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29.11.2009
Leaders say momentum building on climate change
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – Leaders of the Commonwealth countries called Saturday for a legally binding international agreement on climate change and a global fund with billions of dollars to help poor countries meet its mandates.
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26.11.2009
'Significant' US change on global warming: Al Gore
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Barack Obama is leading a "significant" change in US policy towards global warming, Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore said, days ahead of the US president's trip to the global climate summit in Copenhagen.
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26.11.2009
China Joins U.S. in Pledge of Hard Targets on Emissions
BEIJING — The Chinese government announced Thursday that it had set a target to slow the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, a day after the Obama administration set a provisional target for reducing United States emissions.
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25.11.2009
Fewer Americans believe in global warming, poll shows
The percentage of Americans who believe global warming is happening has dipped from 80 to 72 percent in the past year, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, even as a majority still support a national cap on greenhouse gas emissions.
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24.11.2009
Dispelling myths about India and climate change
Today, President Obama will host the first state visit of his presidency, rolling out the red carpet for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India. Climate change will be high on the agenda for the leaders of the world's two biggest democracies. And the timing is auspicious, coming only two weeks before the start of the high stakes global climate summit in Copenhagen.
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24.11.2009
US to present emissions target in Copenhagen
WASHINGTON – The United States, under pressure from other nations as one of the world's largest greenhouse-gas polluters, will present a target for reducing carbon dioxide emissions at next month's climate conference in Copenhagen, Obama administration officials said Monday.
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23.11.2009
Over 100 icebergs drifting to N.Zealand: official
SYDNEY (AFP) – More than 100, and possibly hundreds, of Antarctic icebergs are floating towards New Zealand in a rare event which has prompted a shipping warning, officials said on Monday.
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15.11.2009
Brazil aims to reduce CO2 emissions by almost 40 per cent
Sao Paulo - Brazil plans to lower its emissions of the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by nearly 40 per cent by 2020, the government said in Sao Paulo late Friday. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff emphasised that the ambitious goal was voluntary. Brazil intends to emit around one billion fewer tons of CO2 by 2020 than it otherwise would have.
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11.11.2009
Reviewing and Verifying International Climate Action
Climate change is a global issue that requires action from all countries. As the U.S. Congress develops a domestic climate and energy package, the United States seeks assurance that other countries will also act and a means to track the progress of commitments by verifying that actions have been implemented.
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10.11.2009
Latin America must cut emissions too
When it comes to climate change negotiations, rich countries receive the brunt of the criticism. Some heat has been applied to the emerging heavyweights – China, India and Brazil – too. In contrast, there seems to be a consensus that the poorest countries, mainly in Africa and Asia, shouldn't have to make emissions cuts.
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10.11.2009
Climate change 'playing havoc' with health systems
Global warming has brought an increase in heat-related deaths, food poisoning and tick-borne diseases, but flu pandemics may decline as temperatures rise, according to Jan Semenza, scientific advisor at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
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09.11.2009
World Bank and Moldova Join Forces to Fight Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture
A joint partnership between the World Bank, the Moldovan Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry and the Ministry of Environment was launched in Moldova’s capital in the late days of October. The new partnership aims to consolidate Government and Bank efforts to reduce the vulnerability of Moldova’s farmers to climate change. The program will be managed by the World Bank and supported by about $350,000 in grants from the World Bank, the Bank-Netherlands Partnership, and the Trust Fund for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development.
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06.11.2009
Why India Is Playing Hard to Get on Climate Change
If U.S. diplomats consider India to be a major obstacle to global climate-change negotiations — and they do — it might be because of Sunita Narain. The director of the influential Centre for Science and Environment, Narain can be as caustic as she is intelligent, and never more so than when she is taking rich nations to task for what she sees as their hypocrisy on global warming. They pressure the developing world to control carbon emissions even as they refuse to move themselves, she says. "The rich have to reduce their emissions so the rest of the world can grow," says Narain, speaking in her office in New Delhi. "This is about sharing growth between nations and people. If we can't, then India has to be a naysayer for a bad climate agreement."
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