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Global News latest headlines Bolivia: deforestation rate is 20 times the global average. December 19 [1] topic Bonn Center for Local Climate Action and Reporting - carbonn - aims at facilitating the access of local governments to climate benchmarking instruments on a global scale. 14 December [2] topic Solar power plants, stretching across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan, to be built. Construction is likely to begin in 2011 and the plants are expected to be running by 2015. 9 December [3] topic References ↑ Global Voices Online, December 19th, 2009 ↑ United Nations Environment Programme, 14 December 2009 ↑ DFID, 9 December 2009

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[edit] 2009

Red dust storm engulfs Sydney, Australia, September 23 ^[1] topic

• Bundanoon takes up exciting community initiative of becoming Australia's First Bottled Water Free Town, July 8 ^[2] topic

• Thousands of Australians call on the Federal Government to drop its carbon pollution legislation and start large-scale investment in renewable energy, June 13 ^[3] topic

• Australian Government will invest:$1.6 billion in solar technologies, including new funding of $1.365 billion in a Solar Flagships program, May 12 ^[4] The Solar Flagships program will aim to create an additional 1,000 MW of solar generation capacity. This ambitious target is three times the size of the largest solar energy project currently operating anywhere in the world. topic

• Government delaying the introduction of Australia's proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (emissions trading system), by one year to 1 July 2011, May 4 ^[5] topic

• What will global warming look like? Scientists point to Australia, April 9 ^[6] topic

• Australian wildfires and web tools, February 9 ^[7] topic / 2009 Victorian bushfires on greenlivingpedia

• Southern Australia feels the heat, January 28 ^[8] Residents of south-eastern Australia are being warned to expect the worst heatwave in a century. Temperatures went up to 45.5C (114F) in Adelaide, its hottest day in 70 years. topic

• Endangered species discovered - call for halt to logging, Brown Mountain old growth forest, Victoria, Australia, January 28 ^[9]

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References

1. ↑ wikinews, September 23, 2009
2. ↑ Bundy on Tap, Jluy 8, 2009
3. ↑ greenlivingpedia, June 13, 2009
4. ↑ Australian Government,May 12, 2009
5. ↑ Prime Minister of Australia, May 4, 2009
6. ↑ Los Angeles Times, April 9, 2009
7. ↑ Global Voices Online, February 9
8. ↑ BBC news, January 28
9. ↑ Environment East Gippsland, Media release, January 28