Tag: International negotiations
Am I an activist for caring about my grandchildren’s future? I guess I am
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment – I have long admired James Hansen as a person who cares for the future of all that we share our fragile planet with. The answers to all of the significant challenges we face in the imminent future is in OUR hands.
We need to accept this moral responsibility. The following article [...]
Posted: August 28th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Tipping Points.
Tags: activism, activist, activists, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate negotiations, CO2 levels, coal, glacial melt, global warming, International negotiations, Obama administration, Oil Industry, Tipping Points, United States
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We either cut global warming or live with it
By Daniel Gros Director of the Centre for European Policy Studies.
Sometimes the most important news is what is not happening.
This summer has given us one such example: the climate change bill, for which the US President Barack Obama had pushed so hard, will not even be presented to the US Senate because it stands no [...]
Posted: August 13th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General.
Tags: Cancoon, China, Climate Change, CO2 levels, coal, Coal Fired Power Stations, India, International negotiations, Kyoto, United States
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Paltry’ Copenhagen carbon pledges point to 3C world
Pledges made at December’s UN summit in Copenhagen are unlikely to keep global warming below 2C, a study concludes.
Writing in the journal Nature, analysts at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research in Germany say a rise of at least 3C by 2100 is likely.
The team also says many countries, including EU members and China, [...]
Posted: April 22nd, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, World News.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, CO2 levels, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations, United Nations, World News
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De Boer: EU 2020 climate targets ‘a piece of cake’
Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said the EU has failed to convince the developing world that it is serious about global warming.
Speaking in an unusually candid manner during a European Parliament hearing on Wednesday (14 April), De Boer said the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen [...]
Posted: April 21st, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, World News.
Tags: China, Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations, Kyoto, Obama administration, United Nations, World News
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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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We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change – Al Gore
It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.
Of course, we would still need to deal with the national security risks of our growing dependence on [...]
Posted: February 28th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Negotiations.
Tags: activist, Climate Change, climate negotiations, global warming, International negotiations, United Nations, United States
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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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