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31.08.2011 Ban to stress on climate change during four-nation visit
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will embark on a four-nation visit to Australia, New Zealand, Solomon Islands and Kiribati at the end of this week during which the issue of climate change will be a key focus.
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30.08.2011 Kyoto team suspends Romania from carbon market
The Kyoto Protocol committee has blocked Romania from selling carbon credits over concerns about irregularities in the country's carbon emissions data, Romania's environment ministry said Sunday.
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30.08.2011 "Kyoto Protocol is not dead": UN official
An official from the United Nations said here Tuesday that it is extremely important for the Kyoto Protocol to continue.
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29.08.2011 Climate will make us depressed and anxious
If we don't start tackling climate change, Australians will be increasingly depressed, anxious or stressed.... and more prone to substance abuse, a new report says.
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25.08.2011 European HF-23 super greenhouse gas emissions show flaws in emission offset procedures
A study by the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, EMPA, shows that European chemical manufacturers are venting HFC-23, which has a global warming potential of 14,800 times that of CO2, into our atmosphere.
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24.08.2011 'Happy' Bhutan alarmed by Himalayan climate change
Bhutan's prime minister has issued a dire warning about the impact of Himalayan climate change, saying it could wreck the tiny kingdom's ambitious plans to be a world leader in hydropower.
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24.08.2011 Climate change could cost forestry jobs
The Federal Government's commodity adviser says jobs in commercial forestry regions could be lost due to a changing climate.
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23.08.2011 An island's climate response
AN island in the Lau Group has started taking steps to strengthen its resilience to the impacts of climate change.
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22.08.2011 World Leaders Praise Libyan Rebel Advances
World leaders are applauding the rebel advance into Libya's capital, Tripoli, as a step toward ending violence in the country and beginning a democratic future.
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22.08.2011 EU may propose plan to extend Kyoto:sources: report
LONDON - The EU could yet table a proposal that would throw the beleaguered Kyoto Protocol a lifeline and secure the future of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) beyond 2012, government negotiators and observers have told Point Carbon News.
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21.08.2011 Water crisis, population surge prompt rethink on food: UN
STOCKHOLM — Population growth and water stress are driving Earth to a food and environmental crunch that only better farming techniques and smarter use of the ecosystem will avert, a UN report issued on Monday said.
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21.08.2011 Reaching new climate change deal in Durban
A global deal must be the aim of a future climate change pact said British Ambassador Martin Uden.
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19.08.2011 Wildlife Responds Fast To Climate Change: Study
Plants and animals are responding up to three times faster to climate change than previously estimated, as wildlife shifts to cooler altitudes and latitudes, researchers said on Thursday.
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19.08.2011 New Zealand spot CO2 prices rise after recent plunge
New Zealand carbon prices rose steadily over the previous week, tracking a rebound in international carbon markets, although trading volume was light.
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18.08.2011 Ki-moon Prioritises Sustainable Devt, Poverty Reduction
The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, has revealed that sustainable development will remain his top priority during his second term as the head of the global body
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18.08.2011 EU backing Jordanian energy plans
The European government said $102 million in financial assistance to Jordan will help support the country's renewable energy objectives.
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16.08.2011 "Climate Change Is Affecting Traditional Knowledge"
The traditional knowledge of nature developed since ancestral times by Colombia’s indigenous peoples is increasingly challenged by the unnatural effects of climate change, a phenomenon that is deeply troubling to the keepers of this knowledge, says biologist Brigitte Baptiste.
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16.08.2011 Climate Change Funds must be spent Responsibly: TSI
Transparency Solomon Islands (TSI) encourages the governments to spend money that is allocated for climate change initiatives responsibly.
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16.08.2011 Business needs stronger voice in global climate negotiations − De Boer
KPMG’s global climate change and sustainability advisor Yvo de Boer said on Tuesday that there should be more interaction between governments and the private sector on the international climate change negotiations, as decisions at this forum impacted on business.
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15.08.2011 On endless ice, searching for clues to our future
ON JAKOBSHAVN GLACIER, Greenland—The pilot eased his five-ton helicopter toward the glacier's rumpled surface, aiming for the lightest of setdowns atop one of the fastest-flowing ice streams on Earth.
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