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08.02.2013
BBC exaggerated climate change in David Attenborough's Africa
The BBC's natural history unit in Bristol is, rightly, respected across the world. No one else can match the professionalism, vision and majesty of its epic, beguiling programmes about the planet's wildlife. For anyone looking for a reason to justify the BBC licence fee, look no further that the unit's output.
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07.02.2013
US falling short on Obama’s climate targets
As environmentalists praise the President’s latest cabinet pick, World Resources Institute warns more ambitious policies are needed to cut emissions 17 per cent by 2020
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05.02.2013
Climate change could devastate agriculture
Climate change could have a drastic and harmful effect on U.S. agriculture, forcing farmers and ranchers to alter where they grow crops and costing them millions of dollars in additional costs to tackle weeds, pests and diseases that threaten their operations, a sweeping government report said Tuesday.
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31.01.2013
Chasing Ice: A call for urgent climate action
Science writers are constantly on the hunt for analogies to help readers situate climate phenomena on their mental map. But nothing beats seeing something for yourself.
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31.01.2013
Kim urges nations to face climate change
It has been six months since former College President Jim Yong Kim traded one presidential title for another at the World Bank. Kim, now head of the World Bank, spent his first months listening to staff and the board of directors and aims to make the bank less bureaucratic, he said in an interview with The Washington Post. Since the bank’s November report on climate change, Kim has signaled that the bank seeks to help countries assess and manage risks related to global warming, according to Bloomberg.
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28.01.2013
Zuma calls for more climate change funds
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, head of the African Union Commission, has called for equity in the distribution of funds meant to help African countries face the challenge of climate change.
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28.01.2013
Could China and its fellow Brics nations lead the way on climate change?
The stalemate in the latest round of climate negotiations, held in Doha, Qatar, last month, makes it clear that a fresh approach is needed if the world is to avert climate catastrophe. One part of the solution should be a new global climate agency, founded, financed and led by a coalition of the big emerging market countries.
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26.01.2013
Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change – it's far, far worse'
Lord Stern, author of the government-commissioned review on climate changethat became the reference work for politicians and green campaigners, now says he underestimated the risks, and should have been more "blunt" about the threat posed to the economy by rising temperatures.
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