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Climate leads trio of unravelling EU deals
Wed, 10/21/2009 - 12:39
Luxembourg (AFP) Oct 20, 2009 - European finance ministers failed on Tuesday to agree who will pay what to help developing countries fight global warming, in the biggest of three deals to come unstuck at their meeting.
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Brown urges world to break climate impasse
Wed, 10/21/2009 - 12:39
London (UPI) Oct 19, 2009 - World leaders have 50 days to save the Earth from irreversible global warming, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday.
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Denmark to crack down on Copenhagen conference protests
Wed, 10/21/2009 - 12:39
Copenhagen (AFP) Oct 19, 2009 - Danish Justice Minister Brian Mikkelsen presented a series of measures Monday aimed at cracking down on any violent protesters at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in December.
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Britain, US insist global climate deal can be done
Wed, 10/21/2009 - 12:39
London (AFP) Oct 19, 2009 - The United States and Britain insisted Monday they had not given up on securing a deal to tackle climate change at a crunch summit in December after a meeting of major polluting countries in London.
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World economies hold climate talks in London
Wed, 10/21/2009 - 12:39
London (AFP) Oct 18, 2009 - Representatives of the world's biggest carbon polluters began two days of informal talks in London on Sunday to map out common ground 50 days before a key UN climate conference in Copenhagen.
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Drought in Kenya: they shoot camels, don't they?
Wed, 10/21/2009 - 12:39
Loboro, Kenya (AFP) Oct 16, 2009 - The camel, its legs attached with branches, brays desperately, blood spurting from the cut artery; nomads in Turkana in Kenya's extreme north have been reduced to sacrificing their animals to survive a bruising drought.
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Copenhagen climate talks could fail: US special envoy
Wed, 10/21/2009 - 12:39
London (AFP) Oct 17, 2009 - The crucial Copenhagen climate change summit could end without a deal, the US special envoy for climate change warned Saturday, while urging big developing economies to boost their efforts.
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'Climate refugees' add strain to seething Bangladesh capital
Wed, 10/21/2009 - 12:39
Dhaka (AFP) Oct 18, 2009 - When a cyclone destroyed her home two years ago, Shahana Begum joined the swelling ranks of Bangladeshi "climate refugees" who, experts say, could one day overwhelm the capital Dhaka.
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Global warming to triple heavy rain over Taiwan: scientist
Wed, 10/21/2009 - 12:39
Taipei (AFP) Oct 13, 2009 - Global warming will cause the amount of heavy rain dumped on Taiwan to triple over the next 20 years, facing the government with the urgent need to beef up flood defences, a scientist warned Tuesday.
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'Urgent' probe into protest on roof of British parliament
Wed, 10/21/2009 - 12:39
London (AFP) Oct 12, 2009 - House of Commons authorities ordered an "urgent" probe Monday after dozens of climate change protestors scaled the roof of the British parliament as lawmakers returned from their summer break.
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