Tag: Copenhagen
More Ambition Needed if Greenhouse Gases are to Peak in Time, Says New UNEP Report
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Comment – If we are to win this War on Terra, we need to act decisively now.
Pledges Post Copenhagen Unlikely to Keep Temperatures Below 2 Degrees Celsius by Mid Century
UNEP Year Book Also Launched Today Outlines Growing Governance Challenge from Climate to Chemicals
Bali (Indonesia), 23 February 2010 - Countries will have to be [...]
Posted: March 3rd, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General.
Tags: 2 Degrees, Climate Change, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations, United Nations, World News
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Yvo de Boer’s resignation compounds sense of gathering climate crisis
Despite his steady hands at the helm of climate talks, de Boer was losing his touch and navigated into rancorous territory
How can everything have gone so wrong so quickly? A year ago, the prospects for successful climate change regulation were bright: a new US president promised positive re-engagement with the international community on the issue, civil society everywhere [...]
Posted: February 24th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Negotiations, World News.
Tags: Climate Change, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations, United Nations, World News
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World commits to 3.5 degrees
A majority of the world’s nations signed up to the Copenhagen Accord and filed plans for emissions reductions, scraping over the UN deadline of 31st January for doing so. But the pledged actions fall far short of action needed to prevent global temperatures rising by 2 degrees C – the target adopted in the text [...]
Posted: February 23rd, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Nature, Tipping Points, World News.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, climate negotiations, CO2 Emissions, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations, Tipping Points, World News
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UN climate chief Yvo de Boer to step down in July
U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer will step down to join a consultancy group as an adviser, he said on Thursday, two months after a Copenhagen summit failed to support a legally binding climate pact.
His decision is not expected to further derail U.N.-led climate talks to agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, divided over [...]
Posted: February 18th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, World News.
Tags: China, Climate Change, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations, Kyoto, United Nations
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EU agrees to make lowest climate offer to U.N
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union has decided to stick to its lowest offer for cutting carbon emissions under a U.N climate accord, but will maintain a conditional pledge to do more if others follow suit, EU diplomats said on Wednesday.
Their comments after EU ambassadors met in Brussels confirmed the 27-nation bloc’s commitment to unilateral [...]
Posted: February 3rd, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Negotiations, World News.
Tags: Climate Change, climate negotiations, COP15, Copenhagen, emissions reductions, European Union, global warming, International negotiations
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U.N. Official Says Climate Deal Is at Risk
WASHINGTON — Just a month after world leaders fashioned a tentative and nonbinding agreement at the climate change summit meeting in Copenhagen, the deal already appears at risk of coming undone, the top United Nations climate official warned on Wednesday.
Facing a Jan. 31 deadline, major countries have yet to submit their plans for reducing emissions [...]
Posted: January 21st, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Negotiations, World News.
Tags: China, Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, global warming, India, International negotiations, Kyoto, Obama administration
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Emissions targets set for delay
The future of the EU’s Low Carbon Revolution hangs in the balance as it becomes likely its emissions targets will be delayed again.
The ongoing uncertainty is rooted in the EU’s offer to the Copenhagen climate summit of a 30% emissions cut.
But this was dependent on “comparable effort” from other big polluters.
Observers say there is a [...]
Posted: January 20th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Negotiations.
Tags: Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, European Union, global warming, International negotiations, Obama administration
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Europe’s Post-Copenhagen View of Obama
The Copenhagen summit on climate change taught Europe a hard lesson about its trans-Atlantic partner. Great hope had greeted President Obama when he replaced George W. Bush at the American helm, but a year later Europeans are realizing that Mr. Obama is going to have a very difficult time delivering on his agenda.
During the Copenhagen [...]
Posted: January 14th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Negotiations.
Tags: Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations, Obama administration, United States
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Roundup: Climate science in 2009
For climate science, the year 2009 brought significant discoveries and startling controversies. From Climate Feedback part of Guardian Environment Network
Warming goes global
The year started out with some sobering, if not altogether surprising, news: overall, the Antarctic continent is warming. Although some of the Antarctic Peninsula had previously shown rapid warming, parts of the continent — [...]
Posted: January 3rd, 2010 under Climate Change, General.
Tags: Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, climate negotiations, CO2 levels, Copenhagen, global warming, sea level rise, species extinction, stop climate change
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Big Oil and Coal Climate Disinformation Campaign 101 (Video)
Pulitzer Prize winning Ross Gelbspan has been one of the leading lights in exposing the climate change disinformation campaigns waged for decades by coal and oil companies. His message is of the utmost importance, and comes at a time when the public could use a reminder that this is an urgent issue that some of [...]
Posted: December 29th, 2009 under Climate Change, Foundation News, General.
Tags: Climate Change, coal lobby, Copenhagen, global warming, Oil Industry
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