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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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04.06.2012
Global warming turns tundra to forest: study
Plants and shrubs have colonised parts of the Arctic tundra in recent decades growing into small trees, a scientific study found, adding the change may lead to an increase in global warming pressures if replicated on a wider scale.
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01.06.2012
UN warns of worsening global displacement over next ten years
Cohesive global action is needed to support the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, whose numbers were rising dramatically due to an emerging “multiplication of factors”, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said Thursday, as he launched the agency’s 2012 report.
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01.06.2012
RIO+20: U.N. Aims To Offset its Own Carbon Footprint
As the international community readies for a global mega-conference on sustainable development in Brazil mid-June, the United Nations is determined to practice what it preaches to the outside world: improve resource efficiency and drastically reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions.
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30.06.2011
U.S. Environmentalists Back EU Emission Plan
U.S. environmental groups are attacking the Obama administration's opposition to the European Union's plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes, arguing Washington is reneging on its commitment to fight global warming.
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29.06.2011
Study: Climate change could spread disease
LIVERPOOL, England, June 29 (UPI) -- British researchers studying the behavior of a viral disease of cattle and sheep from the 1960s to the present say climate change could cause disease outbreaks.
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28.06.2011
Europe steps up efforts to cut shipping emissions
European Commission Vice-President Siim Kallas and Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard are meeting today with the shipping industry, Member States and the European Parliament to discuss how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping in the short, medium and long term.
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27.06.2011
Global warming decreasing salt in sea
London - Climate change will turn the Baltic Sea into an increasingly freshwater sea and devastate its marine life, according to scientists.
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23.06.2011
Climate change can change ocean chemistry
LIVERMORE, Calif., June 23 (UPI) -- An organic compound with a cabbage-like smell responsible for the distinctive "smell of the sea" could be sensitive to climate change, U.S. researchers say.
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20.06.2011
EU sets out conditions for Kyoto extension
The EU has set out its terms for signing up to a second commitment period for the Kyoto protocol, insisting that any extension of the protocol must be part of an agreement that binds all major emitters.
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20.06.2011
EU ties Kyoto extension to greater efforts all-round
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Union has said major polluters must make greater progress in curbing carbon emissions before the 27-member bloc signs up to a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol.
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