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UN climate talks open in Qatar

Source: Burlington Free Press, Nov 26 2012, 5:49am CST

DOHA, Qatar U.N. talks on a new climate pact resumed Monday in oil and gas-rich Qatar, where negotiators from nearly 200 countries will discuss fighting global warming and helping poor nations adapt to it. The two-decade ...

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Q&A: âTraditional forest knowledge is not folklore, but a resource for changeâ

Source: AlertNet  |   Jun 18 2013, 10:27pm CDT

Researchers and policymakers have a lot to learn in designing and implementing climate change adaptation strategies from smallholder farmers in the Amazon, says Miguel Pinedo-Vásquez, scientist with the Center for International Forestry Resea ...

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Obama calls U.S.-Taliban talks agreement 'important first step'

Source: Los Angeles Times  |   Jun 18 2013, 10:23pm CDT

U.S. and Taliban officials announced separately Tuesday that they would hold their first formal meeting in Doha, Qatar, as early as this week. In Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai said that he would send a d ...

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Global Warming

Source: EssayClub.com  |   Jun 18 2013, 10:10pm CDT

Global warming is the greatest challenge facing our planet. It is, in fact, the increase in the temperature of the earth’s neon- surface air. It is one of the most current and widely discussed factors. It has far-reaching impact on biod ...

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Taliban will talk peace with U.S. and Afghan officials

Source: Globe and Mail  |   Jun 18 2013, 10:04pm CDT

The United States and the Taliban raised hopes on Tuesday for a negotiated peace in Afghanistan with commitments to meet this week after 12 years of bloody and costly war. The Taliban opened an office in Doha, the capital of Qatar, on Tuesday to help re ...

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Why Taliban would talk as U.S. withdrawal looms

Source: CNN  |   Jun 18 2013, 9:57pm CDT

Taliban fighters stand with their weapons and Qurans after joining Afghan government forces, on January 30, 2012. STORY HIGHLIGHTS CNN's Nic Robertson assesses why the Taliban would want to talk now Possibility of a grand bargain between U.S and Taliba ...

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Global fund would provide effective means to fuel REDD+ climate program: experts

Source: AlertNet  |   Jun 18 2013, 9:27pm CDT

Efforts to stop an increase in global temperatures can succeed if policymakers put in place a broad governance structure to oversee REDD+ from which money would trickle down through state-level funding to local projects, according to a new re ...

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Q+A: Can the REDD+ climate change program produce measurable results in the next three years?

Source: AlertNet  |   Jun 18 2013, 9:27pm CDT

Policymakers must see REDD+ achieving measurable results in the next three years to ensure the UN-backed framework for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation survives, according to a leading ...

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The Taliban Agree to Talk

Source: The New York Times  |   Jun 18 2013, 9:06pm CDT

The Taliban, more used to lobbing mortars and laying improvised explosive devices on the battlefields of Afghanistan, used a televised address in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday to declare their interest in a negotiated peace agreement . After nearly three years ...

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At last, China gets on board carbon trading

Source: Crikey  |   Jun 18 2013, 8:34pm CDT

Chinese officials held a ceremony in Shenzhen to kick off the first of China’s pilot carbon trading schemes yesterday. Shenzhen will soon be joined by additional trading schemes in six other provinces that in total will cover about 700 million tonnes o ...

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The New Republic on the ‘pause’

Source: Climate ETC, Judith Curry  |   Jun 18 2013, 7:52pm CDT

In the end, the so-called scientific consensus on global warming doesn’t look like much like consensus when scientists are struggling to explain the intricacies of the earth’s climate system, or uttering the word “uncertainty” with striking regularity. – ...

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