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Kumi Naidoo to head up Greenpeace
Kumi Naidoo, who battled apartheid as a teen, took over on Monday as Greenpeace’s executive director.
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Copenhagen: No deal, we’re out of time, Obama warns
Barack Obama acknowledged on Monday that time had run out to secure a legally binding climate deal at the Copenhagen summit in December.
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Scientists hope to turn coal into clean energy
”Gasification” technique could prevent CO2 entering atmosphere while improving efficiency of power stations.
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Leaders fail to yield breakthrough in climate talks
Hastily convened climate-change talks among key leaders including the US and Chinese presidents on Sunday failed to yield a breakthrough.
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Ethiopia PM: World not serious on climate change
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Thursday it was unlikely the world was serious about tackling global warming.
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Yangtze delta warned to prepare for climate change
Delta has been warming faster than global average for a decade, and the impact is already being felt, according to WWF China.
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The fight over the future of food
Giuseppe Oglio’s farm near Milan looks like it’s suffering from neglect. Weeds run rampant amid the rice fields and clover grows unchecked.
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As nations haggle over CO2 cuts, measurement is tough
Targets and trust. These are at the heart of a tougher new global climate pact possibly just weeks away.
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G20: Too early to end stimulus
Finance officials from rich and developing countries pledged on Saturday to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured.
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Lifting the lid on climate-change talks
At 8am on Wednesday October 7, a smartly dressed fiftysomething Filipino woman took the escalator to the first floor of the UN building in Bangkok.
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UN climate talks make little progress
Climate negotiators prepared to ditch a December deadline for agreeing a new pact as United Nations talks in Barcelona drew to a close on Friday.
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US puts onus on China for climate deal
The US will not agree to targets cutting greenhouse gas emissions unless developing countries, particularly China, make similar moves.
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Forty days to get a climate deal
In the deserts and grasslands of northern Hebei, Inner Mongolia and Gansu, a new wind turbine is erected almost every hour.
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EU agrees deal on climate funding
European Union leaders resolved a funding dispute on Friday to agree a negotiating position for talks on a global deal to combat climate change.
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Tutu criticises world leaders on climate change
Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu criticised European Union leaders on Friday for standing in the way of a global deal to combat climate change.
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Legislators drive the move to a low carbon economy
China and the United States took the lead at the Globe Legislators Forum, calling for decisive domestic action on climate change.
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UN chief urges compromise ahead of climate summit
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged member nations Monday to reach a compromise ahead of a climate change summit in December.
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Greenpeace targets SA statues to push climate message
Greenpeace activists on Saturday draped banners over the statues of South African leaders.
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Brown says leaders must intervene in climate deal
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday urged leaders to intervene personally to break deadlocked talks to agree a global climate-change deal.
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The world’s future is being decided this weekend
Energy and environment ministers from the world’s major economies are meeting in London on Sunday to try to accelerate negotiations on climate change.
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Law change needed to cover climate exiles
Global law is unfit to deal with the millions of people expected to flee their home countries to escape droughts and floods, a group of lawyers said.
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Greenpeace sets sights on South Africa
South Africa can cut its annual greenhouse gas emissions by more than 200-million tonnes by 2050 without sacrificing economic growth, Greenpeace said.
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Bangkok climate talks end in recrimination
Bitter delegates say no agreement on money or emissions cuts means a deal at Copenhagen will be weak at best.
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Deadlock in Bangkok
A significant climate deal later this year is
looking less and less likely as developed and developing nations slug it out over emissions.
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Tropics face fish famine due to climate change
Fish populations in the tropics could fall by as much as 40% over the next 45 years due to climate change, jeopardising food sources.
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Stumbling blocks threaten Kyoto, Copenhagen
Time is running out for negotiating a binding, inclusive climate change treaty in Copenhagen, Denmark at the end of the year.
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UN: Rich nations need to ante-up in climate talks
Poorer countries’ efforts to fight climate change are being stymied by rich nations’ lack of commitment, the UN said on Thursday.
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What’s to become of the Kyoto Protocol?
Whether to tweak, bolster or bury the Kyoto Protocol has become a red-hot issue as UN negotiators try to lay the groundwork for a successor treaty.
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Signal of hope must be sent to millions
Nigeria’s Archbishop John Onaiyekan believes that climate change is a matter of justice
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Dragging the chain
The world must address climate change with or without the US, writes David Adam
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Rich nations trying to kill Kyoto pact, says China
China and a top G77 official accused rich nations on Monday of trying to kill off the Kyoto Protocol.
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Ban: Information technology ‘vital’ in climate change fight
Information and communication technologies are ”vital” in tackling climate change, United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.
