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17.02.2011
U.N. biodiversity panel could guide on trade, farms
(Reuters) - A U.N. scientific panel meant to help safeguard animal and plant species should help guide governments with practical studies of issues such as trade, farming or energy, experts said on Thursday.
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17.02.2011
IMC to Lead Climate Change Conference Preparations
Cape Town — An Inter-Ministerial Committee has been established to lead preparations for the United Nations Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP 17), said President Jacob Zuma on Thursday.
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17.02.2011
Analysis: Governments to debate Kyoto climate dilemma
(Reuters) - Governments are looking at ways to keep the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol going beyond 2012 in some form to defuse a standoff between rich and poor nations that threatens efforts to tackle global warming.
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15.02.2011
UN targets carbon credit backlog
Clearing a backlog of credits and convincing small countries they can benefit from the UN's carbon offsetting scheme will be amongst the top priority as the Clean Development Mechanism's (CDM) executive board gathers in Bonn, Germany this week to discuss the future of the scheme.
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15.02.2011
UN climate chief warns warming can cause conflict
AMSTERDAM – Global warming is a looming threat to stability and national security around the world, and militaries should spend some of their ever-expanding budgets on reducing carbon emissions to avoid "climate chaos," the U.N.'s top climate official said Tuesday.
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15.02.2011
Climate Change Drives Instability, U.N. Official Warns
The United Nations’ top climate change official said on Tuesday that food shortages and rising prices caused by climate disruptions were among the chief contributors to the civil unrest coursing through North Africa and the Middle East.
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15.02.2011
Climate change: Lagos seeks more action than talk as Kyoto Protocol expires
With less than a year to the expiration of the Kyoto protocol and the failure of the international communities to agree on a successor to the protocol, the Lagos State government has called for more action than mere talking to conscientiously find sustainable approaches to address the climatic errors.
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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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