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06.03.2011
Kyoto extension must include U.S., China: U.N. climate head
The head of the U.N. climate convention cautioned last week against Japan's opposition to setting a new phase of commitments under the Kyoto Protocol to fight global warming, and chided opponents for their "simplistic thinking."
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02.03.2011
U.N. climate talks seen missing aid plan deadline
A plan by almost 200 countries to step up efforts to fight climate change is set to miss a March deadline for starting work on a green fund to help developing nations, delegates said on Wednesday.
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02.03.2011
UN urges government to implement Cancun accord
New York : The United Nations climate change chief on Tuesday called on governments to quickly transform the agreements reached in the Mexican city of Cancún last year into tangible action on the ground, and provide clarity on the future of the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gases emissions.
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02.03.2011
'Fate of Kyoto Protocol should be resolved'
United Nations: Nations participating in the next United Nations climate conference in South Africa should resolve the future of the Kyoto Protocol, UN climate chief Christina Figueres has said.
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01.03.2011
UN climate chief warns Durban offers last chance for carbon market clarity
The head of the UN climate change secretariat has warned the future of the global carbon market could be thrown into doubt unless this year's annual climate change summit in Durban reaches an agreement on how to replace or extend the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol when it ends in 2012.
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01.03.2011
EU ETS endorsed as growing more cost effective
Confidence is growing in the EU’s emissions trading scheme (EU ETS), according to respondents to the sixth annual carbon market survey carried out by Thomson Reuters Point Carbon.
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29.03.2010
RI wants ASEAN to adopt Copenhagen Accord
Indonesia will lobby other Southeast Asian countries to adopt the Copenhagen Accord at the upcoming ASEAN meeting in Vietnam, as only Jakarta and Singapore have done so, a source said.
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29.03.2010
Science alone not enough to boost world farm output
But unlike the "Green Revolution" that dramatically hiked agricultural output in Latin America and Asia from the 1950s, a new agricultural restructuring will need to focus as much on new seed varieties as on good governance, women's empowerment and things like curbing commodities speculation, they added.
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29.03.2010
E.P.A. Delays Plants’ Pollution Permits
WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it would not require power plants or other industrial sites to obtain federal pollution permits for emitting greenhouse gases before next January.
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27.03.2010
Climate can-do in Cancun?
IF THE Copenhagen climate summit was a complete failure, nobody told the President of the Maldives. As the gavel fell on a marathon all-night final session to end two frustrating weeks in the Danish capital last December, Mohamed Nasheed punched the air to celebrate the Copenhagen Accord - a limited, non-binding agreement that the United Nations chose not to adopt.
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23.03.2010
Chinese envoy urges EU to raise its emission cut target
China welcomes the latest document issued by the European Union (EU) on climate change, but insists that the EU should raise its emission cut target to 30 percent by 2020, a visiting Chinese official said on Monday.
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23.03.2010
China climate chief: EU should not backtrack on Kyoto
Urging Europe to maintain its leadership in ongoing global climate talks, China's top climate negotiator said the EU should not step back but instead put pressure on other developed countries that have not ratified the Kyoto Protocol to make comparable emission cuts.
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22.03.2010
Senate Climate Bill To Give Free Permits: Sources
U.S. power generating companies would get free pollution permits, at least initially, as part of a compromise climate change bill being written in the Senate that also would give the coal industry $10 billion to develop "clean" technology, sources said on Friday.
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22.03.2010
Climate change funding raises little hope
Climate change mitigation funding has becomes difficult for the vulnerable countries. Fund availability is far from adequate. Allocation principles, which very from country to country made decision making complicated. China, a G77 country, proposed for a manager for deciding on what basis the fund will be distributed. The Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) also faces similar difficulties. It would be wiser for each vulnerable country to enhance its national capacity rather than depend on UN Fund for Climate Change (UNFCC).
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