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18.01.2011
Climate fight 'can boost recovery'
Addressing climate change could contribute to the recovery of the global economy, said Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.
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17.01.2011
Expiry of Kyoto fails to inspire urgency in climate talks
Government representatives from around the world convened in Cancun, Mexico late last year for the UN climate change negotiations in an effort to reach agreement on a successor regime to the Kyoto protocol, which expires next year.
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17.01.2011
Heated debate for Durban
The Seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP 17) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will be held in Durban in December.
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14.01.2011
World leaders to attend energy summit in Abu Dhabi
ABU DHABI— World leaders including heads of state and government, along with United Nation’s Secretary General and other officials are assembling in Abu Dhabi to discuss renewable energy issues, at the Four day the World Future Energy Summit or WFES-2011, Abu Dhabi’s flagship annual show.
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14.01.2011
Japan Undeterred From Buying Ukraine Carbon Permits
Japan has no objection to buying more carbon emissions rights from Ukraine as its checks have shown that money Tokyo previously paid for permits has been properly accounted for, a government official said Thursday.
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13.01.2011
Emissions blamed as 2010 ties for warmest
Last year tied for the warmest globally since data keeping began, capping a decade of record high temperatures that show mankind's greenhouse gases emissions are heating the planet, a US agency said.
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12.01.2011
Moon hails UAE’s efforts to tap sun power
ABU DHABI: Ban Ki-Moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, announced his participation at the fourth annual World Future Energy Summit (WFES) in Abu Dhabi from Jan.17-20. The event is hosted by Masdar.
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12.01.2011
Ban Ki-moon expected at Abu Dhabi green summit
The UN's top diplomat is arriving in Abu Dhabi next week.Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, will be among the high-profile delegates set to gather at the World Future Energy Summit.
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11.01.2011
Guyana calls for meaningful collective action to combat climate change
Translating negotiating positions into meaningful collective action is long overdue in efforts to combat climate change. That's what Guyana's President BharratJagdeo told the 16th conference of the parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. He said this can only happen if political leaders make the necessary decisions and stand by them.
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10.01.2011
Why the CIA is spying on a changing climate
WASHINGTON — Last summer, as torrential rains flooded Pakistan, a veteran intelligence analyst watched closely from his desk at CIA headquarters just outside the capital.
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10.01.2011
Climate change prompts debate among experts about spread of tropical diseases
The room where 10,000 Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes hatch each week is hot and humid and smells like the tropics - an appropriate surrogate for a warming world. The Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute in Baltimore, where the insects are raised, was created with a billionaire's anonymous donation a decade ago, after a map printed in Scientific American suggested that by 2020 malaria could be breaking out in Baltimore, and across the eastern United States and Europe.
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09.01.2011
Warming to devastate glaciers, Antarctic icesheet - studies
PARIS — Global warming may wipe out three-quarters of Europe's alpine glaciers by 2100 and hike sea levels by four metres (13 feet) by the year 3000 through melting the West Antarctic icesheet, two studies published on Sunday said.
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