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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)
Related topics/regions: [Asia and the Pacific] [Development] [Poverty] [Environment]
Image: Young children exposed to cooking smoke, Nepal © ITDG
The EU
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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Everest
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.
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From: Environmental News Network
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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.
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From: Environment News Service (ENS)
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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.
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From: Environmental News Network
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Global Warming
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.
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From: Environmental News Network
Related topics/regions: [France] [India] [Climate change] [Science]
Image: Global Warming © Guardian Unlimited
Planet Earth
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.
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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.
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From: SciDev.Net
Related topics/regions: [Development] [Consumption] [Climate change] [Politics]
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