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W Australia sea level rising fast09 Nov 09 | Asia-PacificScientists have said that man-made climate change has played a significant role in the rise. Climatologists have said that a combination of natural variability and man-made pollution have caused sea levels to rise around the world.
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Nuclear fast-track plan awaited09 Nov 09 | Science & EnvironmentEnergy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband will unveil statements of policy including a list of sites judged suitable for nuclear developments. Changes to planning laws would let the Infrastructure Planning Commission hurry through new schemes if it rules they comply with the policy...
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All change as gas reserves soar08 Nov 09 | BusinessIt is no longer a question of whether climate change is real or not," he says.
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Mixed response to transaction tax idea07 Nov 09 | BusinessThey want the funds raised to be used for aid, and an increasingly popular idea is to use the money specifically to help developing countries respond to climate change - to curb their own greenhouse emissions and to adapt to the warming that is likely to take place. But that is not what the G20...
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G20 vows to spur fragile growth07 Nov 09 | Business
The G20 countries also promised to step up efforts to tackle climate change and "work towards an ambitious outcome"
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Darling urges G20 climate change push07 Nov 09A key meeting of G20 finance ministers has begun in Scotland, amid division on the future of economic stimulus packages and paying for climate change. As he opened the summit, UK Chancellor Alistair Darling urged his colleagues to make progress on the issue of global warming.
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Climate finance talks 'disagreement'07 Nov 09G20 finance ministers are disagreeing over climate change and stimulus spending at a meeting in St Andrews. It is the last time the ministers will meet ahead of next month's climate summit in Copenhagen.
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Rifts appear ahead of G20 talks07 Nov 09Disputes over climate change and stimulus spending have emerged as G20 finance ministers gather in St Andrews, Fife. Some G20 nations want to end stimulus spending whereas the UK, still mired in a long downturn, is more cautious about scaling back on measures to boost growth.
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Climate deal 'unlikely' this year06 Nov 09It is unlikely a binding deal to combat climate change will be achieved at the Copenhagen summit in December, a senior UN official has said. The government is predicting a deal could be up to a year away.
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Dengue increase blamed on climate06 Nov 09Some scientists say climate change is to blame, with rising temperatures and increased rainfall boosting the number of mosquitoes, which carry the disease. Richard Wilson reports from Jakarta.
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HARDtalk - HARDtalk on the Road, Part 1HARDtalk on the Road, Part 1, 28 Jul 09Stephen Sackur visits Ilulissat in Greenland, home of the northern hemisphere's fastest collapsing glacier, where he talks to Penny Wong, Australia's Minister for Climate Change, and Shyam Saran, India's envoy on climate change, about the roles and responsibilities of the industrialised and...
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HARDtalk - HARDtalk on the Road, Part 2HARDtalk on the Road, Part 2, 29 Jul 09In the second part of the series Stephen Sackur takes HARDtalk's hard-hitting interview format on the road to Greenland to uncover how climate change is affecting the country. At the mouth of the ice fjord sits the town of Ilulissat.
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HARDtalk - HARDtalk on the Road, Part 3HARDtalk on the Road, Part 3, 30 Jul 09Climate change is already having a major impact on Greenland's vast ice sheet. Scientists are warning of a potentially dangerous impact on sea levels and global temperatures, but could the warming of Greenland bring with it positive effects? In...
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House of Commons - Live Energy and Climate ChangeLive Energy and Climate Change Questions, 05 Nov 09Live coverage of questions in the House of Commons to Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband and his team of ministers.
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Wake Up to Money - 04/11/200904 Nov 09Climate change and the risk of flooding could leave thousands unable to afford insurance. And, HM Revenue & Customs is encouraging the over 65s to claim back hundreds of millions of pounds in overpaid taxes.
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One Planet - 05/11/200905 Nov 09The latest stop on our listener tour is Barcelona, which also happens to be the last stop on the UN's merry-go-round of climate change talks. Thousands of delegates have descended on the Spanish city as negotiators try to build some kind of agreement before that big summit in Copenhagen.
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Up All Night - 07/11/200907 Nov 09Plus World Music with the Polly Tones, New York City Police corruption, a missing crocodile, and claims that December's climate change talks in Copenhagen are being sabotaged.
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Knowledge
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Country profile: AustraliaCountry profiles
His first official act was to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, which he said demonstrated his government's commitment to tackling greenhouse gas emissions. His predecessor, John Howard, leader of the Liberal Party, had always rejected ratification.
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Country profile: MongoliaCountry profiles
However, the centuries-old nomadic lifestyle is coming under pressure from climate change and urbanisation. The country has some of Asia's richest deposits of minerals, although these remain largely unexploited.
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Radio 4 - Frontiers 31/05/2006Radio 4
Ruddiman believes that methane produced by paddy fields 5000 years ago has contributed to climate change Anthropogenic Climate Change In this week's episode of Frontiers, Peter Evans meets climatologist Professor Bill Ruddiman whose views about climate change have divided scientific opinion. Bill's...
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Radio 4 - With Reference to... 09/09/2002Radio 4
The ice archive is a unique resource which can be interrogated by generations of scientists trying to understand the mechanisms of past climate change through four ice ages and their intervening warm periods (like now).
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Science & Nature - Climate ChangeScience & Nature
The BBC and the Oxford University research team are no longer running the joint climate change experiment. It has closed to new participants. If...
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