<div class='node-body'><p>Climate-heating carbon emissions set a record high in 2011, in a 3.2 percent increase over the previous year, the International Energy Agency reported this week. The main reason for this dangerous increase is that governments are failing to implement policies to prevent catastrophic increases of global temperatures.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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