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AMSTERDAM - Even after the U.S. and China set targets this week for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the world's combined pledges ahead of next month's climate summit fall far short of what experts say is needed to avert dangerous global warming. Full Story »
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PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad - The leaders of Britain and France gave their backing Friday to a global fund that would provide billions of dollars to poor countries to help them reduce the output of greenhouse gases linked to climate change. Full Story »
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PORT OF SPAIN (AFP) - Hopes suddenly rose Friday that a new global climate pact was within reach after rich nations attending a Commonwealth summit here offered to pay poorer countries to help seal the deal. Full Story »
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 26 (IPS) - Public money in Brazil is being used by the state development bank to finance deforestation projects and others that trample rights, concentrate wealth, and encourage "imperialist" expansion of large national companies, according to activists at a three-day meeting in this southeastern city. Full Story »
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PORT OF SPAIN (AFP) - Britain and France on Friday committed to paying developing nations to combat global warming by calling for a 10-billion-dollar climate fund financed by rich countries. Full Story »
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PORT OF SPAIN (AFP) - India will reveal in the coming days its goals to curb greenhouse gas emissions, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday after face-to-face talks here with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Full Story »
PORT OF SPAIN (AFP) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Friday called for upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen to launch a 10-billion-dollar fund to help developing countries tackle global warming. Full Story »
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A group of Cuban nationals who fled their country by boat landed in the cooling canal of a nuclear power plant along Florida's coast on Thanksgiving Day, according to a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission event report issued Friday. Full Story »
NEWARK, N.J. - An environmental group says the Hudson Bergen Light Rail is saving commuters millions of gallons of gasoline. Full Story »
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PORT OF SPAIN (AFP) - Leaders of the two-billion-strong Commonwealth and the UN on Friday opened a summit pushing the rest of the world to strike a deal to save the planet from catastrophic climate change. Full Story »
WELCH, Minn. - A Minnesota Indian community with a nuclear power plant as its neighbor is holding a rally to voice opposition to a utility's expansion plans there. Full Story »
DALLAS - While the U.S. Senate considers a climate bill aiming to dramatically slash air pollution linked to global warming, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and other Republican leaders in the state that leads the nation in greenhouse gas production are watching closely — and objecting loudly. Full Story »
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MANAUS, Brazil - Brazil's president said that "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical rain forest. Full Story »
TORONTO - Canada's prime minister is reversing his position and will attend a United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen next month, Stephen Harper's spokesman said. Full Story »
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PORT OF SPAIN (AFP) - World leaders sought on Friday to spur on the global-warming debate ahead of a Copenhagen climate conference that has been fired up by pledges from China and the United States to cut emissions. Full Story »
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BEIJING (AFP) - China's Communist Party leadership pledged during a meeting Friday to "actively" tackle climate change and stick to its current fiscal and monetary policies, state-run media reported. Full Story »
A new study suggests that the East Antarctic ice sheet, which holds about five times as much ice as West Antarctica and Greenland combined, is in decline Full Story »
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MANAUS, Brazil (AFP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in Brazil Thursday for a one-day meeting on climate change and Amazon forest conservation, hailed new US and Chinese proposals on combating global warming as "extremely encouraging." Full Story »
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