Africa climate change woes aired at Clinton summit
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Africa is being damaged by greenhouse gas pollution from developed nations and must sell carbon credits to grow in a "green fashion," Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Bill Clinton's philanthropic summit on Thursday.
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Tony Blair is expected to focus on climate change and Africa as he opens the World Economic Summit in Davos.
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Bloomberg - June 2 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush, preparing for a summit with world leaders next week, said he plans to push for common solutions to trade barriers, suffering in Africa and the ``challenge&#39;&#39; of global warming.
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Not all Americans are unpopular at this week's U.N. conference on climate change.
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"There are now two million Africans on retroviral drugs and that is pretty astonishing"  Former Vice President Al Gore and U2 front man Bono offered measured praise Thursday for efforts in tackling climate change and global poverty, but warned the World Economic Forum that conditions were not improving as much as they could.At an early-morning session that drew several hundred attendees, many clutching cups of coffee or tea to stave off sleep, Gore warned that the world climate crisis was worsening.'We could take the whole session talking just about the new scientific evidence of the last few weeks and months,' said Gore, who shared last year's Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to fight climate change, adding that the 'climate crisis is significantly worse and unfolding more rapidly.' Read more
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Divisions over how to fight global warming threatened Thursday to overshadow a summit meeting aimed at making the European Union the world leader in the battle against climate change.Comment
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Climate change is a global problem that requires unity and "multilateral" agreements if it is to be defeated, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday
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BRUSSELS, Belgium   Divisions over how to fight global warming threatened to overshadow Thursday's summit meeting aimed at making the European Union the world leader in the battle against climate change.Comment
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President Bush and first lady Laura Bush hosted a summit on malaria today and added eight more African countries to a White House initiative aimed at taming the mosquito-borne disease that still claims more than a million lives a year, mostly young children in sub-Saharan Africa.
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With tales of rising seas and talk of human solidarity, world leaders at the first United Nations climate summit sought Monday to put new urgency into global talks to reduce global-warming emissions.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair on Sunday called on G8 leaders meeting this week to agree concrete measures to help Africa and on the United States to go further in proposals on climate change.
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Across town from the United Nations General Assembly session, other world leaders, celebrities and scholars gathered Wednesday for the third annual Clinton Global Initiative conference to discuss subjects of global importance.
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Africa's poor millions risk bearing the brunt of the global warming crisis unless urgent action is taken now, a Nigerian scientist said on Wednesday.
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African leaders were due to declare a joint vision Tuesday on how their continent should be governed at the end of a summit focused on forging a closer union which exposed rifts over the pace of change.
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While much was said at the United Nations summit on global warming, the world is still a ways from taking concrete action
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Al Gore electrifies the audience at the climate change summit by criticizing his own country's intransigence on the issue
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LIBREVILLE, Gabon  - Three of Africa's big crises  -- strife in Ivory Coast, fighting in Congo and the  humanitarian emergency in Sudan's Darfur -- provide a daunting  agenda for an African Union summit that began Monday in Gabon.