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JOURNALIST: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, thanks for joining us on the BBC.
PM: Pleasure.
JOURNALIST: Weve heard many differing assessments of what will come out of the Copenhagen climate change conference, some optimistic, most pessimistic. Were in the final countdown to Copenhagen. I wonder whats your judgement on what will come from it?
PM: Well, were working…
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More green energy and climate-friendly projects target Africa than ever before, but the numbers still lag behind Asia and Latin America, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced today.
The projects, from renewable energies to tree planting, are part of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol – the global emissions reduction treaty. They allow developed countries to…
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The latest projections indicate that the EU-15 countries will meet their 8 per cent reduction target under the Kyoto Protocol. Out of the 12 remaining EU member states, 10 have also individual commitments under the protocol. It is projected that they will reduce their emissions to 6 or 8 per cent below base year levels. This will be achieved through…
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the United States to take a leading role in forging a new international pact to combat global warming, warning that the consequences of failure outweigh the cost of tackling climate change.
“No country is more important than the United States in resolving this climate change issue,” Mr. Ban told reporters in Washington D.C. yesterday…
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The monument commemorates the explorer’s discovery of the New World. However, today Columbus is pointing at the nation that bears historic responsibility for climate change, and which has done most to obstruct a climate-saving deal in Copenhagen.
That US legacy has continued this week, with history’s largest emitter refusing to move forward to ensure the integrity of a legally binding…
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