On Monday, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres opened the annual end-of-year international climate negotiations.
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The topic was the most frequently talked about issue in 10 nations in last year's survey, but this year climate change topped the list only in Germany and Britain.
Representatives from the small island nation of Tuvalu, concerned that their country might disappear in the coming decades, became the poster children of the Copenhagen climate summit last year.
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The announcements by China and the United States follow the world's top economic powers acknowledging earlier this month that there was no hope of a major breakthrough over climate change by year's end.
The e-mails, along with other documents, covered a period dating back to 1997 and were released into the public domain just before the Copenhagen climate summit last year, with some seeing it as a political act designed to destabilise the summit.
This time, he's hoping to complete the program they started filming last year on climate change and the Cape Farewell trip.
France has been enjoying a favourable economic climate in the past year, with strong growth leading to a growing budget surplus.
Returning from the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit last year, Dowden notes that representatives from the legal sector were largely absent from the otherwise well-attended event.
In late June, he met with a bipartisan group of senators at the White House to discuss passing an energy and climate change bill this year.
He said the only way a bill that addresses both energy and climate gets attention this year is if Democrats and Republicans can agree on a bill.
The Indian foreign minister stressed the need for "an ambitious and at the same time equitable and fair outcome" at the Copenhagen international climate conference later this year.
However, such an agreement proved impossible in the hyper-political climate of an election year, and the government-wide cuts opposed by both sides now are set to take effect.
And despite a rough economic climate in Europe last year, the company's profits doubled, its business given an extra boost by an increased number of passengers after the London Olympics.
The likely fate of the Amazon under climate change came under focus early last year when, as one of a series of attacks on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Sunday Times newspaper accused the panel of having included an unsubstantiated claim that up to 40% of the forest could be affected by climate change in future.
Denmark will be there because they are chairing important climate change talks later this year.
The only notable success of the Copenhagen climate-change conference last year was a commitment to pursue them.
They searched for a suitable spot for four years, mainly in southwestern China, which was still largely unspoiled and has a mild year-round climate.
Mr Huhne resigned as energy and climate change secretary earlier this year after he was charged and vowed to fight the allegations in court.
Discussion is likely to be tense among EU countries, where Poland has blocked any initiative to move forward on climate change in the last year.
Residents in Aberdeenshire also enjoy a relatively good climate with less rainfall per year that the average for Scotland, and, on average, one hour more sunshine per week.
He heads the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which last year shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, after announcing that scientific "consensus" had been reached on global warming.
Of the 300, 000 lives being lost each year due to climate change, the report finds nine out of 10 are related to "gradual environmental degradation, " and that deaths caused by climate-related malnutrition, diarrhea and malaria outnumber direct fatalities from weather-related disasters.
Situated in a lush--for Texas, anyway--valley, with 19 acres of waterfront and a warm year-round climate, the resort sat on the former site of the Sunshine Nudist Camp (in the '70s), the Steiner Ranch Rodeo Camp (later in the '70s) and the Bermuda Inn Reducing Resort (up until the creation of Lake Austin).
Its year-round sunny climate makes it ideally suited to a half-term or Christmas break.
Every year lost on tackling climate change will take us further along the path where the costs of action multiply.
On the other hand, the study found no evidence that the devastating floods in Thailand last year were connected to climate change.
According to Kofi Annan's Global Humanitarian Forum, there are already more than 300, 000 deaths per year directly attributable to climate change.
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That represents less than half the growth rate in the first six months of the year - so the climate remains tough.
After all, 150, 000 people already die from climate-change related effects every year.
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