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Climate Change threatens world's poorest says Oxfam
The anti-poverty group Oxfam says global warming is altering the human food supply and threatening some of the world's poorest people with hunger
Bali climate change conference begins
Representatives of more than 180 nations gathered on the Indonesian island of Bali today to kick off a United Nations-sponsored conference on global climate change. The U.N. hopes the meeting will conclude with a road map toward a new agreement on reducing the types of air pollution many scientists believe are driving changes in the earth's climate.
Obama declares tougher emission targets before Copenhagen summit
Barack Obama has set tougher emission targets in a White House speech. He said, the USA intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions "in the range of" 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050. Obama will attend the Copenhagen international climate meeting next month, and is going to offer these figures as an official climate change policy.
Former Formula 1 designer unveils new electric car
Former Formula One McLaren designer Gordon Murray has unveiled a new all-electric car.
Hopes for treaty on climate begin to wither
International climate negotiations for a global climate treaty are not producing the required results in the given amount of time left before the Copenhagen conference in December, diminishing the hopes for a resolution at this conference.