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05.08.2011
Vanuatu host of Pacific adaptation to climate change meeting
13 Pacific Island Countries under the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) project meet in Port Vila this week to discuss progress of the regional project which coordinates ‘on the ground’ adaptation activities. Its’ three years since the countries first met to begin the PACC which provides funds and support for national climate change adaptation projects in the different areas of coastal management, food production and security and water resources management.
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05.08.2011
Finland pledges aid for climate change
HCM CITY — The Finnish Embassy in Ha Noi has earmarked 160,600 euros (US$230,000) to help non-governmental organisations based in the south tackle climate-change challenges in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta region.
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04.08.2011
Official says carbon caps real possibility
BEIJING - China is likely to soon begin a campaign to limit the absolute amount of greenhouse gases that can be emitted by certain industries in certain regions, a senior climate official told a forum on Wednesday.
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03.08.2011
EU carbon oversold but could fall further
(Reuters) - The European Union's benchmark carbon price fell to its lowest level in two and a half years on Wednesday and even though the market looks oversold there could be further downside, technical analysis shows.
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02.08.2011
Durban climate talks: The shape of things to come?
Major climate talks in Durban at the end of the year will be unlikely to strike agreement on a new pact, but will be important in determining the shape of long-term efforts to tackle climate change, a senior United Nations climate official said on Tuesday.
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01.08.2011
UN calls for dev’t ‘overhaul’ using green technologies
ECONOMIES WORLDWIDE must start using "green" technologies to overhaul production processes in their effort to end poverty while averting the impact of climate change and environmental degradation, said a United Nations (UN) report launched in the Philippines on Monday.
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01.08.2011
Call for Kyoto ‘legal bridge’ in climate talks
THE coming United Nations (UN) climate talks in Durban must deliver a mechanism to work around the Kyoto Protocol, to fill any legal vacuum left if the protocol’s first commitment period expired before a second was in place, Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said on Friday.
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31.07.2011
Has Climate Change Increased Seasonal Allergies?
It may be good news for the makers of Kleenex and Claritin, but it’s bad news for us: a recent study suggests that severe seasonal changes may lead to higher levels of outdoor airborne allergens and increased allergy susceptibility among infants and babies in utero. This is especially true in industrialized nations.
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30.07.2011
Climate change project kicks off
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — The AsianCitiesAdapt, a project that brings together science and policy to address climate change issues in four pre-identified cities each in the Philippines and India, was launched recently in this city.
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30.07.2011
Mexico's Small-Scale Farmers Gain Entry to Global Carbon Markets
When Mexico's Bosque Sustentable AC sold the first voluntary carbon credits from its Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve in 2006, the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) didn't yet exist, and the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA) hadn't yet approved a single forestry project under its CCB Standard.
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28.07.2011
Climate change brings tea and apricots to Britain
(Reuters) - British farmers are experimenting with crops such as olives and nectarines which have traditionally been imported from southern Europe while the first British tea plantation has opened with a changing climate set to transform the nation's countryside.
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27.07.2011
Climate unit releases virtually all remaining data
The University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, target of "ClimateGate", has released nearly all its remaining data on temperature measurements following a freedom of information bid.
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27.07.2011
Most of Keys may be lost to sea by 2100
South Florida can't afford to ignore growing dangers from pollution-fueled climate change, according to new findings from the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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26.07.2011
Climate change talks "fail to deliver real solutions"
Today representatives from 35 countries met in Auckland to discuss action on climate change as part of the continuing United Nations negotiations on the issue. Unfortunately these talks, like the two decades of talks on this issue which proceed them, are not likely to result in real action to prevent climate change, and in fact are promoting dangerous fake climate solutions which today are already harming more people than climate change itself.
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