spacedaily.com - 11/3/2009
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LONDON, Nov 3 (AFP) Nov 03, 2009 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon played down hopes for the key Copenhagen summit on climate change Tuesday, suggesting that detail on an agreement may be lacking. "I'm reasonably optimistic that this Copenhagen (summit) will be a very important milestone," Ban ...
ipsnews.net - 28 days ago
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Inter Press Service: It has been a bad
week for the climate change summit in Copenhagen next...
month. During the week the last meeting in the formal round of pre- Copenhagen talks collapsed in Barcelona. Then, meeting here on the weekend, the G20 ...
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... commitments to be agreed upon for a second phase that runs through 2020. Brendan Demille’s got a solid account of the fireworks the erupted Monday over this when 50 African nations “suspended” any further Kyoto Protocol talks until developed countries start taking them more seriously and deliver some numbers that are long overdue. Second, there’s quite of bit of unease in the air over the flood of recent comments–from everyone from the Danish Prime Minister to the U.N. Secretary General–that a “legally-binding agreement” isn’t likely by the time Copenhagen ...
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