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Plans to reduce rising emissions from global shipping have faltered at a key international meeting. The International Maritime Organization delayed a decision to raise the cost of ships’ fuel and use the money to help poor nations tackle climate change.

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OSLO (Reuters) – Cloud formation, sea level rises and extreme weather events are among areas set to get more attention in the next U.N. report on global warming due in 2014, the head of the Nobel Peace Prize winning panel said on Friday.

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WASHINGTON – While most lawmakers accept that more renewable energy is needed on the nation’s grid, the debate over the giant climate-change and energy bill now before Congress is exposing a fundamental rift. For many players, the energy not only has to be clean and free of carbon-dioxide emissions, it also has to be generated nearby.

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SAN FRANCISCO, July 9 (Reuters) – The future of solar energy may be small — small scale, that is.

The climate change and energy policy bill winding its way through the U.S. Congress shows a new federal eagerness to build a renewable energy future, but what specifically to build where is still up for debate.

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“President Obama and leaders of the world\’s biggest industrialized nations agreed Wednesday to turn down the heat on the planet by going green,” The New York Daily News writes. “The G-8 nations, whose leaders are meeting in Italy, will seek to cut half of all emissions linked to climate change by 2050.”

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A quartet of Obama administration officials launched a new effort to sell landmark climate change legislation on Capitol Hill, telling a Senate committee today that the goal was not limited to simply curbing greenhouse gases but also to creating a boom in alternative energy jobs.

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AMSTERDAM (AP) — Developing countries need money now to grapple with global warming, and the Group of Eight summit this week could energize troubled climate negotiations if it decided to make “significant” funds available, the top U.N. climate official said Monday.

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The aid agency Oxfam says climate change is set to cause hunger on a scale that’ll make it the defining human tragedy of this century.

A report, released ahead of this week’s G8 summit, says the developing world are being further impoverished, as unpredictable weather patterns lead to more natural disasters and falling crop yields.

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The European Tech Tour’s inaugural Cleantech Summit 2009, in which is being held today and tomorrow in Geneva, will showcase 24 leading European start-up and early stage cleantech companies. The Summit will support the development of start-ups developing products and services that will have a strong influence on combating climate change and…

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