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20.06.2011
EU sets out conditions for Kyoto extension
The EU has set out its terms for signing up to a second commitment period for the Kyoto protocol, insisting that any extension of the protocol must be part of an agreement that binds all major emitters.
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20.06.2011
EU ties Kyoto extension to greater efforts all-round
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Union has said major polluters must make greater progress in curbing carbon emissions before the 27-member bloc signs up to a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol.
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19.06.2011
ANALYSIS-Hopes fading for climate agreement
BONN, Germany, June 19 (Reuters) - "Ask for a camel when you expect to get a goat," runs a Somali saying that sums up the fading of ambitions for United Nations talks on slowing climate change -- aim high, but settle for far less.
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14.06.2011
Climate Regulatory Gap Could Result After 2012 Kyoto Expiration
BONN, Jun 14, 2011 (IPS) - The growing awareness that the ongoing U.N. climate change talks here won’t deliver a treaty to extend the international governance regime on reducing greenhouse gas emissions after 2012, is driving environmental experts to foster alternative solutions to global warming.
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07.06.2011
U.N. wants climate action not words
BONN, Germany, June 7 (UPI) -- It's high time world leaders mobilize their efforts to keep challenges brought on by climate change in check, a U.N. official said from Germany.
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19.05.2011
Europe's steelmakers challenge EU's green strategy
Europe's steelmakers launched their most vocal challenge yet to the region's green growth strategy on Thursday, saying the added cost of curbing emissions would hand the advantage to overseas rivals.
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18.05.2011
EU says $7 billion CO2 sale to be slightly delayed
(Reuters) - The European Union has delayed by one month a vote that would allow the European Investment Bank (EIB) to raise about five billion euros ($7.1 billion) to support innovative low-carbon technologies.
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18.05.2011
Anglican Communion News Service - Digest News
The eyes of the world will be on South Africa from Sunday 27 November to Friday 9 December this year. Negotiators and political leaders from around the world will gather in Durban at the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17). With provincial and diocesan programmes around the Communion, particularly in the southern hemisphere, increasingly having to integrate a response to the impacts of climate change within local mission, it is hoped that governments will make firm and urgent commitments to decrease national carbon emissions.
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17.05.2011
Ensure adequate green funds
The industrialised nations should provide adequate fund for adaptation and easy access of green technology at an affordable price to vulnerable economies, urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday at Geneva.
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17.05.2011
Australia to Set Expected Carbon Tax Price by July
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A planned tax on carbon gas emitting industries in Australia would be far below a recommended price that might have forced polluters to switch to greener technology, the government said Tuesday.
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16.05.2011
Kenyan firms to tap new IFC carbon fund
Kenyan companies investing in carbon trading projects are set to benefit from a new fund set up by IFC to cover a financing gap arising from the European Union’s decision to stop buying carbon credits from developing countries beginning next year.
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