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UN Climate chief defends scientists over glaciers mistake
1. Wide of news conference
2. Close up of camera
3. Cutaway of media
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change:
"It''s important to bear in mind that the...
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Damaged fridges thrown out, problems of possible pollution
1. Wide shot of refrigerators lining a street in the French Quarter
2. Pan from trash pile to refrigerators lined up next to it
3. Close-up of flies on a trash pile, pan to a man emptying a refrigerator on the street
4. Two men...
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A look at alternative sources of energy in China
April 29, 2007
1. Wide pan of bus driving across desert with Yumen Wind Power Plant in background
2. Mid of windmills spinning in the breeze
3. Close-up of windmill spinning slowly
4. Wide of two workers walking towards base of windmill...
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Two years after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, offshore islands still clamor with birds, but birders say there aren''t as many as before and the islands themselves are simply washing away.
HEADLINE: Islands, birds suffer 2 years after oil spill
CAPTION: Two years after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, offshore islands still clamor with birds, but birders say there aren''t as many as before and the islands themselves are...
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JAPAN: KYOTO: CLIMATE CONFERENCE: AGREEMENT ON FUEL EMISSIONS
English/Nat
The world's nations early on Thursday gave preliminary approval to a landmark agreement to reduce fuel emissions by industrial countries in the coming century.
The aim of the Kyoto Protocol is to protect the Earth against...
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Demonstration ahead of ministers meeting to discuss quotas
1. Wide exterior shot of Council of European Union (venue of EU Agriculture and Fisheries Ministers meeting)
2. Greenpeace activists putting on yellow Greenpeace jackets
3. Activists unloading protest materials from truck
4. Activists...
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PAKISTAN: RAWAT: POLLUTED WELL WATER KILLS 5 PEOPLE
Urdu/Eng/Nat
Polluted well water has killed five people, four of them young children, and sickened thousands of people in a small town in Pakistan.
After a weekend of vomiting and diarrhoea, 65 people from Rawat, which is just north...
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WRAP Forum on Middle East, Iraq, Kerry slams US foreign policy, Blair, Lamy, McCain
AP Television
1. Exterior of World Economic Forum (WEF) Congress Centre
2. Interior lobby
3. Wide of forum on Iraq and the future of the Middle East, panel, video screen
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Adil Abdul-Mahdi, Iraqi Vice...
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Rare parrot reintroduced into wild
1. Various of parrots in cage
2. Sign for Rio Abajo State Forest, pull to wide of hills
3. Wide of mountains
4. Parrots inside cage
5. Keeper opening cage door
6. Various of spectators, including Hollywood actor Benicio del Toro wearing...
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PERU: US OWNED COPPER SMELTER CAUSING POLLUTION PROBLEM
Spanish/Nat
A U-S owned copper smelter in Peru is providing hundreds of jobs in the south of the country, but environmentalists want it closed.
They claim the company is taking advantage of Peru's lax environmental regulations and is...
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How grass roofs are considered a green alternative
Vagar Island, Klaksv�k - 20 April, 2008
1. Wide of fjord
2. Pan of fjord
Streymoy Island, Torshavn - 20 April, 2008
3. Zoom out of traditional Faroese grass roof house
4. Close of window
5. Close of Grass roofs
6. Close of grass...
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About 50 people in Madrid are getting a chance to spend the night in a temporary hotel made of trash collected from several European beaches. The hotel was created to draw attention to the problem of pollution.
HEADLINE: 'Garbage' hotel opens in Spain
CAPTION: About 50 people in Madrid are getting a chance to spend the night in a temporary hotel decorated with trash collected from several European beaches. The hotel was created to draw...
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Bob Dudley, the man BP swapped out for embattled CEO Tony Hayward as its face in the Gulf, toured a turtle rehabilitation facility Wednesday and acknowledged the spill response could be better.
HEADLINE: BP manager makes first Gulf visit as 'oil czar'
CAPTION: Bob Dudley, the man BP swapped out for embattled CEO Tony Hayward as its face in the Gulf, toured a turtle rehabilitation facility Wednesday and acknowledged the spill...
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Iran resumes auto exports to Russia after meeting higher emission standards
Iran began exporting automobiles to Russia for the first time in five years on Sunday, after meeting upgraded emission standards, the country's largest auto manufacturer said.
Workers at Iran-Khodro's factory in Tehran loaded the first...
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Former Vice-President Al Gore and Irish rock singer Bono addressed the World Economic Forum on Thursday in Davos, Switzerland on tackling climate change and global poverty
HEADLINE: Gore, Bono talk poverty, warming at Davos
CAPTION: Former Vice-President Al Gore and Irish rock singer Bono addressed the World Economic Forum on Thursday in Davos, Switzerland on tackling climate change and global poverty....
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Deal reached on course for future global warming talks, reax
1. Wide of conference
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, South Africa's foreign minister and conference president:
"Excellences, distinguish delegates, it is my assessment that we have reached an agreement on the four...
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The push to reduce U.S. greenhouse gases is pairing clean coal technology with oil production _ highlighting the environmental trade-offs President Barack Obama is willing to make in his quest to curb global warming. (Dec. 23)
The country's newest coal-burning power plant is being billed as one of the cleanest on the planet _ thanks to government-backed technology removing heat-trapping carbon dioxide and keeping it out of the atmosphere.
For Mississippi...
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Japan - Fuel Cell Powered Luxury Taxi Service, Uk - Alternative Energy Buses, Mexico - Root Fuel, India - Biogas
Japan - Fuel cell powered luxury taxi service unveiled in Tokyo
Tokyo - 19 February 2007
Kanagawa Toshi Kotsu Ltd has just taken delivery of several of the latest version of Nissan's X-TRAIL fuel-cell vehicle (FCV) powered by hydrogen...
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Chinese premier's address to the Earth Summit
1. Backshot of Zhu at podium
2. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Zhu Rongji, Chinese Premier:
"At the same time China has acceded to a series of international conventions and has taken an active part in multilateral environment cooperation. I would...
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America's 'dirtiest' beaches
HEADLINE: America's 'dirtiest' beaches
CAPTION: How clean is your beach? The Natural Resources Defense Council has listed over ninety beaches that have high levels of pollution in the water. (Aug. 8)
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
NB. This...
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WRAP Turtle release on beach as climate conference continues; ADDS bite
1. Wide of people carrying basins of water with baby turtles inside
2. People looking at turtles
3. Close up of turtles in water
4. Turtles in basin
5. Wide of beach
6. Close up of turtles
7. Various of people holding turtles
8....
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NICARAGUA: REPORT SHOWS PESTICIDE POISONING KILLS 120 EACH YEAR
Spanish/Nat
A government report in Nicaragua shows that improper use of pesticides kills 120 people and poisons more than a thousand each year in the Central American country.
The government has begun an education campaign to alert...
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Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore says climate change will come if there is political will, adding "political will is a renewable resource."
HEADLINE: Al Gore: political will is a renewable resource (gore-climate)
CAPTION: Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore says climate change will come if there is political will, adding "political will is a renewable resource." (Dec....
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Scientists warned on Monday that the Arctic ice is vanishing at a much faster rate than has previously been measured.
HEADLINE: A life without ice?
CAPTION: Scientists warned on Monday that the Arctic ice is vanishing at a much faster rate than has previously been measured. (Dec. 12)
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
Scientists are warning that there is staggering...