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18.10.2010
Conference tackles loss of biodiversity
Tackling global loss of wildlife is as big a challenge as addressing climate change, conservation experts have warned as an international meeting gets under way aimed at stopping species and habitats vanishing across the world.
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15.10.2010
IPCC accepts report on its functioning
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Thursday said it will implement many of the recommendations made by a world body of scientists to prevent it from repeating blunders such as the Himalayan meltdown. The Panel’s decision to accept and action recommendations of the InterAcademy
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15.10.2010
UN climate panel agrees to reforms, Pachauri stays
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),the UN’s climate change panel, Thursday agreed to push ahead with reforms but chairman Rajendra Pachauri rejected suggestions he should step down.
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15.10.2010
U.N. Climate-Change Panel Chairman to Stay
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will retain Rajendra Pachauri as its chairman, and it will make several procedural changes to try to prevent future mistakes in its widely watched climate-science reports, the group said Thursday.
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14.10.2010
U.N. panel says tackling CO2 offset issuance backlog
(Reuters) - A United Nations panel said on Thursday it is tackling a backlog of carbon offset issuances and hopes to clear it by the time of U.N. climate talks in Mexico's Cancun at the end of November.
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14.10.2010
EU set to overshoot its Kyoto emission targets
A large fall in greenhouse gas emissions brought about by a reduction of industrial activity led by the economic crisis has put the EU on a fast track to meet its Kyoto commitments, but Austria, Denmark and Italy are falling behind, according to new figures.
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13.10.2010
EU to surpass Kyoto emissions target:agency
COPENHAGEN (AFP) - A fall in greenhouse gas emissions in 2008 and 2009 is set to help the EU meet and even surpass the emissions cut targets set under the Kyoto Protocol, the European Environmental Agency (EEA) said.
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13.10.2010
Rich must make clearer climate cuts: U.N.
Rich nations must spell out their plans for cutting greenhouse gases more clearly to enable U.N. talks in Mexico to agree the cornerstone of a pact to slow global warming, the U.N.'s climate chief said.
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13.10.2010
EU meeting emissions target
The European Union is ahead of schedule on meeting its pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions under the terms of the Kyoto Protocol, a commissioner said.
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13.10.2010
More carbon credit projects planned
EDF Trading, one of the world's top three carbon credit buyers, is considering up to six more projects in Thailand for next year in addition to 10 projects in which it already signed contractual purchasing agreements.
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13.10.2010
EPA: Hope for progress with China despite friction
SHANGHAI -- China and the U.S. are working together on cutting carbon emissions despite the deadlock over a broader global agreement on fighting climate change, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Administration said Wednesday.
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12.10.2010
Time short for climate deal: ex-U.N. envoy
(Reuters) - A former U.N. special envoy on climate change said he doesn't expect any major progress by key nations to draw up a new climate pact at a meeting next month in Mexico because opinions are still too divided.
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12.10.2010
Little clarity ahead of climate meet at Cancun
With less than two months to go for the year-ending annual climate change conference — this time to be held in the Mexican beach resort of Cancun in November-December — there is little clarity on what the meeting should realistically aim to achieve.
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12.10.2010
BASIC ask developed nations to fulfil $30-billion obligation
Urging the developed countries to fulfil the obligation of providing the developing nations with $30 billion, the BASIC group of countries, formed by Brazil, South Africa, India and China, today said this fast-start financing should be made available as soon as possible in a transparent manner.
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11.10.2010
Tianjin climate talks pave way for Cancun
The six-day United Nations climate change meeting has ended in Tianjin, with rich and poor countries still divided over responsibilities for emission targets, despite some partial progress.
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