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In 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted that what could be the greatest single impact of climate change is human migration with millions of people to be displaced by shoreline erosion, coastal flooding and agricultural disruption.

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As UN climate talks wind down here on Friday evening, developing countries are celebrating the small success of operationalising an Adaptation Fund, even while expressing frustration about the progress toward a post-2012 treaty to fight climate change. By Priscilla Jebaraj, Poznan

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By Taiwo Rasak, Poznan After twelve days of intensive talks, negotiators at the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan reach an agreement on the adaptation fund which will see freeing of millions of dollars to help developing countries adapt to severe droughts, floods and other effects of climate change.

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Gigil Varghese Poznan (Poland), December 12 The United Nations Climate Change conference is on the last leg of discussions in Poznan where important decisions on adaptation and mitigation of climate change – the phenomenon of rising sea levels and melting glaciers – are likely to taken. Most of the 189 countries have discussed their national [...]

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por Juliana Radler, Poznan Nos penúltimo dia de negociação sobre as mudanças climáticas, que ocorrem durante conferência da ONU em Poznan, na Polônia, o Brasil foi elogiado por governos, pesquisadores e organizações não governamentais por ter assumido, finalmente, metas concretas e ambiciosas de combate ao desmatamento na Amazônia. O anúncio das metas, que já havia [...]

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Gigil Varghese Poznan, December 11 The high-level segment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) met in on Thursday to discuss a Poznan climate change package. Four Heads of State, 145 Environment Ministers, and senior government representatives from the 189 countries attending the UNFCCC have met to discuss a path toward a [...]

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By Thomas Katamila Dec. 11 2008, Poznan People wearing cartoon-style feet depicting the size of different countries per capita carbon footprint shall remind negotiators at the UN Climate Change Conference who must curb greenhouse gas emissions first. Each country is identified by their flag designed on the feet.

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By Tawfique Ali, Poznan The developed countries must take the lead in combating climate change crisis and in engaging the developing countries in the battle, said the UNFCCC executive secretary Yvo de Boer at Poznan climate summit. “Without clear support commitments and leadership of the industrialized countries, the developing countries will not be much interested [...]

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By Taiwo Rasak, Poznan The moment is here. Armed with different banners, anxious delegates this morning ushered in the moment over 11,600 delegates have been waiting – the gathering of the ministers and other top officials from 190 countries for the informal roundtable on the shared vision on climate change and the closing plenary. One [...]

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Gigil Varghese Poznan (Poland), December 9 India wants the European Union and the American to take the same governmental initiative they took to resolve the financial crisis to enable technology transfer of cleaner technologies to tackle climate change.

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