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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...
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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...
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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...
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China targets 40-per-cent cut in carbon intensity by 2020
Beijing - China on Thursday set a target of reducing its carbon intensity by at least 40 per cent by 2020 compared with 2005 levels. The State Council, or cabinet, announced through state media that it aimed to cut the nation's carbon dioxide emissio...
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