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02.07.2009 Attempts to agree global measures to tackle climate change at a summit in Copenhagen in December are faltering, David King, former chief scientific adviser to the British Government, warned yesterday.
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29.06.2009 Britain lacks a coherent energy system that can meet future energy needs while preventing rapid climate change, say scientists in a report that calls for a new vision for energy generation based on long-term replacement of fossil fuels.

26.06.2009 In an attempt to highlight rapidly melting summer sea-ice in the Arctic, an expedition will attempt to sail through the Northeast Passage of the Russian Arctic in a single summer, a trip that took over two years to complete when first attempted in 1839.

25.06.2009 The possibility of 70,000 jobs being created by a home insulation programme to cut CO2 emissions shows the need for more energy-efficient homes is "zooming up the political agenda", says Britain's largest union.
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24.06.2009 Policymakers must radically alter their views of migration and see it as a vital adaptation to climate change rather than an unwanted consequence or a failure to adapt, according to new research.

23.06.2009 European policymakers must collaborate more closely in the fight against global warming, according to the expert who compiled the most detailed ever record of greenhouse gas emissions across the continent.

30.04.2009 U.S.-hosted climate talks with the world's biggest greenhouse gas polluters ended with signs of progress but sizable differences as nations work toward a deal this year to fight global warming.
From: Reuters

18.12.2008 Despite driving poor communities off their land and patently failing to deliver carbon emissions reductions, lobbyists for big industries and institutions such as the World Bank were active in Poznan climate negotiations pushing for further deregulation and expansion of the market-based Clean Development Mechanism.

28.08.2008 As the latest round of UN climate talks closes, Greenpeace has urged governments to pick up the pace of the negotiations which, in just over a year, must deliver a global deal to save the climate.

24.06.2008 Kenya has approved a controversial biofuel project that environmentalists say could destroy some of the country's most pristine wetlands.