Global News August 2009

*Real costs of climate change adaption likely to be 2-3 times greater than estimates made by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), International Institute for Environment and Development and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London, August 27 International Institute for Environment and Development, August 27, 2009 topic
*Greece: Wildfires encroaching on Athens, citizens tracking developments via the web and Twitter, August 24 Global Voices Online, August 24, 2009 topic
*China: CO2 emissions will peak at 2030, August 20 Global Voices Online, August 20, 2009 topic
*San Francisco opens the city’s data, August 19 TechCrunch, August 19, 2009 topic, place
*India's water use 'unsustainable', August 13 BBC news, August 13, 2009 
*Government shuts off water to California farms in controversial effort to help threatened species, August 13, 2009 wikinews, August 13, 2009 
*Malawi's statistics mask struggle to meet UN goal for water and sanitation in urban areas, August 13 International Institute for Environment and Development, August 13, 2009 
*Obama administration okays major mountaintop removal coal project in West Virginia, August 12 Yale Environment 360, August 12, 2009 place
	Warning: Oil supplies are running out fast, 3 August independent.co.uk, 3 August 2009 "Catastrophic shortfalls threaten economic recovery, says world's top energy economist." topic
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