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A Journey of a Thousand Meetings ... Continues With Another Meeting
U.N. climate talks open in Bangkok |
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31 Mar 2008 |
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| Posted at 8:29 AM on 31 Mar 2008 United Nations climate talks opened Monday in Bangkok, Thailand, as another step in the process of drafting a successor to the Kyoto Protocol climate-change treaty that expires in 2012. Officials admitted they didn't expect any breakthroughs at the meeting this week, but there is hope that the countries can manage to agree on an agenda for the new treaty as wel ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Perchance Meeting
U.N. climate meeting ends with a whole lotta nothin' |
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31 Aug 2007 |
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| Posted at 1:31 PM on 31 Aug 2007 We are psychic, if we do say so ourselves. As leaders from 158 countries gathered this week at a U.N.-convened meeting to discuss post-Kyoto Protocol climate targets, we claimed doubt that anything of substance would come out of it. And voila! Deadlock and vagueness abounded. The E.U. and developing nations pushed for an indication that industrialized countries should be guided by a goal of r ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Let the Doodling Begin
U.N.-initiated climate-change meeting kicks off |
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27 Aug 2007 |
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| Posted at 1:09 PM on 27 Aug 2007 Some one thousand representatives of government, industry, and research institutions from more than 150 countries came together in Vienna today to kick off a United Nations-initiated week-long hobnob on WTF Should We Do About Climate Change. We're betting relatively little of substance will come out of it, but check in for updates as the week progresses. sources: Agence France-Presse, BBC Ne ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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They Could Teach PBS a Thing or Two
United Nations meets pledge goal for Billion Tree campaign |
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24 May 2007 |
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| They Could Teach PBS a Thing or Two United Nations meets pledge goal for Billion Tree campaign Six months after launching a "Billion Tree" campaign to fight climate change, the United Nations has gotten more than a billion tree-planting pledges from around the world, with around 14 million trees making it into the ground so far. "The challenge now is to tell the world to go dig holes ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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