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IoS letters, emails & messages (21 December 2008) (Independent)
As someone who works with small-scale farmers in Peru, now considered to be one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, I am saddened to read the recent catalogue of weak progress by rich countries towards tackling it, whether in the UK ("Red tape strangles Whitehall's plans to boost green energy", 14 December), or the recent climate summits in Brussels and Poznan.
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Three more advance to next round of UEFA Cup (Boston Herald)
LONDON - Deportivo La Coruna, Lech Poznan and FC Copenhagen all won their final group matches 1-0 on Wednesday to clinch places in the next round of the UEFA Cup. Deportivo...
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OK - let’s see if I can (New Matilda)
OK - let’s see if I can address everything outstanding at once: 1 - phermon says: "Tom Harris, I’ve read your articles and they’re balls." but whan I ask phermon to show me any examples of where I have made mistakes, offering my recent piece in NZ as a target, phernom has nothing to say. I’ll forget about that critique now. 2 - iain still calls CO2 emissions "carbon emissions" despite my ...
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Time for 'Green New Deal' on climate change, financial crisis: Ban (Environmental News Network)
UN chief Ban Ki-moon called Thursday for a "Green New Deal" to tackle climate change and the world financial crisis, as a key EU summit began in Brussels and global talks in Poland entered their final 48 hours. Ban pleaded with the heads of the European Union (EU), locking horns over a deal for curbing their greenhouse-gas emissions, to demonstrate the leadership for which the world yearned.
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World leaders 'failing to get' climate message (New Scientist)
The gap between political rhetoric and scientific reality on climate change is growing, complain scientists at the UN climate conference in Poland
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All Talk, Little Action, at UN Climate Change Summit (Time.com via Yahoo! News)
Though expectations for the annual summit weren't high, thanks in part to a leadership vacuum in the U.S. and a financial meltdown around the world, neither were its accomplishments
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UN Daily News For 12 December, 2008 (Scoop.co.nz)
The United Nations Human Rights Council marked the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in a special session today, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calling on it to rise above “partisan posturing and regional divides” and review the record of every State.
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EU agrees cut in greenhouse gas emissions (New Scientist)
Leaders have unanimously agreed a deal to tackle climate change on the final day of the Poznan conference, but environmentalists say it did not go far enough
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Letters: Climate change? It's already here (Independent)
The high-level segment of the UN climate summit in Poznan, Poland concludes on Friday. Environment ministers and senior government representatives, who have been in attendance, are likely to return to business as usual in their own countries.
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Carbon capture funding dispute (Financial Times)
A proposal to boost funding for the development of carbon capture and storage technology is being opposed by Brazil and an alliance of small island states at United Nations talks on climate change, writes Fiona Harvey in Poznan.
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