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contributes to deforestation, methane production, and use of fossił fuels.

In 1992, at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, over - ^k/'V*i^tŁ/150 nations signed abinding declaration on the need to reduce global warming.

^ UN Conference on Climate Change/held in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997 resuited in an International agreement to fight global warming, which csiled for reductions in

emissions of greenhouse gases by industrigjjzed nations. Not afi industrial countries, , bowever, immediately signed or ratjfied the accord, In 2001 the G. W. Bush    h+,Jt

administration announced it would abandon the Kyoto Protocol; because the United tz    States producęs about one quarter of the wor1d‘s greenhouse gases, this was

^rOes- / regarded as a severe blow to|he effort to slow glob^warming. _z°    ³fmproyed automobile⁵fViileaqe³ reforestation projects. energy egjciency in

u w. /^vconstruction, and nationni support fo^rhasslransit are amonq*fełativeiv simpler ^    ^?adjustments that could significantly lower U.S. production of greenhouse gases. Morę

aggressive adjustments ineiude a graduai worldwideshift away from the use offossil ST wW 3?-    fuels, the elimination of chlorofluorocarbons, and the slowing of deforestation by

restructuring the economies of developing nations. The United States, Australia,

China, India, Japan, and South Korea established (2005) an agreement outside the Kyoto Protocal that proposed to reduce emissions through the development and implementatiop of new technologies. w* ^    *~i'

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Telekomunikacja IN-FLIGHT MOBILE CALLS

Mobile phone calls in the air have become reał and it was Middle Eastern alrline “Emirales’’ which allowed this. The first authorised mobile phone cali on commercial flight was madę at 30,000 ffen route to Casablanca, onboard an Airbus aircraft.

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It is said that the alrline has invesłed up to 27 miilion USD to fit its fleet with the ² “Aeromobile" system, which ensures that passenger mobile phones operate at their jibsołute minimum power. The^service wili only be activated when the aircraft is at cruising altitude and the cabin crew wili have fuli contro! over the system, including the abiTlty topreventvoice calls at certain times such as durtng night fiights. 7. f*^T5

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The number of calls that may be madę at any one time is also limited to a maximum of five or six calls, the same number as usually allowed ot/irt-seat phones. The ^ t, service will also allow passengers to send^nd receive text messages, with^charges ^?,Q/    1

in linę with premium International roaming*rates. Users will be bllled on their regular phone biils by their own service providers. In the futurę, further features will be added including BlackBerry push e-mail technoiogy and other data transmission-based applicatigns.    ^

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In Europę, the UK comms regulator Ofcom has also confirmed plans to enabte *oł airlines to offer mobile senńces-^Under the European proposaI, the system works by passengers' own mobile phonehandsets connecting to an on-board base station.

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