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Monday 26 March 2012

Global warming close to becoming irreversible-scientists
Reuters | 26 Mar 2012
LONDON (Reuters) - The world is close to reaching tipping points that will make it irreversibly hotter, making this decade critical in efforts to contain global warming, scientists warned on Monday.

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French bank sees EU's CO2 emissions flat in 2011
Reuters | 26 Mar 2012
PARIS (Reuters) - Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the European Union from firms operating under its emissions trading scheme (ETS) should have been stable in 2011, the head of research at state-owned bank Caisse des Depots' subsidiary CDC Climat said on Monday.

Climate Change

Sudan: UN and Italian Power Company Combat Hunger and Climate Change
AllAfrica.com | 26 Mar 2012
[Worldwatch Institute] The United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) and Italian energy company Enel are teaming up in an effort to address food security and climate change by providing green cook stoves and solar panels to communities. The new partnership...

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South Africa: Sound Dampening Meeting Rooms
AllAfrica.com | 26 Mar 2012
[Biz-Community] Exhibition and events specialist, Scan Display, faced a challenge when designing and building the COP17 South African Climate Change Response Expo (CCR Expo): it needed to create a number of temporary and environmentally-friendly sound proof meeting rooms in a marquee.

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Nigeria: NIMET Marks World Meteorological Day
AllAfrica.com | 26 Mar 2012
[Leadership] The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) has joined the world meteorological organisations and other member Nations worldwide to celebrate the World Meteorological Day.

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Africa: Why Climate-Smart Agriculture Won't Work
AllAfrica.com | 26 Mar 2012
[Fahamu] Much of the energy expended by official 'world-savers' - governments, policy wonks, multilateral institutions and the like - is devoted to devising news ways to cash in on the next 'development' era.

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Counting the cost of honesty
chinadialogue.net | 26 Mar 2012
Michael Mann’s ocean studies confirmed the reality of global warming. His findings exposed the creator of the “hockey stick” graph – showing rapid temperature rises – to the vitriol of climate-change deniers, writes Robin McKie.The US scientist who has borne the full...

China

Environmental change trends 'mixed bag', meeting hears
SCIDEV.NET | 26 Mar 2012
Man-made environmental change is rising dangerously, but some social indicators such as population growth are improving, a conference hears.

Climate Change | Climate Change and Development

Q&A: Yuan Tseh Lee on achieving sustainability
SCIDEV.NET | 26 Mar 2012
Yuan Tseh Lee, president of the International Council for Science, tells SciDev.Net what scientists must achieve at Rio+20.

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