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Westminster protester Tamsin Omond prepared to risk jail in cause of climate change
12 10 2008 With another demo against airport expansion, Tamsin Omond is resigned to breaching her bail terms
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ABC deems Al Gore's non-profit Alliance for Climate Protection advert too 'controversial' for television
10 10 2008 Network refused to air an advert produced by Alliance for Climate Protection after presidential debate
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Why bestselling author Thomas Friedman is optimistic that an energy-technology revolution can revitalise the United States
10 10 2008 Yale Environment 360 Bestselling author Thomas Friedman on why he's optimistic that an energy-technology revolution can revitalise the United States and set the world on a new, greener path
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We shouldn't just be standing by and watching
10 10 2008 On Monday a bunch of women are going to attempt to remind the government about climate change - a subject which appears, frankly, to have slipped its mind lately: the Climate Rush is modelled on the "rush" on Parliament 100 years ago by the Suffragettes. On Friday a group of protestors targetted the Royal Bank of Scotland for its aggressive pro-fossil fuel investment policies. And by Saturday the organisers of the London Anarchist bookfair are hoping that "Capitalism will have already collapsed in a global financial melt-down! Hooray!"Now, if you're an environmental activist what are you thinking at the moment? Are you thinking, Ooh, those poor wee strongholds of the capitalist system have had a terrible week, I'll leave them alone and give them a chance to pull themselves together? I'm sure when they've had a nice cup of Oolong tea and a sitdown they'll get round to...
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Why best-selling author Thomas Friedman is optimistic that an energy-technology revolution can revitalise the United States
10 10 2008 From Yale360: Bestselling author Thomas Friedman on why he's optimistic that an energy-technology revolution can revitalise the United States and set the world on a new, greener path
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Fears rise that EU may drop climate pledge
10 10 2008 EU heads of state plan to use global financial crisis as excuse to renege on climate change commitments say sources
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EU countries may use economic crisis to ditch climate change commitments
09 10 2008 Papers seen by the Guardian suggest the EU council will water down measures to tackle global warming
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Leo Hickman: Government plans to expand Stansted airport deserve a forced landing
09 10 2008 Leo Hickman: The government is pushing through plans to expand Stansted â€' doesn't it read its own climate change reports?
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Adair Turner's cheerful views on climate change
09 10 2008 From Carbon Commentary: The easier of Adair Turner's two main challenges is deciding how to save the banking system in his role as FSA chairman, writes Chris Goodall
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US environmentalists criticise World Bank on climate change ahead of annual meeting in Washington
08 10 2008 Ahead of the World Bank annual meeting in Washington this weekend, an alliance of US environmental campaigners today stepped up their criticism of the Bank's proposed funds to combat climate change
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Video: Brazil penguin rescue
08 10 2008 Magellan penguins marooned on Brazil's beaches prepare to be returned home
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Brazil's climate change plan 'ready for public scrutiny'
08 10 2008 From SciDev.net: A plan to tackle climate change and minimise its impacts in Brazil has been drawn up and is now open for public consultation
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Green party: New deal offers an alternative to global fatalism
08 10 2008 Caroline Lucas: There's a received wisdom that Greens don't do well in a recession
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Editorial: Staying green in the gloom
08 10 2008 Editorial: Voting for an 80% cut in greenhouse gas emissions far in the future is the easy bit. The test is what happens now
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Nearly half of FTSE-250 companies keep their carbon footprints hidden
08 10 2008 Coy corporations include Thomas Cook and the InterContinental Hotels Group
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European parliament votes for carbon emissions standards for electricity generation
07 10 2008 Plans for new heavily polluting coal-fired power stations were dealt a blow when MEPs voted for tough regulations which would force companies to fit expensive equipment to trap the emissions
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Oliver Tickell: Ed Miliband must act on emissions cuts
07 10 2008 Oliver Tickell: Ed Miliband has got good advice from the Climate Change Committee on cutting emissions. Now he must act on it
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Climate watchdog's tough carbon target welcomed
07 10 2008 Politicians, business leaders, scientists and campaigners welcome the report, but the electricity producers call the target "ambitious" and stress the need for a new generation of nuclear power plants
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Explainer: Global carbon reduction targets
07 10 2008 David Adam explains why climate goals are set, and why they may not be enough
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Penguins washed up on tropical beaches in Brazil
07 10 2008 Flightless birds airlifted to cooler waters after finding themselves adrift
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Rural communities best equipped to deal with climate change, says UN report
07 10 2008 Sustainable use of resources and environment will give 2bn of world's poor greatest chance of surviving extreme change
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Stern: Financial crisis could promote clean energy
07 10 2008 Global financial turmoil must not block creation of low-carbon economy, warns leading economist
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Now is the time to tackle global warming - Lord Stern
07 10 2008 Peer recommends spending on renewable and low-carbon industries to stimulate economy
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Young Commons stars set to debate climate change
06 10 2008 Andrew Sparrow: The first climate change questions in the Commons should be worth watching. Three days after Gordon Brown appointed Ed Miliband to head the new department, David Cameron has promoted Greg Clark to shadow him
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Duncan Clark on whether developed nations would ever agree to emission cuts of greater than 100%
06 10 2008 A new approach to tackling climate change advocates setting emission reduction targets - of sometimes greater than 100% - according a country's responsibility and capacity to contribute to a solution. Could this ever be put into practice, asks Duncan Clark
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