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30.04.2008, 08:09
The global carbon credit market has nearly tripled in the last three years, according to New Carbon Finance. The market is a key part of the global effort to reduce emissions and protect the environment, as stipulated by the Kyoto Protocol.
17.04.2007, 21:01
The United Nations Security Council is meeting to discuss the negative effects climate change is having on international peace and security. Talks are being held in New York on the initiative of Great Britain.
21.10.2008, 07:30
Typhoons and hurricanes act as a natural pressure valve to help Earth resist global warming, according to a new study. The findings in the Nature Geoscience journal say the storms capture large amounts of carbon and bury them on the ocean floor.
21.10.2010, 18:36
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Russia is considering becoming the world’s top supplier of fresh water as growing demand turns it into a strategic resource. That is if it can upgrade its own consumption to modern standards.
07.12.2009, 10:38
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Climate change has always existed and humankind does not have the power to affect it insists a critic of global warming theory, Lord Christopher Monckton, on the eve of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
13.05.2010, 16:59
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Oil spills, global warming, species extinction and foreign wars in oil-producing countries all in the name of short-lived consumerism. How much more can the natural world handle?
16.10.2010, 09:39
A team of Russian scientists have begun a year-long expedition, drifting on an ice floe in the North Pole. Their aim is to prove Russia’s claim to the resources of the Arctic.
20.11.2009, 09:33
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As global leaders begin the herculean task of cooling a warming planet, one UN group has suggested free contraceptives and family planning seminars to reduce the planet’s numbers.
17.12.2009, 08:57
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President Dmitry Medvedev is preparing to join over a hundred leaders at the UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, which was stalled for nine-hours on Wednesday due to wrangles over the text to be used for the talks.
08.12.2009, 13:08
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While the UN Secretary General has told the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen that mankind is primarily to blame for global warming, 150 scientists have signed an open letter demanding hard evidence for that.
Published: 27 January, 2009, 11:35
Levels of CO2 have continued to rise in the past decade since the Kyoto Treaty was agreed and they are now rising faster than even the worst-case scenarios set out by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
