malawi faith groups commit to combat climate change and population growth
Population growth, says Malawi faith groups, is a key ingredient to devastating climate change effects – calling for concerted multi-faith action to address the situation in Malawi with haste.
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20.09.2012 Debate: Is Japan’s Nuclear U-turn good or bad news for climate change?
Japan’s announcement last week that it would abandon nuclear power by 2040 was widely praised by some green groups.
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20.09.2012 EU and China sign climate change deal
The EU and China have announced details of a deal that will see the two work together on a series of environmental and climate change projects including the design of a Chinese carbon market.
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