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Kelly Rigg: It’s time for world leaders to take a walk in the woods
Courtesy: Kelly Rigg There’s a sign hanging at Muir Woods, a gorgeous redwood forest not far from San Francisco, which reads: In 1945, delegates from all over the world met in San Francisco to...
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CIDSE: Keeping faith in the climate talks
The buzz around the Copenhagen climate summit is a distant memory. Since December 2009, climate change has quickly moved down the priority list of many. In the midst of a deep global financial and...
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CAN: NGO’s call for Action, Ambition, Equity at UN Climate Talks
At the opening of the biggest climate talks of the year, international experts from NGOs organized in the Climate Action Network (CAN) said the Doha negotiations presented a turning point for world...
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UNFCCC: UN partners with Rockefeller Foundation to showcase women’s role in...
Creative Commons: Red Cross The Rockefeller Foundation today awarded a grant to the United Nations Climate Change secretariat to launch Momentum for Change: Women for Results, an initiative to...
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Youth activists bring energy, urgency to Doha climate talks
Creative Commons: Adopt a Negotiator, 2012 When the US university student Anjali Appadurai lambasted diplomats from 194 countries for their lack of action and ambition at last year’s climate talks in...
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Russia backslides on 25 percent emission reduction goal in Doha
A draft presidential decree seen by RIA Novosti shows that Russia might be backing away from an unconditional 25% emission reduction target announced by Prime Minister Medvedev during the Rio+20...
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Greenhouse gas emissions rose three percent in 2011: UN Report
Creative Commons: Gregory Wake, 2008 The amount of heat-trapping pollution the world spewed rose again last year by 3 percent. So scientists say it’s now unlikely that global warming can be limited...
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Fossil fuel subsidies in focus at Doha climate talks
Creative Commons: Shell, 2009 Hassan al-Kubaisi considers it a gift from above that drivers in oil- and gas-rich Qatar only have to pay $1 per gallon at the pump. “Thank God that our country is an oil...
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Kelly Rigg: Finding hope in the final hours of the Doha climate talks
Courtesy: Kelly Rigg “What gives you hope? This is a question I’m often asked these days. And what I’ve come to realize is that being hopeful, in the face of so much bad news about climate change, is...
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UK legislators: Doha talks confirmed only domestic action can drive global...
With the Doha summit now concluded, with only very modest achievement, there is growing consensus that a faster response toclimate change is desperately needed. This is especially so when the science...
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