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Kosovo, Hungary: More on the Tisza River Tragedy

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova on 06/11/2009

A Fistful of Euros discusses the story of tragic death of 15 Kosovo Albanian illegal immigrants, who were trying to cross the Tisza River into Hungary and the EU. More about it - in Marietta Le's Oct. 28 GV post.

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Emissions Intensity Falling Globally

Posted by Environmental Leader on 06/11/2009

Emissions intensity, the amount of carbon generated from fossil fuel use per unit of gross domestic product (GDP), fell globally in all but two years between 1994 and 2006, according to a World Bank study, reports the New York Times’ Green Inc. blog.A key finding of the study indicates that ...

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Carbon Trading Could Trigger a ‘Sub-prime Style’ Economic Crash

Posted by Environmental Leader on 06/11/2009

Plans to expand carbon markets at UN climate talks this December could trigger a second ’sub-prime’ style financial collapse and fail to protect the world from a global warming catastrophe, according to a report from Friends of the Earth.The trade in carbon permits and credits, primar ...

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Trinidad & Tobago: Flag It!

Posted by Janine Mendes-Franco on 06/11/2009

Trinidadian bloggers continue to weigh in on the exorbitant cost to taxpayers for a massive national flag: “The point is not only the credibility of the cost of the monster-flag and associated concrete but the reason we need a monster-flag during a recession and a white collar crime wave.̶ ...

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CEE: “20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall” - a Poll

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova on 05/11/2009

Foreign Policy Association's Russia blog writes about the results of a Pew Research Center's poll on poverty, wealth and attitudes in Central and Eastern Europe “20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.”

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