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| India lodges complaint as climate text favours rich |
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| Times of India , Wednesday, June 03, 2009 |
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NEW DELHI: Taking a privately expressed grouse to the formal level, the Indian climate team on Tuesday officially complained on the first day of the negotiations at Bonn that the negotiating text incl ...More
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| Alarm raised over forest plan to fight climate change |
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| The Economic Times , Wednesday, June 03, 2009 |
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BOGOR, Indonesia: An ambitious plan to fight climate change by making polluters pay to preserve forests has come under a cloud, with some environmentalists calling it unworkable and dangerous.
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| Climate talks move into next phase |
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| The Economic Times , Wednesday, June 03, 2009 |
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BONN, Germany: Negotiators from 181 countries began work on the first draft of a newglobal warming treaty Monday, calling it a good beginning despite complaints it was unbalanced and incomplete.
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| 160 Syrian villages deserted due to climate change |
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| The Economic Times , Wednesday, June 03, 2009 |
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DAMASCUS: Some 160 villages in northern Syria were deserted of their residents in 2007 and 2008 because of climate change, according to a study released on Tuesday.
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| Australian greenhouse emissions rise in 2008 |
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| Times of India , Tuesday, June 02, 2009 |
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CANBERRA: Australia's total greenhouse gas emissions grew by 1.1 percent in 2008 to 553 million tonnes, but the country remained on track to meet its target under the Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change Mi ...More
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| Climate change turning seas acid |
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| The Economic Times , Tuesday, June 02, 2009 |
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BONN, GERMANY: Climate change is turning the oceans more acid in a trend that could endanger everything from clams to coral and be irreversible for thousands of years, national science academies said ...More
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| Climate change turning seas acid |
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| Times of India , Tuesday, June 02, 2009 |
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BONN, GERMANY: Climate change is turning the oceans more acid in a trend that could endanger everything from clams to coral and be irreversible for thousands of years, national science academies said ...More
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| Australian greenhouse emissions rise in 2008 |
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| The Economic Times , Tuesday, June 02, 2009 |
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CANBERRA: Australia's total greenhouse gas emissions grew by 1.1 percent in 2008 to 553 million tonnes, but the country remained on track to meet its target under the Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change Mi ...More
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| Pig slurry fights climatic change |
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| The Asian Ageq , Tuesday, June 02, 2009 |
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June 1: The 2,700 pigs on the farm that John Horrevorts manages yield more than ham and bacon. A biogas plant makes enough electricity from their waste to run the farm and feeds extra wattage into t ...More
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| Coping with climate change |
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| The Hindu , Monday, June 01, 2009 |
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The effects of climate change on health are likely to be significant. Managing the challenge will greatly depend on an effective adaptation mechanism being drawn up at the United Nations climate chang ...More
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| ADB calls for low-carbon transport systems |
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| The Economic Times , Sunday, May 31, 2009 |
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MANILA: The Asian Development Bank Saturday called on its Asian governmentborrowers to design mass transport systems in a way that would slow the rapid growth of their greenhouse gas emissions.
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| Republicans attack Democrats for climate proposal |
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| The Economic Times , Sunday, May 31, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) Republicans on Saturday attacked the climate change proposal crafted by congressional Democrats and endorsed by President Barrack Obama as doing little to reduce global warming while s ...More
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| Republicans attack Democrats for climate proposal |
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| Times of India , Sunday, May 31, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) Republicans on Saturday attacked the climate change proposal crafted by congressional Democrats and endorsed by President Barrack Obama as doing little to reduce global warming while ...More
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| Climate talks to begin grappling with treaty |
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| The Economic Times , Sunday, May 31, 2009 |
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AMSTERDAM: Climate negotiators reconvene this week to work on the text of a newglobal warming treaty, now a draft riddled with conflicting options that demonstrate deep divisions on how to tackle clim ...More
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| US wants to paint world white to save energy |
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| The Deccan Herald , Friday, May 29, 2009 |
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US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said that the Obama administration wanted to paint roofs an energy-reflecting white, as he took part in a climate change symposium in London. The Nobel laureate in physi ...More
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| Help for poor countries at Paris climate talks |
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| Times of India , Friday, May 29, 2009 |
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PARIS: The world's biggest polluters made progress on a global deal to finance efforts to fight global warming and help poor countries cope with it, the French hosts of climate talks said.
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| Carbon pollution to grow by 40%: US |
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| Times of India , Friday, May 29, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON: The amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide seeping into the atmosphere will increase by nearly 40% worldwide by 2030 if ways are not found to require mandatory emission reductions, a US go ...More
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| Climate health costs: bug-borne ills, killer heat |
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| Times of India , Friday, May 29, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON: Tree-munching beetles, malaria-carrying mosquitoes and deer ticks that spread Lyme disease are three living signs that climate change is likely to exact a heavy toll on human health.
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