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25.01.2012
United Arab Emirates Promotes Alternative Energy
DUBAI — Masdar, a renewable energy company based in Abu Dhabi, plans to spend millions of dirhams in clean energy projects in Scotland after signing an agreement with the Scottish government.
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24.01.2012
UN conference returns to Rio with new emphasis
UNITED NATIONS – Representatives from around the world will be returning to Rio de Janeiro this June — 20 years after the U.N. Earth Summit — but this time the focus will be on sustainable development, not climate change, a Brazilian diplomat said Tuesday.
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24.01.2012
Signs of New Life as U.N. Searches for a Climate Accord
WASHINGTON — Critics and supporters alike agree that the U.N. forum for negotiating international climate change policies is an ungainly mess, its annual gatherings marked by discord, disarray and brinkmanship.
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24.01.2012
Durban did too little: here are alternatives to the UN process
In the month and a half since the Durban climate change conference it has been said that the “international climate process” has been “strengthened” and that Durban resulted in “the means and the ends for a new era in climate negotiations”.
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24.01.2012
Climate Change and Farming: How Not to Go Hungry in a Warmer World
Climate change might hit us in the most vital place of all — the dinner plate. Why do we care about climate change? Obviously we worry about what warming temperatures might do to the geography of the planet — particularly melting polar ice and raising global sea levels. We fear the impact that climate change could have on endangered species, as warming temperatures speed the already rapid pace of extinction for wildlife that have been pushed to the edge by habitat loss and hunting. We focus on the changing risk of extreme weather, of more powerful storms causing billions of dollars of damage in richer nations — and taking thousands of lives in poorer ones. Sometimes we're simply uneasy with idea that our actions are altering the earth, changing the rhythms of the seasons, shifting weather patterns we've been accustomed to for as long as human beings can remember.
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23.01.2012
Global warming would harm the Earth, but some areas might find it beneficial
“Global warming” and “climate change” succinctly describe a complicated phenomenon, and in just a few decades they have become common descriptors. But while global warming would be bad for the Earth as a whole, the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would affect different areas in different ways, and local climate change is what matters to many people. So let’s look at the relative winners and losers.
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14.01.2012
Economic Survey to focus on financing climate change
Climate change will get pride of place in this year's Economic Survey with a special chapter proposed to be devoted to it. The move is a clear signal of the importance that the Finance Ministry attaches to climate change.
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12.01.2012
Warmer summers cause colder winters, scientists say
Reuters) - Warmer summers in the far Northern Hemisphere are disrupting weather patterns and triggering more severe winter weather in the United States and Europe, a team of scientists say, in a finding that could improve long-range weather forecasts.
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12.01.2012
Major Investors Show the Way on Climate Change
Anyone who thinks the business world doesn't believe in acting on climate change should check out what's happening at the United Nations today. Some 450 global investors who control tens of trillion in assets are gathering for the Investor Summit on Climate Risk and Energy Solutions.
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12.01.2012
Good COP or bad COP?
Durban was briefly in the climate spotlight with just months to go before the 20th anniversary of the 2012 Rio Earth Summit. Few of us at Rio in 1992 would have believed that so little progress would be made in the intervening years. Climate procrastination has put future generations at severe risk of increasingly dangerous climate disruptions. We have seen how national and international governments and institutions responded to the 2008 financial crisis in just two crucial days, but also how, in two crucial decades, they have achieved very little on the much deeper climate crisis. Nature neither defers decisions nor haggles; nor, as widely observed after the financial crisis, does nature do bailouts.
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11.01.2012
Elections no threat to global climate deal: U.N.
(Reuters) - Leadership changes this year among some of the world's heaviest polluting countries should not undermine progress towards setting up a new global legally binding climate deal by 2015, the United Nations' climate chief said on Wednesday.
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