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.
On Monday, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres opened the annual end-of-year international climate negotiations.
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This time, he's hoping to complete the program they started filming last year on climate change and the Cape Farewell trip.
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.
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.
Other solar changes occurring at approximate 1, 500 year intervals also influence climate.
Colonial towns, beach resorts and a year-round mild climate have contributed to a growing tourist industry, and the economy has benefited from offshore banking.
Its profits have halved in a year, in a climate where CD sales are falling and prices have come down by about 50% in recent years.
Several experts have said that 2007 is a litmus-test year for energy and climate change legislation, meaning that real overhaul would come after the 2008 elections in the event that Democrats win both the White House and Congress.
As the volume of properties new to the market and selling are slow due to the time of year and the economic climate, it is hard to judge the impact of the home report introduction and it will probably take a longer period of time to conclude any trends from its effects.
In the USA, President Barack Obama abandoned last year plans for a federal climate bill during his current term.
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Mr. RAY KOPP (Economist, Resources for the Future): Within the US, every year a new round of climate science comes out.
For others, it is about time that the biggest game of the year was staged in a climate that cold-weather teams are accustomed to.
Ms Figueres, a Costa Rican diplomat and 15-year veteran of the UN climate process, takes over from the current UNFCCC executive secretary Yvo de Boer early next month.
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.
The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP 17) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be held in Durban, South Africa, from 28 November to 9 December, just a year after the United Nations Climate Change conference held in Cancun in 2010, and two years after the Copenhagen Conference.
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.
In a report last year ("Investing in a Climate for Change"), the U.N.
France has been enjoying a favourable economic climate in the past year, with strong growth leading to a growing budget surplus.
Those numbers together suggest the EU could lose 60bn euros worth of steel business a year as a result of its climate policies.
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.
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