Rights focus sought over climate
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Tackling climate change needs more attention to human rights, former Irish President Mary Robinson is to say.
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Environment secretary calls on US to agree to binding goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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<img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20071024/capt.fc5e5224d7d04d70afc3ea2ce8d0e555.france_environemnt_par101.jpg?x=100&y=130&sig=OCqHdDExdgc.WJ6j9o.h5Q--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="Cars line up on the highway just outside Paris, Wednesday Oct. 24, 2007. France's government began national talks Wednesday aimed at changing the way the French treat the environment, as part of the president's bid to put the country in the forefront of the fight against global warming. The European Parliament proposed tighter emissions limits for car makers but more time to reach them as part of plans to fight global warming. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon) \
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A coalition of environmental activists and investors is asking the Securities and Exchange Commission to require companies to disclose the risks that climate change may pose to their bottom lines.
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Science & environment: UN conference calls for large and rapidly developing countries to do more to tackle global warming.
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But problems arise when it comes time to pin down those responsible for climate change.
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Delegates from the nations that emit the most pollutants worked Thursday to advance discussions on how the world can combat global climate change.
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The head of the nation's weather and climate research agency says the biggest challenge facing the world is population growth and people's desire to live in coastal areas where they can be endangered by storms.
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A day before President Bush's climate talks, China and other developing nations said Wednesday the need to provide food, shelter and clothes for their citizens must come ahead of global warming concerns.
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Climate scientists tell a conference that greater efforts should be made to pull CO2 from the atmosphere.
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PARIS -- Forty-five nations answered France's call yesterday for a new environmental body to slow inevitable global warming and protect the planet, perhaps with policing powers to punish violators.
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People need to be encouraged to offset carbon emissions despite recent criticism of some schemes, say MPs.
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JOHANNESBURG, Jun 5 (IPS) - In the final hours before this week's Group of  Eight (G8) summit gets underway in Germany, activists have  underscored the need for progress with both climate change and  poverty alleviation -- key items on the meeting's agenda --  for there to be real improvement in Africa's living  conditions.
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The treaty that will eventually replace the Kyoto Protocol on climate change could be a potpourri of legal obligations, nonbinding commitments and aid arrangements for the developing world, but each nation should choose its own course, the U.N.'s top climate official said Thursday.
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Action is needed to protect British wildlife from the effects of a changing climate, a report says.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown called Friday for the World Bank to assume an environmental role capable of taking on the global challenges posed by climate change.
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U.S. policy on global warming seems headed for a tipping point, with politicians, business leaders and economists joining environmentalists to call for new laws to limit greenhouse gases that spur climate change.