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30.11.2011
African Delegates Demand Immediate Action at Climate Conference
A Nobel Prize-winning panel of scientists has said Africa is the continent facing the greatest risks from the effects of global warming. African delegates are demanding immediate action from all parties at the U.N. climate conference in Durban, South Africa to avert further environmental destruction.
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30.11.2011
Fate of Kyoto Protocol in spotlight at talks
The global climate change talks in Durban got off to a rocky start, with developed and developing countries holding diverging positions, indicating tough negotiations ahead.
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29.11.2011
Storm gives delegates a wake-up call
Durban’s unseasonal weather, coupled with Sunday’s thunderstorm that claimed the lives of eight people, cast an ominous shadow over delegates at the climate change talks in Durban.
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28.11.2011
Success of COP17 in the balance
About 20 000 delegates have begun descending on Durban for the COP17 international climate change conference which starts on Monday. But its success remains uncertain. Even the adoption of a Green Climate Fund – the minimum achievement expected – has now been cast into doubt.
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28.11.2011
Future of Kyoto Protocol on the line
Countries will make a last ditch effort to save a dying Kyoto Protocol at global climate talks starting today aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas emissions blamed by scientists for rising sea levels, intense storms and crop failures.
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28.11.2011
Durban ahead, why climategate is a catastrophe for good science
With the UN conference on climate change set to open in Durban next week, 5,000 emails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, have been uploaded to a Russian server. They seem to show climate scientists acting with a partiality that is alien to the scientific method. One of them worries that climate change “is being manipulated to put a political spin on it”. Another notes, regarding a planned study of tornadoes, that “getting people we know and trust is vital”.
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27.11.2011
UN conference to deal with carbon reductions
DURBAN, South Africa (AP) — The U.N.'s top climate official said Sunday she expects governments to make a long-delayed decision on whether industrial countries should make further commitments to reduce emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases.
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27.11.2011
High hopes ahead of COP17 talks
With only a day to go before Durban hosts the United Nations 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17), conference secretary Christiana Figueres is “hopeful’’ the “tough’’ climate change negotiations will deliver solid agreements on limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
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27.11.2011
Figueres: Alarm bells are ringing now
Durban - New research and findings are “sounding alarm bells” for urgent action to halt global warming, the United Nations’ top official on climate change, Christiana Figueres, told journalists on Sunday.
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27.11.2011
A Pledge That Didn't Meet Its Potential
BRUSSELS — A pledge that could be worth $100 billion each year to developing countries was one of the few concrete outcomes of a United Nations climate summit meeting two years ago in Copenhagen that was otherwise seen as a fiasco.
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21.11.2011
On COP17 Climate Change Conference, Brazil Keeping The Faith
According to a poll by The Economist taken during last week’s virtual Global Energy Conference, just 15% of respondents think that any substantial deals on climate change will be reached at next week’s COP-17 in Durban, South Africa. Brazil, on the other hand, is keeping the faith.
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21.11.2011
On COP17 Climate Change Conference, Brazil Keeping The Faith
According to a poll by The Economist taken during last week’s virtual Global Energy Conference, just 15% of respondents think that any substantial deals on climate change will be reached at next week’s COP-17 in Durban, South Africa. Brazil, on the other hand, is keeping the faith.
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