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Australia: Activists disrupt logging in Tasmania
AAP: Forest activists have disrupted logging in a part of Tasmania that was subject to a protesting truce, the state's forestry body says. Police said they were called on Monday to remove a tree-sit protester and about 20 other activists blocking a road to a harvesting area of state forest in the Upper Florentine Valley, 120km west of Hobart. Forestry Tasmania spokesman Steve Whiteley said the area was formerly covered by a truce signed between Forestry Tasmania and the Still Wild, ...
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United Kingdom: Government urged to help homes go green
Guardian: The government must urgently begin improvements to make Britain's 25m homes more energy efficient if it is to reduce the UK's carbon footprint by 80% by 2050, a report says today. The report, by the Green Building Council (GBC), says some homes are so environmentally harmful that they may have to be demolished. It also wants the government to introduce a system of "green mortgages" to pay for improvements such as new windows and boilers. All new homes must be zero-carbon from ...
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PNG and Norway leaders see eye-to-eyen on climate change
Radio New Zealand International: Papua New Guinea`s Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare says his country and Norway see eye to eye in the fight against global warming. Sir Michael has had talks with his Norwegian counterpart Jens Stoltenberg in Oslo where they discussed an ambitious, global climate regime to be established next year. The two leaders say rich countries should shoulder the main burden under the regime, which is to include measures to reduce emissions from deforestation in developing ...
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Tough Global Limits Imposed on Air Pollution from Large Ships
Environment News Service: Regulations to reduce harmful air emissions from large ocean-going ships were unanimously adopted Friday by the International Maritime Organization, the United Nations specialized agency responsible for improving maritime safety and preventing pollution from ships. Effective as of July 1, 2010, the new plan will require ships to use low sulfur fuel in designated Emission Control Areas - first reducing permissible sulfur levels to 1.0 percent in 2010 and then dropping the permissible ...
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World Food Scarcity and the Challenges of Climate Change and Bio Energy
Seoul Times: 'Rarely has the World Food Day assumed greater meaning than in present times, as rapidly rising food prices risk increasing the number of hungry in the world,' according to the Food And Agriculture Organization (FAO). FAO was founded in 1945 on the 16th of October - a day which is observed as World Food Day (WFD) in about 150 countries all over the world. The theme for this year's WFD is 'World Food Scarcity : The Challenges Of Climate Change And Bio Energy' as there is a strong need ...
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