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$30bn climate change aid needed for poor nations

September 25th, 2009 · No Comments

Gordon Brown has told the United Nations that $30 billion will be needed for the world’s poorest countries to deal with the effects of climate change.
Speaking in New York, the UK Prime Minister said international public finance should meet a significant proportion of this figure.
Mr Brown was among world leaders attending a climate change summit [...]

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UK plots road to emission cuts

July 16th, 2009 · No Comments

Ed Miliband, Minister for Energy and Climate Change has announced the UK’s plans to cut emissions.  The plan is set out so that the UK can achieve 34% cuts in the levels found in 1990 by 2020.  This cut is equivelant to cutting emissions entirely from four cities the size of London.

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Are plants our saviour from the Climate Crunch

July 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

Could plants save us from the rising carbon dioxide levels from human emissions and greenhouse gases and save us from the Climate Crunch? 

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The Truth About Recycling

March 26th, 2009 · No Comments

Discover what really happens with your recyclables. It’s time for another round of That’s Just Weird.

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Climate change could see insurance market failure

March 4th, 2009 · No Comments

As well as affecting people and wildlife, climate change could destroy the insurance markets, according to a recent report.
The study by the Chartered Insurance Institute pointed out opportunities for insurance products but also highlighted the risk of insurance market failure.
According to the report, climate change could already be compounding catastrophe losses by two per cent [...]

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We as a species cannot afford to wait any longer to act

February 18th, 2009 · No Comments

Gore calls on scientists everywhere to get more involved in their communities and especially politics. We as a species cannot afford to wait any longer to act…

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UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER PRESS RELEASE UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER TEAM TO JOIN IN CLIMATE CHANGE STUDY AT WORLD FAMOUS WILDLIFE PARK

January 25th, 2009 · No Comments

Geographers in project at Kruger National Park
Geographers from the University of Leicester are to use state-of-the-art technology to investigate how climate change is affecting the world famous Kruger National Park in South Africa.
It is part of a wider project examining the impact of climate change of African savannas.
The academics in the Department of Geography at [...]

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Global warming increasing death rate of US trees, scientists warn

January 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

Trees in the western United States are dying twice as quickly as they did three decades ago and scientists think global warming is to blame.
In their surveys, ecologists found that a wide range of tree species were dying including pines, firs and hemlocks and at a variety of altitudes. The changes can have serious long-term [...]

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New Tool Improves Reliability Of Climate Models

January 21st, 2009 · No Comments

An international team of researchers, including Antoni Rosell, ICREA researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) and professor of the Department of Geology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, who participated as a member of the direction team, have created MARGO (Multiproxy Approach for the Reconstruction of the Glacial Ocean Surface), a new quantitative [...]

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As Europe fiddles, US may take lead on climate change

January 18th, 2009 · No Comments

Is global climate leadership about to pass from Europe to the United States? It seems so. And Barack Obama’s plans to rejoin international climate negotiations, green American energy policy, and build an electricity super-grid to bring renewable energy out of the West could be a planet-saver.
Europe’s leadership on fighting climate change seemed unassailable until just [...]

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