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		<title>Shale Gas a Bridge to More Global Warming</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Hundreds of thousands of shale gas wells are being &#34;fracked&#34; in the United States and Canada, allowing large amounts of methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, to escape into the atmosphere, new studies have shown. Shale gas production [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Ocean Temperature Differences to Create Renewable Energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republished on Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy By. James Burgess of Oilprice.com Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is an idea for creating renewable energy by exploiting the difference in ocean temperatures between the surface and the seabed. The OTEC permit office first opened in 1981 as part of NOAA, America&#8217;s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INDIA: Industrial Pollution Brings Crocodile Tears</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Malini Shankar DANDELI, India, Dec 7, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; Industrial pollution from a paper manufacturing factory in one of India’s most precious biodiversity hotspots is wreaking havoc on the local ecology, driving up the population of wild crocodiles in the area while simultaneously destroying the creatures’ habitat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil Pushes for Sustainable Development Goals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Fabíola Ortiz RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 6, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; With seven months to go until the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, Brazil is uniting in support of proposals to be included in the summit&#8217;s draft final document, which aim to transfer its successful national social and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CLIMATE CHANGE: Biofuels Are Not the Solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Nnimmo Bassey * DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 5, 2011 (Tierramérica) &#8211; Science tells us that we are heading for a climate crisis, yet it is within our means to change course. However, some very worrying false solutions are on the table in the United Nations Framework Convention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweden, UK and Germany Top Climate Protectors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Kristin Palitza DURBAN, South Africa , Dec 6, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; Sweden, the United Kingdom and Germany are the top countries to fight climate change, according to the 2012 Climate Change Performance Index, whose results were published at the United Nations climate change summit today. Sweden, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TRADE: Small Steps towards Emission Reduction Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Kristin Palitza DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 5 , 2011 (IPS) &#8211; Emerging economies China, South Africa and Brazil have indicated their openness to legally-binding carbon emission reduction targets from 2020 during the United Nations climate change summit in Durban, South Africa. Climate experts say the three countries’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia Going Solar &#8211; Gonna Cost Ya, Mate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com Green activists, take note &#8211; for Australia fully to embrace solar power, Canberra would have to spend $100 billion, with photovoltaic cells to generate the electricity covering an area twice the size of Sydney in order to replace Australia’s indigenous inexpensive coal-fired power plants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;Fracking&quot; for Shale Gas: Neither Clean nor Green</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy * DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 5, 2011 (Tierramérica) &#8211; Hydraulic fracturing or &#34;fracking&#34; is being used to tap the last remaining natural gas deposits across large areas of the United States and western Canada, fueling continued dependence on hydrocarbons instead of a shift to genuinely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OP-ED: The Future of Carbon Markets: Taking Politics Seriously</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Peter Newell * BRIGHTON, United Kingdom, Nov 22, 2011 (Tierramérica) &#8211; Carbon markets are under attack on all sides, despite ongoing faith in their ability to deliver meaningful reductions in greenhouse gases (GHGs). As the Durban climate summit approaches and as the first commitment period of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tale of Two Cleaned Up Asian Cities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IDN By Taro Ichikawa IDN-InDepth NewsFeature DALIAN (IDN) &#8211; The partner cities of Dalian in Northern China and Kitakyushu in Western Japan have distinguished themselves as dedicated proponents of pollution control and clean environment. Back in the 1960s and 1970s the two cities were severely polluted by heavy industry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rush for Oil in West Africa &#8211; The New Wild West?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Meena Bhandari FREETOWN, Nov 18, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; There is a new oil rush off the coast of West Africa. But there are fears that the sector is not sufficiently regulated, and watchdog groups are raising concerns about transparency and governance in the region. Anticipation is building [...]]]></description>
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