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16.06.2010
Tribes prepare for impacts of climate change
"Let’s clear up some misconceptions about global climate change,” Lara Whitely Binder, of the Climate Impacts Group, told tribal representatives gathered at a climate change adaptation training course.
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16.06.2010
EPA Finds Senate Climate Bill Affordable
U.S. environmental regulators said on Tuesday the climate and energy bill in the Senate would only add slightly to average household costs, but the finding was not expected to boost chances for the legislation that would cap greenhouse gas emissions.
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15.06.2010
British diplomat says Canada overstating progress in climate change fight
OTTAWA — Environment Minister Jim Prentice found himself upstaged on Tuesday, following a speech about cracking down on pollution from coal-fired power plants, as a foreign diplomat suggested the Canadian minister was overstating the big picture about international progress in fighting climate change.
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15.06.2010
Japan govt says climate bill may come later in year
Japan's cabinet will try to push its climate change bill through the country's upper house later in the year if it runs out of time in the current parliamentary session, a senior government official said.
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14.06.2010
Poor nations dismayed over draft
The Bonn climate talks ended last Friday with developing countries strongly criticising a new draft of a global deal which surprisingly eliminated some of their most important proposals.
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14.06.2010
Mood thaws on climate change
IT WAS never going to be easy for the representatives of 184 countries meeting in Bonn last week to deal with the debris left scattered after the inconclusive result of last December’s UN climate change summit in Copenhagen.
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13.06.2010
Harper pressured to put climate change on G8, G20 agenda
OTTAWA — It was described by Prime Minister Stephen Harper as a “sideshow,” but international leaders are mounting pressure on the Canadian government to include climate change as a major issue on the agenda at upcoming G8 and G20 economic summits in Huntsville, Ont., and Toronto.
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12.06.2010
UN climate talks end with some progress amid rifts on "imbalanced text"
"Imbalance" became the key word on the last day of the UN (the United Nations) climate talks in Bonn, as delegates criticized a new blueprint for a UN legally- binding climate treaty on Friday. However, the split could not cover some progress made during the past 12 days, even it might be just a little.
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09.06.2010
Be optimistic about Cancun, says Mexico
BONN: The concerted attempt over the past few months to lower expectations from the Cancun conference on climate change has not gone down well with
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08.06.2010
Slow progress, global pact not possible in next 10 years: de Boer
Bonn In comments that clearly showed his frustration at the slow pace of negotiations, the UN’s top climate official, Yvo de Boer, on Monday said that at the current rate of progress, a global agreement — adequate to address the challenge posed by climate change — would not be possible even in the next 10 years.
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04.06.2010
India asks UN to take tough stand against protectionism
NEW DELHI: India has demanded that the UN prevent any green protectionism by developed countries and include an explicit statement in the opening charter of any new deal to block carbon-based taxes being imposed on exports from developing countries such as India.
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