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12.08.2011
Cabinet to consider SA’s COP 17 negotiation stance in October
Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa reports that South Africa’s negotiating position for the seventeenth United Nations (UN) Framework Conven- tion on Climate Change Conference of the Parties, or COP 17, will be submitted for Cabinet approval in October.
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11.08.2011
Climate, natural hazards and change in Southeast Asia
Climate change is projected to bring more extreme weather events to this part of the world: but that is not a new occurrence, as researchers at the Asia Research Centre can show. But their ground-breaking project, which investigates the impacts of climate-related and other natural hazards on the economy, society and history of Southeast Asia since the 10th century, demonstrates how disastrous such events can be for human societies, with important consequences for the debate on climate change policy.
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10.08.2011
Carbon Credit Deals Seeing Controversy
Sberbank has handed out $175 million worth of carbon credits to a company linked with a firm that owes it more than $800 million, prompting investors and observers to raise questions over a potential conflict of interest at the bank.
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09.08.2011
PM's top scientist defends sea-rise data
CLIMATE Commissioner Will Steffen has backed the accuracy of sea-level rise modelling and rejected criticism that climate scientists spend too much time in front of computer screens and not enough in the field.
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08.08.2011
Obama May Seek to Reduce Truck Emissions by 20%, ATA Says
U.S. President Barack Obama’s plan to improve fuel economy for heavy-duty trucks will probably aim to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by about 20 percent by 2018, said Glen Kedzie, vice president at the American Trucking Associations.
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08.08.2011
Climate change ‘worse for SA’
EVEN if global warming was limited to 2° C above pre-industrial levels — the maximum that the scientific consensus suggests can be reached without dangerous climate change — this might not be enough save SA from harm, Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) atmospheric modeller Francois Engelbrecht said on Friday.
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05.08.2011
Vanuatu host of Pacific adaptation to climate change meeting
13 Pacific Island Countries under the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) project meet in Port Vila this week to discuss progress of the regional project which coordinates ‘on the ground’ adaptation activities. Its’ three years since the countries first met to begin the PACC which provides funds and support for national climate change adaptation projects in the different areas of coastal management, food production and security and water resources management.
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05.08.2011
Finland pledges aid for climate change
HCM CITY — The Finnish Embassy in Ha Noi has earmarked 160,600 euros (US$230,000) to help non-governmental organisations based in the south tackle climate-change challenges in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta region.
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04.08.2011
Official says carbon caps real possibility
BEIJING - China is likely to soon begin a campaign to limit the absolute amount of greenhouse gases that can be emitted by certain industries in certain regions, a senior climate official told a forum on Wednesday.
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03.08.2011
EU carbon oversold but could fall further
(Reuters) - The European Union's benchmark carbon price fell to its lowest level in two and a half years on Wednesday and even though the market looks oversold there could be further downside, technical analysis shows.
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02.08.2011
Durban climate talks: The shape of things to come?
Major climate talks in Durban at the end of the year will be unlikely to strike agreement on a new pact, but will be important in determining the shape of long-term efforts to tackle climate change, a senior United Nations climate official said on Tuesday.
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