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Gift Guide: Accessories to jazz up mobile phones

AP News 5 hours ago

Gift Guide: Smart accessories that add missing features to mobile devices People you know have spent small fortunes on shiny new smart phones such as the iPhone 3GS, a BlackBerry or the Droid. But the devices still don't have all the features ...

Sarkozy hails US, Chinese climate proposals

AFP Global Edition 6 hours ago

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in Brazil Thursday for a one-day meeting on climate change and Amazon forest conservation, hailed new US and Chinese proposals on combating global warming as "extremely encouraging." At a press conference, Sarkozy praised US President Barack Obama's "courage" ...

Rich must aid poor more on climate: Brazil, France

Reuters Environmental Online Report 7 hours ago

MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) - The presidents of France and Brazil said on Thursday that rich countries must immediately boost aid for developing nations to fight global warming if they want to reach a climate accord in Copenhagen next month. Brazilian President Luiz ...

New climate targets may not change daily life much

AP News 8 hours ago

Obama wants big carbon dioxide cuts, but daily life should be much the same with higher bills Americans' day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next ...

Canada PM to attend Copenhagen climate meeting

AP News 8 hours ago

In reversal, Canada's prime minister to attend UN climate-change meeting in Copenhagen Canada's prime minister is reversing his position and will attend a United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen next month, Stephen Harper's spokesman said Thursday. Dimitri Soudas announced Harper decided ...

Under pressure, Canada PM to attend climate talks

Reuters Environmental Online Report 8 hours ago

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose government is often criticized for dragging its feet on global warming, will attend U.N. talks next month in Copenhagen designed to find a successor to the Kyoto climate change protocol. Harper spokesman Dimitri ...

Sarkozy, Amazon leaders to issue rainforest plea

AFP Global Edition 8 hours ago

French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Brazil Thursday to urge nations straddling the Amazon basin to adopt tough measures to combat climate change and preserve rainforests. Called by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the one-day meeting in the city of ...

China's climate pledge to meet a quarter of global needs: IEA

AFP Global Edition 8 hours ago

China's pledge on greenhouse gases means it would shoulder more than a quarter of the CO2 emissions cuts needed to avoid dangerous global warming, a top economist said Thursday. "China alone would be responsible for more than 25 percent of the reductions ...

Canada's PM to join climate talks in Copenhagen

AFP American Edition 8 hours ago

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will attend international climate talks next month, his office said Thursday, as 3,000 scientists pressed Ottawa to seek a deal on deeper CO2 emissions cuts. A spokesman for Harper told AFP he will travel to Copenhagen for ...

Indonesia to deport Greenpeace demonstrators: leader

AFP Global Edition 9 hours ago

Indonesia plans to deport seven foreign Greenpeace activists involved in a protest against deforestation, seen as a contributor to global warming, the group said Thursday. The seven were among a group of 14 activists detained on Wednesday after some of them chained ...

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