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01.12.2011
Expert: Limit on carbon emissions likely after 2020
China is likely to make commitment for a quantified target to limit its greenhouse gas emissions after 2020, as the world's top carbon emitter is feeling ever-increasing pressures from international climate talks, said a senior expert with a government think tank.
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01.12.2011
Developing countries may bargain with India over climate pact
NEW DELHI: India's ambitions for a seat in the United Nations Security Council could well decide it approach to a binding climate agreement. The vulnerable developing countries are considering the idea of offering New Delhi support for its Security Council claim in return to a serious engagement on a legal agreement that includes all major emitters.
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01.12.2011
SUA, considerata tara care obstructioneaza lupta impotriva schimbarilor climatice, la summit-ul din Durban
Grupuri care lupta pentru mediu si oficiali guvernamentali s-au plans, miercuri, secretarului de stat american Hillary Clinton, avertizand asupra faptului ca negociatorii americani, care iau parte in aceasta săptămână la summit-ul de le Durban, Africa de Sud, risca sa infatiseze America precum o tara care obstructioneaza lupta impotriva schimbarilor climatice, din cauza faptului ca trage de timp in privinta adoptarii unor decizii critice, relateaza Redorbit.com.
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01.12.2011
Permafrostul, o bomba cu efect intarziat pentru clima
Topirea accelerata a subsolurilor arctice inghetate, denumite permafrost, accentueaza efectele incalzirii globale in proportii din ce in ce mai ingrijoratoare, subestimate pana acum, potrivit unui studiu.
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01.12.2011
EU fights global warming in a cold climate
European Union negotiators leading the push to keep U.N. climate talks on track are fighting a sense of despondency as the struggle to save the euro has pushed the one to save the planet down the priority list.
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30.11.2011
African Delegates Demand Immediate Action at Climate Conference
A Nobel Prize-winning panel of scientists has said Africa is the continent facing the greatest risks from the effects of global warming. African delegates are demanding immediate action from all parties at the U.N. climate conference in Durban, South Africa to avert further environmental destruction.
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30.11.2011
Fate of Kyoto Protocol in spotlight at talks
The global climate change talks in Durban got off to a rocky start, with developed and developing countries holding diverging positions, indicating tough negotiations ahead.
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29.11.2011
Storm gives delegates a wake-up call
Durban’s unseasonal weather, coupled with Sunday’s thunderstorm that claimed the lives of eight people, cast an ominous shadow over delegates at the climate change talks in Durban.
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28.11.2011
Success of COP17 in the balance
About 20 000 delegates have begun descending on Durban for the COP17 international climate change conference which starts on Monday. But its success remains uncertain. Even the adoption of a Green Climate Fund – the minimum achievement expected – has now been cast into doubt.
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28.11.2011
Future of Kyoto Protocol on the line
Countries will make a last ditch effort to save a dying Kyoto Protocol at global climate talks starting today aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas emissions blamed by scientists for rising sea levels, intense storms and crop failures.
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28.11.2011
Durban ahead, why climategate is a catastrophe for good science
With the UN conference on climate change set to open in Durban next week, 5,000 emails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, have been uploaded to a Russian server. They seem to show climate scientists acting with a partiality that is alien to the scientific method. One of them worries that climate change “is being manipulated to put a political spin on it”. Another notes, regarding a planned study of tornadoes, that “getting people we know and trust is vital”.
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27.11.2011
UN conference to deal with carbon reductions
DURBAN, South Africa (AP) — The U.N.'s top climate official said Sunday she expects governments to make a long-delayed decision on whether industrial countries should make further commitments to reduce emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases.
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27.11.2011
High hopes ahead of COP17 talks
With only a day to go before Durban hosts the United Nations 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17), conference secretary Christiana Figueres is “hopeful’’ the “tough’’ climate change negotiations will deliver solid agreements on limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
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