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Britain blames China over 'farcical' climate talks - Yahoo! NewsBritish Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday accused a handful of countries of holding the UN climate summit to ransom as bitter recriminations swirled over the outcome of the negotiations. While China's Premier Wen Jiabao insisted his government had played an "important and constructive" ...
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Dezeen » Blog Archive » Urban Forest by MADBeijing architects MAD have designed a skyscraper for Chongqing, China, with gardens at each level. MAD proposes a new architectural concept for the course of Chinese urban development – to actualize a sustainable multidimensional high-rise within China’s youngest municipality, where nature ...
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Al Gore talks about global warming, those e-mails, and his new book. - By John Dickerson - Slate MagazineThe role of campaign contributions in our political system and the role of lobbyists have now reached levels that are quite unhealthy for the operations of our democracy. But the antidote, as in past eras of lobbyist excess, is for more involvement by citizens to build pressure on members of the ...
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UN: 2000-2009 likely warmest decade on record - Yahoo! Newshis decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the U.N. weather agency reported Tuesday on the second day of a pivotal 192-nation climate conference. Only the United States and Canada experienced cooler conditions ...
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U.S., China vow action on climate change - CNN.comChina and the United States, the largest producers of greenhouse gases, will team up to fight climate change and create clean energy, their leaders said Tuesday. Chinese President Hu Jintao and President Obama said their nations will cooperate to advance technologies and work toward a global ...
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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Where countries stand on CopenhagenThere are just over four weeks to go before the Copenhagen conference intended to agree a new international framework for controlling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The final round of preparatory talks in Barcelona has revealed deep divisions between some of the key participants. Use this table ...
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China says wants climate deal this year: U.N.'s Ban | Green Business | ReutersChina's leaders told U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that Beijing wants to reach a new agreement on combating climate change in Copenhagen in December, Ban said on Wednesday. "I was pleased that President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao assured me that China wants to seal a deal in ...
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Asia Challenges the U.S. for Green Tech Supremacy - Yahoo! NewsAmerica was caught off guard in the 1950s when the Soviet Union suddenly launched its first Sputnik satellite. It looks like history may repeat itself, but this time the arena is more down to earth. In August, the leaders of Japan, China and Korea will hold a trilateral summit to discuss how ...
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Alarm raised over forest plan to fight climate change - Yahoo! NewsAn ambitious plan to fight climate change by making polluters pay to preserve forests has come under a cloud, with some environmentalists calling it unworkable and dangerous. The plan, known as Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), is being pushed as a key element for a ...
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Op-Ed: Stop Trying to Save the Planet | Wired ScienceNature is gone. It was gone before you were born, before your parents were born, before the pilgrims arrived, before the pyramids were built. You are living on a used planet. From the Fields is a periodic Wired Science op-ed series presenting leading scientists’ reflections on their work, ...
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