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• Europeans back select developing countries at climate talks

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Dipankar De SarkarLondon, Dec 16 (IANS) The Climate summit in Copenhagen is likely to be presented with an Ethiopian proposal backed by key European leaders that seeks to raise money by taxing different pots of big business, according to reports here Wednesday.Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who has been ...
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• Countdown in Copenhagen

  
  Climate Change — Authority: 415
  I read a really good book by Steve Schlesinger a few years back called Act of Creation .  It’s about the San Francisco conference at which the United Nations was born.  There was a lot of intrigue and high drama, with plenty at stake.  There are stories of heroes, too, like Edward Stettinius, the unsung ...
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• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
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• German president to visit India February 2010

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Berlin, Dec 15 (DPA) German President Horst Koehler is to make an official visit to India and South Korea in February 2010, his office in Berlin announced Tuesday.Koehler and his wife Eva Luise will visit India at the invitation of President Pratibha Devisingh Patil Feb 1-7, 2010.On the invitation of President Lee ...
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• Can science and politics mix in Copenhagen?

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 177
  As a trained physicist, Angela Merkel knows scientific findings and political negotiations don’t always mix well. So the German Chancellor, who has no doubts about the scientific evidence of climate change, is going with a somewhat uneasy feeling to the climate conference in Copenhagen, where negotiations are ...
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• Whats a Grecian urn? Still about 400 euros a week

  
  News World — Authority: 137
  From pantomimes to the gags that fall out of crackers, ’tis the season of bad jokes. So what’s a Grecian urn? For now, it’s still about 400 euros a week. But with the economic convulsions going on in Athens, maybe pay will before long be counted in drachmas again, just as it was before 2002.Actually, [...]
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• Government Pretends to Punish the Bankers

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 522
  Its open season on bankers. But the hunters are shooting blanks! First, Britain said it would impose a 50% super-tax on their bonuses. Then, Sarkozy said he would do the same thing. Angela Merkel merely said that she found the idea charming. As for the US, the argument goes on. Goldman has tried to head it off with ...
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• Coke says green strategy will win business

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Having an integrated clean technology strategy will be a big part of winning business in the 21st century, a Coca-Cola executive told Reuters.com on Monday, and its investments in refrigeration will likely have the biggest impact on that strategy long-term. The worlds biggest soft drinks maker has hooked up with ...
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• Darlings tax on bankers bonuses is a rallying cry to the world

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  France has acted, Germany is interested - and the signal from London could change attitudes in the US The banks defence of Fortress Bonus is starting to crumble. Their claim that unilateral action against excessive rewards by the UK would damage the City has been a key plank of their case against bonus reform, but ...
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• Pakistan PM says South Waziristan offensive over (AP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 466
  AP – Pakistan has wrapped up its army offensive against the Taliban in South Waziristan, but now may send its soldiers after militants … See original here: (AP)"> (AP)">Pakistan PM says South Waziristan offensive over (AP)
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• Solar power mounts in Canada

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Solar power is heating up in the northern reaches of Canada, a country not exactly known for its sunny rays and warm weather. The industry has seen a heap of news from the region this week. US. solar heavyweight First Solar and Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced that they are quadrupling the size of a ...
  5 days ago

• Pre-Budget report: Germanys Angela Merkel says bonus taxes a charming idea but not for us

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 967
  Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, described Alistair Darlings plan to tax bankers bonuses as a "charming idea" but stopped short of saying she would back the same move in Germany.
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• EU pulls all-nighter to find climate aid cash (AFP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 466
  AFP – European leaders, bidding to increase pressure for a worldwide climate deal in Copenhagen, battled through the night to hammer down Friday a … Go here to see the original: (AFP)"> (AFP)">EU pulls all-nighter to find climate aid cash (AFP)
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• European Union: Sarko and the City

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 161
  After the love-in comes the lovers tiff. The low point of the unusual political relationship Nicolas Sarkozy developed with Gordon Brown came when the French president bragged, off the record, that Britain was the "big loser" in the appointment of Michel Barnier to the key financial post of EU commissioner for the ...
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• The answer could be blowing in the wind

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Well into the first week of the U.N. Conference on Climate Change, the haves and have nots of the world are still divided over who should pay for the cleanup of the planet. Poor countries want rich countries to cough up more ambitious goals for emissions cuts and developing technologies. From emerging wind and ...
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• JohnsonDiversey exec sees CO2 reductions good for businesses

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Some businesses in the United States will have to reinvent themselves as the Obama administration moves to lower greenhouse gas emissions, but theyll be better off in the long run, Pedro Chidichimo, president of JohnsonDiversey EMA, told Reuters.com on Thursday. Despite the inevitable short-term pain, Chidichimo said ...
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• Germany plans Internet virus phonecall alerts

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Stuttgart, Dec 9 (DPA) German officials are planning to step up the fight against online viruses by phoning Internet users to warn them their computers are infected, an industry summit was told Tuesday.Germany’s federal computer security agency (BSI) and the German internet business federation ECO said Internet ...
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• Africans protest COP15, say “process manipulated”

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  In the most heated protest of these early days at COP15 in Copenhagen, African representatives accused the political leaders of the developed world of hijacking the conference to the detriment of developing nations. The marchers said the process of the talks had been manipulated by the developed worlds political ...
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• Tibetans mourn demise of German politician

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Dharamsala, Dec 8 (IANS) The Tibetan government-in-exile Tuesday mourned the demise of Otto Graf Lambsdorff, a prominent figure in West German politics who had championed the cause of Tibet on various international fora.“On behalf of the Kashag (Tibetan cabinet), we mourned the demise of Lambsdorff,” acting prime ...
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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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