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Climate efforts: Germany No.1, Canada last Berlin (UPI) Jul 1, 2009 
Germany ranks first among Group of Eight nations for tackling climate change while the United States has passed on the last place to Canada, according to scorecards released Wednesday by the World Wildlife Fund and German insurance giant Allianz.
The ratings, unveiled roughly a week before G8 leaders are due to meet in Italy for their annual summit, blasts Canada for skyrocketing ... read moreG8 summit to seek 80 pct emissions cut by 2050: report 
Tokyo (AFP) July 1, 2009The Group of Eight rich nations summit in Italy next week is likely to call on industrialised countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050, a report said Wednesday. The reduction target is in the draft of a declaration to be issued at the end of the July 8-10 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, the Nikkei economic daily said, without naming its source. The base year for ... more
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Rhine three degrees warmer than 100 years ago: study
Berlin (AFP) June 30, 2009The Rhine river between Germany and the Netherlands is on average three degrees warmer than 100 years ago, with power stations the main culprits, the German green group BUND said on Tuesday. According to a study commission by BUND, this stretch of the river is warmed two degrees Celsius by waste water pumped in by industry and by nuclear and coal-fired power plants, and by one degree ... more Denmark wants to speed up climate negotiations 
Copenhagen (AFP) June 30, 2009Denmark on Tuesday said negotiations on a new global climate deal were proceeding "too slowly" and called for speeding up the process before a crucial UN summit in less than six months. "It is time for a frank and open dialogue so the participating countries can make clear their positions, their concerns," said Danish Climate Minister Connie Hedegaard. The United Nations hopes to wrap up ... more Obama against penalties on those not accepting pollution limits 
Washington (AFP) June 28, 2009US President Barack Obama on Sunday expressed his opposition to a provision in the clean energy bill that would impose trade penalties on countries that do not accept limits on global warming pollution, The New York Times reported late Sunday. The newspaper said Obama had told a small group of reporters at the White House that at a time when the global economy is still deep in recession ... more Rising sea levels threatening Florida Keys 
Key West, Fla. (UPI) Jun 29, 2009 Rising sea-levels could one day leave significant portions of the Florida Keys underwater, experts say. Researcher Evan Flugman said in a Florida International University report the Florida Keys are at the forefront of the emerging threat of rising sea-levels in the southern portion of Florida, The Miami Herald reported Sunday. ''South Florida is on the front line against sea ... more |
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Close Relationship Between Past Warming And Sea-Level Rise
Southampton, UK (SPX) Jun 26, 2009In a paper in Nature Geoscience, a team from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS), along with colleagues from Tubingen (Germany) and Bristol presents a novel continuous reconstruction of sea level fluctuations over the last 520 thousand years. Comparison of this record with data on global climate and carbon dioxide (CO2) levels from Antarctic ice cores suggests that even ... more US climate bill fights heats up as vote looms 
Washington (AFP) June 24, 2009Supporters of sweeping US legislation to fight climate change ramped up their push for a "green energy revolution" Wednesday with a vote on the massive bill expected at week's end. "We are going to create a green energy revolution -- not only for our country but for the entire world," Democratic Representative Ed Markey, one of the measure's lead authors, said with a vote due as early as ... more US climate bill fights heats up as vote looms 
Washington (AFP) June 24, 2009Supporters of sweeping US legislation to fight climate change ramped up their push for a "green energy revolution" Wednesday with a vote on the massive bill expected at week's end. "We are going to create a green energy revolution -- not only for our country but for the entire world," Democratic Representative Ed Markey, one of the measure's lead authors, said with a vote due as early as ... more Mexico seeks help for developing nations on climate change 
Jiutepec, Mexico (AFP) June 22, 2009Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday called for financial help for developing countries to meet their climate change commitments under a new treaty set to replace the Kyoto Protocol. The Major Economies Forum (MEF), including environment ministers from the world's largest polluters, met in central Mexico Monday as part of a US push to speed up work towards the key new United Nations ... more |
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