JOHANNESBURG - Dec 3/07 - IRIN -- Officials stressed the need for "political will" to stem the impact of global warming as the United Nations Climate Change Conference got underway on the Indonesian island of Bali on 3 December. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BALI - Dec 10/07 - IRIN -- Increasing pressure caused by climate change on essential resources like water could not only trigger domestic conflicts but also have a destabilizing effect globally, warn UN officials. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BALI - Dec 11/07 - IRIN -- Developing countries top a 2008 Climate Risk Index released in the Indonesian island of Bali, where the United Nations climate change conference is taking place. . . . Continue or visitors click here

FARGO - Dec 13/07 - NDSU -- Merger mania is sweeping the ethanol industry as both small and large firms are joining together to create even larger entities, says Cole Gustafson, North Dakota State University agriculture economist in the Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics. Most notable was the purchase of U.S. Bio-Energy by Verasun of Brookings, S.D. Verasun is a publicly traded company, so the transaction was more visible than other mergers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BALI - Dec 19/07 - IRIN -- "They can see the trees, but not the forest," groaned a frustrated Slovenian environmental bureaucrat as a debate ran into the small hours of the morning in Bali over whether a "facility" or a "programme" would be appropriatefor the developing world to acquire technology to adapt to, and reduce, global warming. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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