| Updated: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:47:43 -0400 |
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Monday, 07 July 2008
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Facing questions about whether their rich-nation club can solve the
world's problems, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his fellow G8
leaders turn their attention Tuesday to the thorny issue of climate
change, hamstrung by the worst global economic conditions in years.
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is a dilemma that few observers expect the leaders to solve at this
week's Group of Eight summit, being held at the scenic resort town of
Toyako on the northern island of Hokkaido.
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A Georgia state court on Monday invalidated a permit to build a
1,200-megawatt coal-fired...
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Britain was on Monday announcing a shortlist of firms in a tender to
build the world's fi...
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India unveiled on Monday a national plan to deal with the threat of
global warming, focus...
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Investors managing more than $2.3 trillion urged the government on
Tuesday to enact stri...
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The black truffle, one of the most exclusive and expensive delicacies on the planet, is un...
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Europe's top business lobby has added its voice to calls on the
European Union to reconsi...
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Climate change presents a tough choice for governments determined
both to fight global wa...
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Halting production of ethanol from grains would help ease global
grains shortages in the ...
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 Businesses must help tackle climate change by reducing carbon emissions, Professor Ross Garnaut says.
The author of the Garnaut Climate Change Review has told ABC's
Inside Business program today many companies had already studied they
could cost-effectively reduce emissions... |
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 Climate change could cut South Africa's maize crop by 20 percent
within 15 to 20 years as the west of the country dries out while the
east is afflicted with increasingly severe storms, its environment
minister said on Sunday.
"For a developing country that's major, and majo... |
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 Global investors plowed $148 billion into new wind, solar and other alternative energy assets last year, in what the United Nations describes as a ''green energy gold rush'' gaining speed the last several years.
The spike in investment -- 60 percent above the $92.6 billion spe... |
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 By the year 2020, California utilities will produce a third of their energy from renewable sources such as wind, solar and geothermal, under a draft plan to address climate change released Thursday by the California Air Resources Board.
Overall, the Climate Change Draft Scopin... |
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 The boom in low-cost air travel has turned this corner of southern
Spain into a thriving tourist destination, and retired plumbers and
schoolteachers into Europe's new jet set. Low-cost airlines make air
travel to cities like Murcia more accessible to Europeans.
But it has... |
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