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Minister and I differ over Ireland's position on emissions cuts
Posted on December 01, 2008 by Oisín Coghlan
I expect to disagree with the Government from time to time on the positions they take on climate change policy. That's what campaigners and governments do after all.
I don't expect to disagree about what the Government's position actually is, but that's what's happened in advance of the EU ministers meeting this week.
You can see the report on today's RTE News online here.
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UN Climate Talks start in Poland
Posted on December 01, 2008 by Oisín Coghlan
The latest round of UN climate talks start in Poland today in the city of Poznan. Poznan is the birth place of Copernincus the first man to suggest that the Earth revolved around the sun rather than the other way around. Where better to get down to the serious business of agreeing how to avoid trapping so much of the Sun's heat in the atmosphere that we tip the climate system into chaos.
The deadline for a global agreement is 12 months time in Copenhagen so for the next two weeks 9000 delegates and campaigners will decend on Poznan to hammer out the outlines of a deal.
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