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| Get ready for worse climate change impacts: Expert |
| IANS |
| Times of India , Sunday, December 14, 2008 |
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POZNAN (POLAND): An extra billion people will face water shortage, cereal production in developing countries will drop and coastal regions will face more damage from floods and storms because of delay ...More
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| Frustration at climate change summit |
| Priscilla Jebaraj |
| The Hindu , Saturday, December 13, 2008 |
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POZNAN (POLAND): As the U.N. climate talks wound down here on Friday evening, developing countries are celebrating the small success of operationalising an Adaptation Fund, even while expressing frust ...More
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| Indian against altering UN convention on climate change |
| Akshaya Mukul, TNN |
| Times of India , Saturday, December 13, 2008 |
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POZNAN: India does not want to let the global community alter or reinterpret the UN convention on climate change at the cost of distracting attention from the earlier consensus. This was conveyed by t ...More
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| Fight against global warming goes miniature! |
| IANS |
| Times of India , Friday, December 12, 2008 |
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TORONTO: A small space-borne pollution monitor launched by a Canadian university in April has started beaming back data to earth.
A complete analysis of the data from this wonder device will take ...More
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| Mexico vows to cut carbon pollution 50% by 2050 |
| AFP |
| Times of India , Friday, December 12, 2008 |
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POZNAN, Poland: Mexico said that it would slash its carbon pollution by 50% before 2050, joining Brazil among large developing economies to pledge large reductions in greenhouse gases.
Mexico will ...More
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| California moves on global warming |
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| Times of India , Friday, December 12, 2008 |
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SAN FRANCISCO: California, the leading US state on climate change, set detailed goals on Thursday to cut greenhouse gases and address global warming but faced criticism the plan's economic assumptions ...More
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| California considers tough greenhouse restrictions |
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| Times of India , Friday, December 12, 2008 |
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SACRAMENTO, California: California air regulators meet Thursday to consider the most sweeping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, one that will transform how people travel, u ...More
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| 2008 one of worst years for disaster losses |
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| Times of India , Friday, December 12, 2008 |
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POZNAN, Poland: Weather-related disasters and earthquakes are likely to make 2008 the second most costly year for insurers after 2005, when Hurricane Katrina struck the United States, a leading insure ...More
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| We need a green new deal: UN chief |
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| Times of India , Friday, December 12, 2008 |
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POZNAN, Poland: The world must avoid backsliding in fighting global warming and work out a "Green New Deal" to fix its twin climate and economic crises, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursd ...More
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| Britain pledges $149.3m to reduce deforestation |
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| Times of India , Friday, December 12, 2008 |
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POZNAN, Poland: Britain's energy and climate change minister Ed Miliband will say on Friday that the government will give $149.3 million to help reduce the impacts of deforestation.
The funding wi ...More
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| UN talks split on aid to help poor cope with warming |
| REUTERS |
| Times of India , Friday, December 12, 2008 |
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POZNAN, Poland: UN climate negotiators tried on Wednesday to break the deadlock over controlling planned payouts from a new fund to help poor nations adapt to floods, droughts and rising seas.
The ...More
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| Soon, we won't be able to adapt to climate: Pachauri |
| IANS |
| Times of India , Friday, December 12, 2008 |
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POZNAN (Poland): Very soon, the impacts of climate change will exceed our capacities to adapt to them, Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has warned ...More
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| Industries should make green policies: GPCB |
| TNN |
| Times of India , Thursday, December 11, 2008 |
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AHMEDABAD: Environment damaged due to global warming can be restored only if industrial units divert part of their profits for conservation.
This was the plea made by Sanjiv Tyagi, member secretar ...More
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| Global warming: Sweden cleanest, S Arabia dirtiest |
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| Times of India , Thursday, December 11, 2008 |
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POZNAN, Poland: Sweden does the most of any country for tackling emissions of greenhouse gases, while Saudi Arabia does the least, according to a barometer published on Wednesday by watchdogs at the U ...More
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| Climate envoys battle over forests, emissions |
| AP |
| Times of India , Wednesday, December 10, 2008 |
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POZNAN, Poland: Negotiators at a UN climate conference worked Monday to resolve differences over a deal to protect the world's forests and pressed industrial countries to drastically reduce their carb ...More
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| Eat camels to protect environment, Aussies told |
| AFP |
| Times of India , Wednesday, December 10, 2008 |
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SYDNEY: Australians were urged Tuesday to eat camels to stop them wreaking environmental havoc, just months after being told to save the world from climate change by consuming kangaroos.
A three-y ...More
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| Ecoflation, a new worry, could hit consumer goods |
| REUTERS |
| Times of India , Wednesday, December 10, 2008 |
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WASHINGTON: Add another economic worry to inflation and deflation: ecoflation, the rising cost of doing business in a world with a changing climate.
Ecoflation could hit consumer goods hard in the ...More
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