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19.11.2009 Guyana's groundbreaking forest conservation deal with Norway was to have been with Britain - but London showed little interest. President Jagdeo talks frankly about a project that is setting the pace for a forest agreement as part of the international climate negotiations.

19.11.2009 Guyana is set to become the first country to sign up for the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility - and become a test case for REDD, the forest forest component of the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month. Bow how good is the Guyana project? President Jagdeo, NGOs and journalists discuss the pros and cons.

18.11.2009 The proposed Energy Bill that would allow the British Government to raise money to fund carbon capture and storage demonstration projects "does nothing to prevent new large coal plants being built with only a small fraction of their emissions being captured," a leading environmental group warned today.

18.11.2009 Africa's freshwater resources are under serious threat from climate change and urgent adaptation measures are needed, says a study.

16.11.2009 See how US polluter lobbyists turned the House's Waxman-Markey clean energy bill into a toothless law.

15.11.2009 Southeast Asian leaders agreed there was virtually no chance of finalising an internationally legally-binding agreement on climate change at the international conference in Copenhagen in December - and a proposed pledge to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 was dropped from the final statement of a summit in Singapore.
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14.11.2009 Energy limits, even among alternative energy systems, will make it impossible for the industrial system to continue operating at its present scale for more than a few decades, according to a new study.

13.11.2009 A leading academic institute has urged European governments to review global oil supplies for themselves because of the "politicisation" of the International Energy Agency's figures.

13.11.2009 Environment Ministers from 45 countries meeting in Copenhagen on 16-17 November have a chance to get the December international climate talks on the right track, says an international development group.

11.11.2009 Temperatures across the Yangtze River Basin could increase from 1.5-2 degrees Celsius over the next 50 years, while extreme weather events will also become more frequent, according to the largest river basin climate vulnerability assessment yet done.