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- Tackling climate change to cost 1.6 percent of GDP: UN
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Climate change could have apocalyptic consequences for the world’s poor and tackling it will require cuts in greenhouse gases costing 1.6 percent of global annual [...]
- British business chiefs demand ‘greener’ companies
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Britain’s leading employers’ body, the CBI, on Tuesday urged the business sector to tackle climate change, but its ideas drew a lukewarm response from environmental [...]
- Rising sea floods Indonesian capital
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Indonesia’s environment minister said Tuesday that global warming was to blame after the capital of Jakarta was partially flooded, forcing thousands of people to flee [...]
- Australia’s Rudd makes global warming a priority
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Newly elected leader Kevin Rudd moved quickly Sunday to bring Australia into international talks on fighting global warming, and to head off potentially thorny relations [...]
- UN panel gives dire warming forecast
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Global warming is “unequivocal” and carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere commits the world to an eventual rise in sea levels of up to 4.6 [...]
- The Scientists Speak
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The world’s scientists have done their job. Now it’s time for world leaders, starting with President Bush, to do theirs. That is the urgent message [...]
- History shows climate changes led to famine and war
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Global warming is one of the most significant threats facing humankind, researchers warned, as they unveiled a study showing how climate changes in the past [...]
- Scientists warn of agrarian crisis from climate change
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An agrarian crisis is brewing because of climate change that could jeopardise global food supplies and increase the risk of hunger for a billion poorest [...]
- Global Warming Bill Advances in Senate
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Lawmakers took the first step Thursday on a bipartisan global warming bill that would impose mandatory cuts in greenhouse gases from power plants, industrial facilities [...]
- Climate ‘will undo Asian success’
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A report by a coalition of environment and aid agencies calls for urgent action to avert the threat.
The Working Group on Climate Change and Development [...]
