13.08.2010
Extreme weather may be signs of climate change
Floods, fires, melting ice and feverish heat: From smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Iowa and the High Arctic, the planet seems to be having a midsummer breakdown. It's not just a portent of things to come, scientists say, but a sign of troubling climate change already under way. |
11.08.2010
China says still No.2 energy user - Xinhua
China reiterated on Wednesday that it remained the world's No.2 energy user with last year's consumption more than 200 million tonnes of standard oil equivalent below that of the United States, the official Xinhua news agency reported. |
10.08.2010
Republic of Moldova’s Greenhouse Gas Inventories in the Framework of its SNC
The Republic of Moldova began preparing its Second National Communication (SNC) in Nov 2005. Since the submission of its Initial National Communication (INC) in 2000, major structural changes occurred in key sectors of the country’s economy while the system of collecting and processing statistical data has significantly improved. |
09.08.2010
Bonn climate talks disappointing: RI
Indonesia voiced concern over the outcome of climate change talks in Bonn, Germany, which seemed to move the world further away from a global treaty on emissions cuts targets in Cancun, Mexico, this year. |
08.08.2010
Analysis: Climate talks stumble from Page 1
BONN, Germany — The new climate change treaty under negotiation for the past 2 1/2 years begins with a brief document called "A Shared Vision." The problem is, there isn't one. |
07.08.2010
World climate talks heat up
Environmental activists say climate talks in Bonn, Germany are not going well as the world prepares for it’s next big shot at a global climate deal. |
04.08.2010
Climate change on agenda
THE secretary general of the Pacific Islands Forum, Neroni Tuiloma Slade, has advised Small Island State (SIS) leaders to not allow the disappointments of Copenhagen to divert their attention from the dangers of climate change. |
04.08.2010
Cancun Talks Will Not See Big Climate Deal - EU
A U.N. summit in Cancun, Mexico, at the end of the year will not result in a new climate treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, the co-head of the European Union's climate delegation said in an interview on Tuesday. |
03.08.2010
Islands prepare to battle climate change
Small Pacific island nations say climate change is a matter of life and death, so their leaders have agreed to forge a unified voice on the issue ahead of a global summit later in the year. |
02.08.2010
Global warming not confirmed to have caused worldwide heat waves
Climate experts still can't be sure whether global warming has caused the excruciating heat waves which are currently grilling nations in the northern hemisphere such as China, Japan, the United States and Russia, and constantly refresh their power demand records. |
11.08.2009
Christian leaders urge international action on climate change
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/christian.leaders.urge.international.action.on.climate.change/23915.htmThe leaders, who drafted a statement last month while attending the Micah Network Global Consultation on Climate Change in Limuru, Kenya, are urging world leaders to take decisive action to secure an ambitious and fair climate deal this year in Copenhagen,.where they will seek to agree on a post-2012 climate agreement that will replace the current Kyoto protocol. |
10.08.2009
EPA Issues Waiver to California on Greenhouse Gases
http://www.climatechangeattorney.com/2009/06/epa_issues_waiver_to_californi.htmlToday the EPA reversed its prior determination on the request by California for a waiver permitting more stringent emission standards for model 2009 and later year motor vehicles. In reversing the prior determination and issuing the waiver the EPA Administrator, Lisa P. Jackson found tha the waiver was appropriate under the Clean Air Act criteria "I am withdrawing EPA’s March 6, 2008 Denial and have determined that the most appropriate action in response to California’s greenhouse gas waiver request is to grant that request. I have determined that the waiver opponents have not met their burden of proof in order for me to deny the waiver under any of the three criteria in section 209(b)(1)." |
06.08.2009
Major negotiations for new UN climate change pact kick off in Germany
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=30328&Cr=climate&Cr1=&Kw1=negotiations&Kw2=climate&Kw3=Germany29 March 2009 – The first round of United Nations-backed negotiations designed to culminate in an ambitious new international climate change treaty in Copenhagen in December got underway today. |
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