Reuters AlertNet - CLIMATE CHANGE: Latin America's Perpetual Fever
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... with former U.S. vice-president Al gore. Nobre's opinions appear, with those of another 22 noted experts, in the "First Regional Report on Climate Change: Latin America and the Irreversible Effects of a Warmer Planet", published Nov. 19 by Tierramérica in Montevideo. Nobre, head of the Land Science Centre of Brazil's national space agency, INPE, underscored the ...
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Reuters AlertNet - PENPIX-Personalities steering U.N. climate talks
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... and rising seas. CAMPAIGNER: AL gore Co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the IPCC, gore has won the loudest applause at the past two annual U.N. climate meetings for his warnings that climate change means a "planetary emergency". But some delegates with longer memories fault him for jacking up expectations for the Kyoto Protocol ...
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Reuters AlertNet - CLIMATE CHANGE-US: Too Little, Too Late for Copenhagen?
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... Low graphics | Mobile Logout | About us CLIMATE CHANGE-US: Too Little, Too Late for Copenhagen? 06 Nov 2009 18:41:00 GMT Source: Inter Press Service Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the ...
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Reuters AlertNet - Orthodox patriarch meets Obama on U.S. visit
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... president and environmental crusader Al gore, Bartholomew also will meet this week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. His meeting with Obama was private, but the White House noted afterwards that the president reaffirmed "the U.S. commitment to confronting global climate change." It ...
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Reuters AlertNet - DIARY - Global Environment
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... former U.S. Vice President Al gore will publish a follow-up to his global warming awareness bestseller "An Inconvenient Truth". The book to be called "Our Choice" will describe solutions to global warming. MONTE CARLO, Monaco - Deep Offshore Technology International Conference and Exhibition (to Nov. 5). SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 PORT ...
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Reuters AlertNet - First clown in space hosts show to save Earth's water
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... president and environmental campaigner Al gore gave a video presentation on global warming and Brazilian singer songwriter Gilberto Gil sang in Rio de Janeiro. Cirque du Soleil acrobats gave water-themed performances from Montreal and Las Vegas and dancers from the Bolshoi Ballet performed from Moscow in a show streamed on the Internet and broadcast on satellite ...
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Reuters AlertNet - Q+A-Is it the Nobel "Peace" or "Political" prize?
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... former Democratic Vice President Al gore shared the award with the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for highlighting the risks of global warming. In 2000, he lost one of the closest presidential elections in U.S. history to Bush. IS THERE A POLITICAL MESSAGE TO THE AWARD? Obama has been widely credited with improving America's ...
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Reuters AlertNet - ANALYSIS-Obama has honor, and burden, of Nobel award
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... war. Former Vice President Al gore won in 2007 for his work drawing attention to global climate change. President Bill Clinton, by contrast, has not won despite a history of working for peace while in office and afterward. Woodrow Wilson in 1919 and Jimmy Carter in 2002 were the two other U.S. presidents who won the ...
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Reuters AlertNet - FACTBOX-U.S. tops list of Nobel Peace Prize winners
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... - Former Vice President Al gore shared the award with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for highlighting the risks of global warming. 2002 - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter for "his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social ...
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Reuters AlertNet - Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize to mixed reviews
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... after former Vice President Al gore won in 2007 along with the U.N. climate panel and Jimmy Carter in 2002. The prize worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.4 million) will be handed over in Oslo on Dec. 10. For a Take-a-Look click on [ID:nL9168920] (Additional reporting by Oslo newsroom, Kamran Haider in Pakistan, Mohammed Assadi, Nidal ...
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Reuters AlertNet - Community Practitioner - Policymakers Dialogue on Disaster Risk Reduction and Role of grassroots Women's groups
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... who were taking bribes." Sudhamati gore also a communication assistants found that no one trusted her. People thought that like other middle men she would try and profit from the government's program. However she soon changed their perception by facilitating community access to government entitlements and to date people go to her when they need to ...
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Reuters AlertNet - Pachauri: Prospects for strong Copenhagen deal 'not looking very good'
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... and former U.S. President Al gore. Pachauri urged U.S. President Barack Obama to strongly back efforts to get U.S. domestic climate legislation passed before Copenhagen. "The U.S. president certainly has enough power to swing five or six senators from one side to the other," he said. "There has to be a concerted effort to get something ...
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Reuters AlertNet - Climate talks need a dose of top-level political will
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... conflicts of interest, like Al gore, who stands to make a mountain of Green. Question: Why was Al gore allowed to testify before Congress, and Lord Monckton refused the day before he was scheduled to testify to counter gore? When you can answer that question, then you'll know what 'climate change' is really all about. It ...
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Reuters AlertNet - Climate change cash key to unlocking progress on global deal
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... EU climate policy adviser, Tim gore, says the EU must stick its neck out and show leadership on financing. "What the EU does has massive implications for (the U.N.) negotiations," he told AlertNet. "It needs to get out of this 'you first' approach." SHOW AND TELL Climate campaigners are tired of what they see as reluctance ...
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Reuters AlertNet - BOOK REVIEW: Why our climate change solutions are a mirage
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... Low graphics | Mobile Logout | About us BOOK REVIEW: Why our climate change solutions are a mirage How to publish... | Add an article... 24 Sep 2008 09:35:00 GMT Written by: ...
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Reuters AlertNet - Who's helping media in developing countries tackle climate change?
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... Low graphics | Mobile Logout | About us Who's helping media in developing countries tackle climate change? 15 Aug 2008 17:39:00 GMT Written by: Megan Rowling A woman picks wild vegetables in Uganda's ...
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Reuters AlertNet - HAVE YOUR SAY: Should we put cheaper food and fuel before climate change?
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... perception of science (ahem, Mr. gore) actually locks those poor people into poverty and cements indefinitely the very stinginess he decried. I hope you will make up your own mind regarding the global approach to the environment and poverty, and keep in mind it is not simply about one issue. John Coombes says: 09 ...
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Reuters AlertNet - Climate change and conflicts: Is there a link at all?
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... vice president turned environmentalist Al gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But the argument is far from settled, writes online magazine Science Daily. The link between pressure on natural resources and armed conflicts simply doesn't exist, say researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). In their study, Helga Malmin Binningsbø, ...
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Reuters AlertNet - Bali climate change talks: 'The long, arduous road' to nowhere?
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... Low graphics | Mobile Logout | About us Bali climate change talks: 'The long, arduous road' to nowhere? 10 Dec 2007 11:44:00 GMT Written by: Nina Brenjo Demonstrator poses in front of globe ...
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Reuters AlertNet - Time to start talking about climate change and peace
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... engagement by ex-U.S. Vice-President Al gore in February 2007. gore was speaking to a sold-out crowd about his film, "An Inconvenient Truth". REUTERS/J.P. Moczulski We've heard the warnings over and over. Global warming means the world is facing "a true planetary emergency" (ex-U.S. Vice-President Al gore); in coming decades, environmental changes caused by global ...
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Reuters AlertNet - Poland: Irena Sendlerowa, 97, for Nobel
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... may beat Bono and Al gore to the Nobel Peace Prize this year: Twenty four years after Lech Walesa won it, 97-year-old Irena Sendlerowa â€" who is famous in Poland for protecting many, many Jewish children during the Nazi occupation of WW II - is on the long list of candidates this year for the ...
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