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Climate chief warns of 'urgency' as CO2 levels rise
2013-04-30 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The UN's climate chief called for urgency Monday as she opened a new round of global talks amid warnings that Earth-warming carbon dioxide levels were approaching a symbolic threshold never seen in human history. Data from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii have shown the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere to be at 399.72 parts per million (ppm), Christiana Figueres told climate negotiators in Bonn. "We are just about to cross the 400 ppm threshold," she said in a prepared speech that stressed...
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Bunge warns of lingering tightness in grain supply
2013-04-26 04:14:17| Food - Topix.net
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UPDATE 1-Bunge warns of lingering tightness in grain supply
2013-04-25 20:28:46| Agriculture - Topix.net
Congestion at Brazilian ports and limited selling of crops by U.S. farmers are keeping global grain supplies tight despite expectations for massive harvests later this year, agribusiness company Bunge Ltd said on Thursday.
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EU data protection bill threatens citizens' rights, warns civil rights coalition
2013-04-25 19:45:17| InfoWorld: Top News
Some of the proposed changes to Europe's data protection laws would strip citizens of their privacy rights, a coalition of international civil liberties organizations said Thursday.The European Parliament is currently considering proposals from the European Commission for a complete overhaul of the E.U.'s data protection laws. The original laws date from 1995, the pre-Internet age, and are arguably in great need of an update. However, the debate about how to update them has been intense.
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UNEP warns of emissions link to mobile phone demand
2013-04-25 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Rising levels of greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation caused by metal production must be urgently addressed, a new report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warns. Demand for metals is expected to rise tenfold as emerging economies adopt similar technologies and lifestyles to richer nations. 1.75 billion mobile phones were sold in 2012, of which 53.5% were smartphones, which use over 40 variants of metal. The average tablet or Apple iPad weighs 650g and contains 1.3g of tin-rich...
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