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British Embassy, Washington DC G20 finance ministers are meeting in St Andrews today and tomorrow. Our economic blogger looks behind the closed doors.

Source: blogs.fco.gov.uk
This weekend, the G20 finance ministers meet in St Andrews in Scotland. This is the final time they will meet this year – after a packed and productive 2009 schedule – and it is the last meeting with the UK in the Chair of the G20. ...
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British Embassy, Washington DC The Prime Minister has reaffirmed the UK’s commitment to the campaign in Afghanistan. http://ow.ly/zRod

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British Embassy, Washington DC Deputy Head of Mission Dominick Chilcott went to West Virginia on Friday to discuss the importance on clean coal technology.

Source: www.dailymail.com
NEW HAVEN, W.Va. - The British government is already convinced that carbon capture and storage, also known as CCS, will keep coal in the energy mix for decades to come.
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British Embassy, Washington DC The Prime Minister has spoken to President Karzai to congratulate him on his re-election as president of Afghanistan.

Source: ukinusa.fco.gov.uk
Our newsroom contains the latest developments in UK foreign policy and news on the work of the British Embassy and Consulates around the US.
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British Embassy, Washington DC Ambassador Nigel Sheinwald explains in a blog post for the Washington Post why the UK believes nuclear power should be part of the energy mix in order to meet the twin challenges of energy security and climate change.

Source: views.washingtonpost.com
How realistic are the projections for an increase in nuclear power plants in the coming decades and what can the U.S. learn from the experience Europe has had with nuclear power? In sum, very realistic. Our experience in the UK...
Keith Curtis
Keith Curtis
Alright -- a visionary! Unleashing the power of the atom. Let's go for it.
October 30 at 7:53am
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British Embassy, Washington DC The British Climate Change Secretary writes about the importance of clean coal technology in today's Charleston Daily Mail.

Source: www.dailymail.com
THIS week, ministers from 20 countries (including the United States, China and the United Kingdom) came together in London to tackle one of the most pressing challenges to a global deal on climate change and a subject that is critical to the livelihoods of West Virginians: coal.
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British Embassy, Washington DC Jim Rogers, CEO of Duke Energy, one of America's largest power companies, says that the US must lead 'to get real results out of Copenhagen'. http://ukinusa.fco.gov.uk/100voices

October 28 at 7:36am
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British Embassy, Washington DC Spencer Ackerman picks up Simon Shercliff's blog on Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Source: washingtonindependent.com
Building on this post, Simon Shercliff is the senior defense adviser to the British Embassy in Washington, and he blogs today about recent conversations he’s been having about Afghanistan along the Boston-Washington corridor. ...
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British Embassy, Washington DC UN Dispatch blogs our 100 Voices 100 Days clip of Tim Wirth, former US senator from Colorado and current President of the UN Foundation. http://www.undispatch.com/node/9052

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British Embassy, Washington DC Simon Shercliff blogs on what people outside of Washington are telling him about Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Source: blogs.fco.gov.uk
Last week I had an excellent few days in both New York and Boston talking to various scholars, think tankers and interested parties on Afghanistan and Pakistan policy. As expected, people wereprettyopinionated ...
David Crooke
David Crooke
I would have to agree with this consensus.
October 23 at 7:55am
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British Embassy, Washington DC Ambassador Sheinwald blogs on the 4degree map saying climate change risks 'creating a more unstable and divided world'.

Source: blogs.fco.gov.uk
Today in London, our Secretaries for Foreign Affairs and Climate, David and Ed Miliband, published the latest findings from the UK's foremost climate change science research institution - the Meteorological Office's Hadley Centre. ...
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British Embassy, Washington DC See the impacts of a global temperature rise of 4 degree (C) on an interactive map.

Source: www.actoncopenhagen.decc.gov.uk
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British Embassy, Washington DC Ed Miliband, the British climate change secretary, writes about clean coal technology in today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09294/1006990-109.stm

Source: www.post-gazette.com
Last week, top government officials from 20 countries (including the United States, China and the United Kingdom) came together in London to tackle one of the most pressing challenges to a global deal on climate change and a subject that is critical to the livelihoods of Pennsylvanians: coal.
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British Embassy, Washington DC Watch Prime Minister Gordon Brown welcome news of a second ballot in the Afghan presidential election.

Source: www.youtube.com
The Prime Minister has welcomed Afghan President Hamid Karzai's promise to hold a second ballot in the presidential election.
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British Embassy, Washington DC Ralph Nader takes part in our 100 Voices 100 Days campaign to say that climate change is a local issue. http://ukinusa.fco.gov.uk/100voices

October 19 at 8:54am