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<title>Declaration of Leaders Meeting of Major Economies on Energy Security and Climate Change</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177697535</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 04:45 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States  ...  co-benefits by maintaining multiple economic goods and ecological services. Our nations will continue to cooperate  ...  promote public sector investment; to create enabling environments that promote private investment that is commercially  ...
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<title>G8 papers over differences on climate change</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177696096</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 04:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the rich nations club slammed the deal. Environmental campaign group WWF said the leaders had  ...  in their emissions as well. The South African Environment Minister, Mr Marthinus van Schalkwyk said  ...  The statement puts the focus of fighting global warming on UN-led talks to create a new  ...
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<title>Indian activist: G8 called to outline &quot;future development of peoples&quot;</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177695478</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 04:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  inflation (food and fuel crisis), climate change, environmental degradation, poverty eradication and social conflicts -  ...  dams and urban policies which compound the pollution to the environment; and climate change. &quot;Terrorism  ...  to wipe out the debts of the African nations. The contours of the world economy  ...
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<title>G-8 Leaders Back Cutting Emissions By 2050</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177695145</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 04:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  midcentury to stave off global warming. Unimpressed environmentalists called the effort too slow and too  ...  planning to try to conclude a new global warming treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol when  ...  and actions,&quot; said Marthinus van Schalkwyk, South African Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism. &quot;As  ...
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<title>Bush Says Medvedev Is Smart Guy&apos;</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177694095</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 04:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  summit, a day focused on aid to Africa and on whether the worlds economic powers  ...  chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. The Group of Eight takes up  ...  unless developing economies that are also big polluters, like China and India, are included. The  ...
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<title>Vague commitments by G8 nations on climate change and aid to poor countries</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177692944</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 04:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  by 2050 but only if other great polluters like India and China join in. Vague  ...  Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and other environmental groups said the target date of 2050  ...  fight poverty and hunger, half intended for Africa. They also rejected international criticism that past  ...
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<title>G8 set for climate clash</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177687425</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 03:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to adopt a &quot;shared vision&quot; of tackling global warming in U.N. negotiations due to conclude in  ...  a while,&quot; said Kim Carstensen, director of environmental group WWF&apos;s global climate initiative. &quot;Given the  ...  and the United States. China, India, South Africa, Mexico and Brazil called on rich nations  ...
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<title>Food Crisis: The Way Out</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177685031</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 03:14 GMT</pubDate>
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...  crop failure. Farmers in the new South Africa are free to choose stability and security  ...  know when it released its Report on global warming that the planet had started cooling, the  ...  hi-tech first world counterparts. GM crops are environmentally friendly as they reduce dependence on costly  ...
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<title>Richest Nations Pledge to Halve Greenhouse Gas</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177684200</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 03:12 GMT</pubDate>
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...  next decade, and drew sharp criticism from environmentalists, who called it a missed opportunity. In  ...  to take a more aggressive stance on global warming, said the declaration could enhance efforts to  ...  rift between rich and poor nations. South Africa&apos;s minister of environmental affairs, Marthinus van Schalkwyk,  ...
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<title>Critics: U.S.-backed emissions-reduction goal not enough</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177683425</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 02:49 GMT</pubDate>
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...  2050 - a move criticized by many environmental groups as being not enough. After months  ...  flowery words.&quot; The environmental minister of South Africa, one of several developing countries whose support  ...  happy to work within,&quot; Levi said. The global warming statement came on a busy day at  ...
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<title>G8 leaders agree on halving emissions by 2050</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177683078</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 02:48 GMT</pubDate>
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...  prices, pledged to speed up aid to Africa and threatened to take further action against  ...  not to backtrack on earlier pledges on global warming, which UN scientists warn could put entire  ...  by 2020 from 1990 levels. South Africa&apos;s environment minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said the G8  ...
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<title>G-8 leaders pledge to cut emissions in half by 2050</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177681439</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 02:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Philip E. Clapp, director of the Pew Environmental Group, who is here monitoring the negotiations.  ...  Bush to take a stronger stance on global warming, pronounced herself &quot;very satisfied.&quot; Yet already, there  ...  rift between rich and poor nations. South Africa&apos;s minister of environmental affairs, Marthinus van Schalkwyk,  ...
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<title>Critics: Emissions-Reduction Goal Not Enough</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177681415</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 02:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  2050 - a move criticized by many environmental groups as being not enough. After months  ...  flowery words.&quot; The environmental minister of South Africa, one of several developing countries whose support  ...  happy to work within,&quot; Levi said. The global warming statement came on a busy day at  ...
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<title>U.S.-backed emission-reduction goal not enough, critics say</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177680118</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 02:13 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  2050 - a move criticized by many environmental groups as being not enough. After months  ...  flowery words.&quot; The environmental minister of South Africa, one of several developing countries whose support  ...  happy to work within,&quot; Levi said. The global warming statement came on a busy day at  ...
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<title>Emission-reduction goals not enough, critics say</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177680114</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 02:13 GMT</pubDate>
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...  2050 - a move criticized by many environmental groups as being not enough. After months  ...  flowery words.&quot; The environmental minister of South Africa, one of several developing countries whose support  ...  happy to work within,&quot; Levi said. The global warming statement came on a busy day at  ...
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