Category: Governments & Politics

Floods, drought, mosquito disease aim at Europe

PARIS (AFP) - Climate change will amplify the risk of flooding in northwestern Europe, water scarcity and forest fires

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Scientists pressure Australian PM to step up carbon cuts

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia's leading climate change scientists Monday pleaded with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to override his top

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Venezuela wants to work with Russia on nuclear energy

CARACAS (AFP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that he was interested in accepting Russia's offer of help

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G8 wants 20 carbon-burying projects by 2010

AOMORI, Japan (AFP) - The Group of Eight industrial powers said Sunday they hoped to launch 20 large projects

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Poor nations must repay British climate ‘aid’: report

LONDON (AFP) - Poor countries will have to pay back aid given to them by Britain in an international

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Asia tourism, airlines ‘complacent’ on climate change

BANGKOK (AFP) - Asian airlines and tourist firms are too complacent about the urgent need to address global warming,

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Global warming expert raises concerns for tourism industry

BANGKOK (AFP) - Nobel Peace Prize recipient Rajendra Pachauri Tuesday warned tourism industry chiefs they need to reduce their

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US secretary concedes biofuels may spur food price rises

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Setting aside farmland to produce biofuels like ethanol may be partly to blame for driving up

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China calls for help on climate change

BEIJING - China called on the international community Thursday to increase the flow of technology to developing countries to

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Response to climate security threats ‘slow and inadequate’

LONDON (AFP) - The international response to security threats posed by climate change has been "slow and inadequate", according

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