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Article: 2011 weather: warm and weird
The past year has been the third warmest in the Netherlands since record taking began in 1901, with an average annual temperature of 10.9ºC, the Dutch KNMI weather service says. No single month, moreover, conformed to usual weather...
Article: Cancún: a good deal—except for the planet
Last week's climate summit in Cancún has yielded excellent results: for developing countries, that is. A new climate fund will be set up and new organisations will create programmes to transfer technology, help people adjust to...
Article: Dutch Environment Minister satisfied with Cancún
Where does all the money to fight global warming go? Answering that question has become a little easier after the Cancún conference, according to the Dutch Minister for the Environment Joop Atsma. Speaking to Radio Netherlands...
Article: Natural disasters bigger due to urbanisation
Growing urbanisation combined with global warming is causing more and bigger natural disasters, a Red Cross report concludes. The World Disasters Report 2010, published last week, found that natural disasters in 2009 were "relatively...
Article: Sea level blunder enrages Dutch minister
A United Nations report wrongly claimed that more than half of the Netherlands is currently below sea level. In fact, just 20 percent of the country consists of polders that are pumped dry, and which are at risk of flooding if global...
Radio Show: Clinton criticises China in Copenhagen talks
Newsline 17 December 2009: Hillary Clinton accuses China of holding back any deal on climate change; a Ugandan MP tells us why he is pushing anti-homosexuality laws; and we announce the winner of our 8 languages competition.
Article: Chaos in Copenhagen
Frustration is growing about the lack of progress at the United Nations climate conference. Thousands of demonstrators are outside the conference venue and some are threatening to breach the barricades and hold a citizens’ forum in...
Article: Violence feared at Copenhagen summit venue
Police in Copenhagen have used tear gas to disperse a protest march heading for the climate conference venue this Wednesday morning. More than 160 of the protesters have already been arrested. The organiser of the march has called on...
Article: Developing nations walk out of Climate Conference
Negotiations at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen have been suspended following a walkout of developing countries. They find that support for the Kyoto Protocol, the core emissions-curbing treaty, is waning at the current talks. ...
Article: How to be heard in Copenhagen
There are some 15,000 delegates at the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen - and that's a lot of voices all striving to be heard. Activists can take extreme measures to attract attention, but it's harder for the official delegations...
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