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Global development podcast transcript: what's at stake at the G8?	24.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Hugh Muir and a panel of guests answer your G8-related questions in front of a live audience • Listen to the podcast HM: Hugh Muir JF: Jamie Forsyth RB: Ruth Bergan JD: Jamie Drummond LE: Larry Elliott HM Hello and welcome to this special edition of the Global development podcast. I'm Hugh Muir and we're coming to you from the Guardian in King's Cross, London. We have a live audience, we have an august panel and we have your questions with which to quiz that august panel. Now we're talking about the G8 summit on the 17th and 18th June. There have been 30 years of G8s and the last of them in the UK in 2005 was held as one of the most productive ever; not least because the EU members committed to a foreign aid target of 0.7% by 2015. This time, David Cameron is demanding bold steps, but what's realistic? What can the G8 do to help developing countries? What should it do? And what's likely to happen? Big questions – luckily, I don't have to answer them because we have ...
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Everest: tourism and climate change provide new challenges	24.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
As the 60th anniversary of conquest looms, climbers and environmentalists fear new strains on the terrain and its people Unusually for someone who likes to chat, Kenton Cool can barely speak. Exerting himself at high altitude has left his voice a throaty growl. "I cultivate it before going out in the evening," he says from Kathmandu, Nepal, having flown down from Everest base camp that morning. Cool is reflecting on a startling sequence of climbs completed over the course of last weekend. Early on Saturday morning, he reached the summit of Nuptse, the first and lowest of the three main summits in the Everest "horseshoe" that surrounds the glaciated valley called the Western Cwm. That same day, he descended back into the cwm, and climbed up to the summit of Everest itself, reaching the top in complete darkness early on Sunday. He and his climbing partner, Dorje Gylgen, then climbed down to the South Col, before continuing on to the summit of Lhotse, the third of this spectacular ...
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Don't delay on renewable energy, government told	23.5.2013	The Guardian -- Front Page
Committee on Climate Change says the sooner the UK invests in low-carbon power generation the cheaper it will be Investing in new renewable power generation, rather than a "dash for gas", will be the lower-cost option for keeping the lights on while cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the government's climate change watchdog has said. The sooner the UK makes large investments in low-carbon generation – including offshore and onshore wind, nuclear power and energy from waste – the cheaper it will be, according to David Kennedy, chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), the statutory body that advises ministers on meeting emissions targets. The conclusions are likely to be controversial, as many MPs on the right of the Tory party have been clamouring for an end to onshore windfarms and reductions in renewable subsidies. They would prefer to see a new "dash for gas" that would require the UK to massively expand shale gas drilling and import tens of billions of pounds worth ...
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Japan keen to bolster N-ties with India	23.5.2013	India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Times of India
Japan keen to bolster N-ties with India
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Rapid drop in Lake Malawi's water levels drives down fish stocks	22.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
1.5m people depend on lake for food – including popular Chambo fish – and Malawians are alarmed at decline in stocks Lloyd Phiri, a fisherman from Senga Bay on Lake Malawi's shores in Malawi's central region, knows that the lake's water levels are dropping. He can see it in his catch, which has shrunk by more than 80%. Years ago, it was the norm to catch about 5,000 fish a day, Phiri says. But now, if he is lucky, he brings in one-fifth of that. And if he is not, he catches a mere 300 fish a day. "My fish catch has gone down in recent years and this has affected my earnings. I now have problems paying school fees for my children," Phiri tells IPS. The rapid drop in Lake Malawi's water levels, driven by population growth, climate change and deforestation, is threatening its floral and fauna species with extinction, says Malawi's ministry of environment and climate change management . And included among the wildlife threatened are the fish that Phiri depends on for a livelihood. ...
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Committed to civil nuclear cooperation with India, Japan says	22.5.2013	India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Times of India
Committed to civil nuclear cooperation with India, Japan says
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Biofuels a boon for Brazil's rural poor, but obstacles remain elsewhere \| Paige McClanahan	21.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
While biofuels have facilitated slow but positive change for farmers in Brazil, other countries have been less successful Biofuels have long been hailed as one of the potential answers to climate change. Their environmental credentials are controversial , but a handful of countries are now looking at them from another angle entirely: they want to use biofuels to try to reduce poverty among rural smallholder farmers. Such efforts are in full force in Brazil, a country that is home to both a sizeable biofuels industry and about 4.1m small-scale family farms. But while some of the country's biofuels policies have fallen short, others have proved a boon to the rural poor. Smallholder farmers have seen their incomes rise thanks to the introduction of more progressive standards and new rules on contract negotiations. "The numbers show that the farmers in Brazil … have been earning far more than they were before – not only in absolute quantities, but also as a percentage of the whole value ...
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India-China talks: Read the full joint statement (Cached)	20.5.2013	Rediff: News
At the invitation of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, is on a state visit to India from May 19 to 22.
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Tar sands exploitation would be game over climate, warns leading scientist	19.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Prof James Hansen rebukes oil firms and Canadian government over stance on exploiting fossil fuel, which he says would make climate problem unsolvable Major international oil companies are "buying off" governments, according to the world's most prominent climate scientist, Prof James Hansen. In a visit to London, he accused the Canadian government of acting as their tar sands' salesman and "holding a club" over the UK and European nations to accept their "dirty" oil. "Oil from tar sands makes sense only for a small number of people who are making a lot of money from that product," he said in an interview with the Guardian. "It doesn't make sense for the rest of the people on the planet. We are getting close to the dangerous level of carbon in the atmosphere and if we add on to that unconventional fossil fuels, which have a tremendous amount of carbon, then the climate problem becomes unsolvable." Hansen met ministers in the UK government, which the Guardian previously revealed has ...
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Barack Obama must act like a true leader \| Observer editorial	19.5.2013	Guardian: Comment is Free
It is always hard for an American president in the second term, but both his country and the world need Obama to show strength and courage and put scandal behind him It is a simple fact of American politics that power starts to fade away from a second-term president almost from the moment they are sworn in. Theoretically freed from the chains of having ever to seek re-election, they soon find that America's all too self-interested professional politicians are suddenly aware that the current occupant of the Oval Office will not be around in four years. The ability to cajole and bully Congress – and even members of their own party – and get them to pass laws – starts to evaporate. Add to that the propensity of second terms to see presidency-defining scandal – think Monica Lewinsky, think Iran-Contra – and it is no wonder that many re-elected presidents seem simply to be waiting around for the term "lame duck" to be applied. But even by the super-charged standards of the modern news cycle, ...
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UN promotes first in series of virtual Google+ Hangouts (Cached)	18.5.2013	New Kerala: India News
New York, May 18 : The United Nations special envoy on youth went online Friday to encourage young people to join the UN's work, and detailed some of the initiatives he will undertake to work with and for youth.
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UK's climate change adaptation team cut from 38 officials to just six	17.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Former senior official John Ashton attacks government for 'spooking potential investors' in energy infrastructure The number of people employed by the government to work on the UK's response to the effects of climate change has been cut from 38 officials to just six, triggering accusations that David Cameron's promise to be the greenest government has been abandoned. The UK is facing a multi-billion pound bill over the next few years for the costs of adapting to the effects of climate change – including flooding , much fiercer storms, droughts, heatwaves and more extreme weather. The government's advisers, the Committee on Climate Change, have warned that the measures needed to prepare the UK's infrastructure will include defences for power stations, transport and communication networks, changes to how buildings are constructed, and new ways of trying to prevent flooding, such as an upgrade to the Thames Barrier. But the number of officials charged with dealing with the issue within the ...
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Obama's Arctic strategy sets off a climate time bomb \| Nafeez Ahmed	17.5.2013	Guardian: Science
US National Strategy for the Arctic Region prioritises corporate 'economic opportunities' at the expense of everyone else One week ago, the Obama administration launched its National Strategy for the Arctic Region , outlining the government's strategic priorities over the next 10 years. The release of the strategy came about a week after the Office of Science and Technology Policy within the Executive Office of the President at the White House Complex hosted a briefing with international Arctic scientists . Despite giving lip service to the values of environmental conservation, the new document focuses on how the US can manage the exploitation of the region's vast untapped oil, gas and mineral resources in cooperation with other Arctic powers. US hinges success of Arctic strategy on diminishing sea ice At the heart of the White House's new Arctic strategy is an elementary but devastating contradiction between what President Obama, in the document's preamble, describes as seeking "to ...
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Artist finds inspiration in Canadian government's attempt to silence her	17.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Visual essays by Franke James reveal how the 'troublesome artist' was targeted because her views on climate change clashed with the push to develop Alberta's tar sands Canada, under the government of Stephen Harper, has exhibited little patience for dissent. The government has muzzled government scientists , insulted Nasa climate experts , and dismissed environmental protesters as dangerous radicals . But there is apparently one woman whom the government can't shut up: the Toronto environmental writer, illustrator and activist Franke James , who turned the efforts to silence her into material for a new book. Banned on the Hill: A True Story about Dirty Oil and Government Censorship , released this week, shows how Canadian bureaucrats tried to silence James because her views on climate change clashed with the Harper government's push to develop Alberta's tar sands. The story is told through visual essays as well as official emails obtained by James, in which government bureaucrats ...
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Climate refugees? Where's the dignity in that?	17.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
We need a new narrative in which we frame migration as a way for people to adapt to climate change This week the Guardian has been running a major series on "climate refugees" about the village of Newtok in Alaska, which faces an imminent threat to its existence from erosion. The term is problematic for a number of reasons. The first being that people who are facing movement do not like the term. The word "refugee" brings to mind a number of (not always accurate) images: tented camps, long lines of people walking, dangerous boat crossings. People facing the prospect moving hope that they will have some choice in the timing and circumstances of their movement and that when they arrive they will find work and become active members of their new communities. Their hope is that they will move with dignity. President Anote Tong of Kiribati, an island nation in the Pacific, told Australia's ABC Radio that the people of Kiribati do not want to leave as refugees but as skilled migrants . ...
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UN: Experts weigh strategies to halt climate change (Cached)	17.5.2013	New Kerala: India News
New York, May 17 : With dire warnings likely to match or exceed the worst fears about the effects of global warming, environment and development experts gathered on Thursday at United Nations Headquarters to debate the twin challenge of curbing climate change while sustaining economic growth.
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Australia's 'unpopular' carbon price isn't to blame for Labor's poor polling \| Alexander White	17.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Claims that Julia Gillard's unpopularity were linked to her introduction of carbon pricing in 2012 don't stack up Since the disappointment of Copenhagen in 2009 , Australia has witnessed a concerted scare campaign against action on global warming. The scare campaign has been led by senior commentators in (Murdoch owned) News Limited papers, by conservative radio shock-jocks on the airwaves, and in parliament by extremist opposition party leader Tony Abbott. From the moment Australia's carbon pricing legislation package, the Clean Energy Future Act, was announced Tony Abbott has barnstormed from one end of Australia to another, declaring a "blood oath" that repealing the carbon price would be his first priority if elected: "I am giving you the most definite commitment any politician can give that this tax will go. This is a pledge in blood." Behind this incendiary phrase is Abbott's own climate change policy, a mishmash of ineffective handouts to industry to "clean up" polluting power ...
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India welcomes grant of observer status in Arctic Council (Cached)	16.5.2013	New Kerala: India News
New Delhi, May 15 : India today welcomed the decision of the Arctic Council to grant it observer status, an objective for which it has been making strenous efforts.
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Climate research nearly unanimous on human causes, survey finds	16.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Of more than 4,000 academic papers published over 20 years, 97.1% agreed that climate change is anthropogenic A survey of thousands of peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals has found 97.1% agreed that climate change is caused by human activity. Authors of the survey, published on Thursday in the journal Environmental Research Letters , said the finding of near unanimity provided a powerful rebuttal to climate contrarians who insist the science of climate change remains unsettled. The survey considered the work of some 29,000 scientists published in 11,994 academic papers. Of the 4,000-plus papers that took a position on the causes of climate change only 0.7% or 83 of those thousands of academic articles, disputed the scientific consensus that climate change is the result of human activity, with the view of the remaining 2.2% unclear. The study described the dissent as a "vanishingly small proportion" of published research. "Our findings prove that there is a strong ...
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Letters: No plans for new investment in coal	16.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Your article ( European energy chief puts forward case for funding coal , 12 May) says the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has "hinted it may expand funding of high-carbon coal projects despite mounting pressure from climate change campaigners to rule out such investments". This suggestion is wrong. The EBRD is not considering an expansion of its funding of coal projects. The EBRD has been pioneering in its development of a sustainable energy initiative which is actively promoting energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources across the regions where it invests. The EBRD may, on a selective basis and taking into account the lack of availability of alternative sources of energy, consider financing coal-fired projects that would replace highly polluting existing plants with new state of the art ones, thus improving energy efficiency and lowering emissions. But there is no consideration of a policy of expanding its funding for coal projects. Anthony Williams European ...
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