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13.06.2012
Barack Obama skips Rio+20 Earth summit
Barack Obama will skip a United Nations summit billed as a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" to make progress on global development, sending Hillary Clinton in his place.
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13.06.2012
Developing world holds key to keep Rio principles alive
With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh slated to attend the Rio summit on sustainable development, the government has prepared the grounds to help 'friendly' Brazil but not accept the adverse conditions that Europe is keen to impose at the event, which culminates with the meeting of heads of state from June 20 to 22.
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11.06.2012
China launches climate change think tank
China's newly established national think tank for climate change has put the "top level design" of China's carbon trading system top of its agenda agenda.
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06.06.2012
Civil bodies against clean credit for Tawang dam
Several organisations have categorically opposed granting of clean development mechanism (CDM) credit under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to the 780-MW Nyamjang Chhu hydropower project in Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang district, bordering China.
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06.06.2012
Oman’s climate change scenario in focus
MUSCAT Sultan Qaboos University hosted the second workshop on “Initial National Communication to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from Oman” recently.
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06.06.2012
UN leader seeks to head off Rio summit tragedy
UN leader Ban Ki-moon is battling to rescue a summit of more than 100 world leaders in Rio de Janeiro in two weeks which he says must guide the world away from a "tragic" end.
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06.06.2012
Lacul Vacaresti, declarat arie protejata
Lacul de acumulare Vacaresti, situat in estul Capitalei, va fi declarat arie protejata, intrucat in acest perimetru au fost identificate mai mult de 90 de specii de pasari rare, iar zona ar putea deveni spatiu pentru agrement, a declarat marti ministrul Mediului, Rovana Plumb.
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05.06.2012
Climate Change 'Biggest Threat' to Food Security
When it comes to expressing the threat to food security posed by changing climate patterns and extreme weather events in Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) does not mince its words.
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05.06.2012
Globe comes before politics- Combet
Climate Change Minister Greg Combet says Labor's duty to the planet would come before allowing a future coalition government to scrap the carbon tax.
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05.06.2012
Price tag on climate change in Latin America: $100 billion
Damage from climate change could cost Latin American and Caribbean countries $100 billion per year by 2050 if average temperatures rise 2C (3.6F) from pre-industrial levels, as is seen likely, a new report said on Tuesday.
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05.06.2012
Doha ‘to be key step in climate initiative’
The Doha amendment to the Kyoto Protocol (KP) will probably be the most important contribution from the 2012 sessions of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, scheduled in Qatar from November 26 to December 7.
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05.06.2012
Qatar signs pact to host UN climate change conference
Qatar and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) formally agreed yesterday to host the 2012 sessions of the UN Climate Change Conference in Doha from November 26 to December 7.
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