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		<title>Excessive consumption must become taboo: Worldwatch</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2010/01/13/cars/excessive-consumption-must-become-taboo-worldwatch/</link>
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		<title>Greenhouse mafia active down under</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2010/01/12/environment/greenhouse-mafia-active-down-under/</link>
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		<title>Hope in a Changing Climate</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2010/01/01/news/hope-in-a-changing-climate/</link>
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		<title>Swiss glaciers rapid melt threatens power supplies</title>
		<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>
		<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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		<title>Obama holds course with promise on green revolution</title>
		<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>
		<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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		<title>Gore lays down the gauntlet at &#8216;climate in peril&#8217; talks</title>
		<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>
		<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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		<title>More force now behind US Act to defeat timber barons</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.greenassembly.net/http:/greenassembly.net/2008/12/18/deforestation/more-force-now-behind-us-act-to-defeat-timber-barons/</link>
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		<title>Alarm bells ring as report shows 2008 among ten warmest years ever</title>
		<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>
		<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>
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		<title>Palm oil no longer sustainable for Malaysians, unless they burn it!</title>
		<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>
		<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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		<title>Biofuels even worse than fossil fuels: new study</title>
		<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>
		<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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		<title>UK joins UN fund to throw US$800 million to Asia&#8217;s loggers, palm-oil barons and politicians</title>
		<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>
		<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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		<title>Biochar gets massive boost at Poznan climate change talks</title>
		<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>
		<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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		<title>Green events list updated today : Year 2009, plus some for 2010, and even one for 2011!</title>
		<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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Technorati Tags: conferences,exhibitions,congresses,events.
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		<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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		<title>World Bank told to keep their hands off climate change billions</title>
		<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>
		<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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		<title>Biochar could reverse global warming, bury coal forever</title>
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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>
		<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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		<title>US coalition rams home &#8216;coal is climate killer&#8217; message</title>
		<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>
		<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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		<title>UN&#8217;s greenhouse gas program in tatters: leading auditor suspended</title>
		<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>
		<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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		<title>Indonesia&#8217;s president doing next to nothing about climate change: Greenpeace</title>
		<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>
		<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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		<title>UN throws another US$8.6 million at tropical forests</title>
		<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>
		<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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		<title>UN&#8217;s forest carbon plan slammed: REDD won&#8217;t work says FOE</title>
		<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>
		<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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