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• Guyana to increase oversight of gold mining under deal to save forests with Norway

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 143
  As apart of a deal with Norway to preserve its rainforests, Guyana will step up oversight of its gold mining industry, which has been accused of causing significant environmental damage including deforestation and mercury and cyanide pollution.
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• Canada at Copenhagen: "delay, obstruction, and total inaction"

  
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  Canada was the biggest obstructer at the Climate Change conference in Copenhagen, according to the Climate Action Network (CAN) an organization made-up of 450 NGOs. On Friday CAN awarded Canada the Colossal Fossil Award for doing the most to obstruct an ambitious climate change agreement and for doing the least to ...
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• Bolivias President blames capitalism for global warming

  
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  The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, clearly frustrated with the progression of talks at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, today blamed capitalism for global warming.
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• NBER Paper on Environmental Behaviour

  
  Geary Behavioural Economics Blog — Authority: 435
  Discontinuous Behavioral Responses to Recycling Laws and Plastic Water Bottle Deposits   W. Kip Viscusi ,  Joel Huber ,  Jason Bell ,  Caroline Cecot NBER Working Paper No. 15585 * Issued in December 2009 This article examines the effects of recycling and deposit laws on consumer recycling of ...
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• Climate Change Alarmism: The real battle is against corruption, pollution, deforestation, energy waste etc

  
  Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy — Authority: 123
  Last year I wrote but happened not to publish this brief article which may be relevant today. Climate Change Alarmism: The real battle is against corruption, pollution, deforestation, energy waste etc Subroto Roy May 28 2008 Like the AIDS epidemic that never was, “climate change” is on its way to becoming the ...
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• Uninhabited tropical island paradise seeks REDD funding to save it from loggers

  
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  Tetepare may be one of the last tropical island paradises left on earth. Headhunting and a mysterious illness drove its original inhabitants from the island two hundred years ago, making Tetepare today the largest uninhabited island in the tropical Pacific. The 120 square kilometer island (46 square miles), long ...
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• US moves talks forward in Copenhagen with pledge of 100 billion fund, now its Chinas turn

  
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  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton brought some much need good news to Copenhagen with her. In an announcement this morning, Clinton announced that the United States was ready to join other industrialized nations in mobilizing 100 billion dollars a year in climate aid for developing and vulnerable nations by 2020 at ...
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• Is the US sinking climate change talks at Copenhagen?

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 143
  While its difficult to know whats truly going on inside the Bella Center at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, a pattern seems to be emerging of the United States being unwilling to compromise on, well, anything.
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• Mayors urge ambitious deal on CO2 cuts

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 435
  Greenwire : Mayors from some of the world’s largest and wealthiest cities urged politicians to strike “an ambitious and empowering deal” on carbon dioxide cuts today in Copenhagen. More than 80 mayors, including New York’s Michael Bloomberg, are meeting this week at the Danish capital to exchange ...
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• Autodesk open-sources carbon accounting method

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 128
  Autodesk is making a revised method for tracking greenhouse gas emissions available for free to other companies. The design software company published recently the results of its own program to reduce its environmental footprint. It also open-sourced its methodology, called Corporate Finance Approach to ...
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• Pope Benedict: ecological crisis requires "review of our model of development"

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 143
  Pope Benedict XVI has released a message linking world peace with preserving the environment for the World Day of Peace, which will be held on January 1st 2010. In it Benedict calls for a "long-term review" of the worlds current economic model, including "[moving] beyond a purely consumerist mentality" and encouraging ...
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• U.N. climate chief Pachauri cashes in on carbon

  
  MATADOR NINETY-FOUR — Authority: 117
    Powered by Max Banner Ads   A story emerging out of Britain suggests "follow the money" may explain the enthusiasm of the United Nations to pursue caps on carbon emissions, despite doubts surfacing in the scientific community about the validity of the underlying global warming hypothesis.A Mumbai-based Indian ...
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• New poll: 70 percent of Americans agree that global warming is occurring

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 143
  A new poll, taken in the midst of the scandal involving hacked emails from climate change scientists, shows that a significant majority (70 percent) of Americans agree with climatologists that the earth is warming.
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• REDD may miss up to 80 percent of land use change emissions

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 143
  The political definition of forest used in REDD (Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) threatens to undermine the programs objective to conserve ecosystems for their ability to sequester carbon, according to a new analysis by the Alternatives to Slash and Burn (ASB) Partnership for Tropical ...
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• Soros proposes IMF resources for climate finance

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 435
  Greenwire : The $10 billion a year proposed by rich nations to initially help poor nations adapt to climate change is “not sufficient,” and countries should look at repurposing resources from the International Monetary Fund toward climate finance, the American billionaire George Soros said today. Currently, the ...
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• Cheat sheet on climate finance

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 143
  The Global Canopy Project has released a cheat sheet on proposals for financing climate change mitigation.
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• Obama on global warming and forest protection

  
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  President of the United States, Barack Obama, was in Oslo, Norway this morning accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, which he won in part for promising to bring the United States to the negotiating table on climate change—something he has recently done.
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• China’s Coal Country Under Pressure

  
  shapeshift.net — Authority: 127
  recently Beijing has ramped up efforts to improve its environmental record, closing coal-fired power plants and shutting mines that had kept tens of thousands employed. (2:29 min)
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• US think-tank: islands affected by global warming should wait for trickle-down money

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 143
  Poor island nations threatened by rising seas should wait for money through trickle-down economics, according to the founder of the US Competitive Enterprise Institute. The Washington-based free-market think tank believes that curbing greenhouse gas emissionss to combat climate change will be too costly to the US and ...
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• Gore, Moon, and Rasmussen attempt to regain trust after Danish Text leak in Copenhagen

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 143
  The head of the UN, Ban-Ki Moon; the Danish Prime Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen; and American climate change leader, Al Gore, all attempted to downplay the leak of the Danish Text which has riled developing countries due to portions of its content, such as allowing a climate fund to be controlled by the World Bank, ...
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