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    LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- A United Kingdom government report shows the United Kingdom will fall short of its 2010 goal of cutting carbon dioxide emissions. But it said it is still on track to nearly double its Kyoto target of reducing total greenhouse gases 12.5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.
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    LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- A U.K. group is calling for a climate change strategy similar in scale to Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, including a massive investment in renewables and major shake-up of taxation and financial systems.
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    OAKLAND, Calif. -- Ontario, home to Canada's industrial sector, is the fourth province in Canada to join the Western Climate Initiative. The regional collaboration that includes seven U.S. states will launch a cap and trade system in 2010 to reduce emissions 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.
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