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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations next week launches a new global emergency fund to provide swifter relief to victims of natural disasters, but with far less money on hand than the $500 million it had hoped to raise. The Central Emergency Response Fund will have just $188 million when it opens for business, which is nonetheless a significant improvement over an existing U.N. standby loan facility of $50 million. Donations to the new fund, which will be able to make grants...

By Jeremy LovellLONDON -- Environmental activists accused British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Monday of failing to tackle global warming despite many pledges of tough action.As Greenpeace dumped five tonnes of coal outside Blair's London residence in protest at what they said was his backsliding, the World Wide Fund for Nature accused him of saying one thing but doing the opposite on climate change."Blair has gone from being the great hope to being the great threat," Greenpeace...

LONDON (Reuters) - Leading British environment and aid groups joined forces on Thursday to lobby for world action to prevent potentially catastrophic global warming. Stop Climate Chaos is an amalgam of 18 lobby groups including Greenpeace, Oxfam, Christian Aid, WWF, Friends of the Earth and CAFOD which claim to have millions of members and supporters. Its aim is to pressure the British government to beef up its own plans to curb emissions of so-called greenhouse gases like carbon...