The entire world has high hopes for the UN’s climate change conference in Copenhagen. The goal is to reach an international agreement that all countries can approve and that will lead to actual cuts in CO2 emissions. (20/11/09)
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In November 1989, small island states got together at a conference on the Maldives to discuss climate change and sea level rise. 20 years later they met again. (13/11/09)
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What will solve climate change? Will it be technology? Policy? A growing number of researchers and activists say it's what's behind it all: people. And understanding them is vital to addressing climate change. (19/11/09)
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Climate change affects the sensitive system of the Arctic much more severe than thought. During the last 100 years, the Arctic atmosphere has warmed almost twice as fast as the global average. Scientist of the European Union funded research project Damocles concluded in a declaration published in Brussels today that "unless emissions are curbed significantly, we are not expecting a stabilisation of the Arctic's climate system". (15/11/09)
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In the debate about nuclear power, money and time are at least as important as radioactivity and safety. Nuclear professionals would like nuclear power plants to be accepted as a climate change mitigation option under the Convention on Climate Change, but so far the answer has been no. (06/11/09)
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Fossil CO2 emissions increased by 40 percent from 1990 to 2008, according to new findings. Coal has now bypassed oil as the largest source of CO2 emissions. (05/11/09)
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The transport sector’s influence on global temperature is likely to increase dramatically in the years to come. (29/10/09)
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Norway and the World Bank are in discussions over setting up a new trust fund to help developing countries create and deploy carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. (14/10/09)
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Norway unveiled an aggressive new emissions target yesterday, a move that environmental groups acknowledged is unlikely to prod new U.S. action but that many described as one of the few positive developments in a contentious, down-to-the-wire negotiating session. (09/10/09)
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