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30.01.2006 British Prime Minister Tony Blair has admitted that the risks of climate change may be more serious than previously thought.
* How much climate change can we take? - Defra launches new book
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26.08.2005 Climate warming across the Arctic is pushing the Arctic system into a seasonally ice-free state for the first time in more than one million years, say US and Canadian scientists.
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From: Environment News Service (ENS)
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01.07.2005 Global warming could mean hard times ahead for the Mediterranean, including its vital tourism industry, according to a report.
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From: WWF International
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10.12.2004 The United States stood by its refusal to sign a landmark global warming agreement, insisting at an environmental conference here that it is doing more to battle climate change than many nations.
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From: Environmental News Network
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06.12.2004 This week's issue of Nature features the first study to demonstrate a link between greenhouse gas emissions and an extreme weather event — in this case, the unusually high temperatures in Europe during the summer of 2003 that led to 14,000 deaths more than the seasonal average in France alone.
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From: SciDev.Net
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measuring climate change
06.12.2004 The world must do far more to reduce greenhouse gases than merely meet the targets set in 1998 at the Kyoto environmental conference in Japan, Australia's environment minister said Monday.
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From: Environmental News Network
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29.11.2004 The ice is melting and the heat is on for international delegates assembling in Buenos Aires next week to find new ways to confront global warming under the 194-nation treaty on climate change.
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From: Environmental News Network
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Young children exposed to cooking smoke, Nepal © ITDG
29.11.2004 More than 2.5 million people in the Asia and Pacific region die each year due to environmental risks, such as exposure to urban and indoor air pollution, unsafe water, poor sanitation and hygiene, and climate change.
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From: Environment News Service (ENS)
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Image: Young children exposed to cooking smoke, Nepal © ITDG
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22.11.2004 BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 19, 2004 (ENS) - The European Union took two big steps in the past 24 hours. The Council of Ministers and Parliamentappointed a new executive branch under a new president, and the EU stepped up efforts to get rid of the world’s most toxic chemicals by ratifying the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
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From: Environment News Service (ENS)
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22.11.2004 One of the internationally agreed mechanisms for reducing greenhouse gas emissions was set into motion yesterday (18 November), as Russia officially gave its ratification of the Kyoto Protocol to Kofi Annan, secretary-general to the United Nations.
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From: SciDev.Net
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