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26.07.2011
Fighting Climate Change by Not Focusing on Climate Change
Climate change advocates haven't had much to celebrate recently, but New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's announcement last week that he was giving $50 million to the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign marked a real win. The Sierra Club — the nation's largest environmental group — has successfully stopped more than 150 proposed coal plants from being built over the past decade through the campaign. Bloomberg's money — and perhaps more importantly, the imprimatur of one of the richest and most influential people in the country — will enable the Sierra Club to bring its war on coal to a new level, preventing untold millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions from warming the planet.
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25.07.2011
Carbon capture and utilisation could make economic sense
Passing carbon dioxide through slag left over from steel-making turns the waste product into a strong material that can be used for construction. Pumped into greenhouses, it provides a growing boost for crops. Put into tanks of algae, it can be used to make biofuels. Waste carbon dioxide can even be cleaned up to "food grade" and injected into fizzy drinks.
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20.07.2011
Nigeria’s Climate Change Commission still a mirage
The build up to the seventeenth conference of parties (COP17) to the United Nations framework Convention for climate change scheduled to hold in Durban, South Africa from Nov28-December 9 may have reached an appreciable level for many participating countries.
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19.07.2011
Opposition denies shift on 2020 emissions target
ELEANOR HALL: The Prime Minister today went on the attack against Tony Abbott over climate change, accusing him of walking away from a bipartisan commitment on addressing global warming, and aligning himself with climate sceptics.
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18.07.2011
New climate in Australia
Better late than never. Australia, the world’s biggest per capita polluter, and yet a hesitant signatory to the Kyoto protocol on climate change, has now mooted a domestic carbon pricing regime that can put the country on the track to clean development. Its top 500 environment-polluting industries will have to pay a carbon tax from July next year which, three years later, will be replaced by a market-based emission trading system on the lines of the European Union’s internal emission trading scheme.
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13.07.2011
Economists Find Flaws in Federal Estimate of Climate Damage
Uncle Sam's estimate of the damage caused by each ton of carbon dioxide is fundamentally flawed and "grossly understates" the potential impacts of climate change, according to an analysis released July 12 by a group of economists.
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06.07.2011
Climate change will increase threat of war, Chris Huhne to warn
Climate change will lead to an increased threat of wars, violence and military action against the UK, and risks reversing the progress of civilisation, the energy and climate secretary Chris Huhne will say on Thursday, in his strongest warning yet that the lack of progress on greenhouse gas emission cuts would damage the UK's national interests.
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04.07.2011
SA aiming to raise $100bn for climate change
SA is hoping that a second round of climate change talks being held in Germany ahead of a UN summit in SA will convince developed countries to raise $100bn in finance by 2020 for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
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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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