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28.02.2013 IPCC urges Obama to raise awareness of science behind climate change
Barack Obama should spread awareness of the "scientific realities of climate change" in the US, the head of the UN's climate science panel has told the Guardian.
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25.02.2013 Tackling climate change can help end poverty – report
Eradicating poverty by making modern energy supplies available to everyone is not only compatible with measures to slow climate change, a new study says. It is a necessary condition for it.
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25.02.2013 Dangers of climate change offer risk and opportunity for Gulf
The very source of the Middle East's riches threatens to ruin it. Climate change will bring even hotter temperatures, rising sea-levels inundating low-lying Arabian Gulf countries, food shortages and droughts destabilising volatile, populous neighbours.
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24.02.2013 UN food chief labels Quinoa ‘climate friendly’
Eating the Andean crop Quinoa could bolster food security, protect farmer’s livelihoods and set the world on a path to zero-hunger, according to the head of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
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24.02.2013 Hotter, wetter climate slashes labor capacity by 10 percent: U.S. study
Earth's increasingly hot, wet climate has cut the amount of work people can do in the worst heat by about 10 percent in the past six decades, and that loss in labor capacity could double by mid-century, U.S. government scientists reported on Sunday.
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22.02.2013 Putin’s new climate taskforce debates Russian policy options
Russia’s interministerial working group on climate change and sustainable development held its inaugural meeting on Thursday.
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22.02.2013 Afghanistan faces twin threats of war and climate change
Droughts and land degradation exacerbated by climate change could further destabilise Afghanistan, an official from the country’s environment protection agency has told RTCC.
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22.02.2013 German expert sees little substantive progress in anti-climate change drive until 2015
A leading German climate change scientist has struck a downbeat note on any substantive progress in the global efforts to rein in climate change in the near future.
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21.02.2013 U.S. EPA's McCarthy mum on new job, says states to lead climate rules
Gina McCarthy, said to be U.S. President Barack Obama's choice as the nation's top environmental regulator, avoided questions about a potential promotion on Thursday but said states will play a key role in shaping federal regulations at an energy and climate policy forum.
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20.02.2013 Climate adaptation lessons from Philippines’ typhoon pain
Another typhoon has barreled across the Philippines and made landfall at the southern tip of Davao del Sur in Mindanao.
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19.02.2013 India’s climate change laws
The latest Globe Climate Legislation Study was published in January 2013, focusing on 33 countries from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
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19.02.2013 Climate contradiction: Less snow, more blizzards
With scant snowfall and barren ski slopes in parts of the Midwest and Northeast the past couple of years, some scientists have pointed to global warming as the culprit.
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18.02.2013 China and Russia block UN Security Council climate change action
Russia and China blocked efforts last Friday to have climate change recognised as an international security threat by the UN Security Council (UNSC).
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18.02.2013 Climate change impacts can delay development plans – Susil
Sri Lanka has embarked on an ambitious new era of economic development, Environment and Renewable Energy Minister Susil Premajayantha said. He was speaking at the launch of the publication Climate Change Issues in Sri Lanka at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS) on February 14. The minister said climate change has become a definite challenge to the society, a reality that all must accept.
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17.02.2013 Filipino super-typhoon an ominous warning of climate change impact
When super-typhoon Bopha struck without warning before dawn, flattening the walls of their home, Maria Amparo Jenobiagon, her two daughters and her grandchildren ran for their lives.
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15.02.2013 Climate change could burn a hole in the government’s finances, GAO says
As climate change leads to more frequent and destructive natural disasters and threatens crop yields, bridges and other infrastructure, the federal government faces big financial risks that it is poorly positioned to address, auditors said Thursday.
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15.02.2013 BASIC experts meet to focus on future issues on climate change
Climate experts and negotiators from four emerging economies -- Brazil, South Africa, India and China -- today began discussions here on issues related to climate change.
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14.02.2013 African climate change advocates caution govt's against poor deals
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - Representatives of African civil society organisations (CSOs) and networks, meeting under the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance, have urged African governments not to enter into climate change deals that have disastrous consequences for the continent.
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14.02.2013 Climate Change’s Links to Conflict Draws UN Attention
Imagine India in 2033. It has overtaken China as the most populous nation. Yet with 1.5 billion citizens to feed, it’s been three years since the last monsoon. Without rain, crops die and people starve.
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13.02.2013 Obama gives Congress a climate change ultimatum
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday gave Congress an ultimatum on climate change: craft a plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the dangers of a warming world, or the White House will go it alone.
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