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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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L\’AQUILA, Italy (AP) — President Barack Obama said Thursday the global recession makes it harder to strike an international agreement to battle dangerous temperature increases, but he urged the poor emerging economies that rejected specific clean-energy goals to “fight the temptation toward cynicism” and embrace them soon.

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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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A new bill aimed at protecting the environment has some Siouxland politicians up in arms.

The “Cap and Trade” bill is a way to try and reverse the effects of global warming. But opponents say going green may end up costing Americans a lot of green.

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Memo suggests downplaying ‘green jobs’

House Democrats neared a deal Thursday on a bill to combat global warming, but a top party strategist warned that to sell any plan to voters they’ll need to change the way they pitch it — including curbing the use of the term “green” jobs and even talk of “global warming.”

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