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UN Climate Change Conference gets underway with calls for urgent progress
The United Nations Climate Change Conference - Poznań, Poland kicked off Monday, 1 December. The two-week meeting, the fourteenth Conference of the 192 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the fourth meeting of the 183 Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, is the half-way mark in the negotiations on an ambitious and effective international response to climate change. The deal is to be clinched in Copenhagen at the end of 2009 and will take effect in 2013, the year after the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol expires.
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Africa and the EU join forces to work together against climate change
Africa and the EU have outlined their common concerns for global warming and their common interest for an ambitious post-Kyoto international agreement through the endorsement this week of a joint declaration on climate change. Africa has been identified by experts as one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change and climate variability, while contributing very little to global warming. African countries face already the worst of the impact as proven by unpredictable rainfall, lower crop yields and diminishing resources. The vulnerability of Africa to climate change is exacerbated by widespread ... |
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