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UN says warming threatens fish stocks
February 23rd, 2008
Major world commercial fish stocks could collapse within decades as global warming compounds damage from pollution and overfishing, U.N. officials said Friday.
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Investors discuss climate risks at UN
February 14th, 2008
Hundreds of investors controlling $20 trillion in capital came searching for answers Thursday on how to put a price on carbon emissions blamed for global warming and create a new — and lucrative — economy based on cleaner sources of energy.
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UN seek new leaders on global warming
February 12th, 2008
Virgin CEO Richard Branson offered Monday to set up an “environmental war room” to lead the world’s efforts to find a fix for global warming.
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La Nina Pacific cooling may last to mid-year -U.N.
February 11th, 2008
A sea-surface cooling in the Pacific, which may have contributed to strong hurricanes in the United States and a freeze-up in China, could last at least until mid-year, the U.N. weather body WMO said on Monday.
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UN urges rich nations to lead fight against climate change
February 11th, 2008
The UN General Assembly opened Monday a debate on climate change, taking its cue from the Bali conference that devised negotiations for a new global deal on curbing carbon emissions that heat up the earth’s atmosphere.
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US climate talks must focus on emissions curbs-UN
January 29th, 2008
U.S.-hosted climate talks in Hawaii this week need to focus more on agreeing curbs to greenhouse gas emissions by major polluters, the U.N.’s top climate change official said on Tuesday.
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Antarctica on alert for alien invaders
January 27th, 2008
Seeds, spores, mites, lichens and mosses alien to the continent have been brought unwittingly by scientists and tourists, and could disrupt life in the icy wilderness. Antarctica is best known for penguins as well as seals and whales, but scientists are finding a host of other tiny organisms from springtails — closely related to insects — to mosses.
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UN calls water top priority
January 25th, 2008
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world on Thursday to put the looming crisis over water shortages at the top of the global agenda this year and take action to prevent conflicts over scarce supplies.
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UN: climate change measures should be bold in face of recession
January 25th, 2008
Governments need to keep their nerve on curbing emissions in the face of potential recession, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, Yvo De Boer said Friday, warning that action was even more crucial.
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UN weather agency aims to beef up climate change monitoring
January 11th, 2008
The UN weather agency (WMO) said Friday it planned to expand its use of the world’s satellites to provide more accurate weather forecasting and to monitor climate change better.
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UN climate chief to visit Antarctica
January 8th, 2008
The next report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should deal with the “frightening” possibility that both Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets start melting at the same time, the chief U.N. climate scientist said Tuesday.
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Japan, U.S., EU eye new energy-saving body -report
January 6th, 2008
Japan, the United States and the European Union will jointly propose the creation of a new body to act as an international command centre in efforts to counter global warming, a leading Japanese daily said on Sunday.
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U.N. sees no climate change solution without U.S.
December 21st, 2007
The United States will suffer from global warming along with other nations if there is no broader agreement on cutting carbon emissions, the United Nations environment chief Achim Steiner said.
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Grow more food in cities, UN agency tells Asia
December 19th, 2007
Asian nations, many at risk from climate change, must invest more in urban and indoor farming to help feed the hundreds of millions of people in their growing cities, the World Meteorological Organisation said on Wednesday.
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Bali climate talks reach agreement
December 15th, 2007
The level of ambition to guide rich countries’ efforts to fight climate change was one of the most contentious issues at the Bali talks. The United States opposed a European Union-backed range for greenhouse gas emissions cuts by 2020. Earlier drafts had mentioned a goal for rich countries to cut.
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