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4 hrs ago | News9 Oklahoma City

Negotiators scale back UN climate pact ambitions

With the U.S. Congress still struggling to agree on sharp cuts in greenhouse gases or how to fund them, European officials said Thursday they were now striving for a political agreement instead of a new treaty to allow the U.S. and other rich nations to make commitments that are not legally binding.

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Related Topix: US News, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, World News, Denmark, US Politics, Al Gore

8 hrs ago | Newsday

World leaders needed at talks to cut climate deal

Negotiators from industrial nations, including the United States , said eleventh-hour promises are possible and a global warming pact can be reached.

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Related Topix: World News, Nicolas Sarkozy, US Politics, US News, Al Gore, Europe, Angela Merkel, Germany

12 hrs ago | Reuters

Study suggests peat CO2 credits more valuable

An Indonesia-based study is showing carbon-rich tropical peat lands trap more greenhouse gases than first thought, driving up their potential value on the carbon market and strengthening the case for their protection.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Fri Nov 06, 2009

WHNT-TV Huntsville

G20 officials meet with recession easing, disagreements remain over stimulus, imbalances

The world's top finance officials sought agreement Friday on ways to secure future global economic growth as the world hesitantly emerges from recession.

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EurekAlert!

Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate

The American icebreaker RV/IB Nathanial B. Palmer is shown off the South Shetland Islands.

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Related Topix: Shetland Islands County, Scotland, United Kingdom, Oceanography, Science

Hindustan Times

India not ready for carbon emission targets: PM

With just a month to go before the UN summit on climate change in Copenhagen, India on Friday made it clear to the EU that it was not ready to quantify its carbon emission targets, but would explore that possibility.

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Related Topix: World News, India, Asia, Manmohan Singh, Fredrik Reinfeldt

WSYX

Associated Press Writers

U.N. negotiators assure it is still possible next month to conclude a strong, 192-nation global deal that will define future work in fighting global warming.

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Seattle's WB

Negotiators at UN climate talks discuss best formula for securing global warming agreement

Countries most vulnerable to climate change said Friday they were incensed that rich nations were rethinking the timetable for concluding a global treaty that would hold them to legally binding targets for cutting emissions.

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1105_rpi_gore Ex-veep's recipe for change

WASHINGTON - As global warming takes center stage in world affairs, Al Gore can't be far behind: The Nobel-Prize-winning former-vice president-turned-energy entrepreneur is releasing his plan to crack the climate conundrum.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Al Gore, Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Time

U.N. Climate Pact Deadline in Doubt

Negotiators at a U.N. climate conference in Spain further defined plans for reducing greenhouse emissions and continued work on a draft climate change treaty, with next month's deadline for a legal document increasingly in doubt.

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Related Topix: Fredrik Reinfeldt

ABS-CBN News

SE Asia peatland loss helps drive warming, scientists warn

Scientists pointed the finger on Wednesday at Southeast Asian countries for draining wetlands for palm oil and cheap timber production, warning the practice was stoking dangerous global warming.

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Related Topix: Papua New Guinea, Oceania, World News

Corporate Social Responsibility News

US climate envoy takes aim at developing nations

As a top American diplomat accused developing countries of inaction on global warming, a coalition of senators on Wednesday stepped up efforts to break a political deadlock that has choked U.S. steps on climate change.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

Time

Climate Change: Russia Skeptical of Global Warming

Russia doesn't seem to care two bits about global warming, and it's not hard to see why.

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Reuters

Climate history forces action

President Lyndon Johnson and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made stark warnings about global warming decades ago, but convincing evidence for action only amassed in recent years, experts say.

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Related Topix: UC San Diego

Wed Nov 04, 2009

It's Getting Hot In Here

Rich countries halt Barcelona climate talks with inaction - Africa walks out

African negotiators at the U.N. climate talks in Barcelona just refused to continue formal discussions about all other issues until wealthy countries live up to their legal and moral responsibility to commit to deep emissions reductions.

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MSNBC

Can Senate trio salvage a climate bill?

Wonder how much carbon dioxide you're responsible for on your commutes? Our map-based calculator will give you a pretty good idea, and get you started on a diet.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, John Kerry, US Senate, Democrat, Republican, Lindsey Graham

The Georgia Straight

David Suzuki: Inaction on climate change comes with a huge price tag

It's interesting to see the reaction to a report just released by our foundation and the Pembina Institute.

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Related Topix: Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought

MySanAntonio.com

Fearing climate change, Maldives turns to wind

The Maldives announced plans Monday to build a wind farm that can supply 40 percent of its electricity as part of the low-lying archipelago's pledge to become the world's first carbon neutral nation.

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Related Topix: Maldives, World News, Asia, Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Guardian Unlimited

Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth sequel stresses spiritual argument on climate

Nobel winner adapts fact-based message to reach those who believe they have a moral duty to protect the planet in Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis Al's Gore's much-anticipated sequel to An Inconvenent Truth is published today, with an admission that facts alone will not persuade Americans to act on global warming and that appealing to ...

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Al Gore, Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Energy, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy)

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Reuters

U.N. climate talks resume as time runs out for deal

Time has almost run out to break deadlock on a U.N. climate deal supposed to be struck in Copenhagen next month, the United Nations and Denmark warned negotiators at a final preparatory meeting on Monday.

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