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Rated Apr 09 2008 • 1 review • china, tibet • yourguide.com.au

Rudd raises Tibet rights issues in China
09 April 2008

From the page: "Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has delivered a blunt message to China in a speech in Beijing, saying there are significant human rights problems in Tibet.

"Australia, like most other countries, recognises China sovereignty over Tibet but we also believe it is necessary to recognise there are significant human rights problems in Tibet," Mr Rudd told students at Peking University on the first day of his visit to China.

"The current situation in Tibet is of concern to Australians.

"We recognise the need for all parties to avoid silence and find a solution through dialogue," he said in the speech, delivered in Mandarin.

The Chinese government is already upset with comments Mr Rudd made in the US last week, in which he condemned human rights abuses in Tibet and called on China to talk to exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

Mr Rudd has emphasised the need for Australia to speak frankly with China on issues such as Tibet.

"As a longstanding friend of China I intend to have a straightforward discussion with China's leaders on this," he told an audience of about 600 students.

"We wish to see the year 2008 as one of harmony and celebration - not one of conflict and contention."

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Secret deal: Canadian cars to follow Calif. pollution...

Rated Apr 08 2008 • 1 review • canada, california, global warming • canada.com

Secret deal: Canadian cars to follow Calif. pollution standards
Mike De Souza and Andrew Mayeda, Canwest News Service
Published: Tuesday, April 08, 2008

From the page: "OTTAWA - Canadian car manufacturers already have agreed to work toward achieving California's clean environmental standards that require a 30 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from their fleet by 2016, according to a secret Environment Canada document prepared less than a year after the Harper government was sworn in.

The memorandum, released to Canwest News Service under the Access to Information Act, said the industry would be on track for California's "stringent greenhouse gas emissions regulations" if they met the commitment they made under a voluntary agreement signed with Canada's previous Liberal government.

"A voluntary agreement commits the Canadian automobile industry to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from light-duty vehicles by 5.3 megatonnes in 2010," said the memorandum, drafted on Sept. 28, 2006 from the deputy minister of Environment Canada to Rona Ambrose, the Environment minister at the time."

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Vulcan Project: The Breath of a Nation : TreeHugger

Rated Apr 08 2008 • 1 review • environment, global warming • treehugger.com

Vulcan Project: The Breath of a Nation
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 04. 8.08

From the page: "Credit the clever title to Andy Revkin. It is a map showing the concentrations of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere. Watch the amazing video of the Vulcan Project, "an effort to quantify fossil fuel and CO2 emissions over the United States in high space and time resolution. We will also be showing those emissions transported through the atmosphere using an atmospheric transport model." narrated by Kevin Gurney of Purdue University.

Different maps show power plants, industrial sources, mobile sources, residential and commercial, mashed together onto a 10 kilometer grid and run in very fast motion."

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Breach of Golden Gate Bridge security rattles S.F....

Rated Apr 08 2008 • 0 reviews • china, tibet • mercurynews.com

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Chinas blind spot over Olympics and Tibet - Telegraph

Rated Apr 07 2008 • 1 review • china, tibet • telegraph.co.uk

China's blind spot over Olympics and Tibet
April 8, 2008.

From the page: "China must be tempted to call the whole thing off. The "journey of harmony" of the Olympic torch, intended as a global celebration of the Beijing Games, has become a farce. In London on Sunday, the protests were so strong that Chinese officials considered curtailing the procession halfway along its route. In Paris yesterday, the flame completed its journey by bus after it had been extinguished.
# News:Olympic flame put out four times in Paris

China has been profoundly humiliated - and there could be more to come as the torch passes through San Francisco, India, which has about 200,000 Tibetan exiles, Canberra, Hong Kong and finally Lhasa, to mention only the most obvious potential flashpoints. The prospect is for a gathering momentum of disgust."

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Health and Global Warming - Health - Environmental...

Rated Apr 07 2008 • 1 review • global warming • edf.org

From the page: "More extreme weather from a warming planet may put more people in harm's way and cause illness. Are you or your region prepared?"

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