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Ukraine focus for new energy efficiecy programme
Stockholm - The European Commission and several other donors Thursday launched an energy efficiency programme to fund projects in eastern Europe beginning with Ukraine. We expect commitments to the support fund of around 100 million euros (150 milli...

[Posted on : 2009-11-26 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Floods kill 77 as hajj pilgrimage begins in Saudi Arabia - Summary
Jeddah - Seventy-seven people were killed in flash floods as the annual hajj pilgrimage began in the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi government reported Thursday. The civil defence authority for the holy Muslim city of Mecca said that Wedne...

[Posted on : 2009-11-26 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Pressure mounts on Iran at ElBaradei's final IAEA board - Update
Vienna - International pressure mounted on Iran Thursday at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna at which six world powers sought a vote on a resolution censuring Tehran for secretly building a new nuclear site. As the...

[Posted on : 2009-11-26 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

PREVIEW: Commonwealth summit to grapple with climate change, rights
London - Burning issues of climate change, the global economic crisis and human rights will be on the minds of Commonwealth heads of states and government when they get together in a luxury hotel in Port of Spain later this week. The 2009 summit of t...

[Posted on : 2009-11-26 ] Category : [ Environment ]

Floods kill 48 as hajj pilgrimage begins in Saudi Arabia
Jeddah - Forty-eight people were killed in flash floods as the annual hajj pilgrimage began in the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi government reported Thursday. The civil defence authority for the holy Muslim city of Mecca said that Wednesd...

[Posted on : 2009-11-26 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

China targets 40-per-cent cut in carbon intensity by 2020 - Summary
Beijing - China on Thursday set a target of reducing its carbon intensity by at least 40 per cent by 2020 compared with 2005 levels, drawing praise from two environmental groups. The State Council, or cabinet, announced on its website and through sta...

[Posted on : 2009-11-26 ] Category : [ Environment ]

EXTRA: ElBaradei 'disappointed' about Iran over fuel deal
Vienna - Outgoing International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Thursday he was disappointed that Iran has failed to agreed to a multinational deal aimed at reducing tensions over the country's nuclear programme. Speaking a...

[Posted on : 2009-11-26 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Indonesian police stop Greenpeace forest stunt
Jakarta - Police on Indonesia's Sumatra island removed Thursday four Greenpeace activists who tied themselves to cranes at a paper mill for 27 hours to protest what they call forest destruction, the environmental group said. Police began taking actio...

[Posted on : 2009-11-26 ] Category : [ Environment ]

Australia's carbon trading scheme in jeopardy
Sydney - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's chances of having legislation for a carbon trading scheme through Parliament before next month's climate conference in Copenhagen was placed in jeopardy Thursday by a mutiny within the opposition Libera...

[Posted on : 2009-11-26 ] Category : [ Environment ]

Swedish premier: US emission cuts insufficent
Stockholm - Sweden regards the proposed emission cuts by the United States ahead of a UN climate change summit next month as insufficient, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said in a comment published Thursday. The US reduction of 17 per cent below 20...

[Posted on : 2009-11-26 ] Category : [ Environment ]

 

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