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25.09.2012
Climate Commission outlines solar opportunity in Queensland
The Climate Commission has released its latest state report, this time focussing on the dangers of climate change to Queensland. While highlighting the risks, the report, The Critical Decade: Queensland climate impacts and opportunities, also spotlights the opportunities, such as solar power.
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25.09.2012
Undecided US voters support climate change action
A new national survey released Monday finds that 7 percent of likely US voters remain undecided about whom they will vote for President. However, the majority of these undecided voters say presidential candidates' positions on global warming will be one of several important factors determining how they cast their votes in November.
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21.09.2012
Comment: Why Russia’s climate change policy is like a cargo cult
What is Russia’s real position on climate change? It says it will not take part in a ‘useless’ Kyoto Protocol extension period (KP2), despite recently appearing to support it. It boasts oil and gas reserves and a President who holds climate sceptic views. And yet you can bet Russia will call for a global deal, more action and release a ‘proposal for action’ come COP18 in Doha. So who, and what should we believe?
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20.09.2012
EU and China sign climate change deal
The EU and China have announced details of a deal that will see the two work together on a series of environmental and climate change projects including the design of a Chinese carbon market.
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18.09.2012
Global climate revenues fall 5 pct in 2011-HSBC
Global climate revenues fell 5 percent in 2011 to $539 billion from an all-time high the previous year, mainly dragged down by the weak performance of low-carbon energy companies hit by the global economic slowdown, a report by HSBC said on Tuesday.
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18.09.2012
El Salvador in battle against tide of climate change
The forest of towering, dead mangrove trees stretches along the beach as far as the eye can see. As the crashing waves rise and fall, short stumps emerge and vanish beneath the Pacific Ocean. Climate change has come early to the Bajo Lempa region of western El Salvador.
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14.09.2012
France seeks more ambitious EU carbon cuts
French President Francois Hollande on Friday called for deeper cuts in European Union carbon dioxide emissions as he sought to put the environment back at the top of the international agenda.
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