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		<title>Caught Between Diarrhoea Bugs and Arsenic</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Naimul Haq DHAKA, May 18, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Achieving the Millennium Development Goal of providing access to safe drinking water for its 160 million people by 2015 is a tough call for Bangladesh, which is caught between arsenic contaminated groundwater and diarrhoea-causing microbes in its ponds and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Industrialised Countries Under Critical Spotlight at U.N. Meet</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Julio Godoy BONN, Germany, May 18, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; The latest session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), taking place May 15-25 in the former German capital Bonn, is the perfect opportunity to reaffirm the enormous and growing body of scientific expertise on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rising Resource Demand A Big Challenge</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IDN Credit: Transatlantic AcademyBy J.C. Suresh IDN-InDepth NewsReport TORONTO (IDN) – &#34;Unless the transatlantic community takes the lead in addressing the challenges arising from the unprecedented global demand for land, energy, food, water, and minerals, severe market disruptions are likely to occur, as are increased chances of violent conflict [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Argentine Perspective on Degrowth</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente * BUENOS AIRES, May 10, 2012 (Tierramérica) &#8211; The controversial concept of degrowth receives little press coverage in a region like Latin America. But the idea of a way of life that is not aimed exclusively at GDP growth does have its proponents in Argentina. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business20 Makes Its Weight Felt at G20 Meeting</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico, Apr 19, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; The concerns of the business community basically monopolised the first day of the meeting of trade and economy ministers of the G20 group of industrialised and emerging countries in this Mexican resort city Thursday. The meeting of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shale Gas a Bridge to More Global Warming</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<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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		<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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		<title>CLIMATE CHANGE: Biofuels Are Not the Solution</title>
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		<title>Sweden, UK and Germany Top Climate Protectors</title>
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		<title>TRADE: Small Steps towards Emission Reduction Deal</title>
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