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The weekend's environmental stories collected by Green Alliance.
Updated on Dec 01, 14
Created on Dec 01, 14
Category: Government & Politics
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Green Alliance UK's List: 12 Green Alliance media monitoring, 01 December 2014
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Dec 01, 14
UN climate negotiators are meeting in Peru to try to advance talks on a new global agreement.
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Dec 01, 14
Australia has always suffered from bouts of extreme hot weather but the number and intensity of heatwaves is on the rise, prompting a rethink of how the country lives, works and plays in the sun.
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Dec 01, 14
Energy efficiency groups and fuel poverty campaigners call on government to deliver emergency funding to reverse sharp drop in home improvements
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Dec 01, 14
Energy efficient appliances, fuel efficient transport, and biomass boilers could cut energy-related CO2 by more than a third for little outlay
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Dec 01, 14
Spanish developer Magallanes says trialling prototype at EMEC is first step towards deploying a 350 ton full-scale device
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Dec 01, 14
If environmental red tape is the source of so many economic woes, why is the evidence of the harm they cause so sketchy?
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Dec 01, 14
Hopes rise for global warming deal after US-China carbon commitments inject much-needed momentum into Peru talks
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Dec 01, 14
Plants may produce more smell chemicals in hotter conditions
Stronger smells make flowers easier to find and pollinate for bees
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Dec 01, 14
Wildlife photographer Paul Souders took his boat out in Hudson Bay, Canada, to capture bears swimming
As ice caps begin to melt earlier each year, the aquatic predators are having to adapt to swim greater distances
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- Wildlife photographer Paul Souders took his boat out in Hudson Bay, Canada, to capture bears swimming
- As ice caps begin to melt earlier each year, the aquatic predators are having to adapt to swim greater distances
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Dec 01, 14
UN climate negotiations opening in Lima on Monday have the best chance in a generation of striking a deal on global warming, diplomats say.
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Dec 01, 14
Germany utility firm to sell off most power generating units amid ‘dramatically altered global energy markets’
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Dec 01, 14
Following commitments to cut emissions of greenhouse gases from two of the world’s top polluters -- China and the United States -- leaders from over 190 countries have gathered in Lima, Peru, for the twentieth session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, scheduled to begin Monday. The summit will aim to hammer out a new international climate change deal ahead of key talks in Paris next year.
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Dec 01, 14
Officials defend their development plans as environmentalists win in court again
Two courts have found that SANDAG's long-range plan for transportation, which guides projects such as the proposed widening of Interstate 5, doesn't meet state rules dealing with climate change. -
Dec 01, 14
Failure will condemn developing countries to unchecked climate change for another generation, and the poorest countries will be worst hit
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Dec 01, 14
Opec's decision not to cut oil output has sent the price of Brent crude into freefall
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Dec 01, 14
SCOTLAND'S new Environment Minister is being urged to consider what more could be done to meet the country's ambitious climate-change targets.
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Dec 01, 14
The Archbishop of Kampala, Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga has asked Ugandans to protect the environment, warning that failure to do so will put the locals’ existence in danger.
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Dec 01, 14
Small scale renewables are - almost un-noticed by policy makers - providing a quarter of the world's electricity, up from 10% in 2000
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Dec 01, 14
Swiss voters Sunday will decide whether to dramatically cut immigration numbers in the name of saving the environment, in a referendum that opponents have labeled xenophobic and disastrous for the economy.
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Dec 01, 14
Campaigners claim proposal could cause catastrophic pollution of drinking water
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