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BBC News
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The US has called on the world's eight most industrialised nations to invest in a $10bn (�5bn) climate change fund.
The Climate Investment Funds, run by the World Bank, aims to help developing nations produce their own technology to mitigate the impa..
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BBC News
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MEPs are being urged to use their influence to force nations with wild tiger populations to halt poaching and the illegal trade in tiger parts.
The European Parliament's first Tiger Day is being held to focus attention on the plight of the endangered a..
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BBC News
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The soaring cost of food is threatening millions of people in poor countries, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned.
Food prices have risen an unprecedented 40% in the last year and many nations may be unable to cope, th..
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BBC News
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Nations must agree an action plan to curb climate change or face an "unprecedented reversal" in human development, a UN assessment warns.
The UN Human Development Report said the poorest nations risked a downward spiral of malnutrition, water scarcity..
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CNN
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Floods, droughts and other climate disasters will rob millions of children of the decent meals and schools they need unless rich nations pony up $86 billion by 2015 to help the poor adapt to global warming, an expert panel has warned. The U.S. government..
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