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21.10.2010
Target numbers take back seat in Nagoya
NAGOYA — The success or failure of U.N. conferences often hinges on whether delegates come to agreement after days or months — in some cases years — of intense haggling over a few numbers.
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21.10.2010
U.N. urged to freeze climate geo-engineering projects
NAGOYA, Japan (Reuters) – The United Nations should impose a moratorium on "geo-engineering" projects such as artificial volcanoes and vast cloud-seeding schemes to fight climate change, green groups say, fearing they could harm nature and mankind.
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21.10.2010
Emerging Economies Face Alarming Situation
Some of the world's largest and fastest-growing economies, including India, are faced with an alarming situation. Their populations, ecosystems and business environments are faced with the greatest risks over the next 30 years, according to a new global ranking, which calculates the vulnerability of 170 countries to the impacts of climate change.
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21.10.2010
Biodiversity summit must tackle destructive impacts of food production
Governments from around the world will arrive in Nagoya, Japan next week for the high-level ministerial segment of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting. Their task is daunting. Even the modest target set in 2002 of reducing the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010 has proved beyond the reach of current strategies. But rather than wringing their hands over the tide of species loss that has swept the planet, delegates should turn their attention to the root cause of the problem: the ways in which we meet our need for food.
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20.10.2010
Ban presses EU for climate leadership
European member states can lead the way in tackling the delicate issues of climate change, the U.N. secretary-general told the European legislature.
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19.10.2010
Mexico stretches funds to cut greenhouse emissions
Hopes are dim for a global agreement to help developing nations cut carbon emissions, so Mexico is relying on an imperfect blend of grants, loans and ingenuity to meet self-imposed limits on greenhouse gases.
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19.10.2010
Climate change treaty must address health issues: WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Tuesday said next month's climate change conference in Mexico must address health concerns in any legally-binding agreement on mitigating the impacts of global warming as it threatens human health.
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19.10.2010
U.N. summit sends S.O.S. on biodiversity
(CNN) -- Delegates from all over the world descended on Nagoya in Japan on Monday for talks considered crucial to sustaining the future of animal, plant and human life on Earth.
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18.10.2010
World needs urgent action to stop species loss: U.N
The world cannot afford to allow nature's riches to disappear, the United Nations said on Monday at the start of a major meeting to combat losses in animal and plant species that underpin livelihoods and economies.
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18.10.2010
Conference tackles loss of biodiversity
Tackling global loss of wildlife is as big a challenge as addressing climate change, conservation experts have warned as an international meeting gets under way aimed at stopping species and habitats vanishing across the world.
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15.10.2010
IPCC accepts report on its functioning
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Thursday said it will implement many of the recommendations made by a world body of scientists to prevent it from repeating blunders such as the Himalayan meltdown. The Panel’s decision to accept and action recommendations of the InterAcademy
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15.10.2010
UN climate panel agrees to reforms, Pachauri stays
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),the UN’s climate change panel, Thursday agreed to push ahead with reforms but chairman Rajendra Pachauri rejected suggestions he should step down.
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15.10.2010
U.N. Climate-Change Panel Chairman to Stay
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will retain Rajendra Pachauri as its chairman, and it will make several procedural changes to try to prevent future mistakes in its widely watched climate-science reports, the group said Thursday.
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