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More regulation needed for Canada oil sands: report

2010-03-17T15:15:47Z

<div><p>CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Steam-driven projects to extract crude from Canada's oil sands, often held up as more environmentally friendly than mining, have major drawbacks of their own that require more stringent regulation to fix, an environmental think tank said on Wednesda...

The quest for energy solutions

2010-03-17T11:46:02Z

<div id="subtitle">The essential role of private enterprise</div><div><p>After a great deal of hype and hope, the Copenhagen climate summit produced no more than a vague promise to continue to work together. The only real point of consensus was to agree to meet again in November in Mexico to continue the discussions. </p><p>Last month, we noted the lack of measurabl...

Climate debated should be reframed: Malidives president

2010-03-17T09:18:33Z

<div><p>The climate change debate should be reframed in economic and security terms ahead of a year-end UN summit in Mexico seeking a binding climate deal, the president of the Maldives said Wednesday.</p><p>A price tag needs to be put on "the extent to which we destroy the atmosphere, the extent to which we pollute the at...

Govt ads banned over climate change claims

2010-03-17T03:16:01Z

<div><p>Advertising watchdog has banned two government adverts for overstating the threat from climate change, it said on Wednesday.</p><p>The adverts used nursery rhymes including "Jack and Jill" to highlight the impact of global warming, but the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said they exaggerated the risk.</p><p>"Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pai...

Bolivia summit to seek global climate change referendum

2010-03-16T20:17:43Z

<div><p>An alternative "people's conference" on climate change in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba in April will seek to advance an international global warming referendum, organizers said.</p><p>"The only thing that can save mankind from a (climate) tragedy is the exercise of global democracy," said Bolivia's United Nati...

British ads banned over climate change claims

2010-03-16T20:17:42Z

<div><p>Britain's advertising watchdog has banned two government adverts for overstating the threat from climate change, it said.</p><p>The adverts used nursery rhymes including "Jack and Jill" to highlight the impact of global warming, but the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said they exaggerated the risk.</p&g...

Ads banned over climate change claims

2010-03-16T18:15:25Z

UN climate envoy expects dual-track negotiations

2010-03-16T08:00:37Z

<div id="subtitle">UN climate envoy expects talks to increasingly move away from UN format</div><div><p>Talks on a new global climate change accord, bogged down for years in contested negotiations among nearly 200 countries, will increasingly move outside the sluggish U.N. framework and focus on a streamlined group of countries, special U.N. envoy Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi pledged Tuesday to work together to strengthen ties after the two nations clashed over human rights, climate change and Iran's nuclear drive.</p><p>"I come here in the spirit of partnership as we face common challenges together," visiting Miliba...

China, Britain pledge to improve strained ties

2010-03-16T02:22:12Z

<div><p>The British and Chinese foreign ministers pledged Tuesday to work together to strengthen ties after the two nations clashed over human rights, climate change and Iran's nuclear drive.</p><p>"I come here in the spirit of partnership as we face common challenges together," visiting British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said at talks with his Chinese counterpart

Gov't pledge to improve strained China ties

2010-03-16T02:22:02Z

<div><p>Foreign Secretary David Miliband and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi pledged Tuesday to work together to strengthen ties after the two nations clashed over human rights, climate change and Iran's nuclear drive.</p><p>"I come here in the spirit of partnership as we face common challenges together," visiting Mi...

EU backs U.N. climate report despite skepticism

2010-03-15T13:18:07Z

<div><p>BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.N. climate scientists attacked by skeptics after they published an erroneous global warming forecast won support Monday from European Union environment ministers.</p><p>Climate skepticism has gathered pace since...

CO2 at new highs despite economic slowdown

2010-03-15T09:30:28Z

<div><p>OSLO (Reuters) - Levels of the main greenhouse gas in the atmosphere have risen to new highs in 2010 despite an economic slowdown in many nations that braked industrial output, data showed on Monday.</p><p>Carbon dioxide, measured at Norway's Zeppelin station on the Arctic ...

UK government rebuked on climate change ads

2010-03-15T06:45:19Z

<div id="subtitle">Ad watchdog challenges UK government's climate change ad campaign after complaints</div><div><p>Britain's independent advertising watchdog agency has criticized a government ad campaign that highlights the dangers of climate change.</p><p>An Advertising Standards Association spokesman s...

Miliband says Security Council on same page on Iran

2010-03-15T06:15:55Z

<div><p>Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on a visit to China Monday that the veto-wielding members of the UN Security Council were on the same page on how to tackle Iran.</p><p>Miliband's comments came ahead of talks in British Foreign Secretary David Miliband visits China amid rancor in ties, Iran sanctions push</div><div><p>Britain's foreign secretary is visiting China to lobby for further nuclear sanctions on Iran and will seek to smooth rancor with

Climate report shows Australia getting warmer

2010-03-15T00:45:16Z

<div><p>SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's top scientists on Monday released a "State of the Climate" report at a time of growing scepticism over climate change as a result of revelations of errors in some global scientific reports.</p><p>The scientists said their monitoring and research of the world's driest inhabited continent for 100 years "clearly demonstrat...

Deep-sea volcanoes play key climate role: scientists

2010-03-14T22:45:11Z

<div><p>SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A vast network of under-sea volcanoes pumping out nutrient-rich water in the Southern Ocean plays a key role in soaking up large amounts of carbon dioxide, acting as a brake on climate change, scientists say.</p><p>A group of Australian and French scientists have shown for the first time that the volcanoes are a major ...

Australian cities must transform for population growth

2010-03-14T22:15:42Z

<div><p>SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia circa 2050, population 35 million, climate change induced rising sea levels have flooded the Gold Coast resort region, apartment blocks are now used to grow food and people commute in monorail pods above the sea.</p><p>In another city, Australians live on floating island...

China's Wen says not to blame for Copenhagen problems

2010-03-13T23:45:08Z

<div><p>BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Premier Wen Jiabao hit back on Sunday at critics who blamed China for the feeble outcome of the Copenhagen climate conference, saying he was not even invited to a key meeting he was accused of s...