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November 25, 2009 | Posted by Amanda Hahnel - 7:50am | 0 Comments
- In a joint statement released by President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Singh, clean energy and climate change were listed as important areas of cooperation, the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg report.
- "Liberia, on Africa's west coast, is in desperate need of help as it suffers from the effects of climate change," BBC reports.
- Scientific American reports on new UNDP statistics that 1.5 billion people lack access to electricity, and ignoring their use of highly polluting wood and charcoal for energy misses a huge opportunity for reducing global emissions.
- Meanwhile, millions of dollars in climate change mitigation aid to developing countries is unaccounted for, according to the BBC.
- California has taken an important step to set up its own cap-and-trade bill, The New York Times reports.
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