Australia carbon laws fail, election possible
02 Dec 2009 06:01:49 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Key government climate change policy defeated
* Potential trigger to call early 2010 election
* Govt says will re-introduce carbon laws to parliament
By Rob Taylor
CANBERRA, Dec 2 (Reuters ...
FACTBOX-Obama calibrates message to multiple audiences
02 Dec 2009 03:02:17 GMT
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was addressing U.S. army cadets at West Point and the entire nation on television as he unveiled his Afghan strategy on Tuesday night but his ...
FACTBOX-Australia's carbon footprint
02 Dec 2009 02:01:38 GMT
Source: Reuters
Dec 2 - Australia's parliament rejected laws to set up a sweeping carbon emissions trade scheme on Wednesday, scuttling a key policy of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and setting a trigger for an early ...
Australian parliament rejects carbon-trade laws
02 Dec 2009 00:56:43 GMT
Source: Reuters
CANBERRA, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Australia's parliament on Wednesday rejected sweeping carbon-trade laws, aimed at cutting greenhouse gases, giving Prime Minister Kevin Rudd a trigger for a possible early ...
LATIN AMERICA: Summit Does Not Recognise Elections in Honduras
Source: IPS
The hard-line stance taken by Brazil, Argentina and most other Latin American countries has clashed with U.S. efforts to push for
international recognition of the elections organised Sunday by the de facto regime in power in Honduras since the Jun. 28 coup.
GLOBAL: How not to fight over scarce resources
01 Dec 2009 19:38:19 GMT
Source: IRIN
In all the talk about adapting to climate change, "scant attention" is being paid to "the dangers of ...
[adaptation strategies] going astray in fragile and conflict-affected" countries, warned a report released on 28 November.
Most world leaders to attend U.N. climate summit
01 Dec 2009 17:14:15 GMT
Source: Reuters
* 98 world leaders to attend Copenhagen talks
* Australian opposition set to defeat carbon laws
By John Acher and James Grubel
COPENHAGEN/CANBERRA, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Most world leaders plan ...
FACTBOX-Who is going to Copenhagen?
01 Dec 2009 17:03:23 GMT
Source: Reuters
Dec 1 (Reuters) - Environment ministers and officials will meet in Copenhagen on Dec. 7-18 for a United Nations climate change conference to put together a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.
Many ...
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Catholics come to
Copenhagen for climate justice
01 Dec 2009 11:24:00 GMT
Source: Caritas Internationalis
Catholic church leaders, supporters, aid agencies and advocacy groups are joining forces to urge world leaders for climate justice at
talks in Copenhagen.
Tutu: HIV is not statistical
01 Dec 2009 08:57:23 GMT
Source: DanChurchAid - Denmark
All of these
people are not statistics. This is the child of somebody, it is the mother of some child. It is the father of a family.†A major religious leader says the world can no longer think
of HIV in developing countries as a problem that sits in isolation from other countries.
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