Keywords: Un Framework Convention On Climate Change
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INTERNATIONAL
- Mark Raper
- 18 January 2010
Significant agreement was achieved in Copenhagen on the present and future
forcible displacement of people because of climate change and
environmental degradation. Can global cooperation for the protection of vulnerable displaced persons be renewed to meet new circumstances?
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ENVIRONMENT
- Sean McDonagh
- 10 December 2009
Columban missionary priest and environmental activist Sean McDonagh reports from the climate convention in Copenhagen, where negotiators have been told to 'go very far and very fast' and turn Copenhagen into 'Hopenhagen'.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tony Kevin
- 05 December 2008
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Barack Obama has deflected heat off the US at the current climate change conference in Poland. But in true Howardian style, Australia, by sitting on the sidelines, is sabotaging the conference's prospects of real-time progress.
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AUSTRALIA
- Maryanne Loughry
- 17 March 2008
The international community reacts rather than anticipates. It was only when hundreds of thousands of people were displaced after
the Bolshevik revolution, that protection mechanisms such as the 1951 Refugee Convention began to be developed.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Sean McDonagh
- 12 December 2007
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It seemed a last minute reprieve for tropical forests could emerge at the UN climate change meeting in Bali. Because 20% of greenhouse emissions are due to forest destruction, stablising greenhouse gas emissions requires reduction in the rate of deforestation.
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AUSTRALIA
- Gavan McCormack
- 04 July 2006
Encouraging the North–South relationship offers the best hope for North Korea and the world
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