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Buenos Aires, December 18th, 2004- Greenpeace today expressed disappointment at the outcome of the climate talks in Buenos Aires, and anger at the USA and Saudi Arabia for their deliberate tactics of obstruction and delay. The agreement means that discussions on future greenhouse gas cuts will not progress substantially during the coming year and will not ensure that countries most at risk from climate impacts get the assistance they need from the industrialised world.
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Buenos Aires, December 16th, 2004-
Climate liability and litigation in ten cases covering seven countries
around the world is highlighted today at United Nations climate talks.
These initiatives have been taken by fourteen US States, twenty-eight
NGOs and others to enforce the law to combat climate change, and have
the collaborative support of Friends of the Earth International, Greenpeace
and WWF.
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Cycle of destruction threatens Amazon basin
Buenos Aires, December 15th, 2004- Greenpeace today called upon Governments to take action to save the Amazon from the devastating twin impacts of deforestation and climate change. The Amazon basin shelters the world's largest and most magnificent tropical ancient forest, covering some 700 millions of hectares in 9 countries - an area the size of the continental US.
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Buenos Aires, December 10th, 2004- Today
Brazil and China will each announce their “Initial National Communication
to the UNFCCC”. The information has already been released in Brasilia
and Beijing. In both countries the communication was done at the Ministerial
level showing the importance that Climate Change has taken in the national
agenda of both countries. It is the first greenhouse gas emission report
that either country has released since their signing UNFCCC ten years ago.
The report only covers the data for the years up until 1994.
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Rich leave poor to sink as climate costs set to rise says new briefing
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 10 th December 2004-
A new briefing by Greenpeace and nef (New Economics Foundation)
shows rich countries are already spending billions of dollars to adapt to
climate change. Meanwhile poor countries, who will suffer the impacts of climate
change first and worst, are being fatally short changed, as industrialised
nations abdicate responsibility for a problem they are overwhelmingly responsible
for creating.
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Millions at risk from climate change: act now
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 6 December 2004
–Greenpeace today invited ‘climate refugees’ to board its
giant Ark in the centre of Buenos Aires. The Climate Ark is a stark reminder
to governments at the climate talks of the millions at risk from climate impacts
and the overwhelming costs in human terms of failing to act to protect the
climate. Governments gather here today at the first Climate Summit since Russia
ratified the Kyoto Protocol ensuring its entry into force early next year.
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