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

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  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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• Pat Michaels lying in the Wall Street Journal

  
  The Way Things Break — Authority: 420
  I’m sure someone with more patience and/or a masochistic streak will go about debunking the entire thing, but here’s Michaels claiming that the scientific consensus on anthropogenic warming has been manufactured: The alliance of scientists at East Anglia, Penn State and the University Corporation for ...
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• Recyclers in United Kingdom Rewarded for their Efforts

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 488
  In an effort to encourage those households which recycle the most, as well as encourage more people to develop greener lifestyles, a new scheme has been launched which will offer vouchers to the families who create the least amount of waste.   Recycle Bank, Veolia Environmental Services, and Royal Borough of Windsor ...
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• Vishwa 2009- Inauguration by Bharat Ratna Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam

  
  India Press Release — Authority: 588
  Vishwa 2009 is an International Conference, Exhibition & Workshop that promotes eco friendly business solutions
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• World Wide Fund for Nature-India : Joins the Global Movement at Copenhagen

  
  India Press Release — Authority: 588
  A candle light march demands world leaders to make constructive decisions towards mitigating climate change
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• Vote Earth! Support WWFs call for a strong Climate

  
  India Press Release — Authority: 588
  WWF India is bringing on board passionate youth from across the city to participate in a Candlelight Vigil at the Constitution Club on Rafi Marg, in Delhi at 17:00.
  2 weeks ago

• More than half worlds science academies support call to save rainforests

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  More than half worlds science academies have signed a statement supporting a plan to save tropical forests as a means to fight climate change, reports the Global Canopy Program, an initiative that has worked closely with Prince Charles to promote rainforest conservation. The statement argues that tropical forest ...
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• VA Tech Wabag bags the First Frost & Sullivan Environment Excellence Awards 2009

  
  India Press Release — Authority: 588
  VA Tech Wabag, the worlds leading company in the field of water and water treatment headquartered in Chennai has been awarded the Frost and Sullivan Environment Excellence Award 2009 under the category "Market Strategy Leadership" at Frost and Sullivans First Annual Environment Industry Awards Night, held in the city ...
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• Shell Foundation says getting 2 billion people to adopt improved biomass stoves needs an enterprise approach

  
  India Press Release — Authority: 588
  Shell Foundation: Solution to Indoor Air Pollution by adoption of improved biomass cooking stoves needs an enterprise approach
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• REDD may miss up to 80 percent of land use change emissions

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  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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• Obama on global warming and forest protection

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  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.
  3 weeks ago

• Welcome to Vishwa.... Change today for a greener tomorrow

  
  India Press Release — Authority: 588
  Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, the key note speaker and chief guest, will inaugurate the 3 day conference and exhibition on December 18, 2009.
  3 weeks ago

• REDD+ could turn deforesters into forest protectors

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  Payments for conservation and sustainable management of forests could turn agents of forest destruction into forest protectors, according to a comprehensive analysis of national policy options to reduce deforestation released in Copenhagen by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
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• Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Chosen by Children as Indias First "Paryavaran Ambassador"

  
  India Press Release — Authority: 588
  Dr APJ Abdul Kalam has been chosen the "Bharat ka Paryavaran Ambassador" in a campaign conducted in 2 00,000 schools in India. This poll was part of the CO2 Pick Right- Kaun Banega Bharat Ka Paryavaran Ambassador Programme conducted by the Centre for Environment Education in partnership with ArcelorMittal, for the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Changing drivers of deforestation provides new opportunities for conservation

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  Tropical deforestation claimed roughly 13 million hectares of forest per year during the first half of this decade, about the same rate of loss as the 1990s. But while the overall numbers have remained relatively constant, they mask a transition of great significance: a shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven ...
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• Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  A rainforest tribe fighting to save their territory from loggers owns the carbon-trading rights to their land, according to a legal opinion released today by Baker & McKenzie, one of the world’s largest law firms. The opinion, which was commissioned by Forest Trends, a Washington, D.C.-based forest conservation ...
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• World business leaders to gather in Seoul and set path for low carbon future after COP15

  
  India Press Release — Authority: 588
  B4E summit to take place in Seoul, South Korea, in April 2010; B4E summit is the first major gathering discussing environmental action post-COP15 and is hosted by UNEP, the UN Global Compact, WWF, and the Korean Ministry of Environment; Newly upgraded B4E website goes live today (www.b4esummit.com)
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• Toyota and NDTV Continue their Green Campaign with a River Cleanathon

  
  India Press Release — Authority: 588
  As a part of the hugely successful Greenathon campaign, jointly started by Toyota and NDTV, International Volunteer Day (IVD) was celebrated by cleaning up the banks of the Yamuna at Kudesia Ghat, in Delhi, today.
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• REDD in Madagascar

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  Despite damage from ongoing illegal logging, Madagascars remaining forests are poised to benefit from the proposed REDD mechanism, a U.N.-backed scheme that would compensate tropical developing countries for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation, reports a new paper that analyzes efforts to use carbon ...
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• Concern for Climate Change Cools off Globally but not in India: Nielsen Global Survey

  
  India Press Release — Authority: 588
  Indians believe that the main responsibility to address Global Warming issues rests with the Government
  3 weeks ago

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