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Climate Change To Drive Up Food Prices
03-Mar-2011
Date: 03-Mar-11
Country: AUSTRALIA
Author: Bruce Hextall

Global food prices are likely to keep rising as production struggles to match demand and extreme weather events become more frequent, a climate-change advisor to the Australian government said on Wednesday.Ross Garnaut told an agricultural outlook conference that more severe weather events were inevitable, given climate change was "already in the system."

 

U.N. Climate Talks Seen Missing Aid Plan Deadline
03-Mar-2011
Date: 03-Mar-11
Country: NORWAY
Author: Alister Doyle

A plan by almost 200 countries to step up efforts to fight climate change is set to miss a March deadline for starting work on a green fund to help developing nations, delegates said on Wednesday.Groups of Asian, and Latin American and Caribbean countries have yet to decide who will gain early influence in designing the "Green Climate Fund" by attending 40-nation U.N.-led talks due in Mexico City on March 14 and 15.

 

Japan Wants New CO2 Offset Scheme To Complement U.N.
03-Mar-2011
Date: 03-Mar-11
Country: JAPAN
Author: Chisa Fujioka and Risa Maeda

Japan's idea for a new carbon offset scheme would complement an existing U.N. mechanism and make it easier for developing countries to access clean-energy technology from Japan, a senior climate envoy said on Wednesday.Japan has pressed ahead with plans for bilateral deals in which it invests in clean energy projects in developing countries, in exchange for credits to meet part of targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at home.

 

CO2 Farming Could Help Australia Brake Emissions
03-Mar-2011
Date: 03-Mar-11
Country: SINGAPORE
Author: David Fogarty

Australia's farms and vast outback could help cut or offset up to a fifth of the economy's greenhouse gas emissions, a senior scientist says, as the government struggles to put a price on carbon pollution.The country is a major coal exporter and consumer and is among the highest per-capita producers of planet-warming carbon emissions in the rich world.