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30 November 2007
AFP - The United Nations watchdog on endangered species said Friday it is launching a database to track the international trade in caviar and tackle its illegal trade.
AFP - Europe's energy-guzzling core industries deserve special treatment over their carbon dioxide emissions to protect their competitiveness, EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen said Friday.
AFP - A Japanese company said Friday it had conducted the world's first spot trade in carbon credits, predicting the nascent market will grow as countries step up efforts to tackle global warming.
AFP - Australians want their new government to do more than just sign up to the Kyoto Protocol with over 80 percent supporting a reversal in greenhouse gas emissions by 2012, a survey released Friday showed.
AFP - US President George W. Bush, who rejected the Kyoto protocol, remains opposed to international constraints on curbing carbon emissions despite growing isolation ahead of a world climate summit.
AFP - Italian oil firm Eni and oil and gas exploration firm Burren Energy said Friday they had agreed the terms of a takeover offer from Eni worth 1.74 billion pounds.
Reuters - U.S. citizens will not have to drive
less or read in the dark to slash greenhouse gas emissions by
2030, but they will have to buy more efficient cars and
appliances, a report from two business groups said on Thursday.
