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latest update: 19th September 2001

• Canada urged to link trade and climate change issues
• Japanese-US climate talks postponed in light of terror attacks
• Fuel cells make headlines: promising future, a mass production of cars, potential military use
• Forests don't work too well as carbon sinks - new US study
• Large majority of US public concerned about global warming and in favour of int'l agreement
• Coral reefs are shrinking fast- UN study
• Slow-down in US economy halts emissions
• Diesel-powered fuel cell developed
• Kawaguchi asks US to provide Kyoto alternative by late October
• Scientists find alarming warming in Antarctic above global mean trend
• US EPA's Whitman has little to say to Kawaguchi on US alternative climate plan
• Too late to save coral reefs dying from warming oceans within next 50 years, scientist says
• Rising temperatures cause growth in vegetation in Northern hemisphere
• US companies agree to buy 10% green power
• Diseases spread further with warming temperature, research confirms
• New study shows warming reduces ocean's carbon uptake
• Multinationals face internal rifts over Kyoto
• US and Canadian governors embrace CO2 targets, envisage 75-85% cuts-Minister Anderson applauds
• China plans long-term energy strategy with UNDP assistance
• Japanese Environment ministry wants 5.9 billion yen for CC policies
• US wind power on the rise
• Ford develops hydrogen-powered engine
• NASA decommissions ozone hole satellite over US$ 10 Mio.
• Kyoto begins at home- US consumers want to do their bit
• US green groups mount large scale campaign against Arctic drilling and energy plan
• Japan prepares to ratify the Kyoto Protocol without the US on board
• New Zealand declares it will ratify by September 2002
• US car maker General Motors unveils hydrogen fuell cell
• Norway announces it will NOT use "Kyoto sinks"
• Developing Countries: KP ratifiable without the US

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