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| Chimp champ Goodall crusades against deforestation |
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| The Times Of India , Saturday, June 23, 2012 |
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RIO DE JANEIRO: Even in the veritable tower of Babel that is the United Nations' largest-ever conference, it's safe to assume that Jane Goodall was the only one speaking chimpanzee.
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| Story from Rio — little to smile about |
| TCA Srinivasa Raghavan |
| The Hindu , Friday, June 22, 2012 |
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Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jayanti Natarajan smiles when she says India’s known stand on climate change mitigation has been accepted.
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| Rio+20 summit begins under a cloud of criticism |
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| The Times Of India , Friday, June 22, 2012 |
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RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff welcomed world leaders to a rainy Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday under a cloud of criticism that a three-day summit is falling far short of its promise ...More
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| Climate change, courtesy coal |
| Santanu Sanyal |
| Business Line , Friday, June 22, 2012 |
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Global coal trade is on the rise, with Asia relying increasingly on coal. Environment concerns cannot be wished away.
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| Rio+20 summit begins under a cloud of criticism |
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| The Times Of India , Thursday, June 21, 2012 |
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RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff welcomed world leaders to a rainy Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday under a cloud of criticism that a three-day summit is falling far short of its promise ...More
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| Not just another summit |
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| Business Standard , Thursday, June 21, 2012 |
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There will be some high-profile absentees, but 120 heads of government are still turning up at Rio de Janeiro for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20. Their task is so ...More
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| Lethal ingredients in the Rio+20 mocktail |
| V. Suresh, N.S. Tanvi |
| The Hindu , Wednesday, June 20, 2012 |
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Over 100 world leaders will meet in Rio de Janeiro this week for the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, popularly referred to as Rio+20 Global Earth Summit.
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| Palm oil for India 'destroying Indonesian forests' |
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| The Times Of India , Wednesday, June 20, 2012 |
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JAKARTA: Surging demand for palm oil in India for cooking and everyday grocery items is driving tropical forest destruction in Indonesia, Greenpeace said on Tuesday.
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| India’s demand for equity finds place in Rio+20 draft |
| Nitin Sethi, TNN |
| The Times Of India , Wednesday, June 20, 2012 |
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NEW DELHI: The draft declaration for the Rio+20 summit, with India's demands of reasserting equity and the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDR) finding place in the text was ...More
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| Wrangles, skepticism cast pall over Rio+20 summit |
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| The Times Of India , Wednesday, June 20, 2012 |
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RIO DE JANEIRO: World leaders were to begin arriving in Rio on Tuesday on the eve of a summit intended to forge a pact for a greener planet where billions are lifted out of poverty.
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| Green expectations |
| R.K. Pachauri |
| The Indian Express , Tuesday, June 19, 2012 |
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This week the United Nations is holding the Conference on Sustainable Development, hosted by the government of Brazil. It was 40 years ago that the UN Conference on the Human Environment was held in S ...More
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| Poverty eradication key challenge at Rio summit |
| Nitin Sethi, TNN |
| the times of india , Tuesday, June 19, 2012 |
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NEW DELHI: Should the world commit, even if notionally, to eradicate 'poverty' or only 'extreme poverty'? Or, should countries agree to 'right to food' for their people? Negotiating the final declarat ...More
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| UN talks must save Kyoto or 'collapse': AOSIS |
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| The Economic Times , Monday, June 18, 2012 |
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PARIS: UN talks struggling to forge a response to global warming must salvage the embattled Kyoto Protocol or risk collapse, the head of a 43-nation bloc of island nations said Friday.
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