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18/5/2013
The
European Union should scrap fossil fuel and renewable energy subsidies and set a target to cut oil imports to remain the leader in the fight against global warming, according to Poland’s environment minister.Poland wants to keep ...
10/5/2013
Specific criteria that countries can base emission reduction plans on needs be agreed at the Warsaw
climate summit at the end of 2013, an influential campaign group has warned.
The
Climate Action Network (CAN) wants the UN to host an ...
4/5/2013
The
European Union has moved to assure nations taking part at the UN
climate negotiations that the second period of the Kyoto Protocol (CP2) will be ratified by member states in 2013.
A number of nations linked to the G77 raised concerns ...
14/1/2013
The vast majority of
Europeans believe investment in renewable energy should be prioritised over the next 30 years, compared to alternative energy sources including shale gas, nuclear and carbon capture and storage (CCS) plants.
That is ...
11/1/2013
As we struggle with today's crises, we should ask if we are responding in ways that exacerbate our long-term problems. Last Modified: 11 Jan 2013 06:38 Email Print Share Send Feedback Despite economic slowdown, retrofitting the global economy ...
6/12/2012
Negotiating positions at the UN's Doha
Climate Summit appear to be softening slightly as the conference heads into its final days with the future of the long-running talks still in the balance.
Although a full agreement on extending ...
6/12/2012
The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Rio de Janeiro touched off what has become a long list of international gatherings, each aimed at achieving global consensus on what all - or at least most - agree is a ...
5/12/2012
China led developing nations on Wednesday in demanding rich countries give details of a promised surge in aid to $100 billion a year by 2020 to help the poor cope with global warming.
But most rich nations, facing economic slowdown at ...
3/12/2012
The United States said on Monday it was on track to meet its own target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, a plan many scientists say is still too weak to avert damaging global warming.
U.S. envoy Todd Stern defended President ...
3/12/2012
Almost 200 countries are gathered for the latest meeting of the UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC).
But already there is growing tension over which countries should be pulling their weight when it comes to carbon ...
29/11/2012
As the annual United Nations
climate negotiations get under way this week in Doha, Qatar, the mood is different from previous years. Delegates by and large remain seized by the challenge of global
climate change, which threatens intensifying ...
27/11/2012
The last three United Nations
climate change
summit meetings have been disorderly affairs, marked by brinkmanship, breakdowns and a weary sense that there has to be a better way to address the intensifying challenge of a simmering ...
26/11/2012
When the biggest United Nations (U.N.)
climate change talks of the year, COP18, get underway in Doha, the capital of Qatar, this week, it will be the first time that the meeting has been hosted by a Middle Eastern country.
As such, the ...
25/11/2012
We have learnt to expect surprises at UN
climate change
summits. At Durban, a year ago, there was the unexpected, but welcome, agreement to begin negotiations on a new legally binding instrument involving all major emitters of greenhouse gases, ...
23/11/2012
A newly released report from the
European Environment Agency (EEA) is warning that
Europe is on the verge of catastrophic
climate change if it does not act on commitments made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That report joins another from the ...
13/11/2012
EU finance ministers have failed to deliver firm promises of cash to help poor nations
deal with
climate change, threatening progress at international talks to tackle global warming later this month.
Talks on Tuesday in Brussels agreed ...
12/11/2012
Energy efficiency could halve predicted growth in global energy demand, securing extra time for governments to forge an effective international
climate change
deal, according to a major new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) that ...
11/11/2012
Rich nations are dismaying developing countries with pledges merely to continue aid to help them combat
climate change in 2013 despite past promises of a tenfold surge to $100 billion a year by 2020.
"There should be a transparent ...
8/11/2012
It is a stark and frightening fact that, despite more than two decades of international effort -- including enormous time and energy expended on the Kyoto Protocol -- and significant economic costs, carbon emissions are now rising even faster ...
15/10/2012
The evidence is hardening that
climate change presents a clear and present danger, rather than one which is uncertain and distant. At the same time, the UN
climate talks roam around the world, marking time to match electoral cycles, hoping that a ...
21/9/2012
The EU yesterday signed a financing
deal with China to help the world's largest emitter of CO2 work on ways to transition to a low-carbon economy, including the introduction of carbon trading systems.
The two have clashed over ...
24/8/2012
Comments from a senior director at the world's largest commodities trader that the rapidly worsening global food crisis will be "good for Glencore" only add to the sense that there are those in the finance sector still dismayingly out of touch ...
6/8/2012
Green economic growth rather than strict targets for cutting greenhouse gases needs higher priority if the world is to reach a
deal to fight
climate change by a 2015 deadline.
Despite growing scientific evidence of a warming world, ...
12/7/2012
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN HOST: Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. I'm Christiane Amanpour.Tonight, two life-and-death issues, each controversial. But where the facts are incontrovertible, first reproductive rights. One ...
9/7/2012
Germany plans talks with other
European Union countries about the bloc’s long-term
climate goals and expects “intensive” discussions on the EU carbon-cut pathway in autumn, Environment Minister Peter Altmaier said.
The EU debate on its ...