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• China sets carbon-cutting targets

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  • China plans to cut emissions by up to 45% by 2020 • PM Wen Jiabao to attend Copenhagen climate talks The Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, will attend the Copenhagen climate talks next month, the government said today, as it unveiled targets for reducing the worlds biggest carbon footprint. A day after the ...
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• Copenhagen conference: Chinese PM Wen Jiabao to attend climate talks

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Activists disappointed at absence of Hu Jintao but announcement may pre-empt unveiling of Chinas carbon target The Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, will attend the Copenhagen climate talks next month, the government said amid mounting speculation that the worlds biggest emitter will soon revise targets to tackle ...
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• Eat less meat to save Earth and your heart

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, November 26 (ANI): In a new research, a team of scientists has determined that eating less meat may help save planet Earth, as well as reduce the risk of heart attacks in humans.According to a report in New Scientist, the research was done by Alan Dangour of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical [...]
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• Australias Copenhagen climate strategy is smoke and mirrors | Fred Pearce

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  Australian PM Kevin Rudd talks a good climate game, offering 25% emissions cuts. But do the numbers add up? This may seem churlish in the week when the Australian prime minister, Kevin Rudd, is doing a deal with the opposition to get climate change legislation through the Senate . After all, that puts him one step ...
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• News Break: Obama to Attend COP15 Climate Conference

  
  Global Warming is Real — Authority: 470
  After several weeks of speculation over whether president Obama would attend the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen next month, the White House confirmed today that he will go. Obama plans on arriving on the 9th of December, two days after the start of the conference, to deliver a speech to the international ...
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• Reversible Acid Gas Capture Eliminates Sulfur and Carbon Dioxide from Power Plant Emissions

  
  Energy Business Daily — Authority: 428
  A breakthrough technology that can capture twice the amount of harmful gases from power plant emissions has been introduced by the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The Reversible Acid Gas Capture is capable of pulling gases like carbon dioxide, sulfur and other pollutant gases from power ...
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• Govt cuts red tape in move towards a low-carbon future

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 526
  | Sourced From Clickgreen.org.uk | The UK Government has launched a package of measures designed to cut carbon emissions by overhauling the planning system. In proposals published today for consultation, homeowners, developers and businesses will be able to install their own on-site wind turbines, and air source ...
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• Climate Change ‘More Alarming Than Ever’ Claim UK Groups

  
  Mendo Coast Current — Authority: 119
  BBC News, November 24, 2009Three UK groups studying climate change have issued a strong statement about the dangers of failing to cut emissions of greenhouse gases across the world.The Royal Society, Met Office, and Natural Environment Research Council (Nerc) say the science of climate change is more alarming than ...
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• Pretending the climate email leak isnt a crisis wont make it go away | George Monbiot

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Climate sceptics have lied, obscured and cheated for years. Thats why we climate rationalists must uphold the highest standards of science I have seldom felt so alone. Confronted with crisis, most of the environmentalists I know have gone into denial. The emails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the ...
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• World’s First Osmotic Power Plant Goes Online in Norway

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 138
  The process, called osmotic power, is a harvesting the energy that appears when salt water and fresh water meet through an osmotic filter. For the moment, the project is small-scale but could prove the great potential of osmotic energy.
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• Forget About Climate Change, Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Has Major Direct Health Benefits

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 716
  Air pollution in Tehran, photo: Hamid Najafi via flickr. Forget about climate change for one moment, a series of six papers appearing in The Lancet says that reducing CO2 and other greenhouse gases has "major direct health benefits." The papers examine case studies in electricity generation, household energy ...
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• Israeli PM seeks 10-month settlement pause

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 164
  Israel’s prime minister seeks approval for a 10-month restriction in new settlement building in the West Bank, excluding East Jerusalem. Read the original: Israeli PM seeks 10-month settlement pause
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• US pledges major emissions cuts

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 164
  President Obama will vow to cut US carbon emissions by 17% by 2020, when he attends the climate summit in Copenhagen. Go here to see the original:  US pledges major emissions cuts
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• November 23: Energy Risk – Stocking Up on Carbon Credits

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 526
  | Sourced From Riskcenter.com | Business has slowed. And so too has the demand for carbon emission allowances — those credits that are traded among European nations and some American utilities as a way to motivate a transition to a carbon-free global economy. If commerce were humming along, manufacturing and ...
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• INSTANT VIEW 2-Australia revises carbon-trading scheme

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 526
  SYDNEY, Nov 24 (Reuters) – The Australian government revised its plans to cut carbon emissions on Tuesday in order to win majority political support for the reform. Continue Reading on Reuters
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• Climate change threatens health

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  UK health secretary backs Lancet report that says reducing carbon emissions and home insulation will improve the countrys health The impacts of climate change on health are a "very real and present danger", the health secretary, Andy Burnham, warned today at the launch of a new report on how rising temperatures will ...
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• China may downgrade emissions target

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Recent reports about Chinas likely target have generated fears that a climate deal could be hindered by cautious initial bid Europe and the US are concerned that China may soon set a carbon target that marks a step back from its current efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. With two weeks remaining until the ...
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• Join Hunter Lovins In London at The Road To Ecotopia Conference

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 716
  Images via Fair Knowledge Hunter Lovins , Director of The Rocky Mountain Institute , is just one of many great environmental thinkers and strategists who will be speaking at The Road to Ecotopia conference taking place in London next week. This Cineforum event has set the ambitious target of creating "a ...
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• China vs. US: Who’s the climate change solutions leader?

  
  China Environmental Law — Authority: 460
  [Reprinted in full from The Economist, Economist Debate: " This house believes that China is showing more leadership than America in the fight against climate change " Please read and vote your conscience which will no doubt be in perfect harmony with the position expressed below] China and the United States ...
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• CO2 Emissions Keep Rising, Despite Global Economy

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 526
  | Sourced From Npr.org | One indicator that didn’t fall in 2009: global carbon dioxide levels. According to the Global Carbon Project, a group that provides policymakers with annual global carbon dioxide level estimates, each person on the planet produced 1.3 tons of carbon last year–an all-time high despite ...
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