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UN Forest Protection Scheme Open for Organized Crime Abuse
No one doubts the critical importance of forests in preventing climate change, but with less than ten official negotiating days before the the COP15 climate talks, a number of sources are crying foul at the way talks
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Get Ready: Senate Climate Bill To Drop This Week
After much speculation and a summer spent debating health insurance reform, the Senate is finally ready to begin work on its climate bill. On Wednesday, Senate Democrats will release draft legislation to cut greenhouse gas emissions,
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REDD Copenhagen Countdown - North-South Agreement in Place, Immediate Need for Countries' Financial Commitment & Higher Targets
The UN Summit on Climate Change, convened this week in New York by Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, brought together more than 100 heads of state and dignitaries to tackle the urgent need for action and to mobilize real
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Climate Week Was One Big Expectation Management Exercise... And Call to Grassroots Action
It's been a whirlwind Climate Week to be sure. Between public grassroots events, the UN Summit on Climate Change, film openings, and demonstrations there certainly was a lot of activity. But did anything
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Canada's Prime Minister Prefers Donuts to Diplomacy
Everybody who is anybody in politics was in New York to discuss climate change, world peace, listen to Obama and watch Gaddafi hog the mike. But not Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper; he was doing a photo op in a donut
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Ecuador Says Show Me the Money, Or the Rainforest Gets It
And not just amy amount of money will do, Ecuador has determined that it will cost $360 million USD a year to protect their rainforest, which just happens to sit on 900 million barrels of oil. Fortunately, Ecuador had a
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Obama's UN Climate Speech Lacked Details to Lead World Forward: Bill McKibben
Barack Obama at the Clinton Global Initiative 2009, photo: a natural sound via flickr. President Obama is certainly having a busy week -- addressing the United Nations not once but twice; speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative; the G20 in Pittsburgh.
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We Must Engage the Ethical Dimension of Combating Climate Change, Religious & Civil Society Groups Urge
It sometimes seems that all of the convincing that's done to try to get faster action on climate change has to do with the 'what's in it for me' aspect of the issue --
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Maldives President Mohammed Nasheed Endorses 350 Target
President Mohammed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives, whose small island nation is existentially threatened by rising sea levles caused by climate change, has called on the world to set a target of returning the levels of CO2 in our atmosphere to 350
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China Will Cap Emissions Intensity: Your Move, U.S.
With the world watching, China's president Hu Jintao offered his country's biggest climate change initiative yet at the UN this morning, saying China would establish emissions intensity targets --not absolute targets, but cuts in emissions per unit of
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TreeHugger Live at the UN Summit on Climate Change
image: Gabriel Rodriguez via flickr. Note: This post will be updated throughout the day. Check back for updates as events unfold. 12:00 EDT -- Monitoring Expectations & Staking Out Positions Nothing really spectacular actually came out of today's
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Is Kevin Rudd The Climate Hero We've Been Looking For?
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has positioned his country and himself as a honest broker in the international climate negotiations, and he is in New York this week to help get the stalled talks moving again. Australia is said to
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Gordon Brown: I'm Going to Copenhagen, World Leaders Should Too
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown will announce in Newsweek tomorrow that he will personally attend the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December and that he encourages other world leaders to join him. Brown is in New
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"Beds'r Burnin:" the New Green "We Are the World"
Hands across the globe everybody, sing along: "The time has come/a fact's a fact/It belongs to us all/Let's give it back." The 1987
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Supermodel Gisele Bündchen Becomes UN Environmental Goodwill Ambassador Today in NYC
Brazilian-born Supermodel and enviromental activist Gisele Bündchen became a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Goodwill Ambassador today at Washington Square Park in New
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Bangladesh Environment Network Delivers Plea to UN: Stop Climate Change! Save Bangladesh!
Friday outside the United Nations in New York, members of the Bangladesh Environment Network and approximately 50 supporters rallied and delivered a message addressed to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, making the case that
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Bring the Noize: Making a Racket at Climate Change Week
At 12:18 pm on Monday, September 21, people around the world will kick-off Global Climate Change Week in New York City by making some noise, ringing a bell, banging a gong, clanging cymbals, hollering, etc. to urge
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Another Sunday, Another Silent "Meet the Press" on Climate Change
There are 85 days until world leaders will come together in Copenhagen to negotiate a global treaty to deal with global warming. Next week, when leaders will gather in New York for what's being billed as Climate Week at the United Nations General
