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UNDP chief hails China's climate target as 'ambitious'
Tōkyō :: Japan | 1 day ago
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Development Program hailed Saturday China's new energy efficiency target to fight global warming, saying it is ''important and ambitious'' and ''injects momentum'' into the lead-up to a U.N. climate change conference next month in Copenhagen. To access...
Tags: Japan, japan launches, Tanegashima, China, rocket carrying, spy satellite, Tōkyō, Environment, Satellite, Japanese space program, Tanegashima Space Center, Information Gathering Satellite, H-IIA, Carbon finance, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Business Finance, Global warming, Politics, Climate change, Nitto Denko, Remote sensing, Desalination, 21st century, Climate change in China, Hyflux, Kyoto Protocol, Taepodong-2, Water treatment, Kyodo News, Japanese media, 19th century
Fewer Kenyans dying of Aids
Nairobi :: Kenya | 1 day ago
Credibility More take up anti-retrovirals as infection rates decline Far fewer Kenyans are dying of HIV-related causes today than seven years ago. A new report attributes this to increased use of anti-retrovirals while prevalence rates seem to have stabilised....
Tags: Kenya Demographic Health Survey, condom use, Kenya, Nairobi, Health Medical Pharma, HIV/AIDS, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, AIDS pandemic, Social Issues, AIDS, Immunodeficiency, Pandemics, 21st century, HIV
‘Time’ Magazine Dubs The 2000’s ‘The Decade From Hell’
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 day ago
Credibility And I gotta agree, they've got a hell of a point November 27th, 2009 It looks like we’ve all got another big reason to be thankful this year … it’s almost the end of the 00’s decade which, according to Time magazine, has been The Decade from Hell . The...
Tags: worst decade, Time magazine, Afghanistan, Kabul, Disasters, 21st century, Disaster Accident
Hacked E-Mail Data Prompts Calls for Changes in Climate Research
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility The scientists say that the e-mail messages, which have circulated on the Internet and which disclose the inner workings of a small network of climatologists who chart the planet’s temperature, have damaged the public’s trust in the evidence that humans...
Tags: scientists, climate change, global warming, polar ice caps, ice caps, United Kingdom, London, Environment, Carbon finance, Environmental skepticism, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Scientific opinion on climate change, Global warming controversy, IPCC Third Assessment Report, Climate, 19th century, The Great Global Warming Swindle, 21st century, Technology Internet, Climatologists, Kevin E. Trenberth
Commonwealth summit: What are we doing here?
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility The leaders of its 53 members, meeting this weekend on the island of Trinidad, are attending out of tradition and duty – a school reunion for a class that has grown up since graduation, but whose former headmistress still enjoys getting her old boys and...
Tags: Gordon Brown, Nicolas Sarkozy, Britain, Commonwealth, prime minister, climate change, France, Mr Brown, Trinidad, United Kingdom, London, Politics, Environment, Carbon finance, Business Finance, Global warming, Government of Andorra, International organizations, Finance, Tobin tax, Tax, European Union, Post-Kyoto Protocol negotiations on greenhouse gas emissions, Forms of government, Tax haven, G-20 major economies, 21st century, Commonwealth of Nations, Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, Public finance, Value added tax
Ugandas temperature to rise by 1.5 degrees
Mbarara :: Uganda | 2 days ago
Credibility S average temperature will increase by up to 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next 20 years as a result of global warming, according to the State of the Uganda Population Report, released yesterday by finance minister Syda Bbumba. �Climate change is likely...
Tags: Uganda, climate change, food security, degrees celsius, water resources, Mbarara, Environment, Food politics, Global warming, 21st century, Malaria, Drought
Climate change already a reality in Africa
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | 2 days ago
Credibility From prolonged droughts to melting ice caps to heavy flooding and unpredictable weather patterns, climate change effects are already wrecking lives in Africa, the continent that pollutes the least. About 23-million people currently face starvation across...
Tags: climate change, South Africa, Southern Africa, African Union, Kenya, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Environment, Carbon finance, 19th century, Global warming, 21st century, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Drought
China sets ambitious target on emissions
Beijing :: China | 2 days ago
Credibility This is a voluntary action taken by the Chinese government based on its own national conditions and is a major contribution to the global effort in tackling climate change," the State Council said in a statement quoted by the Xinhua news agency yesterday.
Tags: china, president, Wen Jiabao, greenhouse gases, obama, climate change, Copenhagen, China Pledges Effort, global warming, Stephen Harper, Beijing, Environment, Carbon finance, Kyoto Protocol, Carbon dioxide, Diplomatic conferences, Action on climate change, Mitigation of global warming, Politics, Politics of global warming, 21st century, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Emissions trading, Greenhouse gas, Carbon intensity, United Nations Climate Change Conference, Greenhouse gas emissions by the United States, Commonwealth of Nations, Energy policy of China, Bank of Montreal, Economics of global warming
Global Tricks: Climate change we can't believe in?
Lon :: Burkina Faso | 2 days ago
Credibility And while they'll seek ways to battle greenhouse emissions, the scientific community is split over global warming. After hackers allegedly exposed one of the most respected climate research institutes as having defrauded the world in regards to global...
Tags: global warming, Burkina Faso, Lon, Environment, Climate change, The Great Global Warming Swindle, Carbon finance, IPCC Third Assessment Report, George Monbiot, 19th century, 21st century, Climate Sceptics Party
Connecting with the 21st century
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 2 days ago
Credibility Once, water supply and electricity were the keystones to national development and attracting foreign investments. But now, broadband connectivity has become a basic necessity for businesses and homes alike. Every sector of the economy, every industry...
Tags: BBGP, Datuk Wira Kamaruddin Siaraf, National Broadband Implementation Plan, bringing broadband, 21st century, broadband services, Telekom Malaysia, broadband penetration, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, WiMAX, Wireless networking, Broadband, Business Finance, Telecommunications, National broadband plans from around the world, Internet television, Digital television, IPTV
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