<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.congoo.com/css/rss.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Environment News - Congoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=23&amp;catid=263</link><description>News Feed for - Environment</description><item><title>China unveils emissions targets</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96460341&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T19:14:00</pubDate><description>China today unveiled its first firm target to curb greenhouse gas emissions, a carbon intensity goal that prime minister Wen Jiabao will take to climate talks next month as his country's central commitment. </description><source>Irish Times</source></item><item><title>Obama to attend climate meet, unveil new target</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96418657&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T19:28:00</pubDate><description>Advts: Retail Plus | Classifieds | Jobs | Obituary | Washington: Buoyed by his talks with India and China on climate change, U.S. President Barack Obama will attend crucial negotiations in Copenhagen </description><source>The Hindu</source></item><item><title>Harper to attend Copenhagen climate summit</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96497030&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T18:58:00</pubDate><description>OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper has confirmed he will attend a major climate change summit next month in Copenhagen. The United Nations conference is expected to broker a new international framework </description><source>National Post</source></item><item><title>Past climate anomalies explained</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96592086&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T20:41:00</pubDate><description>The team reconstructed 1,500 years of climate using 'proxies' such as coral Unusually warm and cold periods in Earth's pre-industrial climate history are linked to how the oceans responded to temperature </description><source>BBC</source></item><item><title>America and the Climate Summit: Can Obama Turnaround Save Copenhagen?</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96441100&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T16:48:00</pubDate><description>Forum Related articles, background features and opinions about this topic. 11/26/2009 America and the Climate Summit Can Obama Turnaround Save Copenhagen? By Gregor Peter Schmitz in Washington REUTERS </description><source>Spiegel Online</source></item><item><title>Green jobs in state getting little help from stimulus</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96596684&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T21:11:00</pubDate><description>What was once the bustling Evergreen Pulp mill is today a forlorn factory of smokestacks and tan buildings clustered quietly on the still, gray waters of the Arcata harbor near Eureka, Calif. Entrepreneur </description><source>Los Angeles Times</source></item><item><title>Harper to attend climate talks</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96585942&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T19:27:00</pubDate><description>By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose government is often criticized for dragging its heels on global warming, will attend U.N. talks next month in Copenhagen </description><source>Reuters</source></item><item><title>Amazon summit to save rainforest</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96566597&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T14:24:00</pubDate><description>Brazil's disappearing rainforests have been a concern for decades Brazil is due to host a regional summit on how to save the Amazon basin from deforestation and climate change. Delegates from eight nations </description><source>BBC</source></item><item><title>Chinese premier to join climate talks</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96556641&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T11:02:00</pubDate><description>From Jaime FlorCruz, CNN Bejing Correspondent U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pictured earlier this month in Beijing, China. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to attend </description><source>CNN</source></item><item><title>INTERVIEW - World can reach climate pact by end 2010 - Mexico</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96528167&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T03:07:00</pubDate><description>MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Global climate change talks in Copenhagen next month should yield a concrete base that will allow for a definitive treaty to be agreed within a year, Mexico's top climate change </description><source>Reuters India</source></item><item><title>UPDATE 1-Canada PM, under pressure, to attend climate talks</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96497685&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T19:32:00</pubDate><description>OTTAWA, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose government is often criticized for dragging its heels on global warming, will attend U.N. talks next month in Copenhagen designed </description><source>Reuters India</source></item><item><title>Climate change: A heated debate</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96538057&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T17:24:00</pubDate><description>Search Section search Economist.com edition only EIU Welcome else else return (typeof Opinion library home an Voice Climate change A heated debate Nov 26th 2009From print editionWhy political orthodoxy </description><source>The Economist</source></item><item><title>China announces target to limit growth of gas emissions</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96424730&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T19:58:00</pubDate><description>U.S. proposes 17 per cent reduction below 2005 levels by 2020 Analysts describe Thursdays statement as a positive step BEIJING: Ten days ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit, China has, for the first </description><source>The Hindu</source></item><item><title>China pledges action on climate change</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96416765&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T17:23:00</pubDate><description>Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will attend a major U.N. climate-change summit next month in Denmark, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday. Wen's attendance 'will fully demonstrate the great importance </description><source>CNN</source></item><item><title>Canadian PM to attend climate talks</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96585198&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T19:07:00</pubDate><description>By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose government is often criticized for dragging its heels on global warming, will attend U.N. talks next month in Copenhagen </description><source>Reuters</source></item><item><title>WWF applauds Chinese premier's attendance at Copenhagen climate summit</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96581932&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T17:10:00</pubDate><description>GENEVA, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) applauded on Thursday the announcement that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao would attend the upcoming UN climate summit in Copenhagen. 'The </description><source>SINA</source></item><item><title>Chinese entrepreneurs to share experiences at Copenhagen climate summit</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96581928&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T16:58:00</pubDate><description>(Beijing Time) Xinhua English BEIJING, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- A delegation of Chinese entrepreneurs will attend the Copenhagen climate summit next month to express their views and share experiences. One </description><source>SINA</source></item><item><title>Beijing has seen the future and knows it must be green</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96587807&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T19:32:00</pubDate><description>While China aims to hold the patents on tomorrow's clean technologies, the US remains in the climate change dark ages China has finally put some numbers to its climate plans, a significant move in the </description><source>Guardian.co.uk</source></item><item><title>The Deal: Cariboo eco-friendly bassinets up to 40% off at Totsy beginning today</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96587594&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T19:29:00</pubDate><description>When today's parents were newborns, they slept in bassinets coated with lead paint. OK, maybe it wasn't that bad, but there certainly weren't 'eco-friendly' handcrafted designs like the ones from Cariboo, </description><source>Los Angeles Times</source></item><item><title>Liberals ditch carbon tax in favour of cap-and-trade climate policy</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96586360&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T19:14:00</pubDate><description>Michael Ignatieff is abandoning StĂ©phane Dionâ??s consumer-focused carbon-tax for an industrial cap-and-trade system to tackle climate change. He vowed, too that if he becomes Prime Minister he wonâ??t </description><source>Globe and Mail</source></item><item><title>Climate change: It's off to Denmark we go</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96584621&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T18:53:00</pubDate><description>From The Economist print edition The president plans another risky flight to Copenhagen IN THE optimistic view, Barack Obama has given a jolt of energy to the Copenhagen climate talks. On November 25th </description><source>The Economist</source></item><item><title>China pledges effort to limit its 'greenhouse' gases</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96576474&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T18:52:00</pubDate><description>Reporting from Beijing - China pledged today to increase its efforts to limit 'greenhouse' gases, and said that Premier Wen Jiabao would attend the Copenhagen climate summit next month. The announcements </description><source>Los Angeles Times</source></item><item><title>Climate change: Mail-strom</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96540939&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T17:11:00</pubDate><description>IS GLOBAL warming a trick? That is what some saw in a huge batch of e-mails and documents taken from the servers of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, in England, and put </description><source>The Economist</source></item><item><title>A first look inside Burj Dubai, the tallest skyscraper in the world, as it nears </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96454258&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T16:29:00</pubDate><description>Towering high above the Dubai skyline, Burj Dubai, the world's tallest man-made construction, edges closer to completion</description><source>Telegraph</source></item><item><title>Brazil renews tax breaks for "green" vehicles</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96419844&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=263</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T16:59:00</pubDate><description>BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega confirmed on Tuesday that the government will extend tax breaks to certain vehicles deemed environmentally friendly. The government will keep </description><source>Reuters</source></item></channel></rss>