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  • 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference

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    Date : November 29, 2010

    The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Mexico from 29 November 2010 to 10 December 2010.

    The conference is officially referred to as the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP16) and the 6th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP6).

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  • 2010 ESRI International User Conference

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    Date : July 12, 2010

    July 12–16, at the San Diego Convention Center in California.

    For more information, click here...

  • Meeting of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies

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    Date : May 31, 2010

    The venue for the June 2010 meetings of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies is likely to be Bonn, Germany... More...

  • Push to change embattled climate panel

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    Date : February 08, 2010

    A prominent scientist has joined sceptics in calling for the UN authority on climate change to be reformed, as yet more flaws are exposed in the International Panel on Climate Change's reports.

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  • Defusing the Methane Greenhouse Time Bomb

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    Date : February 05, 2010

    Could methane-digesting bacteria and an Arctic cap of fresh water prevent a climate catastrophe?

    By Christopher Mims 

    Methane trapped in Arctic ice (and elsewhere) could be rapidly released into the atmosphere as a result of global warming in a possible doomsday scenario for climate change, some scientists worry... 

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  • Obama Budget Makes Strong Commitment to Climate Change Research and Preparing for Climate Impacts

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    Date : February 02, 2010

    Submitted by Nick Sundt on Mon, 02/01/2010

    The U.S. Office of Management and Budget has just released the Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011. Under the budget, the Obama Administration proposes investing $2.6 billion for climate change research under the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). The 21 percent, $439 million, increase over the 2010 enacted level brings program funding higher than under any prior administration.

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  • Experts on the chances of a global climate deal working in Mexico in 2010

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    Date : February 01, 2010

    Politicians, climate negotiators, scientists and NGO experts on the outlook for a global climate change deal

    Chances of Copenhagen 'rematch' unlikely, say experts.

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  • Don't sacrifice health in climate battle, warns Gates

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    Date : January 27, 2010

    Spending more on climate change research could put hundreds of thousands of lives at risk by stripping away precious global health funding, Bill Gates has said.

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    Source : Naomi Antonyn SciDev

  • Climate Change's Latest Storm

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    Date : January 25, 2010

    Good news for the Earth, bad news for the IPCC - 

    It's been a good week for the future of Life as We Know It. First the keepers of the climate-science consensus admitted that the Himalayan glaciers are not on the verge of disappearing, as these columns pointed out last month. Now we've learned that there wasn't much science behind the claim, also trumpeted in the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 report, that rising temperatures were leading to more-intense storms and more-expensive natural catastrophes...

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    Source:  WSJ

  • Q&A: Andreas Schild and the glacial retreat debate

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    Date : January 22, 2010

    The dispute about whether the Himalayan glaciers are shrinking has highlighted just how much more there is learn about the behavior of glaciers.

    SciDev.Net caught up with Andreas Schild, director-general of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), based in mountainous Nepal, to find out what kind of research will yield those answers.

    To read more, click here.


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