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31 August 2007
AFP - World oil prices climbed Friday as a storm threatened Gulf of Mexico energy installations ahead of a long holiday weekend in the United States, while US stockpiles remained tight.
Reuters - Canada's fledgling wind power industry,
late off the global starting blocks, has stumbled on growing
local resistance to the idea of massive turbines dotting the
country's relatively unmarked landscape.
AFP - Parties to the UN's Kyoto Protocol wound up troubled talks here Friday with broad pledges but weak language to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions blamed for global warming.
AP - Negotiators from 158 countries reached basic agreement Friday on rough targets aimed at getting some of the world's biggest polluters to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
AFP - Parties to the UN's Kyoto Protocol struggled here Friday to reach even a broad agreement on future cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions that are driving dangerous climate change.
Reuters - Spreading deserts and degradation of
farm land due to climate change will pose a serious threat to
food supplies for the world's surging population in coming
years, a senior United Nations scientist warned on Friday.
