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So Fresh and So Clean
More than $6 billion pledged to boost clean-tech in developing countries |
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26 Sep 2008 |
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| Posted at 4:01 PM on 26 Sep 2008 Industrialized countries have promised to put more than $6.1 billion in the World Bank's Climate Investment Funds, which aim to boost clean technologies and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in developing countries. On Friday, the United States pledged $2 billion over three years; Britain will chip in $1.47 billion and Japan $1.2 billion, with contributions from Australi ... |
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| Topics: Australia, climate, climate change mitigation, France, Germany, investing, Japan, Netherlands, news, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland ... (all these topics) |
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Hauntingly Familiar
Groundbreaking climate report inspires predictable political responses |
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31 Oct 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Hauntingly Familiar Groundbreaking climate report inspires predictable political responses World reaction to yesterday's U.K. report linking climate change with possible economic ruin has been swift -- and painfully predictable. While British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his likely successor Gordon Brown hailed the findings, Kyoto-resisters Australia and the U.S. offered more lukewarm responses. A ... |
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| Topics: Australia, climate, news, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics) |
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Doin' What Comes Dastardly
Not-Kyoto climate pact meeting ends with much hot air |
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12 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Doin' What Comes Dastardly Not-Kyoto climate pact meeting ends with much hot air The U.S. and Australia today marked the end of the Asia-Pacific climate summit in Sydney by pledging $127 million to support technology projects that would lower greenhouse-gas emissions. Climate activists derided the commitment from the two big polluters as laughably small; the Kyoto Protocol, which both the U.S. and Australia have sp ... |
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| Topics: Australia, climate, news, United States (all these topics) |
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Where There's Smokescreen There's Ire
U.S. and Asia-Pacific countries gear up for not-Kyoto climate meeting |
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09 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Where There's Smokescreen There's Ire U.S. and Asia-Pacific countries gear up for not-Kyoto climate meeting The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific climate partnership will kick off this Wednesday in Australia. The six participating nations -- Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. -- will emphasize the transfer of clean technologies to developing countries, in ... |
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| Topics: Australia, China, climate, India, Japan, news, South Korea, United States (all these topics) |
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