Fracking rules let drillers flare till 2015
Reuters | 18 Apr 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. environment regulators said Wednesday they will give natural gas and oil drillers more than two years of extra time to invest in equipment that slashes unhealthy air emissions from fracking wells, citing a lack of clean technology.
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Africa: Continent's Temperature May Rise Five Degrees Centigrade in 100 Years - Official
AllAfrica.com | 18 Apr 2012
[ANGOP] Luanda - The African continent might record a medium temperature rise of five degrees centigrade in the coming 100 years, Angop learned Tuesday in Luanda.
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Tanzania: Call to Establish Climate Change Centre in K'manjaro
AllAfrica.com | 18 Apr 2012
[Daily News] Moshi - THE Vice President's Office has been advised to seek support that will enable it establish a climate change centre in Kilimanajro.
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Tanzania: Kilimanjaro Region, Too Hot for Comfort
AllAfrica.com | 18 Apr 2012
[Daily News] MANY of us may agree that not all is well with the temperatures in some parts of the country.
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ECCC not in favour of Scottish independence
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 18 Apr 2012
Scottish independence will have a "detrimental" effect on the UK's energy budgets, climate change objectives and energy security, was the overarching opinion from the Energy and Climate Change Committee (ECCC).
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World 'must stop short-term outlook'
Guardian Unlimited | 18 Apr 2012
Helen Clark says that 20 years on from Rio Earth summit, sustainable development is still not mainstream policyA lack of political will has meant the sustainable development ambitions of the Rio Earth summit two decades ago have not made enough progress, the head of the UN's development programme...

Rio+20 should make sustainable land use a top priority
SCIDEV.NET | 18 Apr 2012
World leaders must promote effective land use methods to mitigate drought, says Luc Gnacadja of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.
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