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No excuse to neglect U.N. climate fight: delegates
December 1, 2008 04:08 PM - Reuters

POZNAN, Poland (Reuters) - The economic slowdown is "no excuse" to neglect a fight against global warming that could widen water shortages to half of humanity by 2050, delegates told the opening of U.N. climate talks in Poland on Monday. U.S. President-elect Barack Obama also won praise at the December 1-12 talks of 10,700 delegates from 187 nations for setting "ambitious" U.S. goals for cutting greenhouse gas emissions to slow climate change.

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EU agrees to cut car emissions in climate fight
December 2, 2008 08:40 AM - Reuters

European carmakers must cut global-warming gases from new vehicles by 18 percent within the next six years, the EU agreed on Monday, after a long battle between environmentalists and an industry facing tough times. "This deal represents a balance between the needs of the environment and the car industry across Europe, which is suffering massively at the moment," British Conservative lawmaker Martin Callanan told Reuters late on Monday.

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CO2 removing mechanism resumes in North Atlantic Ocean after a decade

Britain News
London, Dec 1 : Scientists have determined that due to a dramatic loss of sea-ice in the Arctic during the summer of 2007, convective mixing in the North Atlantic Ocean, a mechanism that helps to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, has returned after a decade of near stagnation.
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How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth

, Organic Consumers Association
There is an emergency. In less than a decade we will have to change course -- assuming the collapse of the U.S. economy or the explosion of the Middle East does not impose a change through chaos. To confront the emergency, we must understand the objective: to achieve a sober society; to plot out the way there; to accomplish this transformation equitably, by first making those with the most carry the burden within and between societies; to take inspiration from collective values ascribed to here in France by our nation's motto: "Liberty, ecology, fraternity."
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