Environment and US policy top global fears
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Climate change poses as much danger to the world as war, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday as he urged the United States to take the lead in the fight against global warming.
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The White House's focus on technology to address global warming contrasts sharply with the course embraced by most of America's allies.
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From climate change to Darfur, public opinion polls reveal a global unease with the growing superpower.
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The clean coal merry-go-round Analysis By now we all know the United States has no energy policy for the future. Rather, it does and it's a humiliating one: Global warming is a conspiracy by other countries trying to squelch the American dream and the right to buy elephantine SUVs. As one journalist covering autos for the Los Angeles Times put it in late December: "[Americans] feel they should be able to drive whatever they can afford, disregarding the fact that the sky ...is a part of the public commons."â¦
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Prime Minister Tony Blair warns that the world cannot ignore the global threat posed by climate change.
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BUENOS AIRES -- Two sets of Americans have come here to talk global warming: the United States, opposed to controls on carbon emissions, and a bloc of united states, from Maine to Delaware, that plan to impose them.
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In "Terrorism & Security": On the eve of Kyoto taking effect, warnings that future conflict over disappearing resources.
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The United States will join with Australia and Madagascar in arguing that great white sharks need to be protected through new global trade restrictions.    The Bush administration supports protecting the sharks, which are listed as endangered in many parts of the world, said Assistant Interior Secretary Craig Manson...
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The United States insisted on Thursday it was fighting global warming and tried to reassure skeptics that a meeting of major polluting nations convened by President George W. Bush would not undermine U.N. efforts.
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The world's biggest greenhouse gas polluters -- including the United States and China -- sent envoys to the U.S. State Department on Thursday for discussions on climate change and what to do about it.
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U.S. scientists say tougher environmental policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions will affect more than the production of cars or light trucks.
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One of the world's top scientists on global warming called for the United States to stop building coal-fired power plants and eventually bulldoze older generators that don't capture and bury greenhouse gases.
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Rising global temperatures that are melting the Arctic and expanding the oceans are now drawing more than 80 world leaders to the U.N. podium for an unprecedented summit Monday on how to combat climate change.From California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a champion of climate-saving legislation, the presidents and premiers will hear that even an often-reluctant United States is pitching in.'California is moving the United States beyond debate and doubt to action,' he says in remarks prepared for the meeting's morning kickoff. Read more
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The Bush administration is making headway with other nations in setting new global standards to reduce dangerous emissions from giant diesel-burning ships that pollute U.S. ports, a senior environmental official said Thursday. An emergency room physician described a "diesel death zone" around major U.S. seaports, with higher cancer rates and other health risks.
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By JOHN LEICESTER  PARIS - The bleak outlook of a major new report on climate change shifted the onus onto governments, even mankind, to take action, with dire warnings Friday from around the world that drastic, rapid change is needed - not least from the United States.
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US nationals and Europeans are warming towards globalisation and international trade, although anxiety about the impact on jobs still runs high, a survey has shown.