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<title><![CDATA[European parliament committee backs ban on planet-warming F-gases]]></title>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:59:52 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Source: Reuters - The European Parliament's Environment Committee backed a sweeping ban on the use in fridges and air conditioners of fluorinated gases - greenhouse gases that are many thousands of times more damaging than carbon dioxide.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[China threatens death penalty for serious polluters ]]></title>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:59:51 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Source: Reuters - Chinese authorities have given courts the powers to hand down the death penalty in serious pollution cases, state media said, as the government tries to assuage growing public anger at environmental desecration.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Time to stop arguing about climate change, World Bank says ]]></title>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:59:49 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Source: Reuters - The world should stop arguing about whether humans are causing climate change and start taking action to stop dangerous temperature rises, the president of the World Bank said on Wednesday.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA['Climate change is the threat of our time': President Obama pledges new arms pact with Russia and a greener world ]]></title>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:59:46 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Source: The Independent - In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate that instantly invited comparisons with visits to the same spot by some of his predecessors, President Barack Obama sought to make a historic imprint of his own, pledging to forge a new pact with Russia to further cut nuclear arsenals and to step up the fight against global warming.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/climate-change-is-the-threat-of-our-time-president-obama-pledges-new-arms-pact-with-russia-and-a-greener-world-8665013.html]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama Readying Emissions Limits on Power Plants]]></title>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:59:42 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Source: New York Times - President Obama is preparing regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, senior officials said Wednesday.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Biologists worried by starving migratory birds, seen as tied to climate change]]></title>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:59:37 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Source: Washington Post - At the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge, the tiny bodies of Arctic tern chicks have piled up. Over the past few years, biologists have counted thousands that starved to death because the herring their parents feed them have vanished.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate change will reshape world 'in our lifetimes' - World Bank president]]></title>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:59:31 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - In fewer than 20 years, climate change impacts  from flooded major cities to crashing food production  threaten to fundamentally reshape the world economy and dramatically worsen human lives, the World Banks president warned on Wednesday. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate Change to Determine Economic Growth]]></title>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:59:24 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Source: IPS - The Monetary Board of Sri Lankas Central Bank, tasked with keeping the islands economy on an even keel, does not only keep tabs on exchange rates, gold prices and inflation  it also has an eye on a less obvious indicator of economic stability: water levels in the countrys main reservoirs.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Blog - New FEMA Study: Climate Change Will Greatly Increase Flood Risk, Debt ]]></title>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:59:16 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Source: Huffington Post - The Federal Emergency Management Agency, in a study finally released last week after five years in the making, predicted that areas at risk of flooding in the United States would increase 45 percent by 2100, largely because of climate change. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New carbon standard to promote benefits for women]]></title>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:59:07 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - A forester by training, Jeannette Gurung says its been a lifelong struggle to win recognition for women's role in managing trees and other natural resources. And when it comes to climate change, she is frustrated that women are mostly portrayed as victims of its impacts rather than part of the solution.]]></description>
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