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30 November 2007
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 - The world's haves must do more to combat climate change, Prince Charles and a former World Bank chief economist wrote in separate comment pieces published on Friday.
AP - Eric Robinson stepped onto the bridge of the container ship Horizon Pacific and peered at a computer monitor depicting San Francisco Bay. Ship icons blipped clearly in the virtual water, but the meaning of some of the other symbols was murky.
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.
AP - The Alaska subsidiary of oil company BP PLC pleaded guilty on Thursday to a federal environmental crime for failing to prevent a crude spill across a swath of delicate tundra in America's largest oil field.
AFP - Cypriot conservationists expressed outrage Thursday over the shooting of dozens of protected Egyptian fruit bats on the Mediterranean island, their only European Union habitat.
