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03.03.2010
Qatar in race to host UN climate summit in 2012
DOHA: Qatar is a bidder for hosting the 2012 United Nations climate summit. The Arab League Economic Affairs Committee has unanimously given the go-ahead to Qatar to bid for the 18th Conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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03.03.2010
Yvo de Boer: Cop 16 won’t produce binding agreement
Countries such as China and India will not enter a legally binding agreement at the next United Nations Climate Change conference (Cop16) in Cancun, Mexico at the end of 2010, predicts Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. However, he does expect crucial progress to be made there.
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03.03.2010
Rich need to be clearer on climate cash: de Boer
Rich nations must outline firm plans on where finance to tackle climate change will come from. Only then will poor countries be willing to agree to structure carbon markets beyond 2012, outgoing UN climate chief Yvo de Boer told the Carbon Market Insights conference in Amsterdam today.
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01.03.2010
World’s Biggest Emitters Sign Up to Copenhagen Accord
China, the U.S. and the 27-nation European Union signed up to the Copenhagen Accord, giving life to the first climate-protection agreement that contains numerical goals for all the biggest greenhouse-gas emitters.
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01.03.2010
Major emitters set carbon goals after Copenhagen
Fifty-five countries accounting for almost 80 percent of world greenhouse gas emissions have pledged varying goals for fighting climate change under a deadline in the "Copenhagen Accord," the United Nations said on Monday.
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01.03.2010
US Senators seen ditching cap and trade in new bill
Three U.S. senators are seeking to radically overhaul stalled climate legislation by proposing to dump broad cap-and-trade provisions and take a sector by sector approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, a White House official and leading U.S. newspaper reported.
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01.03.2010
Climate Group Plans Review
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's announcement over the weekend that it will seek independent experts to investigate how factual errors were published in its latest report is a key aspect of the organization's effort to understand and divulge its institutional problems, officials there say.
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01.03.2010
Senator Kerry Says Compromise Climate Bill Coming
WASHINGTON - Senator John Kerry said a bipartisan climate change bill would emerge soon in the U.S. Senate, contradicting what he called the "conventional wisdom" that the legislation was dead this election year.
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