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08.12.2009
Climate: 'Moving Toward Modest Cooperation'
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 8 (IPS) - Vested interests in fossil fuels have blocked major steps against global warming so far, according to José Goldemberg, who has played a leading role at key times in the climate crisis facing humanity.
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08.12.2009
Climate change already driving migration: IOM
GENEVA (AFP) – Climate change is already forcing people to migrate, with most moving within their countries or to a neighbouring country, a report by the International Organization for Migration said Tuesday.
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07.12.2009
Leaders from 192 nations meet for climate summit
COPENHAGEN (AP) — The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened Monday, with diplomats from 192 nations warned that this could be the best, last chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming.
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06.12.2009
Copenhagen Talks Tough on Climate Protest Plans
COPENHAGEN — At an abandoned beer warehouse in this city’s Valby district, law enforcement officials have constructed an elaborate holding facility with three dozen steel cages to accommodate more than 350 potential troublemakers during a United Nations climate conference that gets under way here on Monday.
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06.12.2009
Beyond Copenhagen
Nobody should expect a planet-saving agreement from the negotiations that begin this week in Copenhagen aimed at reducing global emissions of greenhouse gases. But the talks were in real danger of blowing up not long ago. Now there is a good chance for at least an interim deal, mainly because the United States and China, the world’s two biggest emitters, have promised to reduce or slow their emissions and their two leaders have agreed to attend.
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03.12.2009
The White House Convenes Young Green Leaders
WASHINGTON — As the Senate wades back into the climate debate, the White House is enlisting some of the young voters who helped usher President Obama into office to galvanize support for the climate and energy bill.
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02.12.2009
UN: US, China climate offers 'can still evolve'
GENEVA — The U.N.'s environment chief said Tuesday he is optimistic that the climate change talks beginning in Copenhagen next week will reach a deal setting firm targets to cut carbon emissions.
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02.12.2009
UN expects final climate change treaty by June
With less than a week until the United Nations climate talks, the United Nations' chief negotiator has denied suggestions the Copenhagen meeting will be a 'failure'. Instead, he is confident the conference will deliver an agreement, with ambitious targets from rich nations, and commitments to cut emissions growth by the developing world.
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02.12.2009
Moves by U.S., China induce India to do its bit on climate
NEW DELHI -- Recent announcements by the United States and China to cut carbon dioxide emissions are propelling India to make its own commitment to slow greenhouse gas emissions and go to the upcoming Copenhagen climate summit with a firm proposal on reductions.
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02.12.2009
Global warming threatens food supply: Vietnam
HANOI (AFP) – Vietnam, the world's second-biggest rice exporter, said Wednesday it needs help to safeguard the world's food supply from the consequences of global warming.
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02.12.2009
Global warming threatens China harvests: forecaster
Droughts and floods stoked by global warming threaten to destabilize China's grain production, the nation's top meteorologist has warned, urging bigger grain reserves and strict protection of farmland and water supplies. Skip related content
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02.12.2009
Global warming measures will cost ‘twice as much as predicted’
Preventing runaway global warming may be twice as expensive as previously thought and Britain will have to incur billions of pounds of additional debt to cover its share of the cost, according to the world’s most influential climate change economist.
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02.12.2009
Climate Change Impact on Nepal
The Earth’s climate is unique as it supports life due to the availability of oxygen in atmosphere, water on its surface and the occurrence of reasonable range of surface temperature due to the presence of naturally occurring green house gases (water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide). Climate thus, has been playing central role in human societies since long. However, humanity today is playing a dice with its natural environment through multitude of interaction- injecting trace atmospheric gases like the green house gases, engineering massive land use change, depleting species in the natural habitat and accumulating stockpiles of nuclear equipment sufficient to destroy human civilization.
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02.12.2009
Australia's Parliament defeats global warming bill
SYDNEY – Australia's plans for an emissions trading system to combat global warming were scuttled Wednesday in Parliament, handing a defeat to a government that had hoped to set an example at international climate change talks next week.
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01.12.2009
S.Korea in dilemma over gas emissions cut: minister
SEOUL (AFP) – South Korea is caught in a dilemma between its promise to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions and mounting concerns that the move will only benefit business rival China, a minister said Tuesday.
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01.12.2009
Mexico to pledge halving emissions by 2050
MEXICO CITY (AFP) – During crunch talks in Copenhagen next week, Mexico will propose to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2050 so long as it receives international aid, officials said Tuesday.
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01.12.2009
India rejects Danish climate proposal
NEW DELHI (AFP) – India Tuesday rejected a Danish draft proposal on climate change which seeks to cap emissions, widening the gulf between rich and poor nations ahead of next week's Copenhagen talks.
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30.11.2009
China must show climate change leadership, EU says
NANJING, China (AFP) – The European Union said Monday that cataclysmic climate change cannot be averted without Chinese leadership but Beijing stood firm in pushing for the rich world to take the lead.
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