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US presidential elections and climate talks
In the global environmental negotiations, US presidential elections are a much talked about subject. US in many ways influences such negotiations, especially the climate change talks. Down To Earth has been closely following the US presidents and their stand on environmental issues. A selection of stories
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The Rio+20 UN conference on sustainable development is over. The conference declaration |
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World leaders attending Rio+20 did nothing to tackle the interlinked crises of economy and ecology |
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The United States has always been the climate change renegade |
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In the last two months of 2008, the US presidential election and its aftermath took away the spotlight |
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AS HE made history by becoming the first African-American president to occupy the White House |
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What does Barack Obama's election as president of the us have to do with buses in India |
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There are no more soft options on climate change |
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Will Barack Obama be a radical environmentalist? Or will fossil-fuel lobbies carry him off? |
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USA, Australia Environmental issues As the November 2, 2004 deadline for presidential elections in the us draws near |
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Three months since the Cancun debacle, the collapsed world trade talks still hang in the balance |
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It shows that the environment is no more an issue for electorates in the North |
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In a historic verdict, voters of the Colorado state in the us have approved the mandatory |
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The US senate rejected the country's first climate change bill in the last week of October. |
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Will George W Bush as US president be better than Al Gore for the global environment? |
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He may not have a clean environmental track record. But as president, George W Bush will have to tread carefully |
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Environmental issues are rapidly coming into focus in the US presidential compaign |
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