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• Kenyan Leader Appeals for Support to Upgrade United Nations Environment Program in Nairobi

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  President Mwai Kibaki has appealed to world leaders to support the strengthening of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) headquarters based in Nairobi. Addressing the high-level segment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, Denmark, Kibaki expressed ...
  2 days ago

• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
  3 days ago

• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
  4 days ago

• UN Climate Change Copenhagen: Cloak & Daggers As US & Japan Reject Kyoto Reference

  
  pacificEyeWitness.org — Authority: 141
  COPENHAGEN, DENMARK -Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Professor Wangari Maathai speaks to delegates at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Politicians and environmentalists are meeting for the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 that runs until December 18. Some of the participating nation’s ...
  4 days ago

• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
  4 days ago

• Green visions from Copenhagen | Video | Wangari Maathai

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Green visions video: Wangari Maathai in Copenhagen: Forests are under threat from logging, encroachment and human settlement. We must reach an ambitious and legally binding deal Wangari Maathai
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• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
  5 days ago

• New Emphasis on Protecting Old Forests in Copenhagen

  
  Copenhagen Insider — Authority: 546
  Advertisement Here atthe Copenhagen Summit the building is a maze of forest of data, side events,booths and actual negotiations over... forests. Forests are part of solving theclimate crisis - through both storing carbon and helping ecosystems andcommunities adapt in a changing world. ...
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• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Change must start from grassroots, Schwarzenegger tells COP15

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The COP15 conference on climate change will be a success even if no deal comes out of it, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday in Copenhagen. “It depends on what your definition of a deal is,” Schwarzenegger told the media. “The important thing is to move the agenda forward.” The ...
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• Angels, celebrities descend on climate summit

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  By Joydeep GuptaCopenhagen, Dec 15 (IANS) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Gore, Wangari Maathai, Desmond Tutu and a host of other celebrities descended on the climate summit Tuesday, rubbing shoulders with NGOs dressed as angels, penguins and trees.As television crews chased celebrities around the sprawling summit venue - ...
  6 days ago

• What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today’s expert panel discusses the question, “What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?” Join the discussion and let us know what you think. ************** Gidon Eshel , physics professor at Bard College: What can ordinary people do to slow climate change? A lot. Which is extremely important ...
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• Climate skeptic: We are winning the science battle

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  - Dr. Fred Singer is the President of The Science & Environmental Policy Project and Professor Emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia. The views expressed are his own - The International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) charter states that the organization’s purpose is to look for ...
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• Coke says green strategy will win business

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  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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• Solar power mounts in Canada

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• The answer could be blowing in the wind

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  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: 137
  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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• In Copenhagen: Global Greens forum to address global warming

  
  Independent Political Report — Authority: 611
  As posted at onthewilderside.com Global Greens forum on December 13 to address global warming during UN Copenhagen Climate Conference Green Party leaders from around the world–including Wangari Maathai, José Bové and Elizabeth May–to participate; US Greens challenge Obama to stop appeasing corporate ...
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• In Copenhagen: Global Greens forum to address global warming

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 438
  based on a press release from the Green Party of The United States:Wednesday, December 9, 2009Global Greens forum on December 13 to address global warming during UN Copenhagen Climate ConferenceGreen Party leaders from around the world–including  Wangari Maathai, José Bové and Elizabeth May–to participate; US ...
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• Africans protest COP15, say “process manipulated”

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  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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