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	<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Excessive consumption must become taboo: Worldwatch</title>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2010/01/13/cars/excessive-consumption-must-become-taboo-worldwatch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[bottled water]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[carbon footprint]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cars]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[consumerism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[consumption]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[plastic bottles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SINGAPORE ~ Without an intentional cultural shift that values sustainability over consumerism, no government pledges or technological advances will be enough to rescue humanity from unacceptably hazardous environmental and climate risks, concludes the Worldwatch Institute in the latest edition of its flagship annual report, State of the World 2010. 

The book, subtitled Transforming Cultures: From [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greenhouse mafia active down under</title>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2010/01/12/environment/greenhouse-mafia-active-down-under/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[CO2 emissions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bribery]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[carbon emissions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cars]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[coal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ATTITUDES shown at Copenhagen by the world&#8217;s major per capita polluters namely the USA, Australia and China, demonstrated that the core thinking has barely changed since Kyoto 20 years ago. 
Sure, the presentation is smoother, the denial less strident, and the opposition to change less aggressive; but behind the scenes it is clear that big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope in a Changing Climate</title>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2010/01/01/news/hope-in-a-changing-climate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Green Assembly</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[carbon capture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[deforestation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[forests]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[reforestation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tree planting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[video]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wetlands]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[HOPE in a Changing Climate – the groundbreaking BBC documentary that shows how ecological damage can be reversed – may provide one of the key solutions to global warming and climate change, but only if it is adopted as a matter of urgency.
The 22-minute film shows how farming and over-grazing led to soil erosion on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swiss glaciers rapid melt threatens power supplies</title>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2008/12/23/climate-change-news/swiss-glaciers-rapid-melt-threatens-power-supplies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Green Assembly</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[glaciers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hydropower]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[switzerland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK ~ Swiss glaciers are melting away at an accelerating rate and many will vanish this century if climate projections are correct, according to a BBC report based on new studies.
One assessment found that some 10 cubic kilometres of ice have been lost from 1,500 glaciers over the past nine years.
The other study, based on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama holds course with promise on green revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2008/12/22/climate-change-news/obama-holds-course-with-promise-on-green-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Green Assembly</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Carole Browner]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[climate scientists]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[George Bush]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hilda Solis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Holdren]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ken Salazar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lubchenco]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mining]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[nuclear power]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[oil drilling]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Steven Chu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SINGAPORE ~ Barack Obama has promised to end George Bush&#8217;s &#8220;twisting&#8221; of science to suit &#8220;politics or ideology&#8221;, reports the UK&#8217;s Independent on Sunday newspaper. 
And in an extraordinarily outspoken address to the nation on Sunday, the president-elect announced that he was putting top climate scientists in key positions in his administration, the report says. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gore lays down the gauntlet at &#8216;climate in peril&#8217; talks</title>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2008/12/19/climate-change-news/gore-lays-down-the-gauntlet-at-climate-in-peril-talks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Green Assembly</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bali]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[CO2]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[coal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[deforestation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Earth Summit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[north south]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Poznan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[renewable energies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SINGAPORE ~ In a landmark speech to delegates at the crucial climate change talks in Poznan last week, Al Gore had delegates on their feet. He referred to Mahatma Gandhi and to Martin Luther King Jr. and he called for capacity building, not only in developing countries but in industrialised countries as well.
The following is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More force now behind US Act to defeat timber barons</title>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2008/12/18/deforestation/more-force-now-behind-us-act-to-defeat-timber-barons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2008/12/18/deforestation/more-force-now-behind-us-act-to-defeat-timber-barons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Green Assembly</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[deforestation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wood]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Burma]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Investigation Agency]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Forest Stewardship Council]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[FSC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[furniture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[illegal. Lacey Act]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Myanmar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[palm oil]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tropical Forest Trust]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[World Resources Institute]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The World Resources Institute and the Environmental Investigation Agency have launched a partnership to combat illegal logging worldwide and clean up timber supply chains.
The launch follows the announcement that the United States is banning the import, sale, and trade of all illegally harvested wood and forest products, effective now. 

Approval of an amendment to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alarm bells ring as report shows 2008 among ten warmest years ever</title>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2008/12/17/climate-change-news/alarm-bells-ring-as-report-shows-2008-among-ten-warmest-years-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2008/12/17/climate-change-news/alarm-bells-ring-as-report-shows-2008-among-ten-warmest-years-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Green Assembly</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[arctic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[climate research]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[coldwaves]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cyclones]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[flash floods]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[global climate]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Nargis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO ~ The year 2008 is likely to rank as the 10th warmest year on record since the beginning of instrumental climate records in 1850, according to data sources compiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
In a report issued yesterday, WMO says the global combined sea-surface and land-surface air temperature for 2008 is currently estimated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palm oil no longer sustainable for Malaysians, unless they burn it!</title>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2008/12/16/palm-oil/palm-oil-no-longer-sustainable-for-malaysians-unless-they-burn-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Green Assembly</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[palm oil]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[biodiesel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[coal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[IOI]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[palm oil crash]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peter Chin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[power producers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sime Darby]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[KUALA LUMPUR ~ Malaysian power producers will soon start burning palm oil instead of coal following the collapse of palm oil prices on the international market.
Under a plan announced last week by the country&#8217;s Plantation Industries and Commodities minister Peter Chin, the Malaysian government also aims to ensure that palm biodiesel is available at every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biofuels even worse than fossil fuels: new study</title>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2008/12/15/solar-energy/biofuels-even-worse-than-fossil-fuels-new-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Green Assembly</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[solar energy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wind]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[air pollution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[batteries]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[biofuels]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[CCS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cellulosic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[CO2]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[coal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[corn]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[emissions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ethanol]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fossil fuels]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[geothermal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mark Jacobson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[nuclear]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[solar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Stanford]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tailpipe exhausts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tidal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vehicles]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wave power]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wind farms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[JAKARTA ~ Wind power, solar power and even hydropower are infinitely preferable to biofuels and fossil fuels, according to a study just published by Stanford University.
The best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution are to adopt energy produced by wind, sun and water; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK joins UN fund to throw US$800 million to Asia&#8217;s loggers, palm-oil barons and politicians</title>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2008/12/12/deforestation/uk-joins-un-fund-to-throw-us800-million-to-asias-loggers-palm-oil-barons-and-politicians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Green Assembly</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[deforestation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Anton Apriyantono]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ban Ki-Moon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[climate protection force]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[culprit countries]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fort Knox]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[monitors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[palm oil]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Poznan]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Susilo Bangbang]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[JAKARTA ~ The UK is to donate £100 million (US$150 million) to tropical countries such as Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Vietnam, to help them protect forests and reduce their impact on climate change.
The donation will be made through a fund operated under a new initiative of the United Nations which aims to extend carbon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biochar gets massive boost at Poznan climate change talks</title>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2008/12/11/climate-change-news/biochar-gets-massive-boost-at-poznan-climate-change-talks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO ~ The United Nations has accepted a proposal to give serious consideration to new biochar technologies that have the potential to slow down carbon emissions and reverse global climate change.
The biochar proposal to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) was submitted by the International Biochar Initiative (IBI) at a sideline event at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green events list updated today : Year 2009, plus some for 2010, and even one for 2011!</title>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2008/12/10/events-2009/green-events-list-updated-today-year-2009-plus-some-for-2010-and-even-one-for-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated details about conferences, exhibitions, congresses and other events relating to environmental issues have been added to our Year 2009 page.
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		<title>World Bank told to keep their hands off climate change billions</title>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2008/12/09/power-generation/world-bank-told-to-keep-their-hands-off-climate-change-billions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SINGAPORE ~&#160; Environmental organizations throughout the world say the World Bank is not fit to be the custodian of the billions of dollars being set aside by industrialised countries to combat climate change. 
More than 140 organisations issued a statement in Poznan today in which they make it clear they do not trust the bank, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biochar could reverse global warming, bury coal forever</title>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2008/12/08/climate-change-news/biochar-could-reverse-global-warming-bury-coal-forever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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BANGKOK ~ Ancient techniques pioneered by pre-Columbian Amazonian Indians are about to be pressed into service in Britain and Central America in the most serious commercial attempt yet to reverse global warming, according to an article in the UK&#8217;s Independent newspaper.
Trials are to be started early nest year (2009), backed with venture capital from Silicon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US coalition rams home &#8216;coal is climate killer&#8217; message</title>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2008/12/05/thailand/us-coalition-rams-home-coal-is-climate-killer-message/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SINGAPORE ~ A coalition of US activists has launched a US$ multi-million campaign to debunk the myth that burning coal is clean.
The Reality Coalition, comprising the Alliance for Climate Protection, League of Conservation Voters, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Sierra Club, are uniting to tell the simple truth that there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN&#8217;s greenhouse gas program in tatters: leading auditor suspended</title>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2008/12/04/climate-change-news/uns-greenhouse-gas-program-in-tatters-leading-auditor-suspended/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO ~ The UN&#8217;s climate change body has suspended one of its leading auditing companies after a spot check revealed &#8216;irregularities&#8217;.
Currently hosting climate change talks in Poland, the UNFCCC has found that Norway&#8217;s Det Norske Veritas (DNV) is guilty of &#8220;non-conformity&#8221; in carrying out work in the name of the UN&#8217;s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
CDM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indonesia&#8217;s president doing next to nothing about climate change: Greenpeace</title>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2008/12/03/deforestation/indonesias-president-doing-next-to-nothing-about-climate-change-greenpeace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SINGAPORE ~ Indonesia&#8217;s president is reneging on the promise he made to halve his country’s greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation by 2009, environmentalists said today.
 At the July 2008 Hokkaido G8 meeting, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made a commitment to reduce his country&#8217;s greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation by 50 percent within 18 months.
“Six months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN throws another US$8.6 million at tropical forests</title>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2008/12/02/deforestation/un-throws-another-us86-million-at-tropical-forests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[YOKOHAMA ~ The UN&#8217;s International Tropical Timber Council (ITTC) has announced funding of US$8.6 million to help reduce deforestation in the tropics in addition to the $3.1 million committed earlier this year bringing the total pledged in 2008 to a staggering $11.7 million.
The ITTC announced the news in a statement which also revealed that only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN&#8217;s forest carbon plan slammed: REDD won&#8217;t work says FOE</title>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2008/12/01/deforestation/uns-forest-carbon-plan-slammed-redd-wont-work-says-foe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JAKARTA ~ International proposals to protect forests as a way of stopping climate change could displace 1.6 billion people and will also fail to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, campaigners warn.&#160; 
From today until 12 December, the Polish city of Poznań is hosting crucial United Nations climate talks amidst fears that forest carbon trading will [...]]]></description>
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