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20.10.2010
Ban presses EU for climate leadership
European member states can lead the way in tackling the delicate issues of climate change, the U.N. secretary-general told the European legislature.
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19.10.2010
Mexico stretches funds to cut greenhouse emissions
Hopes are dim for a global agreement to help developing nations cut carbon emissions, so Mexico is relying on an imperfect blend of grants, loans and ingenuity to meet self-imposed limits on greenhouse gases.
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19.10.2010
Climate change treaty must address health issues: WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Tuesday said next month's climate change conference in Mexico must address health concerns in any legally-binding agreement on mitigating the impacts of global warming as it threatens human health.
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19.10.2010
U.N. summit sends S.O.S. on biodiversity
(CNN) -- Delegates from all over the world descended on Nagoya in Japan on Monday for talks considered crucial to sustaining the future of animal, plant and human life on Earth.
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18.10.2010
World needs urgent action to stop species loss: U.N
The world cannot afford to allow nature's riches to disappear, the United Nations said on Monday at the start of a major meeting to combat losses in animal and plant species that underpin livelihoods and economies.
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18.10.2010
Conference tackles loss of biodiversity
Tackling global loss of wildlife is as big a challenge as addressing climate change, conservation experts have warned as an international meeting gets under way aimed at stopping species and habitats vanishing across the world.
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15.10.2010
IPCC accepts report on its functioning
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Thursday said it will implement many of the recommendations made by a world body of scientists to prevent it from repeating blunders such as the Himalayan meltdown. The Panel’s decision to accept and action recommendations of the InterAcademy
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15.10.2010
UN climate panel agrees to reforms, Pachauri stays
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),the UN’s climate change panel, Thursday agreed to push ahead with reforms but chairman Rajendra Pachauri rejected suggestions he should step down.
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15.10.2010
U.N. Climate-Change Panel Chairman to Stay
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will retain Rajendra Pachauri as its chairman, and it will make several procedural changes to try to prevent future mistakes in its widely watched climate-science reports, the group said Thursday.
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14.10.2010
U.N. panel says tackling CO2 offset issuance backlog
(Reuters) - A United Nations panel said on Thursday it is tackling a backlog of carbon offset issuances and hopes to clear it by the time of U.N. climate talks in Mexico's Cancun at the end of November.
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14.10.2010
EU set to overshoot its Kyoto emission targets
A large fall in greenhouse gas emissions brought about by a reduction of industrial activity led by the economic crisis has put the EU on a fast track to meet its Kyoto commitments, but Austria, Denmark and Italy are falling behind, according to new figures.
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13.10.2010
EU to surpass Kyoto emissions target:agency
COPENHAGEN (AFP) - A fall in greenhouse gas emissions in 2008 and 2009 is set to help the EU meet and even surpass the emissions cut targets set under the Kyoto Protocol, the European Environmental Agency (EEA) said.
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13.10.2010
Rich must make clearer climate cuts: U.N.
Rich nations must spell out their plans for cutting greenhouse gases more clearly to enable U.N. talks in Mexico to agree the cornerstone of a pact to slow global warming, the U.N.'s climate chief said.
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13.10.2010
EU meeting emissions target
The European Union is ahead of schedule on meeting its pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions under the terms of the Kyoto Protocol, a commissioner said.
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