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29.06.2012
West's Wildfires A Preview Of Changed Climate: Scientists
Scorching heat, high winds and bone-dry conditions are fueling catastrophic wildfires in the U.S. West that offer a preview of the kind of disasters that human-caused climate change could bring, a trio of scientists said on Thursday.
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27.06.2012
Polish businesses launch offensive against EU climate policy
The Polish Chamber of Commerce (PCC) threw its weight behind Warsaw’s campaign against the EU’s decarbonisation goals for 2050 yesterday (26 June), launching a study which claims that Polish jobs, growth, inflation and the environment are under threat.
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27.06.2012
D.C. appeals court upholds EPA regulations to fight global warming
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s finding that greenhouse gases contribute to global warming and are a threat to public health, a major victory for the Obama administration and a setback to states and trade groups that oppose government regulations on carbon emissions.
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26.06.2012
What the Failure of Rio+20 Means for the Climate
Expectations were extremely modest for the Rio+20 Earth Summit that ended last week-and the best thing that might be said about the conference is that it managed to clear that very low bar. Despite the presence of more than 50,000 people and about 100 heads of state and government-though not, notably, U.S. President Barack Obama-the summit produced very little of note.
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25.06.2012
My Ghanaian grandfather would agree that Rio+20 may yet be a turning point
The storm clouds above the Riocentro conference centre as the Amazonian winter came in were seen by some as an ill omen. The emerging outcomes of the Rio+20 Earth summit have been long on rhetoric and short on specifics, and with a marked lack of firm commitments from the political leaders present. Aggrieved nature biting back?
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25.06.2012
A New Satellite Tool Tracks Deforestation
An international team of researchers presented a new tool at the Rio+20 sustainability conference last week: the first satellite system for monitoring deforestation across Latin America in nearly real time. While such programs have existed in Brazil for several years, the program, called Terra-i, fills a much-needed gap for some smaller Latin countries that are losing forests at an equal or higher rate.
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24.06.2012
It's Happening, but Not in Rio
For the past two weeks, representatives from around the world met here for Rio+20, the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, to define a global plan of action that would take humanity toward a cleaner, greener future.
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22.06.2012
Rio 'reflects efforts of developing nations'
An action plan that reaffirms "the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities", expected to be adopted by heads of state at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development on Friday, reflects the efforts of developing countries, experts said.
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21.06.2012
Rio+20 Pushes on with Weak Text, Mixed Predictions
Delegates from around the world are meeting in Rio de Janeiro to discuss how to make the planet more sustainable, despite a rapidly growing population. The reprise of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit dubbed “Rio+20” has so far drawn mixed reactions: some call it an “opportunity”; others say it is another step on a long, complicated road to realizing a more sustainable society.
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20.06.2012
Rio summit to make fresh bid to tackle environment woes
A crucial summit on global development kicks off here on Wednesday with nearly 20 heads of state and government, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in attendance in a fresh bid to rally the world behind a common environmental blueprint amid economic woes and discord.
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19.06.2012
Uncertain future for international forest scheme
TO INDUSTRIAL NATIONS scrabbling desperately for ways to reduce their carbon debt, the idea was instantly appealing: invest in developing-world projects that either prevent a forest from being cleared, or replant an area that has been cleared, thus reducing global carbon emissions, and earn carbon credits in the process.
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18.06.2012
(Climate) Change Is In the Air
Sustainable development and reducing vulnerability to climate change are not two sides of the same coin, but complementary
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