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26.07.2011
Climate change talks "fail to deliver real solutions"
Today representatives from 35 countries met in Auckland to discuss action on climate change as part of the continuing United Nations negotiations on the issue. Unfortunately these talks, like the two decades of talks on this issue which proceed them, are not likely to result in real action to prevent climate change, and in fact are promoting dangerous fake climate solutions which today are already harming more people than climate change itself.
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26.07.2011
Fighting Climate Change by Not Focusing on Climate Change
Climate change advocates haven't had much to celebrate recently, but New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's announcement last week that he was giving $50 million to the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign marked a real win. The Sierra Club — the nation's largest environmental group — has successfully stopped more than 150 proposed coal plants from being built over the past decade through the campaign. Bloomberg's money — and perhaps more importantly, the imprimatur of one of the richest and most influential people in the country — will enable the Sierra Club to bring its war on coal to a new level, preventing untold millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions from warming the planet.
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25.07.2011
Carbon capture and utilisation could make economic sense
Passing carbon dioxide through slag left over from steel-making turns the waste product into a strong material that can be used for construction. Pumped into greenhouses, it provides a growing boost for crops. Put into tanks of algae, it can be used to make biofuels. Waste carbon dioxide can even be cleaned up to "food grade" and injected into fizzy drinks.
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20.07.2011
Nigeria’s Climate Change Commission still a mirage
The build up to the seventeenth conference of parties (COP17) to the United Nations framework Convention for climate change scheduled to hold in Durban, South Africa from Nov28-December 9 may have reached an appreciable level for many participating countries.
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19.07.2011
Opposition denies shift on 2020 emissions target
ELEANOR HALL: The Prime Minister today went on the attack against Tony Abbott over climate change, accusing him of walking away from a bipartisan commitment on addressing global warming, and aligning himself with climate sceptics.
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18.07.2011
New climate in Australia
Better late than never. Australia, the world’s biggest per capita polluter, and yet a hesitant signatory to the Kyoto protocol on climate change, has now mooted a domestic carbon pricing regime that can put the country on the track to clean development. Its top 500 environment-polluting industries will have to pay a carbon tax from July next year which, three years later, will be replaced by a market-based emission trading system on the lines of the European Union’s internal emission trading scheme.
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13.07.2011
Economists Find Flaws in Federal Estimate of Climate Damage
Uncle Sam's estimate of the damage caused by each ton of carbon dioxide is fundamentally flawed and "grossly understates" the potential impacts of climate change, according to an analysis released July 12 by a group of economists.
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06.07.2011
Climate change will increase threat of war, Chris Huhne to warn
Climate change will lead to an increased threat of wars, violence and military action against the UK, and risks reversing the progress of civilisation, the energy and climate secretary Chris Huhne will say on Thursday, in his strongest warning yet that the lack of progress on greenhouse gas emission cuts would damage the UK's national interests.
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04.07.2011
SA aiming to raise $100bn for climate change
SA is hoping that a second round of climate change talks being held in Germany ahead of a UN summit in SA will convince developed countries to raise $100bn in finance by 2020 for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
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30.07.2010
Fenomenul pestilor morti de pe litoral, efect al schimbarilor climatice
Odata cu incalzirea puternica a climei, oxigenul din marile si oceanele de pe glob devine insuficient pentru a asigura viata plantelor si animalelor, arata un studiu al Fundatiei Stiintifice Nationale din SUA. Fenomenul afecteaza si apele litoralului romanesc al Marii Negre, unde, in ultimele doua zile, sute de pesti morti au fost adusi de valuri pe plajele din Constanta, Mamaia si Navodari.
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30.07.2010
US rejects claims of falsified climate science
US environmental regulators on Thursday rejected a series of challenges to the science behind climate change, reaffirming that global warming is real and the result of man-made pollution. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling was welcomed by US climate groups and comes after a number of recent controversies over the workings of climate scientists provided fodder for sceptics around the world.
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30.07.2010
EPA Denies Challenges To Greenhouse Gas Rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday rejected 10 petitions challenging EPA's 2009 finding that climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and the environment.
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