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		<title>Asia-Pacific leaders outline new growth strategies, open trade; no new climate initiatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine Kurtenbach</dc:creator>
		
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APEC urges new growth model, climate pact progress
SINGAPORE — Open trade and people-centered strategies are key for sustained, stable growth, President Barack Obama and Asia-Pacific leaders said Sunday, pledging to persist with stimulus spending until a global recovery is assured.
The leaders wrapped up the annual meeting of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton says next month&#8217;s Copenhagen talks unlikely to produce binding climate treaty</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Lee</dc:creator>
		
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Clinton: No binding climate deal at Denmark talks
MANILA, Philippines — Next month&#8217;s climate change summit in Copenhagen is not likely to produce a legally binding treaty to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that are widely blamed for global warming, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday.
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		<title>Denmark sends out invitations to 191 world leaders to attend UN climate summit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Denmark invites 191 leaders to UN climate talks
COPENHAGEN — Denmark&#8217;s premier sent invitations Thursday asking 191 world leaders to attend next month&#8217;s U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen, saying their presence was &#8220;pivotal&#8221; to its success.
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		<title>Germany&#8217;s Merkel calls for climate action from US, China, India at Copenhagen meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geir Moulson</dc:creator>
		
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Merkel wants climate action from US, China, India

BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Tuesday for the U.S., China and India to make substantive pledges of action against global warming in order to prevent the failure of next month&#8217;s climate summit in Copenhagen.
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		<title>In interview, Obama says he&#8217;s willing to go to Copenhagen to help seal deal on climate change</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
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Obama willing to go to Copenhagen for climate deal
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Monday that he&#8217;d be willing to attend an international climate summit in Copenhagen next month if it appears a deal is in the offing and his presence there would help clinch it.
Nations are preparing to meet in Denmark to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Negotiators scale back expectations of reaching full climate treaty by December deadline</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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Negotiators scale back UN climate pact ambitions

BARCELONA, Spain — With the U.S. Congress still struggling to agree on sharp cuts in greenhouse gases or how to fund them, European officials said Thursday they were now striving for a political agreement instead of a new treaty to allow the U.S. and other rich nations to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With bill at standstill, 3 senators with differing politics join forces on climate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dina Cappiello</dc:creator>
		
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Three senators join forces to rescue climate bill
WASHINGTON — Three senators with differing political views are working behind the scenes to rescue troubled climate legislation.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., together with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, said Wednesday they would work with the White House to patch together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protests on both sides of Atlantic signal tough road before Copenhagen climate meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur Max</dc:creator>
		
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Climate talks face difficult road ahead of meeting
Boycotts on either side of the Atlantic on Tuesday showed just how difficult it will be to clinch an agreement on global warming next month.
At U.N. climate talks in Barcelona, Spain, African nations walked out of meetings to protest rich nations&#8217; reluctance to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africans boycott meetings at UN climate talks to protest rich countries&#8217; low emissions targets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur Max</dc:creator>
		
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Africans boycott meetings at UN climate talks
BARCELONA, Spain — African countries ended a boycott of meetings at U.N. climate negotiations on Tuesday, after winning promises for more in-depth talks on how much rich nations need to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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		<title>Africans suspend meetings at UN talks to protest low emissions targets by rich countries</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur Max</dc:creator>
		
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BARCELONA, Spain — African countries boycotted meetings at U.N. climate talks Tuesday, saying industrial countries had set carbon-cutting targets too low for reducing global greenhouse gas emisions.
The action forced several technical meetings to be canceled, while the 50 or so African countries said they would only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate delegates call for US policy on global warming befitting Obama&#8217;s Nobel Peace prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur Max</dc:creator>
		
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Climate delegates call on US for robust policy
BARCELONA, Spain — As China&#8217;s actions to curb gas emissions garnered praise at U.N. climate talks, the United States came under renewed pressure to come up with a plan to cut pollution blamed for hastening global warming.
Delegates at the weeklong talks in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Show me the money: EU divided at summit over how much climate aid to give poor nations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Constant Brand</dc:creator>
		
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EU leaders debate climate aid to poor at summit
BRUSSELS — The European Union fought Thursday to live up to its self-proclaimed leadership on combating climate change, with the 27 EU leaders at odds over how much to offer poorer nations to join the global battle.
EU nations failed to agree on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Show the money: EU divided at summit over how much climate aid to hand developing countries</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/show-the-money-eu-divided-at-summit-over-how-much-climate-aid-to-hand-developing-countries-211211/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Constant Brand</dc:creator>
		
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BRUSSELS — With the European Union pressed to make a firm climate aid offer to poor nations, Hungary and Poland demanded Thursday that richer states pay a larger share to entice more governments aboard a new global climate change pact.
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Houston&#8217;s low-key mayoral candidates pitch planning, mass transit for city reinventing itself</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Graczyk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HOUSTON — The nation&#8217;s fourth-largest city, once dominated by Big Oil, is warming to greener options as it chooses a new mayor.

Voters in sprawling Houston, a city crisscrossed by clogged freeways and freewheeling development, are picking from a low-key field of mayoral candidates who are focused on public transit, regulated development and environmentally friendly policies.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate activists in Copenhagen protest use of fossil fuels, around 100 people detained</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN — Hundreds of climate activists protested Saturday against the use of fossil fuels, but were blocked from entering a coal-firing plant they had hoped to shut down by chaining themselves to conveyor belts.

Police held back the 1,500 or so protesters from entering the coal- and oil-fueled Amagervaerket power station on Copenhagen&#8217;s Amager Island, police [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate activist stage Copenhagen protest, plan to shut down coal-firing plant</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN — Hundreds of climate activists in white suits protested Saturday in Copenhagen against the use of fossil fuels and marched to a coal-firing plant, which they planned to shut down by chaining themselves to conveyor belts.

Police held back the 1,500 or so protesters from entering the coal- and oil-fueled Amagervaerket power station on Copenhagen&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s current growth path could exceed energy resources of the planet by 2050</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Sanderson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — If China&#8217;s economy continues to expand rapidly and rely heavily on coal and other fossil fuels until the middle of the century, its power consumption would be unsustainable, according to a study by government think tanks released Wednesday.

The two-year study, supported by the U.S.-based Energy Foundation and the international environmental group WWF, also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama administration strengthens NW salmon protection plan but views original plan as sound</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Mccall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PORTLAND, Ore. — Calling it an &#8220;insurance policy&#8221; for Pacific Northwest salmon, the Obama administration on Tuesday offered up a tougher conservation plan for the fish that includes climate-change monitoring and the &#8220;last-resort&#8221; possibility of removing dams.

The plan submitted to a federal judge for approval was a revised version of a Bush administration plan that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Tuesday:

BEIJING — China tried to allay fears of a trade war with Washington over tire tariffs, saying it will press a World Trade Organization case against new U.S. duties but wants to avoid harming relations.
Beijing filed a WTO complaint Monday challenging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France&#8217;s Sarkozy calls for &#8216;revolution&#8217; in measuring economic growth to account for well-being</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma Vandore</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS — French President Nicolas Sarkozy asked world leaders to join a &#8220;revolution&#8221; in the measurement of economic progress by dropping their obsession with gross domestic product to account for factors such as health-care availability and leisure time.

In a speech on the first anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Sarkozy said the financial crisis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU offers billions to poor nations to persuade them to sign climate change accord</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aoife White</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS — The European Union proposed Thursday to offer up to euro15 billion ($21.8 billion) a year in aid to poor developing countries to persuade them to sign a new global climate change agreement.

However, development and environmental campaigners blasted the offer as insufficient because it assumes that poorer nations will bear most of the costs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU proposes euro15 billion in climate aid to entice poor countries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aoife White</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS — The European Union proposed Thursday to offer up to euro15 billion ($21.8 billion) a year in aid to poor developing countries to persuade them to sign a new global climate change agreement.

However, development and environmental campaigners blasted the offer as insufficient because it assumes that poorer nations will bear most of the costs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU proposes €15 billion in climate aid to entice poor countries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aoife White</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS — The European Union proposed Thursday to offer up to €15 billion ($21.8 billion) a year in aid to poor developing countries to persuade them to sign a new global climate change agreement.

However, development and environmental campaigners blasted the offer as insufficient because it assumes that poorer nations will bear most of the costs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s incoming gov&#8217;t vows to cut emissions by 25 percent _ among most ambitious targets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Alabaster</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Japan&#8217;s incoming prime minister promised Monday to aim for a 25 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 — among the most ambitious cuts proposed by an economic power and significantly more aggressive than the current plan.

The reduction, which will be measured from 1990 levels, was immediately hailed by environmentalists, who are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s likely next PM pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Alabaster</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — The man expected to become Japan&#8217;s next prime minister said Monday his government will follow through on a campaign pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020.

It is a more aggressive goal than the previous administration&#8217;s, which would have only cut emissions by about 8 percent from 1990 levels.
&#8220;Japan&#8217;s change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey: Economists happy with Fed, skeptical on spending, emissions and health care policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Vanacore</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Economists are pleased with the Federal Reserve&#8217;s policy on interest rates but skeptical of the government&#8217;s ability to rein in spending, curb greenhouse gases or overhaul health care, a new survey finds.

The latest semiannual survey by the National Association for Business Economics, set to be released Monday, indicates almost 70 percent of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India seeks to bar US trade sanctions against countries that don&#8217;t accept climate policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BONN, Germany — India wants the new global climate change agreement to ban trade barriers targeting nations that refuse to accept limits on their carbon emissions, the chief Indian climate negotiator said Friday.

As some 180 nations work on drafting a new climate accord, India proposed adding a clause to bar any country from taking action [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate report says US and China need urgent progress on climate change for &#8216;global solution&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Foster Klug</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The United States and China should use high-level meetings between the two countries next week to negotiate improved cooperation on curbing greenhouse-gas emissions, says a new report by the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The report, released Thursday, says new efforts to address emissions by the United States and China, the world&#8217;s largest emitters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Democratic governors say climate bill will create jobs; Republican governor disagrees</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dina Cappiello</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Three Democratic governors told a Senate panel Tuesday that efforts to curb global warming and spur the development of cleaner sources of energy have created jobs and new businesses in their states, a trend that could expand nationwide if Congress passes federal legislation.

All three states — New Jersey, Colorado, and Washington — have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama sets out to reshape US relations in Russia, meet Pope Benedict XVI, make mark in Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Feller</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Determined to change the way the world views the United States, Barack Obama is onto his next foreign mission: rebuilding relations with Russia, proving to global leaders that America is serious about climate change, and outlining his vision for Africa, his father&#8217;s birthplace.

And when in Rome? Obama will go to the Vatican to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama sets out to reshape US relations in Russia, meet the Pope, make a mark in Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Feller</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Determined to change the way the world views the United States, Barack Obama is onto his next foreign mission: rebuilding relations with Russia, proving to global leaders that America is serious about climate change, and outlining his vision for Africa, his father&#8217;s birthplace.

And when in Rome? Obama will go to the Vatican to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dutch researchers: Recession, expensive oil slows growth of CO2 emissions by half in 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur Max</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[AMSTERDAM — The global recession has an up side, at least for people worried about climate change: carbon emissions are growing more slowly than in recent years, Dutch researchers said Thursday.

But they also said the emissions of developing countries were higher than those of the industrialized world for the first time last year.
Less money in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Korean PM says threats from climate change, economic crisis not mutually exclusive</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Olsen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean Prime Minister Han Seung-soo said Friday that Asia is at grave risk from climate change and warned that responding to the environmental threat cannot be separated from fighting the global economic crisis.

&#8220;Asian countries are particularly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change,&#8221; Han said in a speech at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green groups intensify push for Ohio State University president to exit coal company board</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 05:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Carr Smyth</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[COLUMBUS, Ohio — Environmentalists are pressing Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee to step down from the board of a coal mining company ahead of its shareholder meeting Tuesday.

Gee, 65, has sat on the board of Richmond, Va.-based Massey Energy Co. since 2000 and chairs its safety, environmental and public policy committee.
Four national environmental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey: Shifting perceptions among oil execs over winners in alternative energy sector</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 23:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Porretto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HOUSTON — Despite millions in new investments and President Barack Obama&#8217;s push for clean energy technology, many oil and gas executives say mass production of renewable energy is not likely before at least the middle of the next decade, a new survey showed Monday.

Fifty-two percent of 382 petroleum industry executives surveyed by KPMG LLP said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP NewsBreak: US wants to use UN ozone treaty to fix global climate, cut emissions of HFCs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Heilprin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[UNITED NATIONS — The Obama administration, in a major environmental policy shift, is leaning toward asking 195 nations that ratified the U.N. ozone treaty to enact mandatory reductions in hydrofluorocarbons, according to U.S. officials and documents obtained by The Associated Press.

&#8220;We&#8217;re considering this as an option,&#8221; Environmental Protection Agency spokeswoman Adora Andy said Wednesday, emphasizing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PROMISES, PROMISES: A checklist of Obama&#8217;s promises shows the big ones are still to come</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin Woodward</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has not yet achieved the big campaign promises he&#8217;ll be judged on years from now, on health care, war, the economy and so much more. It&#8217;s early, it&#8217;s a colossal load and Rome wasn&#8217;t built in 100 days.

He has delivered, though, on the work ethic he outlined back when his [...]]]></description>
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