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Compromise Cancun: Deal signed
A United Nations climate conference on Saturday approved a deal to create a "green" fund for developing countries and to take other small steps to address global warming - despite objections from Bolivia that the pact doesn't go far enough.Though the accords were limited, it was the first time in three years the 193-nation conference adopted any cl...
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Cancun delegates debate climate fund: Who pays?
Should airline passengers pay a small tax to help out? How about global money dealers? Or perhaps governments should take what they spend subsidizing gasoline prices and put it toward the climate cause.Delegates to the U.N. climate conference hope to agree in its final days on setting up a new "green fund" to help poorer countries grapple with glob...
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Cancun setback: India, China isolated
Cracks have developed among the developing countries including the BASIC group on accepting legally binding emission cut at the climate change conference here, with India saying there is concerted pressue on it and China to accept such cuts.The United States, India and China are not in favor of accepting a legally binding agreement, which is suppor...
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Consult chief ministers on climate change: Modi to PM
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to involve chief ministers of all states for defining India's national commitments for climate change, before submitting it for international negotiations. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Modi raised concern over Government of...
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Cancun: Greenpeace activists stage underwater protests
Environmental activists carried out an underwater performance in Cancun on Sunday to draw attention to the risk for (m) millions of people living in coastal areas if immediate action is not taken to curb global warming.The Greenpeace activists dived down to an underwater museum made up of life-sized sculptures in human form fixed to the seabed wher...
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IISc debates climate change ahead of Cancun Summit
Climate change may have been pushed off the headlines, amidst news of scandals and the recent visit of US President Barack Obama. But days ahead of the Cancun climate change summit 2010 in Mexico, India's premier science institute in Bangalore, Indian Institute of science (IISc), kept the debate alive, for hundreds of engineering students. However,...
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Compromise Cancun: Deal signed
A United Nations climate conference on Saturday approved a deal to create a "green" fund for developing countries and to take other small steps to address global warming - despite objections from Bolivia that the pact doesn't go far enough.Though the accords were limited, it was the first time in three years the 193-nation conference adopted any cl...
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Cancun delegates debate climate fund: Who pays?
Should airline passengers pay a small tax to help out? How about global money dealers? Or perhaps governments should take what they spend subsidizing gasoline prices and put it toward the climate cause.Delegates to the U.N. climate conference hope to agree in its final days on setting up a new "green fund" to help poorer countries grapple with glob...
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Cancun setback: India, China isolated
Cracks have developed among the developing countries including the BASIC group on accepting legally binding emission cut at the climate change conference here, with India saying there is concerted pressue on it and China to accept such cuts.The United States, India and China are not in favor of accepting a legally binding agreement, which is suppor...
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Consult chief ministers on climate change: Modi to PM
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to involve chief ministers of all states for defining India's national commitments for climate change, before submitting it for international negotiations. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Modi raised concern over Government of...
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Cancun: Greenpeace activists stage underwater protests
Environmental activists carried out an underwater performance in Cancun on Sunday to draw attention to the risk for (m) millions of people living in coastal areas if immediate action is not taken to curb global warming.The Greenpeace activists dived down to an underwater museum made up of life-sized sculptures in human form fixed to the seabed wher...
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IISc debates climate change ahead of Cancun Summit
Climate change may have been pushed off the headlines, amidst news of scandals and the recent visit of US President Barack Obama. But days ahead of the Cancun climate change summit 2010 in Mexico, India's premier science institute in Bangalore, Indian Institute of science (IISc), kept the debate alive, for hundreds of engineering students. However,...
