http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=23&catid=508News Feed for - Climate-changehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96458217&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T08:32:00China carbon cut target puts pressure on India China's decision to unveil carbon emissions targets two weeks before the Copenhagen climate change summit has put pressure on India, a minister says. Environment BBChttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96627706&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T07:03:00CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's parliament delayed a final vote on a government carbon trade plan on Friday, missing a key deadline, throwing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's climate change policy into doubt Reuters UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96497030&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T08:34:00The Amazon basin and France Summit on climate change started on Thursday in Manaus with the presence of French President Nicholas Sarkozy, Guyana leader Jean-Pierre Laflaquire and Brazilian President People's Daily Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96497685&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T08:49:00Commonwealth summit in Trinidad targets climate change Commonwealth leaders are meeting in Trinidad with climate change high on the agenda in the last major summit before the Copenhagen climate talks. BBC Caribbeanhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96571447&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T07:24:00China promised to slow its carbon emissions, saying it would nearly halve the ratio of pollution to GDP over the next decade _ a major move by the world's largest emitter, whose cooperation is crucial San Francisco Chroniclehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96457210&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T09:43:00Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and President of the European Commission Jos Manuel Barroso on Thursday welcomed the recent climate bids by China and the US ahead of the U.N. conference in Copenhagen.'We People's Daily Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96638739&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T07:32:00BEIJING, Nov 27 (Reuters) - China will step up construction of major projects related to energy conservation and environmental protection next year, the ruling Communist Party agreed on Friday. The party's Reuters UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96570225&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T08:44:00WASHINGTON -- Americans' day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next decade, experts Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96612919&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T07:29:00Sally Arthy, US news editor in Port of Spain The issue of climate change will take centre stage later today when the Queen officially opens a meeting of Commonwealth countries in Trinidad. The Commonwealth Sky Newshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96558845&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T07:26:00CANBERRA, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Australia's parliament delayed a final vote on the government's sweeping carbon trade plan on Friday, missing a key deadline and throwing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's climate Reuters UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96627059&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T05:19:00If I'm wrong, somebody ought to tell the polar ice caps that they're free to stop melting. That said, the e-mail episode is more than a major embarrassment for the scientists involved. Most Americans Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96582618&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T09:11:00* Will also avoid any energy rows with Russia * Total gas imports much lower than initially contracted (Adds quotes, details) KIEV, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Naftogaz will pay on time for Russian gas imports Reuters UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96475643&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T07:42:00Gordon Brown arrived at the Commonwealth summit in Trinidad & Tobago optimistic of achieving consensus on the need for a deal on climate change in Copenhagen next month. Mr Brown believes the meeting Telegraphhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96637164&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T07:12:00The work of C3W will include looking at sea level change A five-year programme to study the impact of climate change in Wales on land, sea and atmosphere is under way. The 4m programme, known as the Climate BBChttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96649464&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T09:53:00PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad -- An approaching global climate summit has raised the temperature at a typically low-key meeting of leaders from Britain's former colonial empire. The Commonwealth heads of government, Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96642860&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T08:03:00Copenhagen (pop. 1.7 million) is the capital of Denmark (pop. 5.3 million). Unless you are from Mars, you also know that Copenhagen is about to be transmogrified from being a dullish euro capital with National Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96649324&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T10:49:00SEOUL, Nov 27 (Reuters) - South Korea's POSCO POSCO, the world's fourth-largest steelmaker, accounts for 10 percent of the country's total carbon emissions. 'Our ultimate goal is to develop steel production Forbes.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96646381&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T09:20:00BEIJING China set a firm target to control its emissions of greenhouse gases Thursday, an unprecedented step that bolsters the momentum of climate change talks at next month's United Nations summit in USA Todayhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96646334&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T09:19:00Mainland Communist Party leaders pledged during a meeting on Friday to 'actively' tackle climate change and stick to its current fiscal and monetary policies, state-run media reported. The country will South China Morning Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96645091&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T08:54:00Gordon Brown will use a meeting of Commonwealth leaders as an "important springboard" to an international deal on global warming, he said. Among the main issues on the agenda for the biennial Commonwealth Telegraphhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96641380&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T08:04:00Reporting from Washington and Beijing - China vowed Thursday to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by nearly half over the next decade, a move that environmentalists and the Obama administration hailed Los Angeles Timeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96614247&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T05:18:00GOVERNMENT Senate leader Chris Evans says the Government intends to persevere with the emissions trading legislation and will continue the debate on Monday. As the Government's 3.45pm deadline loomed, Herald Sunhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96575167&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T06:41:00cast WEATHER ALERT TORONTO Stephen Harper's spokesman Dimitri Soudas said Thursday Harper decided to attend after the U.S. and Chese presidents announced they were gog to the U.N. talks. The news comes Wichita Eaglehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96529648&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T07:27:00WASHINGTON - China announced yesterday that it will cut its economys carbon intensity by up to 45 percent by 2020, the state news agency Xinhua said, and that Premier Wen Jiabao will participate in international Boston Globehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96627681&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=5082009-11-27T08:08:00A power pole in an industrial estate in western Sydney obscures a chimney as it discharges vapour November 25, 2009. 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