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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.

19.11.2004 Melting glaciers caused by climate change pose an urgent threat to Mount Everest's unique environment, activists said Wednesday, launching a campaign to protect the Himalayan mountain range and the world's highest peak.

19.11.2004 NAIROBI, Kenya, November 18, 2004 (ENS) - The 90 day countdown to the Kyoto Protocol’s entry into force was triggered today by the receipt of the Russian Federation’s instrument of ratification by the United Nations Secretary-General. The Protocol will become legally binding on its 128 Parties on February 16, 2005.

15.11.2004 Global warming has had little noticeable impact in Washington, D.C., but that uncertainty may have shrunk somewhat with the release last week of two scientific reports suggesting that global warming is not just a hypothetical possibility, but a real phenomenon that has already started transforming especially sensitive parts of the globe.

15.11.2004 The space agencies of India and France signed an agreement on Friday to cooperate in launching a satellite in four years that will help make climate predictions more accurate.

12.11.2004 REYKJAVIK − Global warming is melting the Arctic ice faster than expected, and the world's oceans could rise by about a meter (3 feet) by 2100, swamping homes from Bangladesh to Florida, the head of a study said on Tuesday.

06.11.2004 Some of the world’s poorest countries are planning to demand that developed countries adhere to the 'polluter-pays principle' at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference in Argentina next month.

06.11.2004 China's capital is in "a state of emergency" because of air pollution, and one of the biggest polluters in the city, host of the 2008 Olympics, will slash production till the end of the year, state media said on Thursday.

21.10.2004 Global warming threatens to reverse human progress and make international targets on halving world poverty by 2015 unattainable, a study published today said.

15.10.2004 European environment ministers are planning to limit fluoridated greenhouse gases, which are thousands of times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide. In today's Environment Council meeting they started to think ahead to climate policies after the Kyoto Protocol's first commitment period which runs from 2008 to 2012.