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30.08.2012
Nations warn of broken promises at U.N. climate talks
Almost 50 of the world's poorest nations said pledges made by rich countries to provide funds to help them adapt to a warmer planet risk being overlooked as U.N. negotiations over a global climate pact to start in 2020 got underway in Bangkok on Thursday.
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29.08.2012
Finance key as U.N. talks on climate deal resume
The U.S., Japan and the EU will come under pressure this week to pledge billions of dollars a year from 2013 to help the world's poorest nations fight climate change, as negotiators from more than 190 countries meet to advance talks on a new global climate pact.
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26.08.2012
Small Island Nations Take Fight Against Climate Change Into Their Own Hands
Small island countries around the world probably face the gravest threat from global warming and climate change. Some of these countries are also among the economically weakest in the world. With little to no diplomatic authority in the world order, these countries regularly seek support from their much advanced neighbors – Australia and New Zealand in the case of Pacific Island countries, and India in the case of Indian Ocean Island countries.
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25.08.2012
U.N. green climate fund, aiding poor, to pick HQ in 2012
Leaders of a fledgling U.N. green fund agreed at a first meeting on Saturday to pick a headquarters this year as part of a plan to oversee billions of dollars in aid to help developing nations fight global warming.
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21.08.2012
Climate change to cause food shortage
Paris. With drought parching farms in the United States and near the Black Sea, weak monsoon rains in India and insidious hunger in Africa's Sahel region, the world could be headed towards another food crisis.Asia should keep a catastrophe at bay with a strong rice harvest while the G20 group of industrialised and emerging economies should try to parry the main threat, soaring food prices.
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20.08.2012
Can natural gas really help tackle global warming? A primer.
This winter, the United States reached a striking milestone. Carbon-dioxide emissions from the energy sector sank to their lowest levels in 20 years. At a glance, the country appears to be making major progress in tackling climate change. And many analysts give credit to the recent flood of cheap natural gas, which is shoving aside coal as America’s top source of electricity.
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20.08.2012
IEA: Subsidies, climate change don't mix
Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies could help the international community meet goals of curbing climate change, an international energy leader said from Canada.
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20.08.2012
U.N. fund could ease route to 2015 global climate deal
Aug 20 (Reuters Point Carbon) - Board members of the U.N's Green Climate Fund (GCF) must rise above politics when they meet for the first time later this week to help channel $100 billion a year towards the world's poorest nations to fight the catastrophic effects of rising temperatures, and to act as a springboard to a global climate deal in 2015.
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18.08.2012
Elevating a vital partnership
Economic and cultural exchanges and political trust can help narrow China-Europe differences and expand cooperation
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17.08.2012
Rare wildfires threaten Canadian polar bear habitat
Wildfires sparked by lightning near Canada's Hudson Bay are threatening the habitat of polar bears, encroaching on the old tree roots and frozen soil where females make their dens, a conservation expert on the big, white bears said on Thursday.
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17.08.2012
Climate change driving Australian fish south
Australian scientists said Friday there was now "striking evidence" of extensive southward migration of tropical fish and declines in other species due to climate change, in a major ocean report card.
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