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05.06.2012
Price tag on climate change in Latin America: $100 billion
Damage from climate change could cost Latin American and Caribbean countries $100 billion per year by 2050 if average temperatures rise 2C (3.6F) from pre-industrial levels, as is seen likely, a new report said on Tuesday.
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05.06.2012
Doha ‘to be key step in climate initiative’
The Doha amendment to the Kyoto Protocol (KP) will probably be the most important contribution from the 2012 sessions of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, scheduled in Qatar from November 26 to December 7.
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05.06.2012
Qatar signs pact to host UN climate change conference
Qatar and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) formally agreed yesterday to host the 2012 sessions of the UN Climate Change Conference in Doha from November 26 to December 7.
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04.06.2012
Global warming turns tundra to forest: study
Plants and shrubs have colonised parts of the Arctic tundra in recent decades growing into small trees, a scientific study found, adding the change may lead to an increase in global warming pressures if replicated on a wider scale.
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01.06.2012
UN warns of worsening global displacement over next ten years
Cohesive global action is needed to support the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, whose numbers were rising dramatically due to an emerging “multiplication of factors”, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said Thursday, as he launched the agency’s 2012 report.
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01.06.2012
RIO+20: U.N. Aims To Offset its Own Carbon Footprint
As the international community readies for a global mega-conference on sustainable development in Brazil mid-June, the United Nations is determined to practice what it preaches to the outside world: improve resource efficiency and drastically reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions.
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31.05.2012
Companies need to disclose climate risk: investors
Institutional investors and environmental advocates on Thursday urged companies to disclose their risks from the impact of climate change, two years after the Securities and Exchange Commission issued guidelines for firms to do just that.
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30.05.2012
More than climate change
The many definitions of sustainability make the concept hard to communicate effectively. David Burrows talks to seven industry experts about how they help their teams and stakeholders understand the complex issues involved.
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30.05.2012
G8 Takes On Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
The unfolding drama surrounding the fate of the troubled eurozone and cratering Greek economy was surely higher on their agenda, but the world leaders who gathered at Camp David for the G8 summit earlier this month also managed to open a new front in the fight against climate change.
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30.05.2012
Asia-Pacific region must adopt low carbon policies: UN
Asia-Pacific nations must adopt low carbon policies to reduce poverty and sustain their economic growth, according to a United Nations roadmap launched on Tuesday, which puts forward a series of strategies to help developing countries in the region deal with shrinking natural resources and climate change and drive sustainable development.
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30.05.2012
EU’s greenhouse emissions up but still meeting Kyoto target
The European Union’s greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2010 for the first time in six years, but the 27-nation bloc is still on track to meet its target under an international climate accord, the EU’s environmental agency said Wednesday.
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