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• Addressing the climate and development nexus

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 521
  Author: Imran Habib Ahmad, Tariq Banuri and Richard Kozul-Wright. ‘There is no plan B for the planet’ remarked Gordon Brown in his recent statement at the Major Economies Forum’s meeting. But while the science on climate change remains unambiguous, a combination of a legacy of mistrust, political inertia, ...
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• Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after ‘Danish text’ leak

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 141
  The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN’s role in all future climate change negotiations.The document is ...
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• Australian state shelves project to export coal to India

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Melbourne, Dec 10 (IANS) Australia’s Victoria state has canned its plan to allow mining and export of coal to India, a media report said.Three months after plans to allow Melbourne-based Exergen to launch a $1.5 billion coal export scheme were revealed, Energy Minister Peter Batchelor has now ruled it out, The Age ...
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• Sweden gives millions for climate aid

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Stockholm/Brussels, Dec 10 (DPA) Sweden plans to contribute 765 million euros to a EU development fund to combat climate change, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt announced in Parliament in Stockholm.The Swedish prime minister announced the plan Wednesday.Talks at a summit of EU leaders Thursday in Brussels are to ...
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• Copenhagen: US gets tough on China

  
  Australian Climate Madness — Authority: 147
  Stern by name, stern by nature For all the sweet talking that has been going on over the past few months, when it comes to tough negotiations, the gloves are off, as Politiken.dk reports: America’s Chief Negotiator Todd Stern says China must act, and rejects demands for more funding. He may have just ...
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• Danes reject developing nations’ criticism of climate draft

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Copenhagen, Dec 9 (DPA) Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen Wednesday rejected criticism of a Danish working paper at the UN climate change conference deemed by developing countries to go against previous agreements.Rasmussen, host of the Copenhagen gathering, said the criticism levelled by the Group of 77 ...
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• Climate Deal Likely to Bear Big Price Tag

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 163
  If negotiators reach an accord at climate talks in Copenhagen, the global changes required will cost trillions of dollars over the next few decades.
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• Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after ‘Danish text’ leak

  
  Get Out of Dodge! — Authority: 134
  The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN’s role in all future climate change negotiations. The document is ...
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• What will the Copenhagen conference mean to ordinary Americans?

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 502
  Article from Forbes magazine . (H/T Muddling Towards Maturity ) Excerpt: Whatever the results of the Copenhagen conference on climate change, one thing is for sure: Draconian reductions on carbon emissions will be tacitly accepted by the most developed economies and sloughed off by many developing ones. In ...
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• Saving rainforests with the UN-REDD program

  
  Sustainable development and much more — Authority: 126
  While in the train going to Paris to attend the Green Job forum I read an interesting article on how banking on trees could enable us to fight off climate change and give money to enable developing nations to protect their forests. The United Nations REDD program – Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and ...
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• Electricity for the Poor – What Copenhagen Really Needs to Confront

  
  MasterResource — Authority: 571
  When you fly overnight from Johannesburg to Europe the lights become thin just north of Lusaka, Zambia, a few more in Zambia’s Copper Belt and then nothing (and I mean nothing) until the North African coastline. For most of this 11-12 hour flight there are no artificial lights below. From the Sahara on south, but ...
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• Climate Deal Likely to Bear Big Price Tag

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  If negotiators reach an accord at climate talks in Copenhagen, the global changes required will cost trillions of dollars over the next few decades.
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• Secret deal leak exposes divisions at Copenhagen climate talks

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  UNDERLYING tensions between rich and poor nations at the Copenhagen climate negotiations have boiled to the surface with the leaking of a "secret" draft agreement prepared by the Danish host government and a select "circle of commitment" including Kevin Rudd. The leaked document rocked the United Nations conference as ...
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• Copenhagen – Day 2: “disarray”

  
  Australian Climate Madness — Authority: 147
  Day 2 It hasn’t taken long for the wheels to start coming loose on the Copenhagen bandwagon, if reports at News.com.au are to be believed. Under the headline “ Copenhagen conference in disarray “, it reports that certain documents have been leaked showing wealthier nations would be given more power in future ...
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• Hopenhagen Falling Apart

  
  Vancouver Secrets — Authority: 133
  Guardian: The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN’s role in all future climate change negotiations. The ...
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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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• Doha Round: India won’t compromise rights of developing world (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) India, which has taken the lead in re-energising the Doha Round of World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks, will ensure that the rights of the developing and poor nations are not compromised, the Rajya Sabha was told Tuesday.“There is no question of India, while re-energising the Doha Round, ...
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• Changing patterns of global childhood blindness should be reassessed: Experts

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Washington, Dec 8 (ANI): A team of eye specialists from India, Malawi, and Tanzania have revealed that patterns of childhood blindness have been changing and there is a need to reassess the strategies for recognition and treatment of the disease in developing countries.According to Paul Courtright (Kilimanjaro Centre ...
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• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
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• WTO Promises More of the Same

  
  New Paradigm Digest — Authority: 133
  If we have learned anything from the financial collapse we are living through, it’s that derivitives are bad for business and the rest of us and yet the WTO wants developing countries to welcome them. Fuzzy logic at best. What we need are a new set of regulations that eliminate the opportunity for a repeat of the ...
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