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  • June 2007

    • World Bank Will Pay Countries to Spare Trees

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jun 11, 07 10:04 AM CDT

      World Bank Will Pay Countries to Spare Trees

      (Newser) - The World Bank is planning a $250-million fund to pay countries to refrain from cutting down tropical forests. The plan, which won approval at the G-8 summit last week, depends on companies to contribute to the fund, but that's not likely to happen unless rules governing carbon emissions credits are changed to include spared forests, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »

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      climate change  • global warming  • environment  • carbon emissions  • World Bank  • G8 summit  • deforestation  • Kyoto Protocol

    • G8 Concludes with AIDS Pledge

      New York Times  |  Jun 8, 07 3:22 PM CDT

      G8 Concludes with AIDS Pledge

      (Newser) - Global leaders renewed their vow to spend $60 billion to help fight AIDS, TB, and malaria in Africa today as the G8 summit wrapped up. But they set no deadlines for delivering the relief, leading critics to question the pledge. "I think it is deliberately the language of obfuscation," U2 frontman Bono told the New York Times. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Russia  • Iran  • France  • global warming  • Africa  • carbon emissions  • greenhouse gases  • AIDS  • Kosovo  • G8 summit  • malaria  • Group of Eight  • Tuberculosis  • Bono  • U2

    • G8 Agrees to 'Seriously Consider' 50% Reduction

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 7, 07 1:22 PM CDT

      G8 Agrees to 'Seriously Consider' 50% Reduction

      (Newser) - G8 leaders agreed to a climate-control deal today they hailed as a breakthrough, though it was unclear what it actually accomplished. They didn't adopt German Chancellor Angela Merkel's target of cutting emissions in half by 2050—already adopted by the EU, Canada and Japan—but they agreed to  "seriously consider" it.  More »

    • Blair: I'll Talk Bush Into Emissions Agreement

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 6, 07 7:53 AM CDT

      Blair: I'll Talk Bush Into Emissions Agreement

      (Newser) - Heading into his final G8 summit, Tony Blair is thinking big: He says he can persuade President Bush to agree to a UN-backed treaty to reduce carbon emissions by 50%, today's Guardian reports. Blair hopes to reach at least an agreement in principle, but officials fear negotiations will continue to the end of the talks without settling anything. More »

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      George W. Bush  • climate change  • global warming  • carbon emissions  • Tony Blair  • G8 summit

    • Britain Pushes Bush to Set Climate Goal

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 5, 07 10:24 AM CDT

      Britain Pushes Bush to Set Climate Goal

      (Newser) - The British environmental secretary will visit Washington in an effort to convince President Bush to set specific goals for carbon reduction at this week's G8 summit. David Miliband plans to encourage the US to agree to an emissions target by 2050 and to acknowledge the principle of carbon trading as the best market-based way of reducing emissions. More »

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      George W. Bush  • climate change  • global warming  • carbon emissions  • G8 summit  • David Miliband

    • Europe Disses Bush Plan for Climate Change

      Der Spiegel  |  Jun 1, 07 7:55 AM CDT

      Europe Disses Bush Plan for Climate Change

      (Newser) - The new Bush plan to combat climate change is being received with skepticism in Europe, where it is seen as a bid to outfox German Chancellor Angela Merkel and torpedo more radical proposals she will unveil at the G-8 Summit. Germany's Der Spiegel and Britain's Guardian both say the US is cynically resisting a concrete emissions reduction deal. More »

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      George W. Bush  • climate change  • global warming  • carbon emissions  • greenhouse gases  • Angela Merkel  • G8 summit

  • May 2007

    • Bush Wants Global Plan on Emissions

      Associated Press  |  May 31, 07 3:26 PM CDT

      Bush Wants Global Plan on Emissions

      (Newser) - President Bush offered a groundbreaking—if decidedly vague—call this morning for a global plan to combat climate change, continuing to reposition himself on the issue. Bush asked 15 nations, including the G8, China, and India, to create "long-term global goals” on emissions that will replace the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012. More »

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      George W. Bush  • climate change  • global warming  • environment  • carbon emissions  • greenhouse gases  • Tony Blair  • Al Gore  • vehicle emissions

    • UK Moves to Measure Products' Eco-Impact

      Guardian (UK)  |  May 31, 07 11:58 AM CDT

      UK Moves to Measure Products' Eco-Impact

      (Newser) - Calories, fat, sodium ... carbon footprint? The new measurement may soon appear on British product packaging. Under a plan proposed yesterday, the government will develop standards to measure a product's environmental impact from manufacture through shipment and disposal, allowing companies to list the information as they do nutrition facts. Consumers can then decide how green they want their goods. More »

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      Great Britain  • global warming  • environment  • United Kingdom  • retail  • consumer  • carbon footprint

    • CO2 Emissions Soared From 2000 to 2004

      Reuters  |  May 22, 07 6:27 AM CDT

      CO2 Emissions Soared From 2000 to 2004

      (Newser) - Worldwide carbon dioxide emissions boomed between 2000 and 2004, a new study shows. Output of the greenhouse gas accelerated by 3.1% each year, compared to a 1.1% rate during the '90s, according to the National Academy of Sciences, faster than all but the most dire forecasts. More »

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      China  • global warming  • India  • carbon emissions  • greenhouse gases  • pollution  • carbon

    • Climate Change Accelerates

      Times (UK)  |  May 18, 07 9:59 AM CDT

      Climate Change Accelerates

      (Newser) - Oceans that absorb a quarter of all the carbon belched into the atmosphere every day are losing their capacity to do so, accelerating global warming by as much as 30%. New research, which focuses on the compromised ability of Antarctica's Southern Ocean to soak up carbon emissions, suggests that climate change is already decades ahead of the grimmest predictions. More »

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      climate change  • global warming  • environment  • carbon emissions  • Antarctica  • carbon  • carbon sinks

    • Evangelicals Split on Climate Change

      BBC  |  May 15, 07 10:14 AM CDT

      Evangelicals Split on Climate Change

      (Newser) - American evangelical Christians diverge on the issue of climate change, with one side calling it a hoax and the other exhorting believers—in the Lord as well as the scientific evidence—to work against global warming. The BBC reports on two Christian universities in Virginia that come down on opposite sides of the divide. More »

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