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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Minimal climate goal set by Australia – 5% by 2020

AUSTRALIA has declared it will not go beyond a 5 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 without guaranteed action by major emitters including the US, China and India.
The Government’s formal submission to the Copenhagen Accord – the widely criticised agreement hatched between the US and major developing countries at the conference last [...]

No guarantee of 2010 warming treaty: UN

World talks on climate change may not yield a legally binding pact by year’s end, UN pointman Yvo de Boer said on Wednesday in his first public assessment after last month’s turbulent Copenhagen summit.
De Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said he had taken stock among a number of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]