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Secretary Bodman in Mumbai to Highlight Civil Nuclear Energy Cooperation |
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Friday, 23 March 2007 |
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MUMBAI, INDIA (PressZoom) -- U.S. Secretary
of Energy Samuel W. Bodman today met with Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Secretary
of the Department of Atomic Energy, in Mumbai to address the United
States and India’s nuclear cooperation and highlight the countries’
ongoing partnership to advance global energy security. Earlier today,
Secretary Bodman met with U.S. and Indian venture capitalists to
discuss opportunities for investment in clean energy technologies.
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Climate Expert Nicholas Stern To Visit Australia |
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Friday, 23 March 2007 |
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (AHN) -- Sir Nicholas
Stern, former World Bank economist and author of the climate change
Stern Report will visit Australia next week to deliver his message on
global warming.
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Antarctic Melting May Be Speeding Up |
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Friday, 23 March 2007 |
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HOBART (Reuters) - Rising sea levels and melting polar ice-sheets are
at upper limits of projections, leaving some human population centers
already unable to cope, top world scientists say as they analyse latest
satellite data.
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Dirty Air Becomes Divisive Issue in Hong Kong Vote |
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Friday, 23 March 2007 |
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HONG KONG (NY Times) -- Worsening air pollution has become one of the most contentious issues
in the vote on Sunday for Hong Kong’s next chief executive, with the
incumbent blaming emissions drifting across the border from mainland
China for the problem while his challenger contends that Hong Kong is
not doing enough to address the issue.
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Climate Change Conference of Key Nations Achieves 'Important Progress' - UN Official |
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Wednesday, 21 March 2007 |
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(United Nations) -- Government ministers from key industrialized and developing nations
attending a climate change conference in Germany at the weekend
achieved “important progress” on a series of issues, a senior United
Nations environmental official has said.
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Cars Bear Brunt of Green Taxation |
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Wednesday, 21 March 2007 |
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(BBC News) -- Drivers of the biggest and most polluting vehicles
are to see car tax almost double to £400 by April 2008, Chancellor
Gordon Brown has said.
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Meteorologists Say Sure Humans Cause Climate Change |
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Wednesday, 21 March 2007 |
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MADRID (Reuters) - Some of the world's leading
meteorologists said on Wednesday they had no doubt that humans
were responsible for global warming.
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007: Licence to Kill the Planet |
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Tuesday, 20 March 2007 |
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(Guardian Unlimited) -- It's official: James Bond is no role model for environmentalists. His
car of choice in Casino Royale is a variation of Aston Martin's DB9,
which ranks among the top 10 worst performers in the Environmental
Transport Association's (ETA) 2007 Car Buyer's Guide, launched this
morning.
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House Panel Spars Over Changes White House Ordered in Climate Studies |
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Tuesday, 20 March 2007 |
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(CQ) -- The White House selectively made several hundred changes in scientific
reports to exaggerate uncertainty about the human contribution to
global warming, a House committee reported Monday, citing newly
released administration documents.
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Environ Meet Ends without Reaching Agreement on Climate Change |
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Tuesday, 20 March 2007 |
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(Zee News) -- Berlin, March 20: With the US and China refusing to
specifiy to what extent they will reduce their greenhouse gas
emissions, leaders of G-8 countries and five threshold nations
including India ended an environment meet without reaching an
agreement on how to combat the climate change issue.
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Using Solar Energy to Keep Homes Cool |
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Tuesday, 20 March 2007 |
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(CNET) -- SolCool One has developed what many people would expect to already be commonplace: An air conditioner that runs off the sun. Later this week, the California-based company will launch the SolCool Millennia version 4, which it calls a hybrid solar air conditioner.
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G8 + 5 Environment Ministers Confer on Climate, Biodiversity |
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Friday, 16 March 2007 |
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POTSDAM (ENS) --
The environment ministers of the eight leading
industrialized countries, the G8, opened their annual meeting in
Potsdam on Thursday. The two days of consultation are focused on ways
to preserve biological diversity and combat climate change.
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Arctic Ocean May Lose All Its Ice by 2040, Disrupting Global Weather |
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Friday, 16 March 2007 |
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(Guardian Unlimited) -- Rapidly thinning Arctic sea ice may have reached a tipping point that
threatens to disrupt global weather patterns, bringing intense winter
storms and heavier rainfall to western Europe, scientists warn today.
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Push to Fix Ozone Layer and Slow Global Warming |
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Friday, 16 March 2007 |
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HONG KONG (NY Times) -- An unusual coalition of industrial and developing
countries began pushing Wednesday for stringent limits on the world’s
most popular refrigerant for air-conditioners, as evidence mounts that
the refrigerant harms the earth’s ozone layer and contributes to global warming.
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Russia: Pipeline Deal Raises Energy Dependence Concerns |
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Friday, 16 March 2007 |
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MOSCOW (RFE/RL) -- Russia,
Greece, and Bulgaria have signed a long-awaited deal to build a
trans-Balkan pipeline that will boost oil supplies to Western markets.
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Radar 'Saves Bats at Wind Farms' |
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Thursday, 15 March 2007 |
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(BBC News) -- Bats at risk of being killed by the growing number of wind farms could be saved with the use of radars.
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SA Must Lead Movement for Climate Change: Stern |
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Thursday, 15 March 2007 |
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(SABC News) -- Nicholas Stern, the author of Stern review on the Economic of Climate Change,
has called on South Africa to take the lead in Africa in pushing
climate change to the top of the international agenda. The government
has also spelled out its "Climate Roadmap" in a bid to mitigate the
effects of global warming.
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Gore Calls on Pension Funds to Consider Climate Change |
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Thursday, 15 March 2007 |
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(London Stock Exchange) -- Speaking at the National Association of Pension
Funds investment conference in Edinburgh this week, former US vice
president Al Gore urged pension fund trustees to consider global
warming when making investment decisions.
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World Poll Finds Most Think Climate Change Critical Threat |
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Thursday, 15 March 2007 |
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CHICAGO (AP) — A survey on climate change conducted in more than a dozen
countries found that a majority of people in nations including South Korea,
Australia, Iran and Mexico — but not the United States — view global warming
as a critical threat.
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Energy Stocks Higher; IEA Modestly Bullish |
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Tuesday, 13 March 2007 |
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Oil and gas stocks nosed back into
positive territory Tuesday, lifted by a mildly bullish report on global
oil demand from the International Energy Agency.
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Top Scientists Warn of Water Shortages and Disease Linked to Global Warming |
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Tuesday, 13 March 2007 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The harmful effects of global warming
on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades
hundreds of millions of people will not have enough water, top
scientists are likely to say next month at a meeting in Belgium.
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Blair: UK to Lead on Climate Action |
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Tuesday, 13 March 2007 |
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(Guardian Unlimited) -- Britain will lead the world in combating climate change thanks to "revolutionary" legislation, said Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Protocol Is Cited in Limiting Scientists' Talks on Climate |
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Monday, 12 March 2007 |
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WASHINGTON (NY Times) -- The director of the Fish and Wildlife Service defended the agency requirement that two employees going to international meetings on the Arctic not discuss climate change, saying diplomatic protocol limited employees to an agreed-on agenda.
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Rains Helping Cool Barrier Reef |
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Monday, 12 March 2007 |
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(BBC News) -- Recent torrential rain and monsoons in northern
Queensland have provided some rare relief for the Great Barrier Reef in
Australia.
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US DOE to Find 13 Solar Energy Projects to the Tune of $168m |
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Monday, 12 March 2007 |
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(Azom.com) -- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Secretary Samuel W. Bodman today announced the selection of 13
industry-led solar technology development projects for negotiation for
up to $168 million (FY’07-’09) in funding, subject to appropriation
from Congress. These projects will help significantly reduce the cost
of producing and distributing solar energy.
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European Leaders Agree on Energy Plan |
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Sunday, 11 March 2007 |
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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (StarTribune.net) -- Europe embarked on a bold
path to fight climate change Friday, agreeing that a fifth of the
energy used by the 27-nation bloc by 2020 will come from renewable
sources like the sun and the wind, and challenging the rest of the
world to follow.
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Forestry Sector has Growing Role in Combating Climate Change, Says Minister |
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Sunday, 11 March 2007 |
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(The Age) -- VICTORIA'S forest industry will play a big role in the State
Government's climate change and greenhouse policy, according to the
Minister for Agriculture, Joe Helper.
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Polar Bears,the Poster Animals of Climate Change |
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Sunday, 11 March 2007 |
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(Taipei Times) -- Not so long ago polar bears were a symbol of cold, but these days they
are a symbol of warmth. In the past few weeks it has become difficult
to open a newspaper or web page without seeing photographs of the
beautiful yellowy-white animals leaping, or lying on sea ice in the
Arctic, the newly helpless emblem of climate change. The traditional
threats to the polar bear — hunting, toxic waste, offshore drilling —
have been overshadowed by a new one: the ice around them is melting,
and we are to blame.
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Saturday, 10 March 2007 |
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(Worldpress.org) -- Al Gore may have won an Oscar for his vision of impending doom (unless
we mend our carbon-emitting ways) in "An Inconvenient Truth," but
February was anything but a good month for Gore's brand of global
warming alarmism.
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TXU Announces Plans for 2 Coal Plants Designed to Be Cleaner-Burning |
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Saturday, 10 March 2007 |
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HOUSTON,TX (NY Times) -- The TXU Corporation
announced on Friday that it was making plans to build two power plants
in Texas that would use advanced technology intended to capture carbon
dioxide before it escapes into the atmosphere.
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