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29.10.2012
Coal resurgence threatens climate change targets
Coal is enjoying a renaissance, with the highest consumption of the fuel since the late 1960s. The unexpected development threatens to put climate change targets out of reach – and much of the reason is the rise of a supposedly "green" fuel, natural gas.
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26.10.2012
A meltdown over climate change
The high-temperature battle over the science of climate change got even hotter this week. A group of scientists who wrote a landmark, federally commissioned 2009 report are ticked off at the Cato Institute, which recently issued what the scientists say is a flimsy report that the libertarian think tank tried to make look like an extension of their original work.
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25.10.2012
Sign on now, UN climate chief says
THE United Nations climate chief has called on Australia to sign up to a new round of the greenhouse-gas-limiting Kyoto Protocol, saying it already has significant clean-energy policies in place.
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24.10.2012
Australia a major greenhouse player: UN
AUSTRALIA is not in "a lonely desert" as the only nation reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but is an emerging leader in the field, a key United Nations climate change official says.
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24.10.2012
Africans demand fairness in global climate change fight
Africa is part of the 195 states that form the United Nations Framework convention on Climate change with the next meeting being expected to be held in Doha, Qatar in November this year. However, as preparation for the meeting is going on globally, African states are already feeling left out as civil society organizations cite instances that have left the continent no much better ever since the collective effort to fight climate change begun in 1992. They claim that developed states are treating the whole cause with selfish interests.
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23.10.2012
Doha climate meeting to take up Kyoto Protocol QNA/Seoul
HE the Chairman of Qatar’s Administrative Control and Transparency Authority (ACTA) Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah, and the President of COP 18, yesterday presided over two session of the ongoing Pre-COP Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change in Seoul.
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22.10.2012
North Sea Fram field to provide 5 pct of UK's gas
The Fram field in the North Sea will be on stream within three years, Royal Dutch/Shell said, calling it one of its most significant UK developments of the past decade and one that will provide 5 percent of Britain's gas at peak production.
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20.10.2012
In Japan, need of fossil fuels pushes climate change targets to back seat
With Japan’s oil and gas plants firing at full capacity, officials here say there is little chance of meeting a pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions significantly over the next decade, a startling retreat for a country that once spearheaded an international agreement on climate change.
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18.10.2012
Cartagena Dialogue unifies vision ahead of Doha COP 18
Twenty-nine of the 42 member countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) incorporated in the Cartagena Dialogue for Progressive Action gathered in Bali on Wednesday to strengthen their vision on the urgency of pushing legally binding commitments to address climate change for the 194 countries attending the upcoming UN Conference of Parties (COP) 18 in Doha, Qatar.
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