Swiss vote goes green with climate change
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Landslides, floods and storms have taken their toll on Switzerland's political climate, turning the Greens into the fastest growing force in the Alpine nation ahead of Sunday's general election.
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"I never thought I would see a document with Fianna Fail's name on it that would make real commitments on climate change"  The environmentalist Green Party, perennial outsiders in Irish politics, voted Wednesday to join the next government and extend Prime Minister Bertie Ahern's 10-year run in power.Green leaders won a surprisingly easy ratification for their pact with Ahern's long-dominant Fianna Fail party following a daylong conference of party activists. After debating the government platform agreed upon Tuesday night by both parties' negotiators, Green Party members backed the deal in a 441-to-67 vote.'It is the proudest day in my life. After 25 years of struggle ... the possibility is there to see our policies implemented in government,' said Green leader Trevor Sargent. Read more
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It's a trend that counts Leonardo DiCaprio, London cabs and Al Gore among its followers: Making life "carbon neutral" through tree-planting and other environmentally friendly efforts to curb emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide. The theme is a hot one as scientists in Paris this week prepare to issue a major report on global warming &#151; but critics say the movement is counterproductive, even a scam.
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Europe embarked on a bold path to fight climate change yesterday, agreeing that a fifth of the energy used by the 27-nation bloc by 2020 will come from renewable sources like the sun and the wind, and ...Comment
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GENEVA, Oct. 21 -- A Swiss nationalist party rode an anti-immigrant wave Sunday to the best showing of any party in parliamentary elections since World War I, while the Greens made gains by appealing to environmental concerns, according to projections.
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Climate change is in the news again, with the Senate having held hearings and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change having issued its fourth five-year report in Paris.  It makes us wonder whether more worrywarts will be propelled by guilt into buying absolution.
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Merkel's lobbying efforts pay off as leaders agree path to halve greenhouse emisisons.
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ROUFFACH, France - On a cobweb-encrusted rafter above his giant steel grape pressers, Ren&#xE9; Mur&#xE9; is charting one of the world's most tangible barometers of global warming.
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EUROPEAN Union leaders have agreed on bold measures to fight global warming, pledging that, by 2020, a fifth of the bloc's energy will come from green-power sources such as wind turbines and solar panels and 10 ...Comment
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Big gains on the right and left in Swiss elections point to some of the bizarre contradictions in this Alpine nation that takes pride in being a cradle of humanitarian work, yet whose famed neutrality is often a mask for stubborn insularity.
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Global warming is more than just a theory to Germany's most famous winter resort, where a worrisome shortage of snow in recent decades has forced the Alpine village to reinvent itself.
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Governors of both parties are taking the lead on finding ways to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Swiss voters are expected to endorse tight government legislation on stem cell research on Sunday which would forbid the cloning of human embryos and put Switzerland on a par with other continental European countries.
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Both leading Democrat and Republican candidates vie to show they can tackle global warming.
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The European Parliament backs a call for a ban on outdoor heaters as a measure against climate change.
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Offsetting, the practice of achieving carbon neutrality, is gaining popularity among companies wishing to make a show of their green credentials.
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Two-thirds of Swiss voters on Sunday endorsed government-proposed legislation to allow limited stem cell research, local media reported.