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60 Kota Akan Tanda Tangani Perjanjian Iklim
17-Nov-2010; 07:18
Rabu, 17 November 2010 22:21 WIB
Mexico City (ANTARA News) - Sekitar 60 kota dari seluruh dunia akhir pekan ini akan menandatangani satu perjanjian untuk mengurangi emisi gas rumah kaca, kata pihak berwenang Mexico City, Rabu."Untuk pertama kali kami akan menandatangani satu perjanjian untuk menetapkan target-target mengurangi emisi di atmosfir, yang negara-negara paling penting di dunia menolak melakukannya," kata wali
UAE, Australia And U.S. Top List Of Carbon Emitters
18-Nov-2010; 07:02
Date: 18-Nov-10
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Author: Alister Doyle
The United Arab Emirates, Australia and the United States have the worst overall records for emitting greenhouse gases, according to an index published on Wednesday combining current and historic emissions.The top of the 183-nation ranking, compiled by British consultancy Maplecroft, was dominated by rich countries and OPEC members. It said it aimed to alert investors to countries vulnerable if U.N.-led climate talks ever agreed wider penalties on carbon.
China Owes Top Global Energy Spot To Barnyard Spoils: IEA
18-Nov-2010; 07:09
Date: 18-Nov-10
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Author: Chris Buckley
China has nudged to the pinnacle of world energy consumption rankings on the back of pig manure and other kinds of biomass fuel, according to the chief of the International Energy Agency, explaining why estimates differ.Chinese officials have become huffy about their nation being called the world's biggest user of energy, fearing the title will bring with it more demands to slash consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, dragging down economic growth.
Tiny U.N. Climate Fund Could Take Bigger Role: Chair
18-Nov-2010; 07:11
Date: 18-Nov-10
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Author: Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
A tiny U.N. fund that is starting to help developing nations adapt to climate change could expand to manage part of a planned $100 billion aid mechanism to be debated at U.N. talks in Mexico, the chair of the fund said.Developing nations reckon the existing Adaptation Fund, which signed its first deal last week to give $8.6 million to Senegal to fight coastal erosion, could overcome objections from donors to win a wider role, Farrukh Iqbal Khan told Reuters.
Climate Aid Said Focused Too Heavily On C02 Cuts
18-Nov-2010; 07:12
Date: 18-Nov-10
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Author: Laurie Goering
Too much of the $30 billion pledged as "fast-start" climate aid will go to projects that curb emissions instead of efforts to help vulnerable nations adapt to extreme weather and rising seas, a study said on Wednesday.Under the non-binding Copenhagen Accord agreed at a U.N. summit in December 2009, donors agreed that money to give a quick push to efforts to slow climate change from 2010-12 would have a "balanced allocation between adaptation and mitigation."
World Farming To Get $200 Million In Climate Aid
18-Nov-2010; 07:14
Date: 18-Nov-10
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Author: Laurie Goering
Development agencies worldwide are joining forces to spend $200 million in a 10-year programme to help the agriculture sector prepare for climate change and cut greenhouse gas emissions, farm research groups said on Wednesday.The funding will go to research on how to feed a growing, more affluent world population in the face of expectations of worsening floods and droughts.
California Leads "Subnational" Summit Climate Push
18-Nov-2010; 07:15
Date: 18-Nov-10
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Author: Peter Henderson
Regional and state governments despairing of global action to counter climate change banded together on Tuesday at a summit in California, where a challenge to its climate law was just defeated.The so-called R20 coalition of dozens of regional and provincial governments, observer nations and advocacy groups aim to use their joint economic heft to create industries and to make "subnational" deals to create low-carbon projects.
