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Summary of decisions from Durban climate conference

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Governments at the COP17 meeting decided to adopt some form of a universal legal agreement on climate change as soon. markets all remain in action as effective tools to leverage global climate action and as models to inform. and to assist the Conference of the Parties. as possible, but not later than 2015. Adaptation.

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de Boer Resigns from UNFCCC

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de Boer will be joining the consultancy group KPMG as Global Adviser on Climate and Sustainability, as well as working with a number of universities. Copenhagen did not provide us with a clear agreement in legal terms, but the political commitment and sense of direction toward a low-emissions world are overwhelming. Yvo de Boer.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Global sales top US $45 billion a year, on their way to more than $100 billion in the coming decade. Jonas Ekstromer/AFP/Getty Images In the early 1970s, Exxon scientists predicted that global oil production would peak in the year 2000 and then fall into a steady decline. But he found no takers.

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Met Office: Current Decade Already Hottest On Record

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The Met Office also released data from more than 1,500 climate and weather station temperature records, making up about 30% of the HadCRUT record of global land surface temperature records. aggregates the individual station temperatures into the global land. aggregates the individual station temperatures into the global land.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009. Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15 th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer , by Brian J. The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation , by Brian J. Donovan (3 March 2010).

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