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E.P.A. Says 17 States Can’t Set Emission Rules |
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
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New US energy bill meets green lobby approval |
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Wednesday, 05 December 2007 |
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(Guardian) Congressional Democrats finalised an energy bill today that will
increase fuel efficiency standards for cars for the first time in
decades.
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Climate change research centre launched |
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Wednesday, 05 December 2007 |
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(ABC) A new centre involving two of Australia's major climate research bodies has been launched in Canberra today.
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Key climate summit opens in Bali |
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Tuesday, 04 December 2007 |
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(BBC) Governments at a key UN climate summit will discuss
how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions after the current Kyoto Protocol
targets expire in 2012.
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Kyoto backers can exceed 2012 climate goals - UN |
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Tuesday, 20 November 2007 |
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OSLO (Reuters ) - Industrial nations taking part in the U.N.'s Kyoto
Protocol for fighting climate change can exceed goals for cuts in
greenhouse gas emissions if new policies work as planned, the U.N.
Climate Secretariat said on Tuesday.
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Bill Clinton: Green buildings key to fighting climate change |
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Thursday, 08 November 2007 |
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CHICAGO (CNET )--Fighting climate change requires making the nation's homes,
offices, and schools healthier and more energy efficient, former
president Bill Clinton told thousands attending the Greenbuild conference
on Wednesday. Sweeping efforts to reduce the carbon footprints of
buildings, which emit three-quarters of most cities' greenhouse gases,
can measurably benefit the environment, he said."The sale's been made," Clinton said. "Otherwise Al Gore
wouldn't have gotten the Nobel Prize. Now what we have to do is...to
prove that this is not a big bottle of castor oil that we're being
asked to drink."
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China Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development Report: October 2007 |
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Wednesday, 07 November 2007 |
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(Renewable Energy Access) As China's appetite for energy continues to grow, so too does its
implementation of renewable energy. The country's wind, biomass and
solar industries are moving at an impressive pace -- officials are
planning to generate roughly 120,000 megawatts (MW) from renewable
resources by 2020.
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Chair of UN climate panel 'stunned' to share Nobel Prize with Gore |
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Saturday, 13 October 2007 |
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New Delhi (International Herald Tribune) -- From his office in central Delhi, Rajendra Pachauri has spent more than
two decades first working on making the links between man's activities
and climate change, and then on convincing the world's population of
the damage those activities were doing.
Pachauri, the chairman of the United Nations panel on climate, which
was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Al Gore, said he was
"stunned" when he received a phone call informing him of the news.
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Democrats eye key climate summit |
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Sunday, 07 October 2007 |
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(BBC) -- A team of leading US Democrats is planning to send a
delegation to a key UN climate conference to rival President Bush's
official team.
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Climate activists tipped for peace prize |
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Sunday, 07 October 2007 |
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OSLO (Reuters ) - Former Vice President Al Gore and other
campaigners against climate change lead experts' choices for
the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, an award once reserved for
statesmen, peacemakers and human rights activists.
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Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts |
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Sunday, 07 October 2007 |
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(New York Times ) -- The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped
along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage
over Canada and the Northern Sea Route over Russia.
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New York Subpoenas 5 Energy Companies |
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Friday, 28 September 2007 |
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(The New York Times ) Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo
of New York has opened an investigation of five large energy companies,
questioning whether their plans to build coal-fired power plants pose
undisclosed financial risks that their investors should know about.
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Lovelock urges ocean climate fix |
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Thursday, 27 September 2007 |
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(BBC) Two of Britain's leading environmental thinkers say it is time to develop a quick technical fix for climate change. Writing in the journal Nature, Science Museum head Chris
Rapley and Gaia theorist James Lovelock suggest looking at boosting
ocean take-up of CO2.
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World Leaders Meet for UN Climate Talks |
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Monday, 24 September 2007 |
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UNITED NATIONS (AP ) -- With tales of rising seas and talk of human
solidarity, world leaders at the first United Nations climate summit
sought Monday to put new urgency into global talks to reduce
global-warming emissions.
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Climate Change to Loom Large at APEC Finmin Meeting |
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Friday, 27 July 2007 |
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(Reuters ) -- The economic challenges of climate
change will top the agenda when finance ministers of APEC's
21-members meet in the Queensland coastal resort of Coolum next
week.
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Yates with Gates in Green Fund |
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Friday, 27 July 2007 |
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(The Australian ) -- Former Allco Equity Partners chief Peter Yates has entered into a partnership with one of the world's richest men, U.S. billionare Bill Gates, with plans to set up a E400 million ($650 million) carbon trading fund in China.
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Veteran House Democrat Guards Turf on Energy |
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Monday, 23 July 2007 |
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(NY Times ) -- He just turned 81, his voice has become frail and his hands often shake
uncontrollably. In recent weeks, he has walked with crutches because of
leg pains. But make no mistake: Representative John D. Dingell of Michigan has not mellowed.
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States Should Take Lead on Climate Change, Governors Say at National Meeting in Mich. |
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Monday, 23 July 2007 |
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(AP ) -- States should develop creative approaches to climate change, just as
they have with challenges such as health care, despite their different
economic interests, state governors said .
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India Makes Climate Change Move |
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Monday, 16 July 2007 |
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(BBC News ) -- India has taken the first steps towards developing a national plan on tackling the effects of climate change.
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US, China to Get Climate Change Chance at Summit |
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Monday, 16 July 2007 |
(Agencies) -- The world's two biggest polluters, the US and China, will have
an unprecedented chance to thrash out action on climate change at an upcoming
summit in Australia, Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday.
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Climate Plan is 'Election Year Greenwash' |
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Monday, 16 July 2007 |
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(The Australian ) -- Mr Howard today announced spending of $627 million for measures to
tackle global warming, including $336 million for "green vouchers" for
schools.
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Legislation To Help Solve the Climate Crisis |
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Thursday, 12 July 2007 |
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(All American Patriots ) -- Senators Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) today introduced
bipartisan legislation designed to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions
while protecting the U.S. economy and interacting with key developing
countries in their efforts to deal with the challenges of global
warming. Original cosponsors include Sens. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Ted
Stevens (R-AK), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Daniel Akaka (D-HI).
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Thursday, 12 July 2007 |
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(Economist Intelligence Unit ) -- China's energy challenges are monumental. The economy is in the midst
of a highly energy-intensive stage of growth, but domestic
reserves—especially of oil—are far from adequate to meet burgeoning
demand.
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Compromise Measure Aims to Limit Global Warming |
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Thursday, 12 July 2007 |
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(NY Times ) -- Influential senators from both parties, backed by unions and some large electrical utilities, will unveil a new global warming proposal on Wednesday that could form the basis of a climate change compromise that has so far eluded Congress.
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'New Thinking' Needed on Climate |
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Thursday, 12 July 2007 |
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(BBC News ) -- The international climate debate needs to embrace a
"new way of thinking" to tackle the problem, UN Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon has urged.
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North American Climate Change Pact Urged |
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Monday, 02 July 2007 |
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CALGARY (Calgary Herald ) -- It may be time for Canada to initiate a North American
climate change pact that would draw in the United States, one of the
world's largest greenhouse gas producers, Alberta government officials
suggest.
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Study Sees Climate Change Impact on Alaska |
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Monday, 02 July 2007 |
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(NY Times ) -- Many of Alaska’s
roads, runways, railroads and water and sewer systems will wear out
more quickly and cost more to repair or replace because of climate change, according to a study released yesterday.
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Asia-Pacific Dreading Climate Change |
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Monday, 02 July 2007 |
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(AP ) -- Rising
temperatures are expected to have a huge impact on people's health in
the Asia-Pacific region, causing more of everything from food poisoning
to malaria, scientists said Monday.
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Africa: Continent Urged to Develop National Plans On Climate Change |
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Thursday, 28 June 2007 |
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(BuaNews ) -- African countries have been urged to develop national plans on climate
change in order to alleviate the impacts of global warming on the
continent.
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Fuelling Choice: Array of Green Options May Offer Drivers Seven Ways to Fill up |
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Thursday, 28 June 2007 |
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(The Guardian ) -- The euro may have given Europeans a single currency to spend across
borders but EU travellers could yet face a new and unfortunate reminder
of Europe's diversity, this time at the fuel pump.
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