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                <language>en</language><item><title>Durban conference | Union hampered by its own polluters (Público, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1283751-union-hampered-its-own-polluters</link><description><![CDATA[The EU has been unable in Durban to reach a common position on greenhouse gas emissions quotas after 2012. The veto of the former communist countries of the EU, who defended the current quotas that are so advantageous to them, is partly to blame. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/mayk-climate.jpg" length="37285" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:27:45 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Pollution | A time bomb under the Northern seas (Trouw, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1175841-time-bomb-under-northern-seas</link><description><![CDATA[The seas around Europe are threatened by a new source of pollution. Thousands of tonnes of chemical weapons will corrode and start to leak. In the Baltic, the possible consequences are being investigated. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/northern-sea-pollution.jpg" length="77481" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:57:45 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>River transport | The Danube is running dry (NRC Handelsblad, Rotterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1101321-danube-running-dry</link><description><![CDATA[The Danube, Europe&#039;s second longest river, is one of the most poorly navigable rivers on the continent. Despite the EU’s Danube Strategy, the summer drought has resulted in even lower water levels, resulting in an enormous traffic jam. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/danube-drought.jpg" length="123650" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:42:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>FOOD INDUSTRY | The great fish robbers have got away again (The Times, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/775221-great-fish-robbers-have-got-away-again</link><description><![CDATA[The EU plans to overhaul its fishing policy to stop complete depletion of our overfished seas. But the weight of industrial lobbies and the short-sightedness of some member states will make this a hard task. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/fishing-europe_0.jpg" length="149527" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:57:46 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Climate change | Poland cold to more CO2 reductions</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/757181-poland-cold-more-co2-reductions</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Warsaw under EU climate pressure&rdquo;, headlines Rzeczpospolita as the European Parliament debates further reductions of CO2 emissions.The assembly is expected to adopt a resolution urging [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/rzeczpospolita-05072011-100.jpg" length="36579" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:43:15 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>CO2 | Bleak prospects for climate, warns IEA</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/683041-bleak-prospects-climate-warns-iea</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Worst ever carbon emissions leave climate on the brink,&rdquo; headlines the Guardian, revealing latest estimates from the International Energy Agency (IEA) showing that, &ldquo;[g]reenhouse gas [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/20110530-TheGuardian-100.jpg" length="7466" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 12:39:49 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Sweden | Europe's happy rubbish collectors (Polityka, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/670281-europe-s-happy-rubbish-collectors</link><description><![CDATA[While some local authorities are struggling to cope with the burden of domestic waste, their colleagues in other countries see it as an opportunity for financial gain. Polish weekly Polityka reports on Sweden’s booming waste industry. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Sweeden-energy.jpg" length="149714" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 18:59:14 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>ICELAND | Europe under threat from new eruption</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/669381-europe-under-threat-new-eruption</link><description><![CDATA[One year after Eyjafjallajokull eruption, which paralysed air traffic in 2010, European airspace has now come under threat from another Icelandic volcano, Grimsv&ouml;tn, one of [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/20110523-Morgunbladid-100.jpg" length="6552" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 16:44:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Environment | Green energy - but not in my back yard! (Il Post, Milan)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/639811-green-energy-not-my-back-yard</link><description><![CDATA[Odd as it may seem, the main victims of environmental conservation appeals are not nuclear power plants or incinerators, but the hydroelectric power stations, solar energy installations and wind farms much-loved by the Green and ecologically minded. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/france-wind.jpg" length="29922" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 10:42:49 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Biodiversity | Brussels wants to save the animals</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/634101-brussels-wants-save-animals</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;A quarter of European animal species are threatened with extinction,&rdquo; reports Spanish daily&nbsp;El Peri&oacute;dico. The evaluation was provided on May 3 by the EU Environment [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 15:06:47 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Portrait | Power, not nuclear (VoxPublica.ro, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/629331-power-not-nuclear</link><description><![CDATA[Founder of one of the first cooperatives for producing renewable energy, Germany’s Ursula Sladeck has won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in the United States. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Ursula-Sladeck.jpg" length="67054" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 18:36:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Environment | Fish quota system to be overhauled</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/522001-fish-quota-system-be-overhauled</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Europe to ban &#039;discarding&#039; of unwanted fish,&rdquo; headlines the Guardian, after EU fisheries commissioner, Maria Damanaki, called for an end to the &ldquo;unethical&rdquo; practice of [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Guardian-02032011-100.jpg" length="33612" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:58:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>United Kingdom | Companies spy on environmentalists</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/503181-companies-spy-environmentalists</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Revealed: how energy firms spy on environmental activists,&quot; headlines The Guardian. The daily has obtained leaked documents which show how, over the last three years, [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/The-Guardian-15022011-100.JPG" length="29741" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:55:31 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Spain | Cities gasping for air</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/495931-cities-gasping-air</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;From Madrid to hell,&quot; announces P&uacute;blico   &ndash;  an ironic paraphrase of the advertising slogan &quot;from Madrid to  heaven.&quot; The daily reports [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/publico-09022011-100.JPG" length="37768" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:32:52 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Environment  | Europe devours Amazon, claims NGO</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/475931-europe-devours-amazon-claims-ngo</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;European consumption threatens to destroy Amazon rainforest,&quot; warns P&uacute;blico,  in an article highlighting the findings of a report published by the  NGO Friends [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:15:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>CO2 | Hackers steal €200 million of carbon credits</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/471411-hackers-steal-200-million-carbon-credits</link><description><![CDATA[Lib&eacute;ration reports that hackers have stolen a huge haul of carbon credits from a number of European countries.  There was &quot;no forced entry. No [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:14:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Climate Change | We need eco-democracies (Der Freitag, Berlin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/426981-we-need-eco-democracies</link><description><![CDATA[The major climate conferences aren’t just about CO2 emissions. They’re also about whether there are democratic ways to ward off an ecological catastrophe. Der Freitag champions environmental democracy over environmental autocracy. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Oekokratie.jpg" length="119330" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:29:21 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>COP16 | The end of easy green money (Il Foglio, Milan)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/408981-end-easy-green-money</link><description><![CDATA[The crisis has put a dent in carbon emissions – and in the foundations of Europe’s planned green economy. By calling subsidies for inefficient technologies into question, that blow might yet be a boon for the renewable energy sector. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/employe-ines.jpg" length="65965" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:34:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Italy | Naples still under rubbish mountain</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/401001-naples-still-under-rubbish-mountain</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Everything is as it was two years ago,&quot; headlines La Stampa. With a quote from one of the European Commission inspectors dispatched to Naples to [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/23112010-La-Stampa-100.jpg" length="12855" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:38:54 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Environment | Toxic red sludge engulfs west Hungary</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/354401-toxic-red-sludge-engulfs-west-hungary</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Environmental disaster: state of emergency in three counties,&rdquo; headlines N&eacute;pszabads&aacute;g, two days after a toxic reservoir at an alumina plant burst in Ajka, in western [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/101006nepszabadsag.jpg" length="6789" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:23:59 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>CO2 | EU carbon credits discredited</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/354071-eu-carbon-credits-discredited</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Buying carbon credits is like throwing money out the window,&rdquo; headlines the Danish paper Information, summing up the report released on October by the Danish [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/101006information.jpg" length="6758" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:06:56 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Renewable energies | A new frontier for green power (The New York Times, New York)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/319761-new-frontier-green-power</link><description><![CDATA[Pioneering Portugal has radically reduced its dependence on fossil fuels. This year nearly half of its electricity will come from renewable sources. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Cadafaz_A.Oliveira.jpg" length="47782" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:48:09 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Forest fires | Portugal counts the cost</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/316031-portugal-counts-cost</link><description><![CDATA[While the ongoing forest blazes in Russia continue to worry observers, record fires in Portugal have caused an estimated 210 million euros worth of damage, [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/16082010-i-.jpg" length="13970" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:53:03 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Fires | The ghost of Chernobyl again floating over Europe</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/314611-ghost-chernobyl-again-floating-over-europe</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Natural catastrophes and nuclear energy: the danger has been pushed back&quot;, reads the headline of Die Tageszeitung, depicting the image of a Russian forest contaminated [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/12082010-Taz.jpg" length="11544" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:18:04 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Biodiversity | Mediterranean in hot water (Público, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/307211-mediterranean-hot-water</link><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of scientists have put together the first comprehensive study of the state of the world’s seas, from the Arctic through the tropics to the Antarctic, and come to an alarming verdict: the Mediterranean is the most endangered sea on the planet. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/mediterranean.jpg" length="46693" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:07:33 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Energy | Let&#039;s storm the petrol Bastille (Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfurt)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/294101-lets-storm-petrol-bastille</link><description><![CDATA[No-one knows how long it will take before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will be capped. Reason for which we ought to turn to the sun and start an energy revolution, argues German sociologist Ulrich Beck. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/oil-fire.jpg" length="18503" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:57:01 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Biofuels | Not so green after all (Trouw, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/274411-not-so-green-after-all</link><description><![CDATA[The European Commission has introduced a new biofuels certification scheme to combat deforestation, among other laudable objectives. But biofuel production uses up a great deal of arable land and if food crop farmers have to move elsewhere, more land may end up being cleared.... (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/rapeseed-field.jpg" length="46681" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:37:14 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Waste management | EU tackles waste problem</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/273411-eu-tackles-waste-problem</link><description><![CDATA[The EU is waging a war against waste and threatening with&nbsp;harsh penalties&nbsp;those who fail to introduce an effective waste pick-up, disposal, and recycling system by [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:46:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Global warming | Holidays on Lake Baltic?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/258441-holidays-lake-baltic</link><description><![CDATA[Over the coming decades the Baltic Sea could well become one warm freshwater lake and a tourist attraction for Europeans, writes Newsweek Polska. Why? Because [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/100524newsweekpl.jpg" length="5522" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 14:04:42 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>CO2 | EU aims to take lead on emissions</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/256861-eu-aims-take-lead-emissions</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Brussels is in favour of a 30% reduction in CO2 emmissions,&quot; reports Le Monde, which has obtained a Commission paper on the topic to be [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/lemonde-05212010.jpg" length="33832" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 16:52:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Netherlands | Save the planet - tax meat</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/226232-save-planet-tax-meat</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Meat is not a basic need, but reducing meat consumption has become a basic need,&rdquo; in the opinion of the former Dutch Finance Minister, Jan [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/NRC-handesblad-07042010.jpg" length="38057" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:19:39 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Controversy | Of climate sceptics, cryptoscience and bunk (NRC Handelsblad, Rotterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/190061-climate-sceptics-cryptoscience-and-bunk</link><description><![CDATA[Climate sceptics are riding high these days. With a sizeable helping of bad faith, they exploit every little scientific slip-up to claim that global warming is not due to human activity – and to malign the IPCC, the international organisation to gauge climate change, warns the NRC Handelsblad. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/ice-alaska.jpg" length="25347" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:36:31 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Baltic Sea | The big cleanup begins</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/189031-big-cleanup-begins</link><description><![CDATA[The countries bordering the Baltic Sea pledge to clean up what experts call the &ldquo;most polluted sea in the world&rdquo;, reports Helsingin Sanomat. At a [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Helsingin-Sanomat-11022010.jpg" length="43344" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:44:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Eco-racketeering, a business with a future (Lidové noviny , Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/175671-eco-racketeering-business-future</link><description><![CDATA[The arrest of an environmental activist who demanded money to withdraw his opposition to real estate projects has lifted the veil on a new type of blackmail, which writer Ivan Brezina maintains pales in comparison with the stock and trade of major public figures in the environmental movement. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/ecoracket_1.jpg" length="43746" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:25:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>COP15 | Save the planet - get rid of the state (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/160131-save-planet-get-rid-state</link><description><![CDATA[The main obstacle to a climate deal at the Copenhagen Conference was state sovereignty. The solution, argues political scientist José Ignacio Torreblanca, lies in exporting the EU’s know-how and institutional approach. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/after-copenhague.jpg" length="146724" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:15:54 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>COP15 | Going round in circles (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/158201-going-round-circles</link><description><![CDATA[Widely hailed as one of the last chances to save the planet, the Copenhagen conference has proved unequal to the challenge, laments the European press. From diplomacy to the economy, it may be time to learn a lesson or two from this global washout. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/copenhague-rechauffrement.jpg" length="95972" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:54:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>COP15 | Homo Economicus goes to the wall (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/156831-homo-economicus-goes-wall</link><description><![CDATA[The likely failure of the Copenhagen climate summit to achieve progress on climate change is due to an inability to imagine a humanity that can no longer live without restraint. An impassioned plea by British environmentalist author George Monbiot. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/suv-parking.jpg" length="44132" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:22:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>COP15 | Rebels divided about the cause (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/154621-rebels-divided-about-cause</link><description><![CDATA[They come to Denmark disguised as pirates to frighten the guardians of the fossil-fuel energy system, or to stage mock trials of CO2–spouting polluters: tens of thousands of climate activists have descended on Copenhagen. But behind their seemingly united front, the big climate organisations are at loggerheads, reports Die Zeit, over whether to join or disrupt the talks. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/copenhagen-panda_3.jpg" length="49824" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:05:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>COP15 | Fossil fuels, for the dinosaurs (El Mundo, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/153611-fossil-fuels-dinosaurs</link><description><![CDATA[Changing our energy system is the key to curbing CO2 emissions and global warming. In the run-up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference (COP15), the European Union has announced plans to generate 20% of its energy using renewable sources. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/energie-renouvellable-elmundo.JPG" length="132244" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:50:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>COP15 | Is Moscow behind Climategate?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/152041-moscow-behind-climategate</link><description><![CDATA[The shocking disclosure of British scientists&rsquo; private correspondence on the eve of the Copenhagen Climate Conference (COP15) is turning into a tale of espionage. &ldquo;The [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/MF-DNES-081209.JPG" length="44162" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:02:39 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Wind power | Answer is blowing in the North Sea wind</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/151811-answer-blowing-north-sea-wind</link><description><![CDATA[Nine energy ministers have signed a declaration to set up a grid connecting present and future wind farms in the North Sea, announces De Morgen. [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/DeMorgen-081209.jpg" length="36605" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:54:31 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>COP15 | Much CO2 about nothing? (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/151351-much-co2-about-nothing</link><description><![CDATA[The Copenhagen summit, which is opening with great ambitions, might well come up with no deal at all – or worse: a short-lived deal that never gets ratified or implemented. Climate sceptics, for their part, challenge the very premise of the conference. Here’s today’s press in review on the COP15. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/copenhague-2009.jpg" length="162286" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:55:02 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Climate Change | Carbon storage emerges from underground (Trouw, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/150701-carbon-storage-emerges-underground</link><description><![CDATA[Numerous companies and organizations, including Shell, have proposed capturing CO2 for storage underground; and scientists who were sceptical about the technique are now rallying to the cause. However, in view of the economic interests at stake, it is hard to tell the independent experts from the lobbyists. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/smoke-plume.jpg" length="23751" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:10:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>COP15 | Brussels cheerleads to the summit (La Stampa, Turin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/149691-brussels-cheerleads-summit</link><description><![CDATA[Even before the curtain rises on the Copenhagen Climate Conference on 7 December, the world is already warring over emissions targets. And Brussels is brandishing some fateful figures in its bid to lead the global crusade against greenhouse gases. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/bedzed-roof_3.jpg" length="35312" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:18:57 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>COP15 | Copenhagen or the hypercane (The Independent, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/149421-copenhagen-or-hypercane</link><description><![CDATA[Either a drastic cut in emissions, or a planet we won’t even recognise. As the Copenhagen summit on climate change opens, Johann Hari, ranging from the Maldives to the Artic and Darfur, argues that this is the stark choice the world faces. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/copenhague-hypercane-1_1.JPG" length="88101" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:24:50 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>COP 15 | Obama&#039;s whistle-stop visit criticized</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/145471-obamas-whistle-stop-visit-criticized</link><description><![CDATA[Jyllands-Posten reports that &quot;the world&#039;s most powerful man will be coming to the Copenhagen climate conference,&quot; but regrets that he will not be there at [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Jyllands-Posten-261109.JPG" length="45051" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:59:47 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>COP15 | Towards another wasted summit</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/137941-towards-another-wasted-summit</link><description><![CDATA[The joint statement signed on 15 November in Singapore, endorsing a non-binding political agreement on greenhouse gas reduction based on the outcome of the Copenhagen [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/bt.png" length="26783" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:56:21 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>CO2 | EU slips through Kyoto loopholes</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/136901-eu-slips-through-kyoto-loopholes</link><description><![CDATA[With a month left to run until the Copenhagen summit on climate change (COP 15), the European Union is close to achieving the 2012 objectives [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/vk.png" length="26550" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:40:37 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>CO2 Emissions | Find your local polluter</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/135441-find-your-local-polluter</link><description><![CDATA[Citizens of the European Union can now find out about the amount of CO2 emissions produced by companies and industries in their local area. As&nbsp;P&uacute;blico&nbsp;explains [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/publico11112009.jpg" length="39561" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:48:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Copenhagen Conference | Climate summit not much COP</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/132141-climate-summit-not-much-cop</link><description><![CDATA[Global financial meltdown couldn&rsquo;t do it, and now even the prospect of impending environmental cataclysm cannot quite concentrate the minds of the world&rsquo;s great and [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/inedpendent-061109.jpg" length="48486" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:21:53 +0100</pubDate></item>
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