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11.09.2012
Greg Barker: COP18 climate talks can boost Saudi green ambitions
UK energy and climate change minister Greg Barker has argued that the UN climate talks in Qatar later this year offer a unique opportunity to encourage the major oil and gas producing states to recognise the benefits of signing up to a low carbon agenda.
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11.09.2012
UN climate talks should stick with 2 degree goal-EU negotiator
United Nations' climate talks should continue pushing for more ambitious action to ensure global warming is kept under 2 degrees, an EU climate negotiator said on Tuesday, a month after the United States was accused of backtracking on the goal.
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10.09.2012
Hands-on training workshop for Africa Region opens
Dr Mustapha Ahmed, Deputy Minister for Environment, Science and Technology, on Monday said the negative impacts of climate change posed serious threats to key sensitive productive sectors of the economies of developing countries.
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10.09.2012
Climate Scientists Face Organized Harassment in U.S.
InsideClimateNews.org -- The harassment faced by U.S.-based climate scientists has been well documented in the media—but not the harassment of scientists in Europe, Canada or the rest of the world.
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07.09.2012
African farmers must do more to beat climate change -study
African farmers are finding new ways to cope with droughts, erosion and other ravages of climate change but need to develop even more techniques to thrive in an increasingly uncertain environment, scientists said on Friday.
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06.09.2012
UN climate change talks in Bangkok, Thailand
Focus shifts to Doha as Bangkok concludes climate change talks - The latest round of the UN climate change talks ended Wednesday in Bangkok, Thailand, with some progress made but still with mixed feelings as to whether governments are showing the ambition and will needed to solve the climate crisis. “The reason why the climate crisis is unfolding so dramatically is because governments have let a massive gap grow between what climate science says needs to be done and what they are actually doing to reduce emissions,” Greenpeace International charges.
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05.09.2012
Bangkok climate talks prep the ground for Doha
International climate change talks in Thailand have ended today with the head of the UN climate change secretariat insisting they have "prepared fertile ground" for the next major summit in Qatar.
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03.09.2012
China, Maldives to Work on Climate Change
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met with President of the Maldives Mohammed Waheed Hassan on Sunday and pledged to boost cooperation on climate change between the two nations.
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03.09.2012
Transparency needed in climate funds
A senior conservation expert has called on the government to be transparent with the flow of funding channeled toward programs tackling climate change.
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30.08.2012
Storms, drought overshadow new UN climate talks
World climate change negotiators faced warnings Thursday that a string of extreme weather events around the globe show urgent action on emission cuts is needed as they opened new talks in Bangkok.
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30.08.2012
COMMENT: Can one man alone drive the green revolution?
Tom Youngman, a young climate activist from South West England, reflects on his meeting with Dale Vince, the CEO of Ecotricity, the world’s first green electricity company and now the UK’s leading dedicated green energy supplier.
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