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14.02.2011
U.N. panel eyes ways to expand and speed carbon offsets
(Reuters) - A United Nations panel will discuss this week ways to give poor countries better access to clean energy projects and clear a backlog of applications for carbon offsets, members said in a webcast on Monday.
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10.02.2011
CDM is a work in progress: UN climate chief
Clearing the air about the future of clean development mechanism (CDM), a market-based instrument under the Kyoto Protocol enabling developed countries to invest in developing countries to offset carbon emissions, UN climate change chief Christiana Figueres said, “CDM is a work in progress.”
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08.02.2011
State eyes carbon credits through tree campaign
The ambitious rural tree plantation scheme — where the government wanted every villager to plant at least on tree each — will soon be taken to the next level. After having achieved planting of 5.93 crore over the past one-and-half-year, just a few lakhs short of the magic figure of 6.25 crore trees “I have asked the department to do a survey of the trees and see how they have been planted. Apparently, only trees which are planted in a linear method are eligible for earning carbon credits,” said rural development minister Jayant Patil.
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08.02.2011
'Climate change of serious global concern'
LUDHIANA: Climate change is a serious global issue of great concern to different countries. So said Dr Manjit Singh Kang, PAU vice-chancellor, on the opening day of a three-day international conference on 'Preparing Agriculture for Climate Change' at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) on Sunday.
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07.02.2011
Climate-triggered migration to grow
MANILA - Governments in Asia and the Pacific need to prepare for growing climate-induced migration in the coming years, says a forthcoming report of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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05.02.2011
We expect leadership from India: UN climate chief
India played an “exceedingly helpful role” in the last climate summit and “we expect the same this year and beyond”, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres said here on Saturday. “India represented its own interests and stood firm with other developing countries, and then was incredibly helpful it’s mostly in the interest of developing countries to move forward” to combat global warming, said Figueres, executive secretary to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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04.02.2011
Special report: Catastrophic drought in the Amazon
A widespread drought in the Amazon rainforest last year caused the "lungs of the world" to produce more carbon dioxide than they absorbed, potentially leading to a dangerous acceleration of global warming. Scientists have calculated that the 2010 drought was more intense than the "one-in-100-year" drought of 2005.
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04.02.2011
Australian disasters spark call for climate action
(Reuters) - An architect of Australia's stalled climate-change policy has linked the nation's recent natural disasters with global warming and called for a new political push to cut carbon emissions.
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03.02.2011
UN report lauds India for adding 300,000 hectares of forest every year
Asia is leading afforestation activity in the world with a significant contribution from India which is adding 300,000 hectares of forest every year, a senior UN official said. "I would highlight India, which still has important population growth. The forests in India are growing at 300,000 hectare per annum," Eduardo Rojas Briales, Forestry Director of Food and Agriculture Organisation told journalists on Wednesday.
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03.02.2011
UN launches International Year of Forests
The United Nations on Wednesday launched the International Year of Forests -- a year- long celebration of the vital role that forests play in the lives of the people across the world.
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02.02.2011
AP sources: House GOP readies restrictions on EPA
WASHINGTON – In a sharp challenge to the Obama administration, House Republican leaders intend to unveil legislation to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases, officials said. They expect to advance the bill quickly.
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