Developing Nations See Cancun Climate Deal Tough
Reaching a binding climate deal at the upcoming U.N. conference in Mexico will likely be difficult, delegates from a group of developing nations said on Monday, spurring further doubts about a global climate accord this year. | Reuters |
| |
WWF says sorry to Saudi Arabia over vandalism
Environmental group WWF has apologised to Saudi Arabia after one of its workers vandalised the country's nameplate at a climate conference. | BBC |
| |
US delay overshadows climate-change talks
Concern that US decision will affect Bonn talks, which will set the stage for Cancún summit. | European Voice |
| |
Action on global climate may drift for years
International action on climate change looks likely to drift over the next two years as politicians waver on tougher carbon caps in the wake of the financial crisis. | Reuters |
| |
NGOs Apologize for Offending Saudi Arabia at Climate Meeting
The global environment organization WWF today apologized "unreservedly" for the actions of an employee who took offensive photographs of the official nameplate of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and distributed them at an international climate change meeting. | ENS |
| |
Ten key indicators show global warming 'undeniable'
Melting glaciers, more humid air and eight other key indicators show that global warming is undeniable, scientists said on Wednesday, citing a new comprehensive review of the last decade of climate data. | Reuters |
| |
Scientists: New Study Affirms Climate Change Is 'Undeniable'-AP
Scientists from around the world provided more evidence of global warming in the annual State of the Climate report Wednesday, the Associated Press reports. | Dow Jones Newswires |
| |
Cambio climático: pide ONU participacón más "vigorosa" del sector privado
La estrategia global contra el cambio climático debe contar con una participación más 'vigorosa' del sector privado, advirtió el jueves en la Ciudad de México la costarricense Christiana Figueres, máxima responsable de la ONU para el tema. | AFP |
| |
Spain Sees Temperatures Rising 3 to 6 Degrees By 2100
Spanish daytime temperatures will rise by an average of between 3 and 6 degrees Celsius by 2100, and rainfall will tumble to 15-30 percent of recent levels, according to forecasts on Tuesday by the Met Office. | Reuters |
| |
Ottawa praises three provinces set to introduce cap-and-trade system
The federal Conservative government says it is pleased to learn Canada’s three largest provinces are working independently with two U.S. states to introduce a cap-and-trade system that would put a price tag on greenhouse-gas emissions. | Globe and Mail |
| |
| |
| |
Climate change drops off the radar in 2010 election
Both the coalition and the Labor Government have effectively abandoned any emissions trading scheme during the next term of government. Now industry are warning that investment into crucial power infrastructure is in a state of limbo and environmentalists claim that the country is going backwards at the very time when urgent action is needed. | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| |
Australia at risk of missing out on green economy: Stiglitz
Nobel prize-winning US economist Joseph Stiglitz said Australia is at risk of falling behind Europe in the development of low-carbon technologies while awaiting clarity on the worldwide accord. | Sydney Morning Herald |
| |
BUY OR SELL-EU carbon prices set to rebound or fall further?
European carbon permit prices have tumbled by over 10 percent in July, hitting four-month lows this week due to a mix of weaker German power and UK gas prices, speculative selling and nonexistent utility buying. | Reuters |
| |
Earth's climate future may be etched in Greenland bedrock
Scientists hit Greenland bedrock this week after five years of drilling through 2.5 kilometres (1.6-mile) of solid ice, a 14-nation consortium announced Wednesday. | AFP |
| |
| Obama must take a lead on climate change – and soon (by Jeffrey Sachs) | Guardian |
| |
| Senate Climate Bill Dies—Does the Environment Win? | The Nation |
| |
Show dollars for Cancun success: BASIC
The Rio de Janeiro meeting of BASIC countries — Brazil, South Africa, India and China — ended without a consensus on equitable share of carbon space. | The Economic Times |
| |
Climate still waiting on the rich
Developing countries once again urged rich nations to keep their promise to help them in the fight against climate change. | China Daily |
| |
Senate Unveils Energy Bill, Doubts On Passage
Senate Democrats unveiled a slimmed down bill on Tuesday aimed at reforming offshore drilling, as doubts grew that Congress would be able to pass any substantial energy legislation this year. | Reuters |
| |
Reduced carbon emissions, more growth
One of the toughest challenges facing world development is how to promote economic growth and reduce emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere, and confronting climate change. | Xinhua |
| |
| |
| |
Climate Change Legislation: Obama Reaffirms Support For Comprehensive Bill
Despite setbacks on Capitol Hill, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he still supports the need for broad climate legislation and pledged to keep pushing for it. | AP |
| |
US senators pare down ‘drill and spill’ bill
Senate Democrats put forward a dramatically pared-down “clean energy jobs” bill, combined with new oil spill laws, on Tuesday in a calculated attempt to formulate legislation that might pass an increasingly partisan Congress. | Financial Times |
| |
Activists call on developed countries to take more responsibility
Indonesian Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR) executive director Fabby Tumiwa said in a recent discussion that current emissions levels would lead to an increase in average global temperatures of 2 degrees Celsius by 2050. | The Jakarta Post |
| |
Western Climate Initiative offers cap-and-trade
A coalition of seven western states and three Canadian provinces on Tuesday offered its most detailed strategy yet for controlling greenhouse gas emissions blamed for climate change, saying they hope it will stand as a model for national systems in the United States and Canada. | AP |
| |
More Brunei-Australia Partnerships Expected In Renewable Energy Projects
Brunei and Australian companies could see more partnerships in the renewable energy industry if positive indications from the first Australian Clean Energy Seminar are anything to go by. | The Brunei Times |
| |
B.C.'s dishonesty on climate change
When it comes to climate policy, Canadian provincial and federal governments have a perfect track record -they have consistently failed to achieve their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets. | The Vancouver Sun |
| |
Spread of Deadly Cryptococcal Disease in U.S. Northwest Linked to Global Warming
A deadly infectious disease once thought to be exclusively tropical has gained a toehold in the Pacific Northwest, and health experts suspect climate change is partially to blame. | Scientific American |
| |
Seville to become as hot as Tucson by end of century: study
Seville in southwestern Spain could become as hot as Tucson in the Arizona desert in the United States by the end of the century, according to a study by the Spain's national weather office Aemet published Wednesday. | Bangkok Post |
| |
| House and Senate Roll Out Spill Bills (JOHN M. BRODER) | The New York Times Blog |
| |
| Indonesian tropical rainforests and climate change (Opinion) | The Jakarta Post |
| |
| |
| |
Developing Nations See Cancun Climate Deal Tough
Reaching a binding climate deal at the upcoming U.N. conference in Mexico will likely be difficult, delegates from a group of developing nations said on Monday, spurring further doubts about a global climate accord this year. | Reuters |
| |
U.N. Body Probes Cases of Paying Greenhouse Gas Emitters, Which Then Produce More
Starting today, the members of the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) sit down to tackle arguably the most serious controversy since the beginning of the Kyoto Protocol system for offsetting greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries. | The New York Times - ClimateWire |
| |
BASIC meeting ends without consensus on climate change
A meeting of the BASIC group, formed by Brazil, South Africa, India and China, ended on Monday without consensus on a unified plan to deal with the global climate change. | Xinhua |
| |
Russia Approves New Projects for Kyoto Credits
Russia on Monday gave the green light to 15 clean energy projects to earn carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol, a senior Economic Development Ministry official said. | The Moscow Times |
| |
Don’t reform the CDM, says China
Project developers refute claim that firms have been deliberately over-producing HFC 23 | Business Green |
| |
China pilot carbon trading scheme to boost global trade
China’s proposed carbon trading scheme, to be implemented from 2011 to 2015, will be a positive driver for the international carbon markets, say analysts
| Energy Risk |
| |
China expert: EU companies benefit most from China's clean tech market
European companies still have a stronger foothold in China's growing clean technology market than their American counterparts, Xiaomei Tan, China expert at the World Resources Institute (WRI), told EurActiv in an interview. | EurActiv |
| |
Time For Indonesia To Accelerate Use Of Renewable Energy
With the impressive rate of its economic growth which leads to a dramatic increase in energy consumption and in an effort to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, Indonesia has to find renewable energy that would may help reduce reliance on carbon-fueled energy, Antara news agency reported. | Bernama |
| |
Hopes Fade for Languishing U.S. Climate Bill
The Barack Obama administration has found success in passing healthcare reform and legislation touted as an "overhaul" of the U.S. financial system, but last week it became clear that the Democrats wouldn't advance a climate change bill until after the August recess and, more likely, until next year. | IPS |
| |
Kerry's lonely push on climate change
He fell just short of winning the White House in 2004. Four years later, he was rumored to be a leading contender to be secretary of state, until President-elect Barack Obama stunned everyone by tapping his former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton. | The Washington Post |
| |
| |
| |
Climate change could spur Mexican migration to US: study
Global warming could drive millions more Mexicans into the United States in search of work by 2080 due to diminishing crop yields in Mexico, a study released Monday showed. | AFP |
| |
Heat Wave: 2010 to Be One of Hottest Years on Record
Thanks to a combination of global warming and an ocean-warming El Niño event, 2010 is set to become one of the hottest years ever recorded, a new report says. | National Geographic News |
| |
Proposed law seen as new threat to Brazil's Amazon
A proposed overhaul of Brazilian forest policy being considered in Congress is raising concern that the world's largest forest could be left more vulnerable than in decades to razing by farmers despite recent progress in protecting it. | Reuters and AlertNet4 |
| |
Women and children on frontline of climate change
WOMEN and children will be the first to suffer from countries on the frontline of climate change, according to a leading climate activist at a Plan International backed conference. | Plan UK |
| |
Urban Air Pollutants Can Damage IQs Before Baby's First Breath
Study in Krakow, Poland, corroborate NYC findings that links children's lower IQ scores with mothers' exposure to compounds created by burning of fossil fuels | Scientific American |
| |
| Armageddon Wars: Overpopulation Vs. Global Warming (David Leonhardt) | The New York Times |
| |
US Senate deals blow to global climate talks
A year and a half after President Barack Obama breathed new life into global talks on a climate treaty, the United States is back in a familiar role -- the holdout. | AFP |
| |
Latin America: Climate Change Swing States
U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern traveled with Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela to Chile, Peru, and Ecuador last week, to discuss climate change with his government counterparts and civil society. | Eurasia Review |
| |
Beijing Fund Warns On Kyoto CO2 Offset Rule Changes
A Chinese government fund has told a U.N. panel it supports project developers which earn carbon offsets under a lucrative Kyoto Protocol scheme, and which rejects the idea that they are over-compensated. | Reuters |
| |
Climate change talks: Need for Africa to have joint platform
The need for Africa to go to the climate change negotiations in Cancun (Mexico) with a common platform to maintain and strengthen its cohesion and speak with one voice was raised in Kampala, by African heads of state including President of the Republic, Abdelaziz Bouteflika. | Algerie Presse Services |
| |
| |
| |
Japan Seeks Consumer Burden To Push Renewable Energy
Japanese consumers will have to pay higher electricity bills under a government plan to help triple the generating capacity of renewable energy in the next decade and cut CO2 emissions. | Reuters |
| |
Mexico and WB expand strategic partnership
Mexico and the World Bank reinforced their strategic partnership on key development issues, after a two day working visit by World Bank Group (WBG) President Robert B. Zoellick. | Penki News |
| |
Asean urged to ‘climate-proof’ energy sector
With the world experiencing the ill effects of climate change
, the Philippines urged its co-members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to “climate-proof” the region’s energy sector. | Business Inquirer |
| |
Analysis: Indonesia: Energy on the boil
Indonesia is to tap into vast reserves of geothermal energy to help meet its power needs for coming decades, with plans to invest more than US$10 billion over the next 15 years in the renewable power source. | The Jakarta Post |
| |
Arctic waters facing the threat of growing acidity
The icy Arctic waters around Norway's archipelago of Svalbard may seem pristine and clear, but they are facing disastrous effects of acidification. | AFP |
| |
Turkey confident on environment chapter, says minister
Veysel Eroğlu
Turkey is very confident that it will be successful in the environment chapter in its membership talks with the EU and in fact has moved the opening of this chapter to an earlier time than originally scheduled, Environment Minister Veysel Eroğlu has said. | Today's Zaman |
| |
| The Right and the Climate (Opinion-Editorial) | The New York Times |
| |
| Action on carbon is down the drain (Clive Crook) | Financial Times |
| |
New UN climate chief urges governments to do more to face climate change
New UN climate chief Christiana Figueres urged governments to make further progress in dealing world climate change on Thursday, just a few weeks before new round of UN climate talks. | Xinhua |
| |
Democrats Call Off Climate Bill Effort
The effort to advance a major climate change bill through the Senate this summer collapsed Thursday even as President Obama signed into law another top Democratic priority — a bill to restore unemployment benefits for millions of Americans who have been out of work for six months or more. | The New York Times - IHT |
| |
| |
| |
Il faut réfléchir "plus sérieusement" à la suite du Protocole de Kyoto, selon l'ONU
Les pays industrialisés concernés par le Protocole de Kyoto doivent réfléchir "plus sérieusement" à la suite à donner à ce traité dont la première période d'engagement s'achève en 2012, a déclaré jeudi la nouvelle patronne du climat à l'ONU, Christina Figueres. | AFP |
| |
Mind the gap: UN sets out Kyoto plan B
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has set out a contingency plan detailing options for members if they fail to commit to a new pledge before the existing Kyoto protocol expires. | Business Green |
| |
United Nations Proposes Stopgaps as Global Talks Fail to Renew Kyoto Pact
A United Nations climate group said it may be possible to extend emission caps included in the Kyoto Protocol for two years after they expire in 2012, preventing an interruption in the supply of offset credits. | Bloomberg |
| |
U.N. Urges Investment Policy To Foster Low-Carbon Growth
Developing economies can jumpstart low-carbon economic growth through "clean" investment promotion policies, despite slow progress in international climate negotiations, a United Nations agency said. | Reuters |
| |
No hope of any climate treaty in Mexico: Ramesh
As it joins BASIC members for another round of two-day consultations this weekend, India has said it does not hope of any treaty in Mexico in December as rich nations are yet to fulfil their promise of doling out fund and technology to poor countries. | Times of India |
| |
Australia PM: To Act On Climate When Economy Ready
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Friday her government would act on climate change when the economy was ready as she unveiled her August 21 election climate policy. | Reuters |
| |
Climate Change communication still inadequate
Many Africans blame themselves for the impacts of Global Climate Change, despite being least responsible for the causes, a pan-African research report from the BBC World Service Trust and the British Council, has said. | Ghana News Agency |
| |
Climate Change: FG to Include Gender Perspective
The Federal Ministry of Environment yesterday said with women as powerful agents of change, it was necessary to include gender perspective in all aspects related to climate change. | This Day |
| |
ASEAN urged to focus on energy, climate change
ASEAN should prioritise finding effective ways to realise energy security and deal with climate change challenges, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said yesterday. | Viet Nam News |
| |
Climate study funding at Norfolk university suspended
Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have had funding of $200,000 (£131,000) suspended by the US government in a row over e-mails. | BBC News |
| |
| |
| |
Experts: Climate Change Challenges Global Food Security
Climate change such as global warming and changes in rainfall, has become a challenge to food security across the world, scientists said at a workshop in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, reports Xinhua news agency on Friday. | Malaysian Digest |
| |
Call at Fiji meeting for Pacific nations to speak with one voice on climate change
Pacific leaders in Fiji for the Engaging with the Pacific meeting have taken issue with the way funds are allocated for climate change adaptation. | Radio New Zealand International |
| |
Overcome by Heat and Inertia
This city just endured its hottest June since records began in 1872, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. So did Miami. Atlanta suffered its second-hottest June, and Dallas had its third hottest. | The New York Times |
| |
| It's time for consensus on climate change (Opinion) | Gulf News |
| |
U.N. Lists Kyoto Plan B Options If No Climate Deal
The U.N.'s climate agency has for the first time detailed contingency options if the world cannot agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, whose present round expires in 2012 with no new deal in sight. | Reuters |
| |
China embraces emissions trading
China is set to pilot an emissions trading scheme before 2015 after a decision at a high-level meeting between government and industry, according to local media.
| Carbonpositive |
| |
US, Russia to jointly advance green energy policies
The US and Russia have signed a protocol to deepen collaboration in energy efficiency, smart grid technology and clean energy, as part of ongoing bilateral efforts to combat climate change. | Recharge News |
| |
AU moves to deal with climate change
Head of Environment, Water and Natural Resources at the African Union Commission Dr Khalil Timamy says poor countries on the continent will be enabled through a kitty to put in place the mitigation measures. | Kenia Broadcasting Corporation |
| |
Domestic carbon trading programs in pipeline
Domestic carbon trading programs in pipeline
The country is set to begin domestic carbon trading programs during its 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015) to help it meet its 2020 carbon intensity target. | China Daily |
| |
Climate Change:Principle of equity should not be diluted, says Hamid
Vice-President Hamid Ansari today said the principle of equity
in the sharing of global atmospheric space should not be diluted in any climate change agreements. | New Kerala |
| |
| |
| |
Business-like approach on climate bill
The Massachusetts High Technology Council and the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, which have been critics of the costs of clean energy, are each calling for federal climate legislation they say will create jobs and keep local businesses competitive. | Boston Globe |
| |
Australian former PM in line for climate job at UN: media
Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd was considered by the United Nations for a top-level job as an adviser on climate change, local media reported on Thursday. | Xinhua |
| |
The UAE to host second world ministerial conference on clean energy in Abu Dhabi 2011
The United Arab Emirates received support from the 24 participant governments of the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) to host the second Ministerial in Abu Dhabi in 2011. | Emirates News Agency |
| |
World Bank to lend 800 million dollars to Mexico
The World Bank will lend 800 million dollars to Mexico to help transform public transport to reduce emissions, and other programs, the bank's President Robert Zoellick said. | AFP |
| |
UN in fresh bid to salvage international deal on climate change
Climate change campaigners yesterday welcomed UN plans to amend the way changes to the Kyoto protocol are made in an effort to salvage negotiations on a new international deal. | The Guardian |
| |
Kyoto CO2 trade may end if no climate deal-UN study
The Kyoto Protocol's clean development mechanism (CDM) may end from 2013 unless the world can agree and put into force a new round of carbon emissions targets before then, a U.N. paper has said. | Reuters |
| |
Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall in 2009
Past Decade Still Sees Rapid Emissions Growth. In 2009, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in China—the world’s leading emitter—grew by nearly 9 percent. | Earth Policy Institute |
| |
Climate Change Causes Larger, More Plentiful Marmots, Study Shows; Implications for Many Creatures That Hibernate
Results from a decades-long research project show that mountain rodents called marmots are growing larger, healthier and more plentiful in response to climate change. | Science Daily |
| |
| Editorial: You can't explain away climate change | Los Angeles Times |
| |
Businesses support tougher emissions targets by EU - FT
High-profile business leaders from household names across Europe urged ministers on Wednesday to push for tougher emissions targets. | Reuters |
| |
| |
| |
Countries Pledge Global Support For Clean Energy
The United States and dozens of other countries have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars towards clean energy initiatives to help battle climate change, U.S. Energy Secretary Stephen Chu said on Tuesday. | Reuters |
| |
Talks target adapting to warming
Environmental officials and researchers from 17 Asia-Pacific countries and international organizations on Tuesday began a three-day seminar here on global warming with a focus on adaptation to climate change. | The Japan Times |
| |
Adaptation critical in fight vs climate change—CCC
As the country braces for the possible arrival of stronger typhoons this year, the Climate Change Commission (CCC) said adaptation is the “critical aspect" in the fight against climate change.
| GMA News |
| |
US pledges Tk 210cr for low-carbon emission strategy
US President Obama administration assured Bangladesh of providing Taka 210 crore for promotion of Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS). | The Daily Star |
| |
Climate change:Debate is going to get hotter within EU
This summer may be hot, but the climate in Europe and the political debate on what to do about it are likely to get even hotter, the European Union's top climate official said in an exclusive interview with the German Press Agency dpa. | Earth Times |
| |
“Vagaries of climate affect developing nations more than climate change”
The vagaries of climate affect developing nations more than climate change. Economic development is the only means to ensure security for the poorer people of the world, according to economist Arvind Panagariya. | The Hindu |
| |
Green groups blame Russia drought on global warming
Environmental groups said on Monday global warming was to blame for Russia's worst drought in decades and expressed hope this would persuade Russia to cut its carbon emissions, among the world's highest. | Reuters |
| |
Senator Reid seeking consensus on US climate bill
With time running out on the congressional calendar, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Tuesday he was still grappling for consensus among Democrats to forge a new climate and energy bill. | Reuters and AlertNet |
| |
7,500 UK Firms Face Fines Under CO2 Scheme: WSP
Some 7,500 British firms are expected to miss a September 30 deadline to register for the UK's new energy efficiency scheme, meaning they face fines of at least 5,000 pounds each ($7,644), an environmental consultancy said on Tuesday. | Reuters |
| |
Obama orders federal workplaces to cut emissions, improve safety
President Obama wants federal workers to take a bike, bus or subway to work more often and is ordering agencies to make their offices a safer place to work. | The Washington Post |
| |
| |
| |
Google To Use Wind Energy To Power Data Centers
Google Inc's energy unit has entered into a deal to buy wind power from NextEra Energy Inc for the next 20 years to power data centers. | Reuters |
| |
UK to open Earth observation hub
Science minister David Willetts is to announce a new UK centre for monitoring the Earth from space. | BBC News |
| |
'Cool' roofs could combat climate change
Light-colored rooftops and roads could significantly cut emissions and combat global climate change
by cooling cities and the world, researchers say. | UPI |
| |
| Editorial: Half a loaf on climate change
| Boston Globe |
| |
World warned energy path unsustainable at US talks
Major economies looked Monday at how to cooperate in shifting to cleaner sources of energy, with a top policy board warning the world's current path was unsustainable. | AFP |
| |
China rejects world's number one energy user title
China on Tuesday rejected an assessment from the International Energy Agency that it had surpassed the United States to become the world's top energy consumer, calling the data "unreliable". | AFP |
| |
Climate scientists still trying to restore trust
There are doubts climate scientists will regain their credibility, despite a series of recently published reports clearing them of exaggerating the effects of global warming. | Swiss Info |
| |
Most vulnerable nations pledge climate action
Six countries seen as most threatened by rising sea levels have vowed to cut their carbon emissions as a gesture of their commitment to fight global warming, the Maldivian government said Monday. | AFP |
| |
IPCC warns its scientists to avoid the media
Scientists have reacted with dismay at a letter sent out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) advising them not to talk to journalists. | Guardian |
| |
When climate change becomes a health issue, are people more likely to listen?
Framing climate change as a public health problem seems to make the issue more relevant, significant and understandable to members of the public -- even some who don't generally believe climate change is happening, according to preliminary research by George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication (4C). | Science Daily |
| |
| |
| |
UN Carbon Permit Regulators Juggle Conflicts as They Debate Future Supply
Some United Nations-overseen regulators of the world’s second-biggest carbon market need to resolve conflicts of interest as they debate on the supply of emission credits from industrial-gas projects next week. | Bloomberg |
| |
US forum wants action on green energy
The world's leading nations are expected to announce initiatives to cooperate on clean energy after a top policy board warned that the world's current path on power is unsustainable. | AAP |
| |
Climate change choices needed in fight vs hunger
Global efforts to beat back chronic hunger and disease afflicting more than a billion people could come to naught unless merged with the fight against climate change, says a report released Tuesday. | AFP |
| |
Oil sands producers must cut emissions: U.S. envoy
Oil sands producers must do more to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. ambassador to Canada said on Monday, as the two countries move to harmonize rules on carbon dioxide cuts. | Reuters |
| |
Canada Coming With Worse Than Oil
Fears of a trade dispute with Canada have made European Union officials reluctant to categorise tar sands from North America as a more polluting fuel than conventional petrol. | IPS |
| |
Bangladesh to take strong position on Copenhagen Accord
State Minister for Environment and Forests Dr Hasan Mahmud on Monday asked the members of Bangladesh delegation in the UNFCCC Climate Talks to take strong position for Copenhagen Accord as well as properly articulate the vulnerability of the country to climate change. | The New Nation |
| |
Report maps perils of warming
As the US Senate gears up to debate the latest incarnation of proposed climate legislation next week, a blue-ribbon panel has released what it hopes will be a definitive guide to the consequences of climate change for lawmakers and the public. | Nature News |
| |
New voice calls in China's polluted air
China's environment, most obviously the air in its cities, has been deteriorating roughly at the same dizzy pace that its industry has been expanding. | The Economist |
| |
| Today`s decisions - tomorrow`s realities: climate change waits for no one | Globe-Net |
| |
Geldof says Mexico climate summit must succeed
Pop star and anti-poverty campaigner Bob Geldof said in Mexico on Monday that a UN climate summit in Cancun in December could not afford to fail. | AFP |
| |
| |
| |
Climate change to blame for hottest summer ever?
The first six months of 2010 brought a string of warmest-ever global temperatures, but connecting these dots to long-term climate change patterns remains frustratingly difficult, experts say. | AFP |
| |
Without Carbon Emissions Cuts, the 'Anthropocene' Looms as an Ugly Epoch -- Study
Choices the world makes about whether to cut man-made carbon dioxide emissions will determine the severity of climate change over the next thousand years -- or longer, according to a new report by the country's leading scientific advisory body, the National Academy of Sciences. | The New York Times - ClimateWire |
| |
Nations to seek clean energy cooperation
The world's top economies will look next week at ways to work together on clean energy, striking a rare note of cooperation amid an impasse in drafting a new climate change treaty. | AFP |
| |
Climate-aid tax on shipping & aviation weighed by U.N.
Taxes on shipping and aviation are among possible sources for the US$100 billion developing nations need each year to deal with the impact of climate change, members of a United Nations panel said. | Bloomberg |
| |
'Climategate' fallout may impact legislation
Five investigations into the "Climategate" scandal have now cleared a group of scientists accused of twisting data in an effort to prove the world is getting warmer.
| Bloomberg |
| |
EU to Set New Rules for Emission Trading
The European Commission has proposed that from 2013 the European industry should buy approximately half of the quotas for greenhouse gas emission, which currently receives for free. | Sofia News Agency |
| |
Labour Party signifies climate change as key in elections
The election campaign fever in Australia is starting to heat up as declarations of key campaign platforms are being revealed. | International Business Times |
| |
Britain trails China in dash to low-carbon economy, warns Tim Yeo
Britain and other western countries are in danger of being left behind by China which is investing "furiously" in low carbon technology, aiming to profit from tough climate change targets in the next 20 years, a leading Tory warns today. | Guardian |
| |
Africa looks to vast forests for carbon credit
They inhabit a polluted part of Ivory Coast's main city with few jobs and a swelling population, but residents of Abidjan's slums have a rare respite: a stretch of pristine rainforest. | Reuters |
| |
‘Misappropriated’ climate fund a setback – Alvarez
The vice-chairman of the Climate Change Commission on Monday warned that using foreign loans or grants dedicated to climate change to plug the budget deficit could undermine the entire Philippine climate mitigation and adaptation strategy. | ABS-CBN News |
| |
| |
| |
CBI calls for global aviation emissions trading scheme
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) will today issue a new report voicing concern at government plans to impose a new per-plane tax on flights in and out of the UK, arguing that the most effective means of curbing aviation emissions is through a global cap-and-trade scheme. | Business Green |
| |
Department of Energy and Climate Change reveals £34m cuts to low-carbon tech programme
Details of £34m of cuts on low-carbon technology were published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) today as part of £6.2bn savings across Whitehall. | Guardian |
| |
| UNEP Report On Latin America And The Caribbean Addresses Environmental Degradation | UNEP |
| |
How Global Climate Change May Affect Violence
If global warming is a scientific fact, then we'd better be prepared for the earth to become a more violent place. | NNPA |
| |
| A Tale of Two Targets (editorial) | The New York Times |
| |
The future of EU climate policy (Tim Rayner and Andrew Jordan)
| New Europe |
| |
Accountability Needed in Facing Climate Change
The private sector can contribute more funds and skilled human resources to confront the serious problems triggered by climate change worldwide, considered participants in an international debate on the issue opened in Mexico City on Thursday. | Prensa Latina |
| |
Senate Climate Bill Falls Short Of Copenhagen Aim
A scaled-back climate change bill Senate Democrats are considering would achieve far less than President Barack Obama promised at a U.N. global warming conference last year -- but even this may be too much for Congress. | Reuters |
| |
China’s CO2 emissions need to peak by 2020: IEA
China’s emissions of carbon dioxide need to peak by 2020 if the world is to meet its 2050 targets aimed at curbing climate change, the head of the International Energy Agency said on Thursday. | Reuters |
| |
LATIN AMERICA: Environment's Poverty-Fighting Potential Largely Ignored
The environment remains a second-tier matter in Latin America and the Caribbean despite being interwoven with persistent poverty and stalled economic development in the region, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme. | IPS |
| |
| |
| |
Chinese firms cashing in on EU carbon trade
European industries are subsidising direct competitors in China and India by buying international credits to offset their carbon dioxide emissions, an NGO said in a new report. | EurActiv |
| |
Asian renewable energy conference in Bangkok
Investors and suppliers of renewable energy technology from around the world will meet at the Renewable Energy Asia Conference and Exhibition 2010 in Bangkok on Sept. 15-18. | Jakarta Post |
| |
Germany to Levy Up to $33 Per Flight
Germany plans to levy up to euro26 ($33) for each passenger on flights under a plan aimed at taxing air traffic's impact on the environment and bolstering government finances. | AP |
| |
World Bank providing help to green SMEs in Kingdom
The World Bank is providing funding for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) involved in renewable energy and cleaner production projects in the Kingdom. | Zawya |
| |
Illegal logging of tropical forests in decline: study
Illegal logging of tropical woodland has fallen sharply, providing welcome news in the fight against climate change and a lifeline for a billion poor people who depend on forests for survival, a report released Thursday said. | AFP |
| |
More Than Half New Power In U.S., EU Is Green: Study
More than half of all new electricity capacity added in the United States and Europe last year was from renewable power such as wind and solar, a body backed by the International Energy Agency and the UN reported. | Reuters |
| |
Global Trends In Green Energy: New Power Capacity From Renewable Sources Tops Fossil Fuels
In 2009, for the second year in a row, both the US and Europe generated more power capacity from renewable sources such as wind and solar than from conventional sources like coal, gas and nuclear, according to twin reports launched recently by the United Nations Environment Programme and the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21). | UNEP |
| |
| EU must be smart on emission cuts | Financial Times |
| |
Tiny Marine Microbes Exert Influence on Global Climate: Microorganisms Display a Behavior Characteristic of Larger Animals
New research indicates that the interactions of microscopic organisms around a particular organic material may alter the chemical properties of the ocean and ultimately influence global climate by affecting cloud formation in the atmosphere. | Science Daily |
| |
Woolly mammoth hunters helped change climate - study
Ancient hunters who stalked the world's last woolly mammoths likely helped warm the Earth's far northern latitudes thousands of years before humans began burning fossil fuels, according to a study of prehistoric climate change. | Reuters |
| |
| |
| |
Ministers Urge EU To Toughen Emissions Targets
The European Union must raise its emissions targets if it is to compete with the likes of China, Japan or the United States in the race for green technology, ministers from the bloc's most powerful nations said. | Reuters |
| |
Pacific Islands Criticise Stalled Climate Financing
Despite the creation of a High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF), a group of hard-hit Pacific islands is expressing doubt that aid will be delivered in a timely manner. | IPS |
| |
World Bank, IDB say carbon market is maturing
The world's carbon credit market is maturing after being hit hard by the global financial crisis and will outlive the Kyoto Protocol that ends in 2012, World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank officials said on Tuesday. | Reuters |
| |
EU Agrees On Carbon Permit Auction Rules From 2013
EU Agrees On Carbon Permit Auction Rules From 2013
European Union governments on Wednesday unanimously agreed detailed rules for auctioning carbon permits in the third phase of the bloc's Emissions Trading Scheme from 2013, the EU executive said in a statement. | Reuters |
| |
Senate Democrats to Pursue a Smaller Energy Bill
President Obama and Senate Democrats have decided to press ahead in the next two weeks with a scaled-back energy bill that limits carbon pollution by power plants but not by other industries in an effort to salvage the legislation before midterm elections. | The New York Times |
| |
US climate bill: Now for Plan D
Efforts to pass a climate bill in the US Congress have moved to Plan D this month, as pro-climate lawmakers face a fast-closing window of opportunity for pushing through carbon emissions capping legislation in 2010. | Carbonpositive |
| |
Renewable Energy Supply will meet ‘the 10% by 2015’ Target: CERC Chairman
“The renewable energy supply will not be a constraint in meeting the 10% by 2015 target set by the National Action Plan on Climate Change,” Dr Pramod Deo, IAS, Chairman, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) said and added that CERC has conducted a study to assess the supply scenario based on stakeholder consultation and the study revealed that the supply from renewable energy resources could exceed 47720 MW by 2015, as against the trend scenario of 54,800 MW. | Orissa News |
| |
POWER UTILITIES in the Asean have vowed to shift to green energy
to minimize carbon emissions, in light of the worsening threat of global warming. | Philippine Daily Inquirer |
| |
Kyoto 2012 deadline tests carbon investors
Uncertainty over what will happen to the carbon market after the current round of the Kyoto Protocol ends in 2012 may lead some financiers to hold off on green projects in Southeast Asia, investors said on Wednesday. | Reuters |
| |
Caribbean Round-up
Assistant Secretary of the Organization of American States (OAS) Albert Ramdin is urging regional governments to convene a special summit to discuss the Caribbean position ahead of United Nations follow-up discussions on climate change in Cancun, Mexico in December. | Caribbean Life |
| |
| |
| |
Google earth zooms in on dangerous climate change
A new interactive Google Earth map showing the impacts of a 4 °C warmer world was launched today by the Government, in partnership with the Met Office. | GLOBE-Net |
| |
Brumby reveals climate-change policy
The Victorian government has beaten the federal government to the punch on climate-change policy, announcing it will double an existing state energy efficiency target. | The Age |
| |
Prince Charles attacks climate change 'sceptics'
The Prince of Wales launched a stinging attack on "climate sceptics" deriding them for peddling "pseudo science". | London Evening Standard |
| |
Europe needs to reduce emissions by 30%
(Chris Huhne, Norbert Röttgen and Jean-Louis Borloo)
Europe’s current focus on recovery from recession must not distract us from the question of what kind of economy we want to build. Unless we set our countries on a path to a sustainable low-carbon future, we will face continued uncertainty and significant costs from energy price volatility and a destabilising climate. | Financial Times |
| |
Climate wars
As the planet warms, floods, storms, rising seas and drought will uproot millions of people, and with dire wider consequences. Barack Obama, collecting his Nobel peace prize, said that climate change “will fuel more conflict for decades”. | The Financial Express |
| |
UN Eyes Private Help in $100 Billion Climate Aid
A pledge by rich nations in Copenhagen to provide as much as $100 billion a year of climate-related aid to developing countries by 2020 may depend in part on the generosity of private donors and other non-governmental sources. | AP |
| |
UN chief calls for delivery on climate change financing
UN Secretary-general Ban Ki- moon on Tuesday reiterated the need for world leaders to deliver sizable financial support to developing countries to fund their efforts in mitigating and adapting to climate change. | Xinhua |
| |
Pacific Islands issue urgent appeal for "long overdue" climate change finance
In an urgent appeal to the United Nations, the Pacific Small Island Developing States (Pacific SIDS) on Tuesday called on developed countries to advance progress that has been stalled in delivering financial resources for climate change adaptation and mitigation projects. | Xinhua |
| |
Senators Craft Scaled-Back Climate Bill
The Senate's two biggest backers of climate change legislation have scaled back ambitions for a broad attack on greenhouse gases with a new draft bill focusing on cutting pollution from electric power utilities. | Reuters |
| |
Japan ETS plan hits electoral snag
An upper-house election in Japan on the weekend has cast doubt on the government’s plans to develop an emissions trading scheme to meet an ambitious carbon reduction target. | Reuters |
| |
| |
| |
World watches Indonesia forest deal
A deal welcomed as a breakthrough initiative in the worldwide fight to halt tropical deforestation is running into problems amid the practical challenges to making it work on the ground. | Carbonpositive |
| |
Guyana and Norway establish REDD+ investment fund
Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo and Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday announced the establishment of the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF), and stated that they have invited the World Bank to act as the fund manager. | GINA |
| |
UN Supply of CER Emission Credits May Dry Up in July on New Procedures
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change may supply no Certified Emission Reduction credits for the rest of the month as it adopts new procedures. | Bloomberg |
| |
Nepal to host int'l climate change meeting in Oct.
Nepali government has sent invitation to 51 mountainous countries for a meeting on climate change scheduled for October 4-5 in capital Kathmandu. | Xinhua |
| |
Pak Parliamentary attending Climate Change Conference
Chairman Senate Farooq Hamid Naek is leading a Parliamentary delegation which is participating in the four-day international Parliamentary Conference on Climate change that concludes in the British capital on July 16. | AP Pakistan |
| |
China should do more on climate: Smith
Australia has called on China to do more to tackle climate change even though the Gillard government does not have a scheme in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. | AAP |
| |
Spain overtakes US with world's biggest solar power station
Spain has opened the world's largest solar power station, meaning that it overtakes the US as the biggest solar generator in the world. | Guardian |
| |
Sea Levels Rising in Parts of Indian Ocean; Greenhouse Gases Play Role, Study Finds
Newly detected rising sea levels in parts of the Indian Ocean, including the coastlines of the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java, appear to be at least partly a result of human-induced increases of atmospheric greenhouse gases, says a study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. | Science Daily |
| |
A Green Retreat
Just three years ago the politics of global warming was enjoying its golden moment. | Newsweek |
| |
India Climate Meet Ahead Of Mexico To Push Tech Deal
India will try to push climate talks forward at a two-day ministerial meeting in November by focusing on winning agreement on sharing clean technologies, a sticky issue that divides rich and poor countries. | Reuters |
| |
| |
| |
S. Korean conglomerates to pour 22.4 trillion won into green business by 2013
South Korea's 30 largest conglomerates plan to invest 22.4 trillion won (US$18 billion) into the green-growth sector over the next three years, a presidential committee said Tuesday. | Yonhap |
| |
U.S. Election-Year Pressures Might Sink Carbon Cap Legislation, Kerry Says
U.S. lawmakers might be too focused on elections in November to approve legislation this year that charges power plants and other industrial companies a price for releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, said Senator John Kerry, a leading advocate of the pollution-cutting plan. | Bloomberg |
| |
Uruguay Fends Off Health Threats - So Far
The incidence of cardiovascular, respiratory and water-borne diseases is rising in Uruguay in tandem with climate change, while dengue fever and malaria lurk at the country's borders. Higher temperatures are encouraging the presence of insect vectors carrying diseases that were eradicated decades ago, experts say. | IPS |
| |
Egypt plans 100MW solar power plant
The Egyptian Electricity Ministry has unveiled plans to build a new $700m 100MW solar power plant between 2012 and 2017 that should further establish the country as one of the leading developers of utility-scale solar plants. | Guardian |
| |
PM's office keeps powder dry on climate change policy as cabinet meets
JULIA Gillard will speak at the National Press Club on Thursday but her office has played down expectations she will release her climate policy. | The Australian |
| |
S.Korea to invest $2 bln in carbon capture to 2019
The South Korean government said in a statement on Monday that the country's total public and private investment in carbon capture and sequestration would reach an estimated 2.3 trillion won ($1.92 billion) to 2019. | Reuters |
| |
EU updates plans for next phase of emissions trading scheme
The European Commission has released fresh details on how it plans to operate the next phase of the EU's emissions trading scheme (ETS) starting in 2013, although market watchers warned further information was needed if the EU is to avoid fuelling volatility in the carbon market. | BusinessGreen |
| |
32 Indian scientists in IPCC team for 5th report
Thirty-two scientists from India have been selected by the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to contribute to the fifth edition of its assessment report that is known to be the most exhaustive analysis of existing knowledge in climate science. The report is slated to come out in 2013-14. | Indian Express |
| |
EU carbon plummets to 3-month low near 14 euros
European carbon permits tumbled by over four percent on Monday, breaking through a key technical support level and triggering stop-loss orders which sent prices down to a 3-month low near 14 euros a tonne. | Reuters |
| |
Accounting rules could force businesses to disclose environmental impact
Companies could be asked to publish details of their environmental and social impacts alongside their financial accounts under new rules being discussed with the organisations that set accounting standards. | Guardian |
| |
| |
| |
DBP to sell hydro plants’ carbon credits
STATE-RUN Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) has agreed to sell carbon credits to be generated from three mini-hydro power plants funded by the lender to Tricorona Carbon Asset Management Pte. Ltd. of Singapore. | Business Mirror |
| |
Science behind climate change under fire - again
The scientific accuracy of the United Nations' climate change reports are coming under fire again. | Toronto Sun |
| |
Youths gather to go green
More than 200 youths gathered at a green summit on Monday in Shanghai, pledging to push for low-carbon development around the world. | Xinhaunet |
| |
Eco-friendly ski resorts offset glacial melting
Northern Italian officials have begun covering the Presena glacier with an insulating blanket and parts of the Andes have been painted white to try to reduce glacial melting. Now eco-friendly ski resorts around the world are also working on reducing that sport's ecological impact. | Independent |
| |
| Bali tiger meeting, the chance to be a conservation leader (opinion) | Jakarta Post |
| |
| A Climate Change Corrective (editorial) | NY Times |
| |
| Unlocking low-carbon investment (commentary) | Business Spectator |
| |
New York talks to tackle climate financing deadlock
UN advisory group meets later today to find way to raise $100bn a year in climate change funding for developing countries | BusinessGreen |
| |
Climate Finance Deal Needed to Break Treaty Deadlock, U.K.'s Huhne Says
Developed countries must devise a way to channel $100 billion a year in climate aid to poorer nations to secure an international deal to fight global warming, U.K. Energy Secretary Chris Huhne said. | Bloomberg |
| |
Australian gov't urged to act on carbon tax
Greens leader Bob Brown on Monday urged the Australian government to put a price on carbon to keep energy costs down. | Xinhua |
| |
| |
| |
Australia Government Ahead In Polls
Australia's ruling Labor party is set for a narrow victory in elections expected to be announced within weeks, two new opinion polls showed on Monday, but it is struggling over key policy issues on climate and asylum seekers. | Reuters |
| |
Schwarzenegger to host third round of Governors' Global Climate Summit
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced on Friday that he will host the third round of the Governors' Global Climate Summit later this year to rally efforts in confronting climate change. | Xinhua |
| |
Fate of Japan climate bill uncertain after election
Japan's climate bill, which backs the creation of an emissions trading scheme, faces an uncertain fate after the ruling Democratic Party and its ally lost their majority in a weekend election for parliament's upper house. | Reuters |
| |
Candidates for Senate deeply split on energy, climate
If you were to vote for the next U.S. senator from Washington state based solely on energy and climate issues, you couldn't complain for lack of choices. | Seattle Times |
| |
EU Sets 2013 Industry CO2 Cap At 1.927 Bln Tonnes
Greenhouse gas emissions from heavy industry currently regulated under the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme will be capped at 1,926,876,368 tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2013, the EU Commission said on Frida | Reuters |
| |
Rising sea drives Panama islanders to mainland
Rising seas from global warming, coming after years of coral reef destruction, are forcing thousands of indigenous Panamanians to leave their ancestral homes on low-lying Caribbean islands. | Reuters |
| |
China, EU strengthen space technology cooperation
China and the European Union have strengthened their cooperation in space technology to better monitor climate change and improve the ability to prevent and control natural disasters. | Xinhua |
| |
Plan to Save Indonesia's Forests Hits Snags
A widely hailed new project to restrict forest-clearing in Indonesia over the next two years is turning out to be more complicated than expected and could leave large areas of the country unprotected, as environmentalists and industry groups fight over terms of the deal before it takes effect in January. | Wall Street Journal |
| |
Small Island States Plagued with Climate Change Issues
The issue of climate change will remain for a long time as a top priority for the Smaller Island States (SIS) in the Pacific region. | Xinhua |
| |
Business warns on need for investment in energy
The UK is in the “last chance saloon” to secure investment in its creaking energy infrastructure, ministers are being warned by a leading business group. | Financial Times |
| |
| |
| |
| An interview with Yvo de Boer, the United Nations' former climate-change chief | Washington Post |
| |
| Climate deal needs equity in carbon space | The Star |
| |
Climate Scientists Praise Report On Hacked Email Scandal
Leading climate scientists on Thursday welcomed a British report that cleared researchers of exaggerating the effects of global warming and said they hoped it would restore faith in the fight against climate change. | Reuters |
| |
Mexico seeks RI advice on climate change summit
Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa received his Mexican counterpart Patricia Espinosa on Thursday in Jakarta in a meeting that highlighted the climate change agenda ahead of the UN conference in Cancun in November. | Jakarta Post |
| |
Christiana Figueres takes the reins at UN climate secretariat
Christiana Figueres has today formally taken up her post as executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), receiving the reins of the international climate change secretariat from Dutch diplomat Yvo de Boer. | BusinessGreen |
| |
Africa: Climate Change 'Not Relevant' to Most People
CLIMATE change has no special relevance to SA in the eyes of many South Africans, and it is perceived as an issue only the wealthy can afford to worry about, according to research conducted by the BBC World Service Trust and the British Council. | Business Day |
| |
Climate change core group meeting held
Minister for Environment Hameedullah Jan Afridi chaired a meeting of the Climate Change Core Group regarding 16th Session of Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to be held at Cancun, Mexico in November this year. | The News |
| |
JPN-Govt to stop buying intl CO2 credits / Eyes domestic trades to offset shortfall
The government has decided to stop purchasing greenhouse gas emission credits from other nations and boost domestic carbon reduction, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. | Yomiuri Shimbun |
| |
Back me on climate, says PM as emission trading stays on ice
Julia Gillard has declared she is the woman to back if voters want action on climate change, despite confirming she will not reverse the government decision to shelve the emissions trading scheme until 2013. | AAP |
| |
Where Next For Climate Policy In Australia?
Australia faces an election within months and new Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said she will announce additional steps on fighting climate change before the poll. | Reuters |
| |
| |
| |
Business should embrace shift to low-carbon economy, EU climate commissioner asserts
European Union (EU) commissioner for climate action Connie Hedegaard has urged businesspeople to start immediately with the transition to a low- carbon society. | Engineering News |
| |
Big bucks in carbon trade?
A cap-and-trade market for harmful greenhouse gas emissions could save participants $100 billion US over the next 10 years, a carbon trade group including a handful of Canadian provinces has found. | Toronto Sun |
| |
Climate wars
AS THE planet warms, floods, storms, rising seas and drought will uproot millions of people, and with dire wider consequences. Barack Obama, collecting his Nobel peace prize, said that climate change “will fuel more conflict for decades”. He took the analysis not from environmental scaremongers but from a group of American generals. | The Economist |
| |
'India must drop negative stance in global talks'
India needs to change its 'just say no' stance on issues like climate change and Doha and adopt a more balanced approach during multilateral negotiations, an Indian-origin Cambridge academic says. | PTI |
| |
Science behind closed doors
Two new reports say the science of climate change is fine, but that some scientists and the institutions they work in need to change their attitudes | The Economist |
| |
John Prescott takes seat in House of Lords
John Prescott, New Labour's key link to the party's old Labour roots, today became Baron Prescott of Kingston-upon-Hull, despite previously saying he was opposed to becoming a peer. | Guardian |
| |
Actor Edward Norton named UN goodwill ambassador of biodiversity
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Thursday announced the designation of U.S. actor Edward Norton as UN goodwill ambassador for biodiversity. | Xinhua |
| |
How has 'Climategate' affected the battle against climate change?
The Muir Russell report has cleared the scientists of any dishonesty over data, but how did the scandal affect Copenhagen? | Guardian |
| |
| Climate politics (editorial) | Financial Times |
| |
'Climategate' inquiry mostly vindicates scientists
An independent report into the leak of hundreds of e-mails from one of the world's leading climate research centers on Wednesday largely vindicated the scientists involved, saying they acted honestly and that their research was reliable. | AP |
| |
| |
| |
RI, Mexico hold talks on environment
Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa and his Mexican counterpart Patricia Espinosa held a bilateral meeting on Thursday as part of cooperation in various fields, including environment. | The Jakarta Post |
| |
Germany targets switch to 100% renewables for its electricity by 2050
Germany could derive all of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2050 and become the world's first major industrial nation to kick the fossil-fuel habit, the country's Federal Environment Agency said today | Reuters |
| |
Climate to warm at double rate
THE world is heading for an average temperature rise of nearly 4 degrees, according to a global analysis of national pledges. Such a rise would bring a high risk of major extinctions, threats to food supplies and the near-total collapse of the huge Greenland ice sheet. | Guardian, AAP |
| |
Indonesia drafts rules on forest clearing ban
Indonesia has drafted rules to govern a ban on forest and peatland clearing, although the proposed regulations still leave some confusion over how tightly the prohibition will apply.
| Reuters, AFP |
| |
China's push to go green is challenged by prosperity
Even as Beijing imposes the world's most rigorous national energy campaign, the effort is being overwhelmed by the billionfold demands of Chinese consumers. | The Herald Tribune |
| |
Congressional auditors find that stalled climate change bill would save US billions of dollars
Congressional sponsors of a stalled climate change bill received a boost Wednesday from a finding by a nonpartisan office that the measure would reduce the federal deficit by $19 billion during the next decade. | AP |
| |
Australian PM sets out concepts on climate change policy
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard emphatically ruled out any kind of carbon price before 2012 as she prepares to release a new policy on climate change, local media reported on Thursday. | Xinhua |
| |
European Union Tightens Timber Rules to Help Save Forests, Fight Emissions
The European Union decided to make suppliers of timber to Europe guard against illegal logging, bolstering a push to fight climate change through worldwide forest protection. | Bloomberg |
| |
Regulatory risk mounts for European green energy
A pullback in renewable energy support in Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy and Spain is stoking investment jitters but the sector is still poised for a record year, operators and investors told a London conference. | Reuters |
| |
EU capitals miss deadline for renewable action plans
The vast majority of EU member states will deliver their national renewable energy action plans (NREAPs) late as only two had landed on the European Commission's desk by midday Wednesday (30 June), the day of the deadline. | Actmedia |
| |
| |
| |
Govt launches CO2-neutral standard
Australia has formally launched a programme that allows companies or their products to be certified carbon-neutral in a bid to boost their corporate image and fight climate change. | Reuters, AAP |
| |
Businesses Push For Decisions On EU Carbon Scheme
The European Union is under pressure to finalize details on its emissions cap for industry from 2013, how carbon permits will be auctioned and the amount to be given to airlines when they join the EU's scheme in 2012. | Reuters |
| |
Value of global carbon markets up 5% in H1 2010
The markets for European Union Allowances (EUAs) and certified emissions reductions (CERs) exchanged 3.7 billion tonnes (Gt) CO2e over the six first months of 2010, valued at some €48 billion (US$59bn), compared to €46bn in H1 2009. | Commodities Now |
| |
Massive Climate Opportunity Hangs in the Balance Sheet
A small group of policy-makers meeting in Montreal this week will decide if up to nine billion tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions (Gt CO2e) will be prevented by accelerating the phase-out of refrigerant gases called HCFCs as agreed in 2007. | PRNewswire-USNewswire |
| |
Women at Forefront of Resisting Climate Change
The Mozambican government has adopted various policies to address the effects of climate change, with special attention to women as studies show that they are more adversely affected by this phenomenon. | IPS |
| |
Korea, Mexico discuss ways to upgrade ties
The foreign ministers of South Korea and Mexico on Tuesday met to discuss follow-up measures for cementing stronger ties following a recent summit between the countries. | The Korea Herald |
| |
S. Korea, Mexico meet over U.N. climate change talks
The foreign ministers of South Korea and Mexico on Tuesday discussed how their countries can cooperate at the upcoming U.N. climate conference, Seoul officials said. | Yonhap News |
| |
UN's climate report 'one-sided'
THE IPCC's report on climate change failed to make clear it often presented a worst-case scenario on global warming, an investigation has found. | The Australian |
| |
China to host UN climate change talks in October
China will host UN climate change talks in October, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang here Tuesday. | Xinhua |
| |
CDM Panel Calls for Investigation Over Carbon Market Scandal
Certified Emissions Reduction Units (CERs) for the destruction of HFC-23 represent over 1/2 of the CDM credits issued to date. | TTKN News |
| |
| |
| |
US aims at power plant emissions reduction in 31 states
The US Environmental Protection Agency proposed rules Tuesday to reduce toxic emissions from power plants across 31 states on the US eastern seaboard and the nation's capital. | AFP |
| |
EPA: Clean-air rule would overturn Bush-era plan
The Obama administration is proposing a new rule to tighten restrictions on pollution from coal-burning power plants in the eastern half of the country, a key step to cut emissions that cause smog. | AP |
| |
Australian Greens aim for power role after elections (INTERVIEW)
Australia's Greens party is on course to win the balance of power in the Senate at elections within months and will seek to push environmental policies to the fore of the next government's agenda. | Reuters |
| |
Indonesia drafts rules on forest clearing ban
Indonesia has drafted rules to govern a ban on forest and peatland clearing, although the proposed regulations still leave some confusion over how tightly the prohibition will apply. | Carbonpositive |
| |
Greece Seeks Regional Deal To Aid UN Climate Talks
Greece is pushing for a Mediterranean initiative on climate change that could show a way to breathe life into stalled global climate talks, its environment minister said. | Reuters |
| |
Enrile supports increased public finance for climate change project
To minimize the risks and damages pose by climate change, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile believed the new government should increase public funding in connection with the climate change program. | Manila Bulletin |
| |
Report calls for new climate change approach
With global efforts to combat climate change sagging after the Copenhagen conference, Australian experts have called for a completely different approach. | AAP |
| |
Nigeria, UN Partner to Reduce Deforestation
The Federal Government and the United Nations agency, the United Nations Development Programme yesterday commenced efforts to check forest destruction with the inauguration of the National Technical Committee on Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Abuja. | This Day |
| |
British Companies Accused Of Carbon Trading Scheme
The Environmental Investigation Agency has accused Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, and British Gas of profiting from an intricate carbon emissions trading scheme at the cost of consumers, according to The Ecologist. | EMII.com |
| |
NASA Satellite Adds Carbon Dioxide to Its Repertoire
A NASA-led research team has expanded the growing global armada of remote sensing satellites capable of studying carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth's climate. | ScienceDaily |
| |
| |
| |
We Need Sustainable Development Banks, Say NGOs
Non-governmental organisations from across the Americas are demanding that the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank institute policies that favour sustainable energy and help mitigate climate change. | IPS |
| |
Nested REDD+ vital in forest solution: Report
In order for REDD+ to be successful in halting deforestation in developing countries, carbon finance incentives will need to be delivered through smaller scale channels as well as big national bureacracies, The Nature Conservancy argues. | Carbonpositive |
| |
Leaked climate e-mail inquiry to release report
An independent report into the leak of hundreds of e-mails from one of the world's leading climate research centers is being published Wednesday, with many scientists hoping it will help calm the global uproar kicked up by their publication online. | AP |
| |
| No rest for the emitters (Commentary) | Business Spectator |
| |
Dutch agency admits mistake in UN climate report
A leading Dutch environmental agency, taking the blame for one of the glaring errors that undermined the credibility of a seminal U.N. report on climate change, said Monday it has discovered more small mistakes and urged the panel to be more careful. | AP |
| |
IPCC climate change report 'played down positive impacts'
The IPCC's key global assessment of climate change failed to give sufficient weight to the positive impacts of global warming, according to a study that nevertheless backed its main conclusions. | Telegraph |
| |
China to host climate talks before Mexico meeting - report
China will host an extra round of international negotiations in October aimed at fostering agreement over a new climate treaty, the United Nations' top environment official said in remarks published on Monday. | Reuters |
| |
Japan Donates $16.5 Million to Bolivia for Environment, Farming
The governments of Japan and Bolivia signed on Monday an accord under which Tokyo will provide $16.5 million for Bolivian programs that defend the environment and promote small farms. | EFE |
| |
Feds maintain fossil fuel incentives despite phase-out pledge
The Harper government has protected several incentive and subsidy programs for fossil fuels, despite making a G20 pledge to phase them out, according to a leaked document from last month's conference in Toronto. | Canwest News Service |
| |
To stop war turn over new leaf and plant more trees: Nobel laureate
STOPPING wars in Africa requires planting more trees, says the Nobel Peace Prize-winner Wangari Maathai. | Sydney Morning Herald |
| |
| |
| |
Greenpeace slams companies over Indonesia forests
Major foreign firms like Walmart and KFC are contributing to forest destruction and the loss of species like Sumatran tigers by buying from Indonesian paper giant Sinar Mas, Greenpeace said Tuesday. | AFP |
| |
Environment advocacy group demans for conservation of wetlands
Leading environmental advocacy and lobbying group 'ARPAN' today submitted a 16-point charter of recommendations to Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and Governor Dr DY Patil demanding immediate implementation for environmental sustainability. | UNI |
| |
Carbon credits for sale online
A Christchurch man's auction for carbon credits has prompted more questions about Government policy than bids. | The Press |
| |
| How to regulate climate control | Independent |
| |
'Curry for sheep could curb global warming'
Curry spices could hold the key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, scientists claimed today. | Telegraph |
| |
| 10:10: What next for the campaign? | Guardian |
| |
| Ghana: The Unaccountable G-8 (Jeffrey D. Sachs) | Public Agenda (Accra) |
| |
| Special Report - Europe Finds Politics And Biofuels Don't Mix | Reuters |
| |
Climate talks to pave way for Cancun summit
Climate talks to pave way for Cancun summit
China will host an additional round of climate talks in October in Tianjin before UN members convene in Mexico's Cancun at the end of this year for a climate change summit, a senior UN official and a Chinese policy insider said on Sunday. | China Daily |
| |
UN panel recommendation may make India lose half carbon credits
A United Nations panel recommendation this week to change carbon credits calculating methodology for hydroflourocarbons (HFCs) can result in India losing half of its credits valid till 2012. | Hindustan Times |
| |
| |
| |
EU Renewable Energy Fund to Invest $12.5 Million in Private Chinese Fund
The Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund, or Geeref, mainly invested by the European Union, will put 10 million euros ($12.5 million) in a private Chinese fund, the EU’s energy commissioner said. | Bloomberg |
| |
UN report fuels criticism of carbon-cutting scheme
European and U.S. environmentalists demanded action Friday after an obscure U.N. advisory panel lent credence to their claims that industrialized nations are wasting billions of dollars on carbon-cutting projects. | AP |
| |
Packed agenda for Caricom summit
Caricom’s four-day summit this week will be the first opportunity for Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to interact with her regional colleagues since the May 24 general election victory. | Guardian |
| |
China to host new round of climate talks in October
China will host an extra round of climate talks in October before a UN summit in Cancun at year's end as nations attempt to devise a post-2012 treaty, state media said Monday, quoting a UN official. | AFP |
| |
Doubt lingers on govt’s emission target
Nine months after Indonesia declared its ambitious pledge to cut emissions with its own money, doubts remain on if the government can meet its own target, with no clear supporting regulations made. | The Jakarta Post |
| |
Kyoto May Push Factories To Pollute More: U.N. Report
A Kyoto Protocol scheme may be encouraging projects to emit more greenhouse gases because of incentives to earn carbon offsets from subsequently destroying these, a U.N. report said. | Reuters |
| |
China Keeps Promise to Curb Carbon Emission
Although it is not an easy task, China strives to put into practice the promise made last November before the Copenhagen Conference--to cut its carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product by 40 to 45 percent by 2020 compared with the level from 2005. | Xinhua |
| |
FG, UNDP Instigate N250b Special-purpose Climate Fund
Plans are underway to establish the Nigeria Strategic Climate Change Trust Fund (NSCCTF). Sponsored by the Special Climate Change Unit (SCCU) of the Federal Ministry of Environment and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the initiative, according to its proponents, will aid in addressing key challenges as well as explore opportunities for development while combating the climate menace. | Daily Independent |
| |
China Fears Warming Effects of Consumer Wants
Premier Wen Jiabao has promised to use an “iron hand” this summer to make his nation more energy efficient. | The New York Times |
| |
EC approves huge investment in China’s first energy efficiency-focused private equity fund
The European Commission announced today that Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Efficiency Fund (GEEREF) received approval in principle to invest 10 million euro in Greenstar Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Private Equity Fund (Greenstar). | People's Daily Online |
| |
| |
| |
'Green indices' to evaluate officials
China is mulling using environmental indices as a yardstick to evaluate the performances of local governments and officials as the country seeks to convert its development mode to a green one, experts said Sunday. | Xinhua |
| |
Obama commits nearly $2 billion to solar companies
President Barack Obama, under pressure to spur job growth, said on Saturday two solar energy companies will get nearly $2 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to create as many as 5,000 green jobs. | Reuters and AlertNet |
| |
Norway’s Sh2bn to save forest
The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Dar es Salaam has signed a contract with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) worth nearly $1.3 million (around Sh1.7 billion) to help Tanzania prepare for a new international climate change protocol involving forests. | The Citizen |
| |
Energy chief moves to smother coal-fired power plants
China's large cities should no longer construct coal-fired power plants, but give priority to the development of low-carbon energy, said Zhang Guobao, director of the National Energy Administration, at a forum of the Shanghai World Expo on Saturday. | Xinhua |
| |
Will chief sustainability officers be the next big thing in the boardroom?
Growing numbers of businesses recruiting high-level executives to lead corporate sustainability strategies | Business Green |
| |
CCDI trains stakeholders on climate change
Community Conservation and Development Initiatives has completed two-day climate change training workshops in three local governments in Lagos State. | Punchontheweb |
| |
Climate change: ‘Funding must be effective’
The Chief Executive Officer, European Climate Foundation, Mr. Jules Kortenhorst, spoke to journalists on why developed countries must keep their promises on climate change financing. Chinyere Fred-Adegbulugbe was there. | Punchontheweb |
| |
Melting ice fields pose serious threat to water supply in Asia
LOCAL PEOPLE selling trinkets and prayer flags at the Karola Pass in Tibet are looking nervously at the glacier behind, which has melted halfway up the mountain because of global warming. The ice fields at the roof of the world are shrinking. | The Irish Times |
| |
Bicol groups call on Leonardo DiCaprio
The Bicol Center for Environmental Protection (Pangataman-Bikol) has asked Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio to see the state of Albay’s environmental health in case he visits the region. | Manila Bulletin |
| |
Italy sees intermediate steps at UN climate summit
A U.N. climate summit in Mexico later this year won't broker a global accord on climate change, but may represent a positive intermediate step, the Italian environment minister said Thursday after co-hosting climate change talks. | AP |
| |
| |
| |
Chinese, Indian emissions nullified world cuts: report
A strong rise in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from China and India nullified a decline achieved by industrialised countries last year, a Dutch environmental agency said on Thursday. | AFP |
| |
Global carbon emissions steady for first time since 1992
Drop in rich countries' emissions caused by recession in 2009 was nullified by steep increases from China and India | Guardian |
| |
Agency says global carbon dioxide levels stayed flat in ’09
The world’s industrial emissions of climate-changing carbon dioxide held steady last year, as recession slowed production in rich countries while growth in China and India made up the difference, a leading monitoring agency reported yesterday. | AP |
| |
New Zealand launches emissions trading
The New Zealand government introduced an emissions trading scheme Thursday with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. | UPI |
| |
Success of Climate Plans Hinges on Energy Saving, Carbon Storage, IEA Says
Any plan for halving global greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 will depend on cutting the energy used by buildings and vehicles and on developing technology to capture and store pollution, the International Energy Agency said today. | Bloomberg |
| |
Utility-first climate bill warms up in Congress
Environmentalists and power companies are lobbying U.S. senators to put forward climate and energy legislation that would initially cap greenhouse emissions only from electric utilities, saying it's the last best chance for passing a bill this year. | Reuters |
| |
U.K. seeks to cut emissions by grounding 'binge flying'
Britain's coalition government has set out to curb the growth of what has been called "binge flying" by refusing to build new runways around London to accommodate more planes. | New York Times |
| |
Guyana's indigenous people charge land abuses
Guyana's indigenous people are accusing the government of snatching their traditional land through poor demarcation as the authorities try to benefit from a UN program to preserve the country's rainforests. | Reuters |
| |
Climate bill hopes hang on Jeff Bingaman
If brand-name senators like Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham can’t get a climate bill through the Senate, does a quiet guy like Jeff Bingaman stand a chance? | Politico |
| |
Bingaman: Do or Die Time on Energy Bill
A hot idea circulating in Washington is that congressional Democrats might try to pass climate-change legislation in the lame-duck session after the November elections. The idea has gained currency as the Senate’s calendar has grown crowded. | Wall Street Journal |
| |
| |
| |
Slovakia's new government to set tone of climate policies
The incoming Slovak government will have to define national targets based on the EU's 20/20/20 climate and energy goals. A clear national climate strategy is lacking so far, as is the clear attribution of primary institutional responsibility in this area. EurActiv Slovakia reports. | EurActiv |
| |
Brunei Aims To Be Regional 'Clean And Green' Hub
In its continued effort to promote and create a sustainable economic development for Brunei, the BEDB (Brunei Economic Development Board) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Carbon Conservation Pte Ltd, a renowned Singapore-based carbon conservation company, for the development of a green and low carbon economy for Brunei. | Borneo Bulletin |
| |
India to Raise $535 Million From Carbon Tax on Coal
India expects to raise $535 million from a levy on coal producers starting today, the first step by Asia’s third-largest energy consumer to charge companies for fossil fuel pollution. | Bloomberg |
| |
Japanese firms hawk green tech to global polluters
Japanese engineering companies, leapfrogging limited demand in matured domestic markets, are selling their energy-saving expertise directly to the world's biggest CO2 emitters including China, carving a niche in a market potentially worth at least $100 billion. | Reuters |
| |
Shell CEO Calls for Global Carbon Market to ‘Level’ the Field
Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s chief executive officer called on lawmakers and investors to move toward a global carbon market and a “level playing field” in the fight against climate change. | Bloomberg |
| |
Finnair plans to reduce emissions by 41 percent by 2017
Nordic carrier Finnair says it plans to reduce aircraft
emissions by 41 percent by 2017 through continuing fleet renewals. | IANS |
| |
Kenya Provides Sharp Increase in Sustainable-Development Spending
Kenya is significantly scaling up investments in agriculture, energy and water projects to hasten the nation's recovery from the global recession and a regional drought. | NY Times/Greenwire |
| |
U.S., U.K. military leaders address climate change's role as a global threat multiplier
Conflict brought on by droughts, famine and unwelcome migration are as old as history itself. Yet a growing number of military analysts think that climate change will exacerbate these problems worldwide and are encouraging countries to prepare to maintain order even as shrinking resources make their citizens more desperate. | Scientific American |
| |
Asia's alarming cities
IF YOU are the sort to worry at night about man-induced climate change, then book a stay at any of the new high-rise hotels going up on the edge of China’s big cities—start looking for them around the third ring road. | The Economist |
| |
Climategate Scientist Cleared in Inquiry, Again
A Pennsylvania State University investigation has found no substance behind allegations of academic misconduct by climate researcher Michael Mann, one of the central figures in the so-called 'Climategate' e-mail scandal. | Scientific American |
| |
| |
| |
| Redesigning the International Approach to Climate Change | Huffington Post |
| |
Climate talks under way in Rome
Representatives of some of the world's most polluting nations opened discussions Wednesday on ways to verify that countries like China and India will meet their pledges to reduce emissions blamed for climate change. | AP |
| |
Increasingly global outlook necessary to help less developed countries adapt to climate change: UN report
Adjusting world economic systems to help countries, particularly the less developed ones, adapt to climate change will be essential in upcoming years, a report form the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) has concluded while the high-level segment of the DESA entered its third day Wednesday. | Xinhua |
| |
India for reintroduction of equity in climate talks
India wants the quantity of carbon the developing world could emit clearly spelt out in future climate deal. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh expects the deal to be signed in Mexico in December. | Hindustan Times |
| |
The Africa Progress Panel Says World Leaders Must Honour Pledge to Provide Additional Annual U.S.$100 Billion in Climate Finance by 2020
The Africa Progress Panel will today launch a new report arguing that additional public financing is required for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, climate-change adaptation and mitigation of greenhouse-gas emissions in Africa. | allAfrica.com |
| |
Africa Climate Change Adaptation Needs Major Donor Commitment
A new report says if Africa is going to adapt to climate change, donor countries must honor their pledge to help pay for it. | Voice of America |
| |
Bulgaria suspended from U.N. Kyoto carbon trade
Bulgaria has been suspended from United Nations carbon trading for violating greenhouse reporting rules set under the Kyoto Protocol, a key tool to fight climate change, the Bulgarian environment ministry said on Tuesday. | Reuters |
| |
Latin Americans Add Fizz to All Sides in 2010 Climate Talks
Long overshadowed by other continents with larger greenhouse gas emitters, more vulnerable ecosystems or more investment-attractive energy markets, Latin and South American countries have not historically been recognized as major players in international climate talks. | The New York Times |
| |
EU climate policy said costly with tiny benefits
European Union plans to fight climate change until 2020 will cost hundreds of billions of dollars but give scant benefits, a study commissioned by a self-styled "Skeptical Environmentalist" said on Thursday. | Reuters |
| |
Czechs under fire over EU climate target
Both ecologists and companies investing in renewable energies have criticised the approach of the Czech government towards the 20/20/20 climate goals in the EU's 'Europe 2020' strategy. | EurActiv |
| |
| |
| |
New Zealand launches emissions trading scheme
New Zealand launched an emissions trading scheme Thursday in a bid to curb the greenhouse gases responsible for climate change but the scheme has angered both businesses and environmentalists. | AFP |
| |
Japan supports Vietnam in monitoring greenhouse gas emissions
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment have signed an agreement on technical cooperation for "Capacity Building for National Greenhouser Gas Inventory in Vietnam" project. | VietNamNet Bridge |
| |
Caribbean Summit Seeks United Front to Economic Crisis
Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders are gathering here next week for their annual summit still struggling to recover from the two-year global economic and financial crisis that has taken a major toll on their individual economies. | IPS |
| |
German Climate Goals Tied To Nuclear Power: Lobby
German energy group BDEW on Wednesday called for an extension of the country's nuclear reactor lifespan, stressing the role of the carbon free technology in helping to meet national climate reduction goals.20 | Reuters |
| |
Downturn causes sharp drop in British emissions: study
Britain's greenhouse gas emissions fell by 8.6 percent in 2009, but this was largely because of the recession and levels will likely rise as economic growth returns, a study said Wednesday. | AFP |
| |
CCC second annual report – at a glance
The independent Committee on Climate Change (CCC) today published its second annual report, issuing a stark warning that the UK must deliver a "step change" in the pace at which underlying greenhouse emissions are reduced if it is to meet legally binding targets to reduce emissions by at least 34 per cent on 1990 levels by 2020. | BusinessGreen |
| |
Kyoto CO2 Offset Issuances Grind To Crawl In June
June has been the worst month in over a year for the issuance of UN-backed carbon offsets, data compiled by Reuters showed, as auditor suspensions, bottlenecks and possible rule changes hinder requests from projects. | Reuters |
| |
Canada: Torys on Climate Change
The value of the global carbon market grew to more than US$143.7 billion in 2009, up from US$135 billion in 2008, despite a 0.6% decline in global GDP, according to a new World Bank report. | Mondaq |
| |
Deutsche Bank and Government of Ecuador pioneer carbon trading household energy efficiency
Deutsche Bank and the Government of Ecuador have entered into a pioneering transaction to finance household energy efficiency in Ecuador through the carbon market.
| WebWire |
| |
Funds tap into GCC's carbon market
As news of some clean development mechanism projects initiated by the GCC governments begins to spread, funds managed by banks and financial institutions are descending on the region to tap CERs, or Certified Emission Reduction units, that can be traded on European climate exchanges. | Zawya |
| |
| |
| |
Climate science: An erosion of trust?
Many climate researchers worry that scepticism about global warming is on the rise. Jeff Tollefson investigates the basis for that concern and what scientists are doing about it. | Nature News |
| |
What weathermen know about climate change
Climate change is a topic that impacts the weather not only globally, but also locally. While some people may be concerned about the melting ice sheets at the far corners of the Earth, what most really want to know is "how will global warming affect me?" — and they often turn to their local weatherperson to find out. | Minn Post |
| |
Developing countries 'must feel benefit of climate action'
Developing nations must feel the benefits of fighting global warming otherwise lasting success will be impossible, a senior US climate advisor said during a visit to Gabon's capital Monday. | AFP |
| |
Obama "confident" to pass climate bill this year
U.S. President Barack Obama met with a bipartisan group of senators Tuesday in the White House on climate and clean energy bill, and said he's confident they can " get something done this year." | Xinhua |
| |
India, China seen partly out of carbon mkt post 2012
India and China, among the world's worst polluters, may lose some of their share in the international carbon market after 2012 while the United States could become the major buyer of emission offsets by then, a top official with a carbon advisory told Reuters on Tuesday. | Reuters |
| |
Michael Mann says hockey stick should not have become 'climate change icon'
The scientist behind the controversial 'hockey stick' graph has said it was 'somewhat misplaced' to make his work an 'icon of the climate change debate'. | Telegraph |
| |
UN Confirms All-Out Ban on Bulgaria's Carbon Emissions Trade
The United Nations Compliance Committee of the Kyoto Protocol has confirmed a previously expected measure effectively prohibiting Bulgaria from trading with greenhouse gas emission quotas. | Sofia News Agency |
| |
CDM offset assessors face fresh criticism
WWF-backed report finds companies assessing emission reduction projects are approving projects that are later rejected | BusinessGreen |
| |
Germany setting up $500 million climate fund
Germany has set up a $500 million climate fund to micro-finance projects such as new supermarket freezers or biomass heating in developing countries to help cut greenhouse gases, Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen said Tuesday. | AP |
| |
Pakistan may get FDI worth $1.7bn from 120 CDM projects: minister
Pakistan is likely to get foreign direct investment worth 1.715 billion dollars from the 120 clean development mechanism (CDM) projects that are in the pipeline, said Federal Minister for Environment Hameedullah Jan Afridi on Monday. | The News |
| |
| |
| |
Obama to meet key climate bill senators today
President Barack Obama is to meet with key Democrat and Republican senators later today to discuss how to move forward with controversial climate change and energy legislation ahead of November's mid-term elections. | BusinessGreen |
| |
No Consensus as Obama, Senators Discuss Energy Bill
President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged lawmakers to put a price on carbon pollution in an upcoming Senate energy bill, but a meeting at the White House ended with no consensus, according to some senators and congressional aides. | Reuters |
| |
Cameroon's 'custodians of tradition' join fight against climate change
The Cameroon government has initiated a process to integrate local communities in the management of country's forests and wildlife | AlertNet |
| |
Flannery urges Govt to push carbon reduction scheme
Former Australian of the Year, Professor Tim Flannery, has told delegates at the Climate Adaptation Futures conference on Queensland's Gold Coast that it is vital a carbon pollution reduction scheme (CPRS) is introduced. | ABC News |
| |
Adapt or mitigate?
As if the task of implementing credible climate change policies is not already difficult enough, governments are now finding themselves under increasing pressure to make a vexatious choice – to mitigate or adapt. | Business Spectator |
| |
Masdar project will not be scaled back - Al Jaber
Masdar, the Abu Dhabi government-backed renewable-energy company, is not scaling back its plans, Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the project's CEO has said. | ArabianBusiness.com |
| |
Years wasted in climate battle, study says
A decade has been wasted in the fight to reduce greenhouse gas emissions because official policies have failed to deliver, according to a critical assessment from the government's Committee on Climate Change. | Financial Times |
| |
Funding plans for green investment bank draw detractors
Doubts were raised over prospects for funding the government's planned green investment bank, as businesses welcomed the proposals yesterday but said they lacked detail. | Financial Times |
| |
Scientists to heat terrain in climate test
U.S. scientists say they are planning a large-scale ecosystem experiment in Alaska to test the effect of global warming on arctic terrain. | UPI |
| |
Right climate for energy peg
The broad acceptance at Copenhagen of a 2° C temperature guard rail to avoid catastrophic impact of climate change has meant accepting a limit to the amount of carbon countries can emit. | Economic Times |
| |
| |
| |
U.S. Law Key Ahead Of Climate Talks: EU
The United States would send a positive signal by passing domestic legislation to fight global warming ahead of U.N. climate talks in November, the EU's climate chief said on Monday. | Reuters |
| |
AUSTRALIA: New PM Called On to Tackle Climate Change
Australia’s newly appointed prime minister, Julia Gillard, has hardly warmed her seat, yet she has already been urged to take action on climate change. | IPS |
| |
Jairam Ramesh calls for carbon budgeting to ensure equity
Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday said that India cannot accept any international agreement without equity and insisted on equitable access to global atmospheric space. | The Hindu |
| |
AFED Message to Arab Leaders: A chance is at hand to achieve progress in climate negotiations
The Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) disclosed during a ceremony in Amman, under the Patronage of His Majesty King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein, a memorandum that AFED had sent to Arab leaders on the preparations for the climate change negotiations at the Cancun Summit in December. | Zawya |
| |
U.S. Promises $136 Million In Climate Aid To Indonesia
The United States will spend $136 million over three years on environment and climate change programs in Indonesia, according to a statement issued by the White House on Monday. | Reuters |
| |
'We have not used any carbon space'
India will push for an atmospheric space that can be equally partitioned with various countries via a global carbon budget during the next six months in the run up to the climate change conference at Cancun later this year. | Hindustan Times |
| |
Money for Emissions — How to Implement the Potential of the Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol and Russia — you could say their relations were sour from the start. It took five years from when the protocol was signed until it was ratified and another four years to create a system for implementing its mechanisms. | The Moscow Times |
| |
More refugees to come unless rich nations help poor with climate change: UN scientist
MORE refugees will knock on Australia's door unless rich countries help poorer nations cope with climate change, a key UN scientist has warned. | The Australian |
| |
Cancun Talks Should Focus On 'Specific Items' for Agreement
December's global climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, should focus on areas where agreements could realistically be reached, leaving the debate on a legal framework for the deal to next year's conference in SA, European Union (EU) climate change commissioner Connie Hedegaard said yesterday. | Business Day |
| |
G20 Summit Drops Clean-Energy Pledge
The leaders of the world's 20 most powerful developed and developing states (G20) on Sunday dropped a pledge to invest in climate-friendly energy generation from their final summit statement. | HispanicBusiness.com |
| |
| |
| |
Scientists to heat terrain in climate test
U.S. scientists say they are planning a large-scale ecosystem experiment in Alaska to test the effect of global warming on arctic terrain. | UPI |
| |
Green power an easy win for Australia-scientists
Australia's new leader should ramp up renewable energy use and enshrine tougher energy efficiency standards to fight global warming, leading climate scientists said on Tuesday, describing them as easy policy wins. | Reuters |
| |
Tackling Deforestation Must Be Key Focus in Fight Against Climate Change
While the global community is fighting wars on many fronts, the Commonwealth Secretary-General has said that there is no greater fight than climate change, "where the battle for the forest represents the front line, and the very thick of the action." | Commonwealth News and Information Service |
| |
Arctic Overreacts to Climate Change
Geological research shows that whenever Earth heats up a few degrees, the Arctic gets three times as warm. | Discovery News |
| |
Emissions auditors get poor grades for second year
Firms that audit greenhouse gas-cutting projects approved under a Kyoto Protocol carbon offset scheme received poor grades from green groups for a second year, a report said on Monday. | Reuters |
| |
Learn To Live With Less So That Others Can Continue Living
The impacts of climate change are now nowhere more visible than on the lives of billions of poor farmers around the world. In the last 50 years the world population has more than doubled -- from 3 billion in 1959 to 6.7 billion in 2009. | InDepth NewsViewpoint |
| |
The greening of global growth
(Achim Steiner and Pavan Sukhdev)
Green investments are assisting economic recovery and job growth in many countries, while generating environmental gains as well, including on climate change. | Gulf Times |
| |
Low Carbon a Shared Challenge for Asia and Europe
It's no secret: international efforts to curb global warming continue to divide Asia and Europe. | InDepth NewsViewpoint |
| |
'Climate conference in Cancun should produce realistic result'
Underlining the need to build on the outcome of the climate change conference in Copenhagen, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for "a realistic result" at the upcoming climate meet in Cancun at the end of the year.
| PTI |
| |
G20: Ban urges green investments
In a continued push to keep the poorest and most vulnerable at the forefront of international discussions, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday urged leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) to scale up investment in clean energy and green economy as part of the effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). | IBNS |
| |
| |
| |
UN chief calls on rich countries to honor promise of climate financing
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday called on industrialized countries "to make good on their promises" financing the developing countries in their efforts to fight against climate change. | Xinhua |
| |
Obama, Yudhoyono boost climate change, education programs
US President Barack Obama and Indonesian leader Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono agreed in talks Sunday to initiate programs to fight climate change and boost education. | AFP |
| |
G8 leaders committed to emissions cut, low carbon, biological diversity
Leaders of the eight industrialized nations reiterated their willingness to share with all countries the goal of achieving at least a 50 percent reduction of global emissions by 2050. | Xinhua |
| |
G-20 climate pact erases word 'voluntary' from efforts to cut oil-firm subsidies
International negotiators, under pressure from the Obama administration, agree to omit the term when describing efforts to cut production and consumption incentives. Summit also focuses on arriving at a consensus on the global economic crisis. | Los Angeles Times |
| |
Nigeria Seeks Access to $30bn Climate Fund
The Federal Government has said the $30 billion financial pledges made by the industrialised nations towards tackling the problem of Climate Change would only have a meaningful impact on developing nations, including Nigeria when the latter could easily access the funds. | This Day |
| |
Hedegaard: 'Tax what you burn, not what you earn'
'Don't tax what you earn, tax what you burn' should be the EU's response to safeguarding our welfare societies, EU Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard told EurActiv in an interview, expressing support for an EU carbon tax. | EurActiv |
| |
Nigeria Signs Copenhagen Climate Accord
Nigeria a couple of months ago endorsed the Copenhagen Accord when she submitted a letter in May to the United Nations indicating her association with the document. However, Nigeria did not provide any specific emission reduction targets as part of its commitment to the Accord. | Daily Independent |
| |
Concerns raised over carbon capture
A new study claims there are unanswered questions about carbon capture and storage (CSS) and the impact of leakage on global warming. | ABC News |
| |
Forestry Law Reforms Augur More Disasters
While the Brazilian authorities tally the death toll and the economic losses caused by recent torrential rains in the northeast, activists warn that a legislative bill to modify the Forestry Code will only worsen the effects of extreme weather, which is increasingly frequent in the context of climate change. | IPS |
| |
Climate change brings back endangered butterfly
The large blue butterfly went extinct in the UK in 1979 despite a prolonged campaign by conservationists to try and save the species. | Telegraph |
| |
| |
| |
| Global warming fight fizzles (Editorial) | Japan Times |
| |
| Copenhagen to Cancun - Lessons, opportunities (by Achim Steiner) | New Nation |
| |
| Cameron leads at G8 – but the others fail to follow | Telegraph |
| |
Leaked G20 text reveals prominent role for climate change
But draft communiqué also suggests plan to phase out fossil fuel subsidies will be watered down | BusinessGreen, |
| |
UN talks chief 'appalled' over climate change response
Outgoing UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said Thursday he was "appalled" at the international community's response to climate change, after the failure of last year's Copenhagen summit on global warming. | AFP |
| |
Dire climate change warning to Australia
A dire warning will be delivered to Australia when almost 1000 delegates from around the world arrive on the Gold Coast next week for the country's first international conference on the science of climate change, and how to adapt to it. | AAP |
| |
EU carbon tax kicked into the long grass
European commissioners are in a holding pattern over whether to introduce a tax on carbon across the EU, a proposal that if backed by the EU executive could prove to be one of the most controversial and bitterly fought over pieces of legislation Brussels has mooted in years. | EUOBSERVER |
| |
Climate change debate to get radical overhaul
Leaders will approve plan to break deadlock on getting emissions deal | The Star |
| |
Green economy lags, G20 can be new spur-UNEP
World investments in a greener economy are lagging despite some success even in poor nations and the G20 summit this weekend is a chance to catch up, the head of the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) said. | Reuters |
| |
Top emitters meet in Rome to iron out climate issues
As it becomes clear that a global deal might elude Cancun, agreements on key issues can be expected at the December conference in Mexico. | The Economic Times |
| |
| |
| |
Energy Star Helps Auto Plants Improve Energy Efficiency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program has helped improve the energy efficiency of the auto manufacturing industry, which has cut fossil fuel use by 12 percent and reduced greenhouse gases by more than 700,000 tons of carbon dioxide, according to a recent report by the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. | EPA |
| |
Japanese to sleep early to cut carbon emissions
Japan has asked its citizens to go to bed one hour earlier than normal and get up early in order to help tackle climate change. | New Kerala |
| |
Indonesian leader touts 'global safety net', climate fund
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Thursday he would push proposals for a "global safety net" to rescue the world economy from financial turmoil when he attends this weekend's G20 summit. | Agence France-Presse |
| |
Climate Change Complicates Plant Diseases Of The Future
Human-driven changes in the earth's atmospheric composition are likely to alter plant diseases of the future. | RedOrbit |
| |
Defense Experts Press for Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Climate Change
National security experts said climate forecasters often focus on averages, or the most likely scenario, without determining the probability of an extreme climate shift | Scientific America - Climatewire |
| |
Europe Moves Closer To Electric Car Infrastructure
Europe's carmakers moved a step closer creating an infrastructure for electric cars after agreeing on plug and socket standards for slow or overnight charging of the battery-driven vehicles due to hit roads from next year. | Reuters |
| |
Migratory species face disaster from climate change, UN-backed report warns
Migratory species face disaster from the effects of climate change unless urgent action is taken, according to the preliminary findings of a forthcoming United Nations-backed report. | UN News Centre |
| |
Green Economy: An Imperative to Achieving Economic Recovery & Environmental Sustainability (Editorial by Achim Steiner and Pavan Sukhdev)
The G20 summit in Canada offers an opportunity for a hard, long look at how green investments are assisting recovery in many countries while generating employment and environmental gains including on climate change. | UNEP |
| |
Obama delays meeting on climate, energy
President Barack Obama indefinitely postponed meetings that were set for Wednesday with lawmakers from both parties on efforts to pass a climate change and energy bill. | AFP |
| |
UN climate panel names authors for 5th report
The U.N. science body on climate change has released a list of 831 scientists who will write its fifth report on global warming. | AP |
| |
| |
| |
UN body hails Korea’s 'green' growth initiative
An official at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a body behind the annual U.N. climate change conference, hailed the Korean government for increasing efforts to establish the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI).
| The Korea Times |
| |
Global Media Forum ends by urging people to learn to live with less
How do we confront climate change in the future? That's the question 1,500 participants grappled with over three days at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum in Bonn. | Deutsche Welle |
| |
Climate fund under Copenhagen Accord yet to be materialised: JS
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said Bangladesh in association with EU and Group 77/China is making all-out efforts to convince the developed countries to agree to release the Fast Start Fund for climate change. | The New Nation |
| |
G20 draft communique stresses climate change, development and financial crisis
The environment is grabbing a growing part of the G20 summit agenda, despite Prime Minister Stephen Harper's hopes of strictly limiting the discussions to the global economy. | The Canadian Press |
| |
White House Cancellation Frustrates Backers of Senate Climate Bill
A White House decision to punt a pivotal energy and climate meeting slated for this morning has supporters of a global warming bill concerned that it could be even tougher to clear legislation this year. | The New York Times - ClimateWire |
| |
No hurry on climate change - Gillard
Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she is in no hurry to start emissions trading, resisting pressure from green groups to take faster action on climate change.
| Sky News |
| |
Gillard hints at policy changes
Julia Gillard has moved quickly to distance herself from the policy failings of the Rudd government, declaring a truce with miners and restating her commitment to combating climate change. | AAP |
| |
New Australian PM backs price on carbon
New Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Thursday she believed in climate change and would push for a national price on carbon but much more consultation with industry and voters was crucial. | The Huffington Post |
| |
Japan Provide 27 Billion Yen for Emission Reduction in Indonesia
The Japanese government unveiled today (23/6) a 27.19 billion yen loan for climate change and emission reduction programme for Indonesian government which should be repaid within 15 years with annual interest of 0.15 percent. | TEMPO Interactive |
| |
Canada To Invest Added C$400M On International Climate Change
The Canadian government said Wednesday it will invest an additional C$400 million this fiscal year to help with international climate-change efforts, an announcement that comes just days before the country hosts the G-8 and G-20 Summits. | The Wall Street Journal |
| |
| |
| |
Government of Canada Makes Major Investment to International Climate Change
Today, the Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of the Environment, announced that the Government of Canada is delivering on its commitment under the Copenhagen Accord to help the poorest and most vulnerable countries with their efforts to fight climate change. | Marketwire |
| |
Australian Senate passes renewable energy laws
Australia's parliament endorsed revised renewable energy laws on Wednesday in a move aimed at unlocking billions of dollars in clean energy investment and bolster the government's green credentials ahead of elections | Reuters |
| |
London appoints new climate czar
London appointed the founder of an environmental policy department as its special envoy for climate change, the British foreign secretary announced. | UPI |
| |
Asian Development Bank to raise funding for clean energy programme
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) pledged Wednesday to raise funding for clean energy programmes aimed at mitigating climate change. | DPA |
| |
ICC calls on G8 and G20 to keep markets open
In the wake of one of the most challenging years in business history, ICC has called on G8 and G20 leaders meeting in Toronto this week to take action in three areas that are crucial to the future of the world economy: international trade and investment; climate change and energy; and intellectual property and innovation.
| Finchannel |
| |
NY exhibit imagines utopian, green cities in 2030
In New York, a two-mile stretch of the FDR Drive parkway is torn down to open lower Manhattan for parks and plazas, and bicyclists are given their own lane on the Brooklyn Bridge. | AP |
| |
Why the Senate needs to keep the Change in Climate change (opinion)
With the exception of perhaps Rep. Joe Barton, all Americans are alarmed by the pictures coming from the Gulf of Mexico. | The Huffington Post |
| |
President Convenes Senators for Final Chance at Climate Bill This Year
President Obama will attempt to seize control of the Senate's splintered climate debate tomorrow with a goal to achieve some greenhouse gas emission restrictions before midterm elections. | The New York Times - ClimateWire |
| |
Obama to renew push for climate change action from Senate
Barack Obama will today make a renewed push to spur the US Senate into action on climate change, saying the BP oil spill underlines the urgency for the country to lessen its dependence on fossil fuels. | Financial Times |
| |
Climate change: The media must inform and educate
People all over the world continue to see climate change as a threat. The majority expect the media to not only inform the public about climate change, but also educate them about its consequences.
| Ghana News Agency |
| |
| |
| |
UK government urged to extend carbon capture programme
The UK government should extend its programme to develop technology that will trap carbon emissions from coal-fired plants to include gas power stations, it was urged yesterday. | Times of Malta |
| |
Australia Will Maintain 20% Renewable Energy Target, Wong Says
The Australian government will keep a target of generating 20 percent of the nation’s energy from renewable sources by 2020 while amending planned legislation, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said. | Bloomberg |
| |
Energy
China to tap more unconventional gas to ease energy shortage
China is set to exploit more unconventional gas reserves to meet rising demand and to power its rapid economic growth as part of the country's efforts to grapple with energy shortages and climate change. | Xinhua |
| |
Experto Crede: Climate Expertise Lacking among Global Warming Contrarians
A mathematician in Alberta, an oceanographer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a darling of climate change contrarians share a rare distinction in a new analysis of expertise about global warming. | Scientific American |
| |
Ghanaian Scientists complain of low media coverage
Ghanaian Scientists attending the 2010 Global Media Forum in Bonn, Germany, on Tuesday complained of low media coverage of their activities, but the journalists countered by saying that they have rather not been forthcoming. | Ghana News Agency |
| |
More wins needed in climate talks - World Bank (Interview)
World climate talks set for November in Mexico could make progress on how poorer states cope with global warming, but more wins are needed at the table to produce a big breakthrough at the long-running talks, a senior World Bank official said. | Reuters |
| |
30 nations to meet in Nepal
Nepal is all set to organise the first high level meeting of the ministers of more than thirty mountainous countries in Kathmandu in September. | The Himalayan |
| |
Ozone treaty greenhouse gas proposals face battle
Developing countries may thwart a North American effort to reduce the global use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a potent greenhouse gas, a UN official said on Tuesday. | Reuters |
| |
Agrogeological farming saves climate, feeds billions
Agroecological farming, which improves food production and farmers' incomes while at the same time protecting the soil, water and climate, could feed an estimated world population of nine billion people by 2050 and go a long way to save the climate, if implemented now, experts at a United Nations seminar concluded on Tuesday. | The New Kerala |
| |
Sub-regional training workshop emphasizes need for proper management, sustainable use of environment in Africa
The week-long sub regional training workshop on strategic environmental assessment to broaden the understanding of high level decision makers on the use of strategic environment assessment as a tool to promote sustainable development in the sub-region has been opened here in the capital of Gambia, with participants stressing the need for proper management, sustainable use of environment in Africa.
| Xinhua |
| |
| |
| |
Carbon Gap Narrows on Outlook for Fewer Credits: Energy Markets
The gap between carbon permits in the European Union and United Nations markets reached the narrowest in three months on speculation that the world organization will restrict credits for hydrofluorocarbons. | Bloomberg |
| |
New Survey Shows More People Are Not Concerned About Climate Change
A new survey shows that more people think climate change is nothing to worry about. | Voice of America |
| |
'We're financing UN on conservation of forests'
Norway pledged $1 billion to Indonesia from its public money to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). | The Times of India |
| |
Voters to decide on California global warming law
An initiative that seeks to suspend California's landmark global warming law until unemployment drops qualified Tuesday for the November election ballot. | AP |
| |
Climate Change: The Women Step In
The negative effects of climate change on our world are becoming quite alarming. Unfortunately, most of the efforts to slow down the effects have so far been unsuccessful. But there is renewed hope as some women decide to step in. | This Day |
| |
Utilities split on climate compromise
Power companies are split on a possible climate bill that would target only utilities, exempting transportation and manufacturing. | UPI |
| |
Study examines scientists' 'climate credibility'
Some 98% of climate scientists that publish research on the subject support the view that human activities are warming the planet, a study suggests. | BBC News |
| |
Can President Obama forge a compromise on an energy bill? (Editorial)
PRESIDENT OBAMA will bring senators to the White House soon in another attempt to achieve bipartisan accord on energy and climate policy. | The Washington Post |
| |
UK leads the world in wind technology in a bid to be carbon neutral by 2030
The UK currently the world leader in offshore wind technology and ranked 8th in the world amongst users of wind power, bids to be carbon neutral by 2030 by stressing the importance of wind power. | The Independent |
| |
Michael McCarthy: The less said the better about the planet, but there are cuts to come
Green cuts are coming – the environment will be affected like everything else. But it will take several months before they become apparent. | The Independent |
| |
| |
| |
G20 should focus on green measures for growth: U.N.
Leaders of the group of 20 developing countries (G20) should focus on environment-friendly measures to promote global economic recovery, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said. | IANS |
| |
Climate Bill Backers Enter Critical Week
With time running out for the U.S. Senate to debate complicated and controversial climate change legislation, key players will huddle this week to try to come up with a plan for passing an energy/environment bill this year. | Reuters |
| |
Continent Told to Lead Climate Change War
African nations have been told to play a leading role in climate change instead of waiting for western countries. | Daily Nation |
| |
Bonn conference focuses on global responsibility for climate change
What role does the media play in curbing climate change? That's the question a diverse group of participants will grapple with at Deutsche Welle's annual Global Media Forum in Bonn which opens on June 21. | Deutsche Welle |
| |
Environmental politics today is about foreign policy and international security
Environmental politics today is about foreign policy and international security, Mr Werner Hoyer, Minister of State from the German Federal Foreign Office, said at the opening of the 2010 Global Media Forum under the theme: "The Heat is On - Climate Change and the Media" currently taking place in Bonn, Germany from June 21-23. | Ghana News Agency |
| |
‘People don’t want green-washing methods, they want green solutions’
Hermann Scheer, Betrand Piccard and Felix Finkbeiner at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum.
German Minister of State Werner Hoyer thanks Yvo de Boer for his commitment to the environment. | PR-inside |
| |
Despite Rough Ride on Climate, Yvo de Boer Departs an Optimist
For four years, Yvo de Boer, executive director of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, has faced the daunting challenge of persuading nearly 200 nations that it’s in their interests to begin weaning themselves from the fossil fuels that make the world go ‘round. | Environment 360 |
| |
South Korea May Pass Emissions Law This Year, Analyst Says
South Korea, Asia’s fourth-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, may pass a law this year to create an emissions-trading market and set energy-use limits for industries, a consultant said. | Bloomberg |
| |
RI’s emissions up but still below global average: BMKG
Indonesia’s carbon emissions increased in tandem with the country’s economic growth over the last four years, but are lower than the global average, says a government report. | Jakarta Post |
| |
Developments and scope of financial crises and climate change in Maghreb region
Developments and the scope of the world financial crisis, climate change and great changes in the Maghreb region were the major themes discussed by participants in the Sixth International Symposium of the El Manar University which started on Monday in Hammamet. | Agence Tunis Afrique Presse |
| |
| |
| |
UN May Complete Review of HFC-23 Credits by August
The United Nations may complete by August its review on the awarding of carbon credits for the emission of greenhouse gases more damaging than carbon dioxide, an official said. | Bloomberg |
| |
India cuts carbon stockpile, no rush to sell rest
Developers of Indian clean-energy projects have winnowed down a stockpile of U.N.-backed carbon offsets, but are in no rush to sell the remainder as they hold out for higher prices. | Reuters |
| |
Climate change will have 'mixed' effect on Asian rivers
Two of Asia's 'water towers', the Brahmaputra and Indus river basins, are likely to be severely affected by climate change while others will be less affected and could even benefit, research on Asia's rivers shows. | SciDev |
| |
Climate change sceptic scientists 'less prominent and authoritative'
Scientists who believe in man-made climate change are more esteemed than those who actively oppose the concept, according to a new paper. | Telegraph |
| |
New Study Reaffirms Scientific Consensus on Climate Change
A paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) underscores the widespread consensus among climate scientists that human activity is driving climate change. The paper will be available by the end of the day online and is available by emailing the PNAS staff. | Union of Concerned Scientists |
| |
Oil spill pushes carbon tax back into spotlight
Ever since 1993, when President Bill Clinton's plan to tax fuels was demolished by energy industry lobbyists, farmers, aluminum makers, anti-tax groups, conservative Senate Democrats and Republicans, energy taxes have been Washington's shortcut to political suicide. | San Francisco Chronicle |
| |
Protection for Climate Change Refugees
The World Council of Churces (WCC) has released a paper from a conference held earlier this year, entitled Conference on Protection and Reparations from “Climate Refugees”: Imperatives and Options. | Christian Today |
| |
Development projects increasing cyclone vulnerability, experts warn
India's mineral-rich Orissa State is fast becoming a hub for investment. But experts warn poorly-planned development projects are threatening its mangrove forests, which offer vital protection against the cyclones that regularly batter India's east coast. | AlertNet |
| |
Solomons plans climate conference
Solomon Islands is aiming to hold an international climate change conference in the capital, Honiara. | Radio Australia News |
| |
| The Obligations of Leadership (Kamalesh Sharma and Abdou Diouf) | Scoop |
| |
| |
| |
Climate Change Could Affect Our Growth (opinion)
Climate change is a major threat to sustainable growth and development in Africa, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, hence urgent action is needed. | New Era |
| |
Journalists should not forget climate change, say experts
A British study shows journalists are overlooking the issue of global warming in favor of more sensational stories, an issue that will be discussed at this year's Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum. | Deutsche Welle |
| |
Journalists and Scientists to discuss climate change at Global Media Forum
Journalists and Scientist will discuss at the 2010 Global Media Forum, "Covering Climate Change in West Africa" and find ways of collaborating to educate the people to appreciate the need to stem the looming danger. | Ghana News Agency |
| |
Japan, France commit US$134 million for fighting climate change in Vietnam
As 22 million people in Vietnam may lose their home because of climate change, Japan and France have formed a foundation to help Vietnam prevent this danger. | Vietnam Net |
| |
APEC Ministers Discuss Oil Spill Impact, Renewable Energy Use
Energy ministers from the 21-country Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum met in Fukui, Japan, June 18-20 against a backdrop of growing concern over the impact of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and of global efforts to promote the use of clean energy sources to combat climate change. | The Wall Street Journal |
| |
APEC agrees to promote nuclear power: reports
Asia-Pacific ministers and officials agreed Saturday to promote renewable sources and nuclear power in a bid to maintain energy security and cut greenhouse gas emissions in the region. | AFP |
| |
EIB, European Commission to explore EU climate finance initiative
European Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard and European Investment Bank (EIB) President Philippe Maystadt agreed on Monday to explore a joint climate finance initiative for developing countries as part of the European Union commitment made at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen last December. | Act Media |
| |
British Newspaper Apologizes to Climate Scientist
In 2007, the top United Nations climate body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the Amazon was vulnerable to drought as a result of trends linked to climate change. | The New York Times |
| |
Curbing greenhouse gases
GOVERNMENTS have moved closer to curbing the use of chemicals commonly used as coolants in refrigerators, air conditioners, hair spray and other household items in what some say would be among their biggest climate decisions ever.
| AP |
| |
UK time change 'would save CO2 emissions'
Moving the clocks forward one hour would save hundreds of thousands of tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, campaigners say. | BBC News |
| |
| |
| |
Yellow Sub Finds Clues To Antarctic Glacier's Thaw
A huge fragment of a giant iceberg is seen through the window of an airplane, floating toward Tierra del Fuego, the tip of South America shared by Argentina and Chile. | Reuters |
| |
Climate change to impact on sugar plantations
The vast tracts of sugar plantations in the so-called sugar capital of the country might not escape the harsh impact of the escalating climate change. | The Philippine Star |
| |
Initiating Moves To Climate-proof Africa
Discouraged by the outcome of the Copenhagen climate summit last December as well as how negotiations at the just concluded talks in Bonn in Germany seem to have turned out, developing nations made up of mainly those from Africa are now looking inwards as a way out of the dilemma. | Daily Independent |
| |
Netherlands calls for clarity and transparency regarding funding for climate measures in developing countries
Greater clarity about the short-term funding of climate policy in developing countries is required. During the Environmental Council of 11 June, Dutch Minister Huizinga of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM) requested that her fellow environmental ministers provide more clear-cut information on the subject. Many countries agree that this transparency is important and plays a crucial role in climate negotiations. | Energyportal.eu |
| |
Lizard that Outlived Dinosaurs May Go Extinct from Climate Change
Ancient lizards from the time of dinosaurs may go extinct due to climate change in the coming decades. | Planetsave |
| |
Climate Change: ninety percent man made
The effects of climate change will be felt more by tropical and sub tropical countries than other regions, said Head Sustainability and Business Excellence Services (South Asia) Det Norske Veritas, Santhosh Jayaram. | Sunday Observer |
| |
Greenhouse Gases Causing Dramatic Oceanic Changes
The ways an ocean function have changed dramatically, scientists warn, because of the growing atmospheric concentrations of man-made greenhouse gases.
| Med India |
| |
Low Carbon Growth in Brazil
Brazil could reduce its gross greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by up to 37 percent between 2010 and 2030, while at the same time maintaining the development goals set out by the government for that period, without negatively affecting growth or jobs, says a new World Bank study of low carbon development scenarios in Brazil. | infoZine |
| |
India's 'climate change chair' at US design fest
A steel-and-fabric chair named "0.76 Celsius" will showcase India's concern on climate change at a prestigious US furniture and lifestyle design show and looking on will be high-end buyers from Beverly Hills and Hollywood. | Indo-Asian News Service |
| |
An alternative eco-festival going against the 'green'
There was a dark cloud over the sleepy Welsh town of Llangollen last month -- literally and metaphorically -- as a group of around 400 environmentalists camped out under swirling curtains of summer drizzle to debate the collapse of industrial society. | CNN |
| |
| |
| |
Japan delays emissions trading laws
Japan is the latest developed nation to see emissions trading plans delayed but has vowed to see legislation passed in time for the UN climate conference in Mexico at the end of the year. | Carbonpositive |
| |
Brazil calls for common position among Amazonian countries for COP16
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended on Wednesday a common position of the Amazonian countries on climate and environmental issues to be discussed at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP16) to be held in Cancun, Mexico, in December. | Xinhua |
| |
White House Seeks to Bolster Role in Senate Climate Talks
The White House is trying to assert its influence over the Senate climate debate after President Obama's nationwide energy address left some questioning how aggressively the president will push for comprehensive climate and energy legislation. | The New York Times |
| |
Climate heat on O from both parties
President Obama was skewered from the right yesterday for using the Gulf oil spill to advance his climate-change agenda, and at the same time lambasted from the left for not giving concrete guidance to get that legislation approved.
| The New York Post |
| |
China's energy policy leans toward supply
China's draft energy policy focuses on securing resources for the future more than slowing harmful greenhouse emissions, a Chinese environmental expert said. | UPI |
| |
Security Tops the Environment in China’s Energy Plan
When President Obama called this week for a “national mission” to expand the use of clean energy and increase American energy independence, Chinese officials might have nodded knowingly. | The New York Times |
| |
Guyana's president says binding climate change agreement at Cancun 'highly unlikely'
President of Guyana Bharrat Jagdeo believes a binding climate change agreement at the upcoming United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Cancun, Mexico is highly unlikely based on recent financial developments in Europe. | Caribbean Net News |
| |
EIB, Banks To Launch Mediterranean Carbon Fund
Five European public financial institutions on Thursday said they are developing a fund to finance low-carbon projects in poor Mediterranean nations, which could eventually grow to 200 million euros ($245.3 million). | Reuters |
| |
Senate Democrats struggle with climate change legislation
Senate Democrats Thursday seized on the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico as a reason to pass climate-change and energy legislation, but internal policy differences will not be easy to overcome and may also leave many disheartened. | CNN |
| |
Democrats May Aid Renewable Energy in Oil Spill Bill
Senate Democrats will debate today whether a bill that responds to BP Plc’s oil spill should benefit renewable energy sources and limit greenhouse gases. | Bloomberg |
| |
| |
| |
Brazil to cut carbon emissions by 37 pct in 2030: study
Brazil could reduce gross greenhouse gas emissions by up to 37 percent by 2030 without affecting economic growth, according to a World Bank study released here on Thursday. | Xinhua |
| |
Oceans choking on CO2, face deadly changes: study
The world's oceans are virtually choking on rising greenhouse gases, destroying marine ecosystems and breaking down the food chain -- irreversible changes that have not occurred for several million years, a new study says. | Reuters |
| |
Ancient climate change 'link' to CO2
A "global pattern" of change in the Earth's climate began 2.7 million years ago, say scientists. | BBC News |
| |
Experts Warn Climate Change Is Beginning to Disrupt Agriculture
Every nation -- developed and otherwise -- is dependent upon a stable agricultural sector, and climate change threatens that stability, a panel of experts said yesterday. | Scientific American |
| |
Climate change may crumble Asian water towers
Climate change will wreak havoc on Asia's food security in the years to come, new research from the Netherlands shows. | Cordis News |
| |
UN Adaptation Fund gives green light to first four projects
Proposals to tackle rising seas in the Solomon islands and the threat of flooding from glacier lakes in Pakistan are among the first four projects to be given the go-ahead by a U.N. climate change adaptation fund. | Reuters and AlertNet |
| |
Son of Copenhagen
“WHY”, asked a Chinese negotiator, “is this working-group facing so much difficulty in showing a minimal semblance of being alive?” It was a fair question at the end of two weeks of climate discussions in Bonn. | Economist |
| |
Green growth institute
Korea has launched the Global Green Growth Institute, a global think tank focused on developing green growth strategies. It aims to help countries around the world, especially developing countries, achieve economic growth without destroying the environment. | The Korea Herald |
| |
Cutting greenhouse gases will be no quick fix for our weather, scientists say
Global warming will continue to bring havoc to the world's weather systems for decades after reductions are made in greenhouse gas emissions, a new study shows. | The Guardian |
| |
Climate change and human increase risk of natural disasters in the Alps
Climate changes together with human activities increase the risk of natural disasters in the Alps, according to a study conducted by scientists from the universities of Vienna and Exeter (United Kingdom). | Xinhua |
| |
| |
| |
Obama Vows Clean Energy Push, Green Groups Want Details
Despite the pleas of some conservative politicians that parallels should not be drawn between the oil spreading over the Gulf of Mexico and the need to transition out of a reliance on fossil fuels, U.S. President Barack Obama made it clear Tuesday night that he sees the race against the spreading oil as inherently connected to the race against a changing climate.
| IPS |
| |
UN body will assess ecosystems and biodiversity
The United Nations is setting up a body to monitor global ecology modelled on its influential climate panel. | Nature News |
| |
Nation to take lead in utilizing green technology
China has taken a leading role in utilizing many green technologies and is expected to be a major market for carbon capture and storage technologies, said industry leaders. | China Daily |
| |
Report confirms 2009 voluntary carbon market slump
Global voluntary carbon market activity dropped off heavily in 2009, hit hard by global recession. But the slump would have been greater were it not for record pre-compliance demand in the United States. | Carbonpositive |
| |
Obama Tells Congress to 'Seize the Moment' on Climate Legislation
President Obama challenged the country last night to unify behind a "national mission" to reduce its reliance on oil and coal, using his first Oval Office address to pressure Congress into acting quickly on clean energy legislation. | The New York Times |
| |
Obama's call on energy bill fails to sway Congress
U.S. President Barack Obama's muted call for comprehensive energy legislation failed to sway a hesitant Congress on Wednesday, with hopes for approval before November elections fading fast. | Reuters |
| |
Canada can’t wait for U.S. for climate policy
Canada has a long way to go to catch up to leading European nations in the bioenergy sector, according to industry experts. | Caledonia Courier |
| |
New Survey Points To Major Water Problems In Kabul
Afghanistan's capital Kabul could face water shortages in the next 50 years, with wells likely to dry up due to rising temperatures associated with climate change, said a U.S. study released on Wednesday. | Reuters |
| |
Vietnam committed to combating climate change
Vietnam is joining international efforts to cope with climate change by developing a low carbon economy and a green model of growth, says a senior official. | Vov News |
| |
‘Climate change is good business for us’ – Jagdeo
Climate change is good business for countries like Guyana but ultimately the developed world must provide the financial support expected of it, President Bharrat Jagdeo reiterated last night. | Stabroak News |
| |
| |
| |
Cleared forests lead to rise in malaria in Brazil
Clearing forests in the Amazon helps mosquitoes thrive and can send malaria rates soaring, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday. | Reuters |
| |
Lugar: Bipartisan approach needed on climate bill
Sen. Richard Lugar is urging President Barack Obama to endorse a bipartisan climate change bill that reflects the nation's "economic realities" and does not include the new carbon-based fuel taxes sought by Democratic leaders. | AP |
| |
INTERVIEW-Climate chief: EU must fight for green-tech jobs
Europe's green-technology industries need determined political backing if they are to outpace rivals in Asia, Europe's climate chief said on Wednesday. | Reuters |
| |
Rising sea levels to blame for many HCM City floods
Staying one step ahead of climate change and not avoiding direct confrontation with the phenomenon was one of many adaptation strategies proposed yesterday at a conference in HCM City. | Viet Nam News/Asia News |
| |
China mulls crackdown on big energy consumers
China will consider forcing energy-guzzling companies to reduce their output or close down completely in order to meet tough energy saving targets for this year, a senior official has said. | Reuters |
| |
No water, no life
While most people believe climate change or global warming as the number one environmental concern of the 21st century, there are some who feel that we have missed something more fundamental. | Bernama |
| |
The Normandy Invasion For U.S. Climate Change
The upcoming California midterm elections represent the equivalent of the Normandy invasion for national climate legislation: an epic battle whose outcome will likely determine the near-term fate of efforts to collar greenhouse gas emissions. | Forbes |
| |
Forests Are New Coal in House and Senate Climate Bills
At least 30 million acres of America's forests could be cut down and used for fuel at US power plants if renewable fuels and biomass provisions of current Congressional climate and energy proposals aren't radically revised. | Huffington Post |
| |
Sustainability Must Be Central To Corporate Strategy Now
Corporate America has been dramatically increasing its attention to and leadership in sustainability. | Forbes |
| |
How to improve the IPCC
A former head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that the organization should adopt a code of conduct and develop a mechanism to fix errors more quickly. | Nature News |
| |
| |
| |
Global Warming and the Pollsters: Who's Right? (Opinion)
Public opinion polls on global warming seem to be all over the map these days. A Gallup poll in March indicated that nearly half the people in the United States think the consequences are exaggerated and they're not particularly worried about their future. But two polls released in the last few days show that most Americans believe global warming is real, the consequences could be great, and it's largely our fault. | ABC News |
| |
| Science Matters: Species loss is a silent epidemic that threatens our planet (David Suzuki with Faisal Moola) | Canadian Press |
| |
Japan Aims To Pass Climate Bill By Year-End U.N. Talks
Japan will aim to pass a shelved climate bill setting tough emission reduction targets before an annual U.N. meeting in Mexico later this year, the environment minister said on Tuesday. | Reuters |
| |
S. Korea establishes 'strategic point' for global green growth
President Lee Myung-bak said Wednesday that South Korea's new green growth institute will serve as a "strategic point" for the world's desperate campaign to harmonize environmental protection with economic growth. | Yonhap News |
| |
Climate panel chief welcomes climate debate
The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, says he welcomes "the development of a vigorous debate" on climate science. | BBC News |
| |
EPA Finds Senate Climate Bill Affordable
U.S. environmental regulators said on Tuesday the climate and energy bill in the Senate would only add slightly to average household costs, but the finding was not expected to boost chances for the legislation that would cap greenhouse gas emissions. | Reuters |
| |
Boxer Declares Climate Change as the Greatest Threat, But Opponents Slam Theory
Terrorism. Nuclear weapons. Corrupt and oppressive regimes. Sen. Barbara Boxer said last week that climate change -- not any of that other stuff -- will stand as the "leading cause of conflict" over the next two decades. | Fox News |
| |
Tribes prepare for impacts of climate change
"Let’s clear up some misconceptions about global climate change,” Lara Whitely Binder, of the Climate Impacts Group, told tribal representatives gathered at a climate change adaptation training course.
| Indian Country Today |
| |
British diplomat says Canada overstating progress in climate change fight
Environment Minister Jim Prentice found himself upstaged on Tuesday, following a speech about cracking down on pollution from coal-fired power plants, as a foreign diplomat suggested the Canadian minister was overstating the big picture about international progress in fighting climate change. | Canwest News Service |
| |
McGuinty says cap and trade is coming to North America
Ontario and Quebec are convinced that a cap and trade system will be introduced soon in North America, and the two provinces are determined to prepare for what they consider to be the inevitable. | The Globe and Mail |
| |
| |
| |
Climate change will adversely affect economy - Namugala
TOURISM minister Catherine Namugala has said climate change will adversely affect the country’s economic growth and overall development. | The Post |
| |
GLOBAL: Adaptation from Copenhagen to Cancún
The world will probably not crack a comprehensive climate change treaty in Cancún, Mexico, in December 2010 but the forecast for a deal on how to help countries adapt to erratic weather patterns is partly sunny. | IRIN |
| |
Climate Change Increases Hazard Risk in Alpine Regions, Study Shows
Climate change could cause increasing and unpredictable hazard risks in mountainous regions, according to a new study from the University of Exeter and Austrian researchers. | Science Daily |
| |
UNEP, Kenyan government launch fund to save Mau
The government of Kenya in conjunction with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has launched a multi million dollar appeal to save the Mau Forests Complex. | Kenia Broadcasting Corporation |
| |
Obama speech short on energy, climate details
U.S. President Barack Obama's national address on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on Tuesday fell short of a strong call for comprehensive energy and environmental legislation this year and left the U.S. Congress with no clear direction. | Reuters |
| |
EPA: Climate bill costs less than postage stamp
A climate and energy bill being pushed in the Senate would cost American households 22 to 40 cents a day — less than the cost of a first-class postage stamp, the Obama administration said Tuesday. | AP |
| |
Climate Bill Lacks Momentum Even After BP Spill, Democrats Say
The BP Plc oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is unlikely to create enough momentum to pass a comprehensive climate bill sought by President Barack Obama, say leading Senate Democrats. | Bloomberg |
| |
Commission teams up with EIB on climate finance initiative
The European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) yesterday (14 June) agreed to explore a joint climate finance initiative to provide funding for developing countries. They also made public a political agreement on mobilising billions for clean energy projects from the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme reserves. | Euractiv |
| |
Christian Aid condemns EU's 'two-faced' approach to climate agreement
Europe is behaving in a dangerously two-faced way when it comes to protecting the world’s climate, Christian Aid warned as the UN climate talks drew to a close in Bonn last week. | Christian Today |
| |
Namibia's view from the couch
As climate negotiators gathered in Bonn's Maritim hotel last week for another round of tedious negotiations, the differences between delegations were about as numerous as the contentious items on the agenda. | Reuters and AlertNet |
| |
| |
| |
Masdar announces solar power plant consortium
Abu Dhabi-based Masdar has appointed a consortium of Total and Abengoa Solar as partners to own, build and operate Shams 1, the world’s largest concentrated solar power (CSP) plant and the first of its kind in the Middle East. | The Engineer |
| |
Sperm whale faeces 'offset CO2 emissions'
Sperm whale faeces may help oceans absorb carbon dioxide from the air, scientists say.
Australian researchers calculate that Southern Ocean sperm whales release about 50 tonnes of iron every year. | BBC |
| |
‘United global action, no less’
The two-week United Nations climate-change talks ended here with a warning that only a united global action would ensure the signing of a legally binding treaty and that the sooner that was done, the better it would ensure a truly effective effort to adapt to or mitigate climate change. | Business Mirror |
| |
South Africa: New Draft for Climate Deal One 'We Can Work On'
CLIMATE change talks limped to a close in Bonn, Germany, on Friday with many countries expressing disappointment over the new preliminary draft text on a global agreement, but agreeing to carry on negotiating at the next meeting in August in Cancun. | Business Day |
| |
Japan govt says climate bill may come later in year
Japan's cabinet will try to push its climate change bill through the country's upper house later in the year if it runs out of time in the current parliamentary session, a senior government official said. | Reuters |
| |
CDM Critics Demand Investigation of Suspect Offsets
A broad coalition of activists are charging that as much as a third of all Kyoto Protocol carbon offset credits ever sold to banks and governments could be illegitimate because they were generated by firms manipulating the marketplace. | NY Times/ClimateWire |
| |
Tories put climate change on G8 agenda after pressure from world leaders
Nobel Peace Prize laureates and environmentalists had joined chorus calling to put climate change on the table | Canadian Press |
| |
Green groups accuse Canada of G8, G20 environment snub
Excluding climate change from the upcoming G8 and G20 summits would be a snub to poorer nations, environmentalists said on Monday, urging under pressure host Canada to add it to the agenda. | AFP |
| |
Thailand rejects climate draft
Thailand has rejected a new draft negotiating text for long-term cooperation on climate change. Its stance was in line with major developing countries under G77, plus China. | Bangkok Post |
| |
Developing countries voice opposition to latest climate text
The improved atmosphere that dominated the latest round of international climate change talks in Bonn was marred somewhat on Friday after a new version of the draft negotiating text met with a mixed reception and the Saudi Arabian delegation was targeted in an act of vandalism. | BusinessGreen |
| |
| |
| |
Los acuerdos sobre cambio climático sin avances
Los acuerdos bilaterales y el apoyo a proyectos individuales. Ese el resultado considerado más favorable que dejaron las dos semanas de la reunión mundial sobre cambio climático, que se realizó en Bonn, Alemania, hasta el viernes pasado. | El Comercio |
| |
Poor nations dismayed over draft
The Bonn climate talks ended last Friday with developing countries strongly criticising a new draft of a global deal which surprisingly eliminated some of their most important proposals. | The Star |
| |
Why Africa's holdouts are rejecting the Copenhagen Accord
Close to 45 of the 53 countries that make up the African Union arrived at the latest round of climate talks in Bonn having signed the much criticised Copenhagen Accord. | Reuters AlertNet |
| |
Developed countries to be blamed for climate change
Unprecedented consumption levels of resources by developed countries have contributed heavily towards global environmental and climate change, which has posted a great challenge to the world, Deputy Environment Minister Faizer Musthapa said. | Daily News |
| |
Maldives Inches Closer to HCFC Phase-out
The Maldives Islands, fast gaining a reputation for ‘walking the talk’ as it raises its tiny island voice in the climate change discourse, has launched an action plan to phase out hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) by 2020, or 10 years ahead of other countries and the target set by an international agreement known as the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. | IPS |
| |
Obama Urges Congress to Enact New Climate Law
The environmental and economic disasters caused by the continuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may be fueling efforts in the U.S. Congress to finish work on a stalled energy and climate change bill. | Voice of America |
| |
Global carbon capture plans lag climate target-IEA
The world is failing to meet goals to develop carbon capture technology, the energy watchdog to industrialised economies said on Monday as it reported back to G8 countries on their past promises. | Reuters |
| |
Scientists want clear message on climate
REPRESENTATIVES of scientific organisations, including the CSIRO and the Bureau Of Meteorology, will meet today to discuss better communication of the science behind man-made climate change as the political and public consensus on global warming crumbles. | Sydney Morning Herald |
| |
As Humans Advance, Andean Glaciers Recede
The spectacular glacier Number 15 of Antisana, one of the Ecuadorean capitals' sources of potable water, lost at least 36 percent of its original mass in the last 50 years. | Tierramérica |
| |
Environmentalists Use Oil Spill as a Rallying Cry
The oil spill spreading through the Gulf of Mexico has been declared the worst environmental catastrophe ever in the United States. But for American environmentalists, the distress may also bring opportunity. | NY Times |
| |
| |
| |
Scientists on hunt for climate-change clues explore rare tropical glacier
A team of scientists is climbing Indonesia's tropical glacier, Puncak Jaya, to dig out ice cores and study them for past patterns of climate change. They will also study samples from China, Peru, and Kenya. | Christian Science Monitor |
| |
Scientists develop tech to track carbon dioxide
Scientists have developed a method for detecting and tracking carbon dioxide deep underground, giving the federal government an important tool as people look for ways to keep carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from crowding the atmosphere. | AP |
| |
Scientists develop tech to track carbon dioxide
Scientists have developed a method for detecting and tracking carbon dioxide deep underground, giving the federal government an important tool as people look for ways to keep carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from crowding the atmosphere. | AP |
| |
UN climate talks end with some progress amid rifts on "imbalanced text"
"Imbalance" became the key word on the last day of the UN (the United Nations) climate talks in Bonn, as delegates criticized a new blueprint for a UN legally- binding climate treaty on Friday. However, the split could not cover some progress made during the past 12 days, even it might be just a little. | Xinhua |
| |
Mood thaws on climate change
IT WAS never going to be easy for the representatives of 184 countries meeting in Bonn last week to deal with the debris left scattered after the inconclusive result of last December’s UN climate change summit in Copenhagen. | Irish Times |
| |
Parties point fingers over shelved climate scheme
The Federal Government and the Greens are arguing over who is to blame for the failure of the emissions trading scheme (ETS) legislation. | ABC News |
| |
Poor nations dismayed over draft
The Bonn climate talks ended last Friday with developing countries strongly criticising a new draft of a global deal which surprisingly eliminated some of their most important proposals. | The Star |
| |
Calls to get ETS back on agenda
MALCOLM Turnbull has challenged the major parties' rationale for delaying action on climate change by arguing other countries are promising "very substantial" cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. | Sydney Morning Herald |
| |
Rio BASIC meet to invite other developing nations
Ahead of the August round of negotiations at Bonn, the BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) countries will meet in Rio de Janeiro in late July. | Economic Times |
| |
Harper pressured to put climate change on G8, G20 agenda
It was described by Prime Minister Stephen Harper as a “sideshow,” but international leaders are mounting pressure on the Canadian government to include climate change as a major issue on the agenda at upcoming G8 and G20 economic summits in Huntsville, Ont., and Toronto. | Canwest News Service |
| |
| |
| |
Barbados government pursuing green economy in earnest
If Environment Minister, Denis Lowe, has his way, the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies will eventually boast a Green Economics Centre. | Caribbean Net News |
| |
NZ ambassador gets climate change job
New Zealand is one of the few countries to take a positive out of international climate change negotiations in Germany. | Stuff |
| |
Ottawa to study effects of climate change on coasts
The federal government is trying to come up with ways to protect millions of dollars worth of vulnerable infrastructure and coastline, years after it was urged to adapt to the effects of climate change. | Globe and Mail |
| |
Using the Danube more without abusing it
Countries bordering the Danube want to increase shipping on the second longest river on the European continent without abusing an ecosystem unique in the world. | AFP |
| |
Festivals put green issues higher up the bill
Reaching over his left shoulder, Melvin Benn unscrews the light bulb and begins bashing it against the table in front of him. | BBC |
| |
Oil Spill May Spur Action on Energy, Probably Not on Climate
Images of gushing oil and dying pelicans in the Gulf of Mexico have stirred anger and agony in Washington. But are they enough to prod the Senate to act on long-delayed clean energy and climate change legislation? | NY Times |
| |
One step forward, two steps back (opinion)
The attempted negotiation “coup” by the developed nations in Bonn shows that the developing nations cannot relax their vigil at the climate negotiations. | The Hindu |
| |
Forest carbon offsets: Low-hanging fruit in the garden of evil environmentalism
Last week’s column noted that the unprecedented and spectacular growth of the global carbon market in the space of a few years makes it one of the most dazzling symbols of the awesome power of market expansion contained in globalization. | Stabroek News |
| |
UN Climate Chief: "Big Step Forward" Possible Later This Year
Two weeks of international talks aimed at limiting global warming made progress, and more can be done at a more important meeting at the end of the year in Mexico, the United Nations climate change chief said Friday. | Wall Street Journal |
| |
Hope for Cancun only if nations sort out issues, says Yvo de Boer
A successful outcome at the climate change conference in Cancun will only be possible if there is full fledged agreement on issues like adaptation, mitigation, technology and finance. | Economic Times |
| |
| |
| |
UN climate talks ‘positive’ but problems persist
A round of UN climate talks wrapped up on Friday, helped by a dose of trust after the Copenhagen Summit but still troubled by the splits that drove that historic conference close to disaster. | AFP |
| |
Climate talks seek progress in Bonn with step backwards
An interim session of UN climate negotiations in Bonn has healed some of the wounds opened at Copenhagen, but the prospects of reaching a legally binding agreement by the end of this year seem bleak. | Deutsche Welle |
| |
Outgoing UN climate change official says some progress made in latest talks
The United Nations climate change talks this week in Bonn, Germany, made important progress in fleshing out how a climate regime can work in practice, but the outgoing head of the UN body on this issue warned participants that the long-term goal of cutting emissions will not be reached without stringent action. | UN News Centre |
| |
Climate deal blueprint could curb US emissions and poor nations' growth
Draft text from UN proposes that rich countries cut emissions up to 40% but requires poor countries to 'peak' emissions by 2020 | Guardian |
| |
New UN climate text under fire as talks end
Rich and poor nations alike criticised a new blueprint for a U.N. climate treaty on Friday as two weeks of talks among 185 countries ended with small steps towards an elusive deal. | Reuters |
| |
Gulfs remain after UN climate change talks in Bonn
UN climate talks have ended, with delegates speaking of an improved mood but with major gulfs remaining between various blocs. | BBC |
| |
Critics slam new climate change proposal in Bonn
A new round of climate talks ended Friday with rich and poor countries both sharply criticizing a new text meant to pave the way toward a deal to halt global warming. | AP |
| |
Second round of climate talks in 2010 ends without an agreed negotiating text
The second round of UN climate talks in 2010 ended on Friday. No draft text for future Cancun negotiation has been agreed by parities. | Xinhua |
| |
Cup fever infects UN talks
ENTHUSIASM for the World Cup spilled over at the UN climate talks on Friday, where South African football shirts flowered among business suits and talk about footy displaced jargon about carbon emissions. | AFP |
| |
Reasons to be cheerful about climate change talks
Rich and poor countries are rebuilding trust around climate change, prompting hopes that the world can reach an agreement to stop global warming within two years. | Telegraph |
| |
| |
| |
Bonn talks clearing doubts on measuring, reporting & verification
The villain of the piece in 2009 — measuring, reporting and verification or MRV — appears to have been vanquished to some degree during this current round of talks. | Economic Times |
| |
Island states want to cap warming at 1,5° C
POOR countries and island states ignited a debate on the appropriate global target for climate change yesterday, arguing that their survival was on the line, to the apparent consternation of oil-producing countries and signs of a possible rift among emerging economies. | Business Day |
| |
Talks begin to mobilize $100b by 2020 for climate change
While developing country parties are worried with the disbursement of fast-track climate | The New Nation |
| |
Saudis block call for global warming report
Saudi Arabia on Thursday blocked a call by vulnerable island states at climate talks for a study into the impact of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming, delegates said. | AFP |
| |
Soccer unites SA, Mexico at Bonn climate talks
WORLD Cup fever has infected even the usually staid German city of Bonn, where painfully slow international negotiations on climate change are starting to be enlivened by the appearance of yellow Bafana Bafana T-shirts. | Business Day |
| |
Small islands, Saudi Arabia temperatures rise over 1.5 degrees C
A new line of division has appeared in the climate change negotiations, this time on the issue of a temperature threshold of 1.5 degrees Centrigrade. | Economic Times |
| |
India remains firm on its stand on emission reduction targets
India has rejected calls by developed countries at the Bonn climate talks to turn its domestic emission reduction commitments into internationally binding pledges. | Livemint |
| |
Rich countries accused of carbon 'cheating'
Some rich countries are seeking new rules under the UN climate convention that campaigners say would allow them to gain credit for "business as usual". | BBC |
| |
Climate meet: Island states vs oil countries
The drab and dull climate meetings in Bonn finally saw some sparks of excitement on Thursday when the grouping of small island states sparred with oil producing nations led by Saudi Arabia over the need to have a scientific evaluation done on options for restricting the global rise in temperatures to within 1.5 degree from pre-industrial levels. | Indian Express |
| |
Diplomatic tip-toeing gives way to strong words at Bonn
The Bonn climate change talks have so far been marked by a tip-toeing diplomacy as countries attempt to re-build trust and dilute the bitterness caused by the failure of the Copenhagen summit. | AlertNet |
| |
| |
| |
Rich face triple aid test on environment, poverty
Struggling with budget cuts at home, rich nations face scrutiny in 2010 of a triple set of pledges to help poor nations combat climate change, curb poverty and safeguard endangered species. | Reuters |
| |
Obama's greenhouse gas rules survive Senate vote
In a boost for the president on global warming, the Senate on Thursday rejected a challenge to Obama administration rules aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other big polluters. | AP |
| |
Senate Rejects Republican Effort to Thwart Carbon Limits
The Senate on Thursday defeated a Republican-led effort to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from curbing greenhouse gases as lawmakers road-tested arguments for a future fight over climate change legislation. | NY Times |
| |
Coral islands left high and dry
THE globetrotting leaders of Pacific islands who have attained international celebrity - especially in Europe - over the slow drowning of their homelands, are in a state of shock. | The Australian |
| |
Govt under pressure to preserve CO2 offset scheme
The government is under pressure to preserve a respected voluntary scheme to cut greenhouse gas emissions and rescue a multi-million dollar industry from extinction. | Business Spectator |
| |
Confidence in climate science remains strong, poll shows
Survey shows 71% of Britons are concerned about climate, despite hacked emails, failure at Copenhagen and cold weather | Guardian |
| |
| Peter Gorrie: How to get climate change on the G20 agenda | Toronto Star |
| |
Slowly, tentatively, climate talks get back on track
Away from the media spotlight, climate negotiators in Bonn this week have delivered real progress towards an international deal | BusinessGreen |
| |
Negotiators at Bonn working hard to win trust before Cancun climate change conference
At Bonn’s Hotel Maritim negotiators from 194 countries are hard at work, not just hammering out details but at rebuilding trust among nations. | Economic Times |
| |
New UN climate chief calls for more ambition
The incoming head of the UN climate convention has said rich nations must pledge bigger emission cuts if climate change is to be tackled effectively. | BBC |
| |
| |
| |
UN seeks fair climate deal
THE United Nations’s top climate official, Yvo de Boer, yesterday warned that time was running out to agree on a global, ambitious and fair deal on climate change, even as Bolivia revealed data which showed industrialised countries’ greenhouse gas emissions would actually increase if accounting loopholes are allowed to proceed. | Business Day |
| |
Climate treaty by end of ’10 unlikely
Leaders of governments have not given up hope of striking a climate deal in Mexico by the end of the year, saying they will consider the talks a success if countries make considerable headway on tough issues like cutting greenhouse gases (GHGs) and creating a system of financial aid for poor countries. | Business Mirror |
| |
Climate talks: Need to go back to basics, say India, China
With little progress being made in the climate talks underway in Bonn for the past one and half weeks, India and China Wednesday stressed on the need to go back to basics and re-start the process from the first principles enshrined in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). | Indian Express |
| |
UN climate chief: Emissions increases until 2020 may be unstoppable
Outgoing United Nations climate change panel chief Yvo de Boer said Wednesday that current efforts to combat climate change will not be enough to halt a rise in greenhouse gas emissions. | dpa |
| |
Climate change: No solution at hand on funds for developing countries
Providing adequate amount of money to help developing countries to slow down climate change continues to be a stumbling block at the negotiating process in Bonn. | Economic Times |
| |
New climate chief: 'no choice' but to take action
The new U.N. climate chief says nations have no choice but to join forces to stop global warming, even after her predecessor said he doubts sufficient climate goals will be set by 2020. | AP |
| |
Once more, with less feeling
Climate-change negotiations settle in for the long haul | The Economist |
| |
Rich nations could increase emissions under pledge loopholes, UN data shows
Analysis seen at Bonn climate talks shows rich nations could use carbon accountancy tricks to increase their emissions by up to 8% | Guardian |
| |
En Bonn se alerta sobre un holocausto climático
Si no se toman medidas a tiempo para frenar el cambio climático, más de 1 000 millones de habitantes de Bangladesh y de otros países del sudeste asiático sufrirán daños serios. Quamrul Islam Chowdhury, delegado principal de esa nación, hizo ayer la advertencia. | El Comercio |
| |
Rich nations backtracking on new climate aid, development watchdog warns
IIED says rich nations are double-counting cash and raiding existing budgets to 'wriggle out' of £21bn aid promise | Guardian |
| |
| |
| |
La dama del cambio climático
Hay personas que parecen gustar de aquellas tareas destinadas al fracaso, o al menos que todos las visualizan de esa manera. Algo de eso sucede con la costarricense Christiana Figueres. | El Espectador |
| |
Trade, human rights seen aiding UN climate deal
A planned U.N. climate deal might adapt systems for monitoring trade or human rights as models to check up on poor nations' curbs on greenhouse gases, Mexico's climate chief said on Tuesday. | Reuters |
| |
Be optimistic about Cancun, says Mexico
The concerted attempt over the past few months to lower expectations from the Cancun conference on climate change has not gone down well with Mexico. | Economic Times |
| |
Cambio Climático: México optimista con la Cumbre de Cancún
El representante de México en las negociaciones internacionales sobre cambio climático, Luis Alfonso de Alba, cree que será posible llegar a acuerdos significativos durante la próxima cumbre de Naciones Unidas sobre el tema, a celebrarse en Cancún en diciembre próximo. | BBC Mundo |
| |
Talks won't arrest global warming in next decade: UN climate chief
The ongoing global climate negotiations will not lead to "adequate mitigation targets" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades, but will eventually do so, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer predicted here Monday. | IANS |
| |
Cumbre de Cambio Climático: admiten que está lejos el acuerdo
Los especialistas reconocen que el proceso de negociación va a llevar "mucho más tiempo" que el previsto. Y que la crisis dificulta conseguir los fondos para el medio ambiente. | Clarín |
| |
Las jornadas de debate en Bonn transcurren sin mayores novedades
Antes que ser demasiado optimistas, preferible ser realistas. Esa fue la afirmación que hizo esta mañana el canciller mexicano Luis Alfonso de Alba con relación a las expectativas sobre la posibilidad de concretar acuerdos en la Cumbre Mundial, a realizarse en Cancún, a finales de noviembre. | El Comercio |
| |
El camino de Bonn a Cancun
Hace años, Charly García sostenía que la alegría no era solo brasilera. Hoy, en Bonn, se puede decir que el optimismo es mexicano cuando se escucha a Luis Alfonso de Alba, representante especial de su país para el cambio climático y la cara más visible de su estrategia negociadora internacional hacia la cumbre (COP 16) de Cancún en diciembre próximo. | El Espectador |
| |
Mexico will not come up with single treaty on Climate Change
The UN Climate Change Conference in Mexico (COP 16), scheduled for December in Cancun, will likely not come up with a single treaty, the in-coming presidency for COP 16, Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba of Mexico, told reporters here Tuesday. | Pana |
| |
"Peer review" offers new path for climate monitoring: Mexico's climate chief
A peer review system, which has been well operated in international trade and human rights agenda, can serve as a workable mechanism for the controversial climate monitoring and reporting processes, Mexico's climate chief told Xinhua Tuesday. | Xinhua |
| |
| |
| |
Rich nations accused over 'logging loophole' at Bonn climate talks
Bid by rich countries to change forestry rules would create accounting loopholes that would hide true emissions, developing nations say | Guardian |
| |
Europe’s wallet shrinks, Green Fund to suffer
The Green Fund that was proposed at Copenhagen to finance climate adaptation seems to have hit two stumbling blocks. Europe’s financial crises and civil society’s claim that offers are “old wine in a new bottle” are threatening to derail the fund. | Hindustan Times |
| |
A gentle breeze of optimism detected at UN climate talks
The world has not stopped acting to limit the pollution that is changing the climate, souring our oceans and choking many of our cities. | Sydney Morning Herald |
| |
Apathy mars Bonn climate change talks
Apathy and lack of sincerity by the developed countries was undermining global efforts to tackle the impact of climate change, African countries participating in the Bonn Climate Change Talk have said. | 234Next |
| |
UN Challenges Ineos’s Request to Get 57% More Emission Credits
The regulator of the United Nations emissions market has challenged a request by Ineos Group Holdings Ltd. to get 57 percent more greenhouse gas offsets from a Korean chemicals plant starting this year. | Bloomberg |
| |
Climate financing is key in Bonn
While the Copenhagen climate-change conference last December has built momentum for future talks on some issues, settling the finance question is said to be a major step in building the trust among nations that is needed for a global deal on climate change in the next conference in Cancun, Mexico, by end of this year. | Business Mirror |
| |
Slow progress is being made at little-noticed Copenhagen follow-up
Hardly anyone has noticed, but international climate negotiations have resumed in formal session for the first time since the Copenhagen summit last December. Six months after failing to seal a deal in the Danish capital, | Telegraph |
| |
Copenhagen was a horrible meet, says de Boer
While there has been a general frustration at the lack of progress in the climate talks, it is evident that the ongoing meetings in Bonn are struggling to address more pressing issue at hand — that of restoring confidence back into the negotiating process. | Indian Express |
| |
| With a Green Mission at Home, Indonesia Could Prove Naysayers Wrong in Cancun | Jakarta Globe |
| |
Target for emissions cut to be exceeded
The UK is on course to exceed its targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, after demand for electricity fell by an estimated 7.5 per cent in the recession, according to a government report. | Financial Times |
| |
| |
| |
Aviation industry needs govts’ help to cut emissions
The international airline industry has called on governments to work together in making aviation a more environmentally friendly industry by setting a target of improving fuel efficiency by 1.5 percent per year starting this year. | Jakarta Post |
| |
Voluntary carbon players see market shrink in 2009
The value of the global voluntary carbon market is expected to have shrunk in 2009 due to the economic downturn and delays by the United States and other countries in launching national emissions trading schemes. | Reuters |
| |
Long wait for climate deal
A GLOBAL system to deal with climate change is not likely until 2030 - after Australia, other wealthy nations and possibly China and India have embraced carbon trading, an expert on environmental policy says. | The Age |
| |
World to fail in deep climate cuts this decade - U.N.
The world is set to fail to make deep enough cuts in greenhouse gases in the next decade to tackle global warming, the U.N.'s top climate official said on Monday in a bleak assessment of the prospects for a U.N. deal. | Reuters |
| |
UN climate chief doesn't expect key goals by 2020
The outgoing United Nations climate chief says he no longer expects the world to agree to sufficient cuts in greenhouse gases by 2020. | AP |
| |
Talks won't arrest global warming in next decade: UN climate chief
The ongoing global climate negotiations will not lead to 'adequate mitigation targets' to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades, but will eventually do so, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer predicted here Monday. | IANS |
| |
10 years needed to seal climate cuts, says UN pointman
The world community may need another 10 years to agree on carbon cuts deep enough to roll back global warming, the UN's pointman for climate change warned on Monday. | AFP |
| |
Duro debate en Bonn por la plata para combatir el cambio climático
Los países ricos prometieron una ayuda, pero hasta ahora no han aportado el dinero. | Clarín |
| |
Slow progress, global pact not possible in next 10 years: de Boer
In comments that clearly showed his frustration at the slow pace of negotiations, the UN’s top climate official, Yvo de Boer, on Monday said that at the current rate of progress, a global agreement — adequate to address the challenge posed by climate change — would not be possible even in the next 10 years. | Indian Express |
| |
UN climate chief forecasts missed targets on emissions
OUTGOING UN climate chief Yvo de Boer has scotched the prospects of effective action being taken by both developed and major developing countries to combat global warming for at least 10 years. | Irish Times |
| |
| |
| |
Differences crop up again at Bonn
At Bonn, it is one step back for the agreement on technology. The near-resolved issue of putting in place a mechanism to ensure effective transfer and development of technology has been reopened for debate once again. | Economic Times |
| |
Climate money ‘is not new’
FINANCE for developing countries has emerged as a hot issue in climate change talks under way in Bonn, Germany, this week, with civil society organisations warning that much of the promised 30bn is a relabelling of commitments already made. | Business Day |
| |
Climate change fund will be a grant
The United Nations has said that the $30 billion short term funding agreed in Copenhagen, Sweden, in 2009 to assist developing countries combat climate change would be disbursed as grant and not loan. | 234Next |
| |
Friis: 'Climate depression' is over, full speed to Cancún
Countries negotiating to deliver an international climate deal are back in business and both Denmark and Mexico, the outgoing and incoming chairs of the UN-led talks, are developing a "GPS system" to successfully arrive at their destination on time by December, Danish Energy and Climate Change Minister Lykke Friis told EurActiv in an interview. | EurActiv |
| |
Malaysia is 5th for CDM projects
Malaysia ranks fifth in the world for its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects registered with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. | Straits Times |
| |
REDD alert for forest climate change policy
Carbon dioxide emissions from an unexpected rise in the number of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon may be cancelling out emission reductions from efforts to preserve rainforests. | SciDev.Net |
| |
| Fighting for Forests | Jakarta Globe |
| |
| Africa: Climate Change - 'Perhaps We Should Just Sign' (analysis) | IPS |
| |
Post-Copenhagen, few expectations from Bonn
For the past one week, negotiators from all over the world have been meeting in Bonn to take forward the unfinished work of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference last December and prepare the ground for the completion of global comprehensive agreement in the next conference in Cancun, Mexico, slated at the end of this year. | Indian Express |
| |
Tough talks resume on climate change
The past week saw the resumption of global climate talks in Bonn, with developed countries trying to evade their responsibilities while pushing the burden onto developing countries. | The Star |
| |
| |
| |
Comienza una etapa decisiva
La segunda semana, la definitiva, comienza este lunes en Bonn. Este encuentro forma parte de la denominada Convención Marco sobre Cambio Climático de Naciones Unidas. | El Espectador |
| |
First World breaking Copenhagen promises
Six months after developed countries pledged to provide finance to the developing world to fight climate change, there is no clarity on the exact quantum of money available. | Economic Times |
| |
China carbon market prospects not optimistic - official
Although China has supplied massive volumes of carbon credits to the global market, prospects for CO2 trade within the country itself are not optimistic, a senior climate official said on Sunday. | Reuters |
| |
UN warns climate change could trigger 'mega-disasters'
Weather-related catastrophes brought about by climate change are increasing, the top UN humanitarian official said Sunday as he warned of the possibility of "mega-disasters". | AFP |
| |
Climate Change Team visits Choiseul Province
Whilst a High-level Solomon Islands Government team is hard at negotiating for a legally binding climate change deal in Bonn, Germany, the Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Meteorology deployed its Climate Change Team to visit Choiseul Province. | Solomon Star News |
| |
Norwegian premier to co-chair UN-backed advisory group on climate change financing
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced that the Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg, has accepted his invitation to become the co-chair of the United Nations-appointed high-level advisory group on climate change financing with immediate effect. | UN News Centre |
| |
Norway PM succeeds UK's Brown in UN climate group
Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will take over from Britain's Gordon Brown as co-chair of a U.N. group looking at ways to raise finance to help poor nations to combat climate, Norway said on Sunday. | Reuters |
| |
Penny Wong under fire over ETS cabinet claims
CLIMATE Change Minister Penny Wong has been accused of deliberately misleading the Senate over the dumping of the government's centrepiece emissions trading scheme after she said cabinet had decided on shelving the plan. | The Australian |
| |
Establishing a baseline of trust
Academics warn that the industrialised world’s promise of billions of “new and additional” dollars to help developing nations tackle climate change is meaningless without a baseline from which to count new funds. | Kuensel |
| |
| The global carbon market: The new ‘poster-child’ of globalization | Stabroek News |
| |
| |
| |
| Biodiversity: The E.U.’s Next Challenge | NY Times |
| |
Hedegaard insists EU will push for "ambitious outcome" in Mexico
Climate Commissioner hits back at suggestion pessimism is undermining international talks | BusinessGreen |
| |
Bonn climate negotiators drag on with little progress
UN climate talks have resumed in Bonn to prepare for a December summit in Mexico. Officials say a legally-binding agreement will be impossible, but Mexico's negotiator accuses them of lowering expectations. | Deutsche Welle |
| |
Murky climate finance risks undermining trust at U.N. talks
Urgent financial help for poor countries to curb their carbon emissions and adapt to climate change is viewed as one of the best ways to rebuild the trust needed to secure a global deal at U.N. climate talks. But is it shaping up to be the hoped-for silver bullet? | AlertNet |
| |
Financing offered to cut use of harmful refrigerants
A WORLD BANK-led financing scheme has been offered to reduce commercial use of an ozone-depleting refrigerant. | BusinessWorld |
| |
WB okays $10.9-million grant to replace old chillers nationwide
The World Bank (WB) has approved a $10.9-million grant to financing a project that aims to replace around 375 chillers used in industrial, commercial, service, and institutional establishments nationwide with technology that is more energy efficient and friendly to the environment. | Manila Bulletin |
| |
Adding firepower to the fight for our forests
The deal between Norway and Indonesia to save Indonesian forests is a game-changer in more ways than one. For Indonesia, it means a greener future and lower carbon emissions. Much less noticed is that it means cleaner air and sharply reduced costs here in Singapore. | Today Online |
| |
New hope for old light source
There is new hope that million of poor Indians can gain access to an energy efficient light source powered by the sun, throw away billions of polluting kerosene lanterns -and earn the nation money while doing so. | Hindustan Times |
| |
British Election Helps Boost Green Movement
Environmentalists in Britain were rejoicing after the country's recent election. | Voice of America |
| |
Energy sector main source of Jordan's greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the Kingdom generated by the energy sector rose by 45% in 2008 compared to the last ten years, said a statement recently released by Department of Statistics (DoS). | Zawya |
| |
| |
| |
Cities need a stronger voice in climate change talks
Negotiators are meeting this week in Bonn, Germany, in an effort to secure a binding agreement on global climate change. However, months after the talks in Copenhagen, the prospect for an agreement this year is fading. | Huffington Post |
| |
Saudi Arabia on road to energy efficiency
The first ever Public Stakeholder meeting, the initial step in the process to certify an energy efficiency project under the rules of the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), was held in Jeddah on May 31. The meeting started the process of putting the Kingdom on the road to being energy efficient. | Zawya |
| |
| Ghana: The Climate Change Agenda - What Role for Religious Groups? | Public Agenda (Accra) |
| |
| Fiddling in Bonn While the Gulf Oil Spills | Huffington Post |
| |
| We'll pay for being a laggard on climate (by Tim Flannery) | Sydney Morning Herald |
| |
EU seeks 'ambitious outcome' at climate summit
The European Union will work for an "ambitious outcome" at November's climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, and hopes other states will follow suit, climate chief Connie Hedegaard said Thursday. | AFP |
| |
A change in climate at Bonn
The United Nations climate change talks have resumed in Bonn with a new sense of urgency and common purpose. | Business Spectator |
| |
Bonn delegates still a long way off climate change text agreement
The Alliance of Small Island States, AOSIS has called on climate change negotiators meeting in Germany to push for a legally binding outcome. | Radio Australia |
| |
EU 'half way to 2020 emissions target'
The EU is more than halfway to its target of cutting emissions by 20% from 1990 levels by 2020, a report shows. | BBC |
| |
India asks UN to take tough stand against protectionism
India has demanded that the UN prevent any green protectionism by developed countries and include an explicit statement in the opening charter of any new deal to block carbon-based taxes being imposed on exports from developing countries such as India. | Times of India |
| |
| |
| |
Emerging markets: Developing nations count up the opportunities
Leading developing countries for the first time made commitments to limit or curb their greenhouse gas emissions as part of the Copenhagen accords at the end of last year. | Financial Times |
| |
WWF: China plays a unique role against climate change
China is in a unique position to combat climate change because it possesses a strong willingness to reach its emissions' targets while also supporting other developing countries in their efforts to fight climate change, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) representative for China said on Monday. | China.org.cn |
| |
Emissions reductions 10 times less than government’s projections: report
Environment Canada overestimated by 10 times the amount of emissions reductions that result from government measures when it reported last year on its efforts to meet this country’s obligations under the Kyoto protocol. | Globe and Mail |
| |
Climate change: Winners and losers within sectors start to emerge
The response to climate change has been uneven across sectors. Some have taken the opportunity to make widespread changes, while others have moved less quickly. | Financial Times |
| |
Climate change failed two crop cycles
India is among many developing countries whose agriculture has been impacted by climate change but the country has the capacity to adapt to changes, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), the top government farm research body, said on Wednesday. | Hindustan Times |
| |
Researchers call for baseline to tackle climate change
Academic dons and researchers have said the industrialized world's promise of billions of "new and additional" dollars to help developing nations tackle climate change was meaningless without a baseline from which to count new funds. | GNA |
| |
European Carbon Rises On Firmer Equities, Oil
European carbon emissions futures rose on Thursday, boosted by improved financial markets and a firmer oil price, traders said. | Reuters |
| |
Obama promises to throw full weight behind climate bill
President Barack Obama yesterday vowed to intervene personally to secure the Senate votes needed to pass US climate change legislation this year in a speech that attempted to harness the environmental crisis in the Gulf of Mexico to make the case for a low carbon economy. | BusinessGreen |
| |
UN urges global move to meat and dairy-free diet
A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change, a UN report said today. | Guardian |
| |
Probe as carbon deal hit by bribe accusations
Police are probing a planned deal for a British company to rent one-fifth of Liberia's forests, in a striking example of possible criminal activity around the expanding business of carbon emission trading. | Financial Times |
| |
| |
| |
Amazon up in smoke, even when deforestation slows
Brazilian farmers are setting more fires in parts of the Amazon where deforestation has slowed, according to a study on Thursday that shows weaknesses in a U.N. plan for slowing clim
ate change. | Reuters |
| |
‘Consequences’ of climate change right in the heart of İstanbul
One quick press of a finger on the camera’s shutter button might actually have the power to change the world -- or at least help people notice what’s going on in other parts of the world that they would otherwise hardly be able to see. | Today's Zaman |
| |
Finance: Credit crunch throws up opportunities
The credit crunch was not good news for clean technology. Full of start-up, high-tech companies with unproven technologies and only dreams of profitability, the sector was one of the hardest-hit. | Financial Times |
| |
Hotels do their green bit
Climate is changing. So are the hotels. Try booking a conference at Maurya Sheraton in New Delhi, and you will be offered the choice of a green banquet. If you are inviting guests, the hotel will suggest they don’t change the bed linens every day. | Hindustan Times |
| |
Victim of climate change
Monitor lizards are giant, colorful creatures that would seem to stick out like sore thumbs, but scientists are still identifying new species. | The Daily Star |
| |
REDD threatens rights of 350 million local people
Last week the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) program received a jump start with a four billion US dollar pledge from a number of industrialized nations. | mongabay.com |
| |
Africa urged to reconsider climate stand
African countries that had pledged their support on the outcome of last year’s climate change summit have been urged to reconsider their stand. | Daily Nation |
| |
"Ambitious" Mexico rejects climate progress doubts
This year's climate change summit in Mexico will be a good venue for the world to agree on ways to tackle global warming despite sceptical voices from some international officials, Mexico's climate chief said. | Reuters |
| |
Bonn talks touch on forestry carbon sinks
Papua New Guinea is among developing countries that may oppose proposed new rules for the way nations including New Zealand count carbon dioxide stored in vegetation such as trees as part of their emissions targets. | NZPA |
| |
RI asks for 2nd developed nations` emission reduction commitment
Indonesia has urged the developed countries in the World Body on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to make a second commitment on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions after their first Kyoto Protocol commitment ends in 2012. | ANTARA News |
| |
| |
| |
UN climate talks face up to cash flow fears
The already fraught international climate change negotiations are facing a fresh challenge after Yvo de Boer, the outgoing head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, revealed that the secretariat does not have sufficient funds to host two additional meetings ahead of the Cancun summit in November. | BusinessGreen |
| |
State governments issue call for leaders to deliver climate deal
Regional governments urge national counterparts to follow their lead on climate action | BusinessGreen |
| |
China 'not very optimistic' on cutting emissions
China, the world's top source of the toxic gases blamed for global warming, said Thursday it was "not very optimistic" that its efforts to slash emissions were working. | AFP |
| |
China's first carbon capture plant to start operation by year-end
China's first commercial carbon capture and storage plant is expected to be operational by the end of the year as construction of the plant's liquidification facility has started, company managers said Wednesday. | Xinhua |
| |
Nepal appeals for emission control
Nepal has pleaded for consensus to cut global green house gas emissions and reduce the impact of climate change in the global meeting of UN Climate Change that started on Monday in Bonn. | The Himalayan |
| |
Long-term solutions on climate change pushed
The United Kingdom-based aid agency Oxfam called on climate negotiators presently gathered in Bonn, Germany to report and deliver openly on the US$100 billion climate financing as it pledged to mitigate the effects of climate change, particularly the Philippines, which is the most vulnerable country in Southeast Asia. | Manila Bulletin |
| |
Will Cameron take key climate finance role at UN talks?
An announcement is expected this week from UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon on who will replace Gordon Brown as co-chair of the Advisory Group on Finance that has been tasked with shaping proposals for how to raise $100bn (£68bn) of climate financing a year by 2020. | BusinessGreen |
| |
Indonesia says won't revoke existing forestry licenses
Indonesia won't revoke existing forestry licenses for palm oil firms as part of a deal with Norway to preserve rain forests, a government minister and industry official said on Wednesday. | Reuters |
| |
Africa: Guebuza Warns on Climate Change
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza warned in Nice on Tuesday that some African countries may fail to attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) as a consequence of climate change. | allAfrica.com |
| |
India Gets Fewer Carbon Credits as UN Scrutinizes Projects
India, the second-largest supplier to the United Nations emissions market, received 51 percent less carbon credits in the five months through May as regulators scrutinize the country’s projects. | Bloomberg |
| |
| |
| |
We can't wait for US on climate change: Mexico
In the middle of Felipe Calderon's press conference in Ottawa last Wednesday, the Mexican president gave some surprisingly frank words. | Embassy |
| |
EU greenhouse gas emissions down 2 percent in 2008
The European Union says it reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 2 percent in 2008 from the previous year as an economic recession cut back energy use. | AP |
| |
EU beating gas emission targets
European Union countries are already more than halfway towards meeting the bloc’s self-imposed greenhouse gas emissions targets for 2020, a new report has found. | Financial Times |
| |
Barclays snaps up carbon trader for £98m
Barclays, the UK bank, has extended its carbon trading business by snapping up Sweden’s Tricorona for £98m in cash. | Financial Times |
| |
As well spews in Gulf, Obama makes climate bill a priority
Signaling that the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster has propelled climate change legislation toward the top of his priority list, President Obama called on Congress yesterday to roll back billions of dollars in tax breaks for oil companies and help the nation end its dependence on fossil fuels. | Boston Globe |
| |
Obama hopes oil spill boosts support for climate bill
President Obama tried Wednesday to channel public outrage about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill into support for a climate-change bill, seeking to redefine an issue that threatens to tarnish his presidency. | Washington Post |
| |
US Sen. Lugar to propose climate bill alternative
A senior Republican in the U.S. Senate next week will propose energy and climate legislation that aims to cut emissions of planet-warming gases, but with far lower goals than President Barack Obama seeks. | Reuters |
| |
Rudd hints at revived emissions scheme
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has hinted at a whole new approach to climate change - a greener ETS, passed sooner than planned. | Sydney Morning Herald |
| |
Study: Coral atolls hold on despite sea-level rise
Some South Pacific coral atolls have held their own or even grown in size over the past 60 years despite rising sea levels, newly published research showed Thursday. | AP |
| |
Pacific islands 'growing not shrinking' due to climate change
Scientists have been surprised by the findings, which show that some islands have grown by almost one-third over the past 60 years. | Telegraph |
| |
| |
| |
Moratorium could be ‘futile’
A two-year moratorium on new permits will not effectively protect the environment unless the government also bans logging in remaining natural forest and peatland areas, activists warn. | Jakarta Post |
| |
Films on climate change to be released on June 5
Named ‘Five Scripts, One Plot: Solutions for Climate Change Challenges', the package of short video films focuses on mitigating climate change, with special emphasis on water and energy. | The Hindu |
| |
| We Need a Cake | Huffington Post |
| |
| Climate financing: put the money on the barrel at the Bonn climate talks | Huffington Post |
| |
Cash Call for Carbon Cuts Conference
Just as Europe tries to inject new life in the climate change debate with an analysis of the impact of more ambitious CO2 cuts within the 27 countries, the United Nations is struggling to find enough money to organize talks ahead of the next international negotiation in Mexico at the end of the year. | Wall Street Journal |
| |
Carbon market players say open to self-policing
Carbon market players said on Tuesday they will consider developing self-policing rules after a call to action by the UN's new climate chief, but warned that more political will is needed by governments to spur investment. | Reuters |
| |
New round of climate negotiation begins
A FRESH round of negotiations kicked off Monday in another attempt to get global agreement on a treaty to meet climate change with representatives of 182 United Nations member-states in attendance at the meeting in Bonn, Germany. | Business Mirror |
| |
False start for Bonn talks as Copenhagen row rumbles on
Small group of Latin American countries refuse to discuss negotiating text containing elements of Copenhagen Accord | BusinessGreen |
| |
Clean energy is vital area for U.S., China to cooperate: WWF official
Clean energy was a vital area for the United States and China to work together in dealing with climate change, a high-level World Wildlife Fund (WWF) official told Xinhua Tuesday. | Xinhua |
| |
Maldives urges climate change action
The president of the Maldives called for grassroots "street action" on climate change. | UPI |
| |
| |
| |
Forest Plan by Australia, Europe Faces Climate Veto
Papua New Guinea is among developing countries that may veto a plan at United Nations talks by nations including Australia to count carbon dioxide stored in vegetation such as trees as part of their emissions targets. | Bloomberg |
| |
US projects 4 percent emissions rise by 2012 to UN
The Obama administration's first major climate report to the United Nations projects that U.S. greenhouse gases will grow by 4 percent through 2020. | AP |
| |
LDCs should specify climate demands
The Least Developed Countries (LDCs) should specify their demands in the global negotiations to achieve the most in the Mexico conference this November to tackle climate change, said European Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard. | Daily Star |
| |
Energy sector in emission cut mode
If the energy sector is the biggest contributor of greenhouse (GHG) gas emissions in the country, it is also showcasing some of the best examples of reducing emissions, according to FE-EVI Green Business Survey 2009-10. | Financial Express |
| |
‘Environment is not a formality, but a responsibility to people'
The issue of environment and development has occupied the centre-stage in India not only because of the failure of the global climate talks in Copenhagen last December, but also in the light of the reported fissures within the Government about the overzealousness of Mr Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment (Independent Charge), in allegedly blocking clearances to projects via his Ministry. | Business Line |
| |
Govt delays peatland regulation after Oslo talks
The government has delayed its deliberation of a much-awaited draft regulation on peatland protection, pending for a presidential decree on efforts to halt the country’s peatland conversion. | Jakarta Post |
| |
US prepares for climate burden
National summit paves way for concerted action on global warming. | Nature |
| |
UNDP to support CDM activities
The United Nations is ready to help Saudi Arabia invest in clean energy programs to meet carbon emission targets, according to a UNUNLoading... official on Monday. | Arab News |
| |
South Africa: Country 'Must Boost Clean Energy Investment'
REGIONAL co-operation would help business in southern African countries, including SA, tap the potential for clean development and international funds, according to a study released yesterday by the Norwegian Embassy in Mozambique. | Business Day |
| |
Market-Based Conservation Brewing in Nairobi
The private sector could mobilise billions of dollars to halt the loss of biodiversity, just as it does through the Clean Development Mechanism for mitigating climate change. | IPS |
| |
| |
| |
Climate change to hurt Egypt farming, tourism
Egypt's farming and tourism sectors could be hurt as climate change takes its toll on the country, fuelling food security concerns in what is already the world's largest wheat importer, an environment official said. | Reuters |
| |
Climate Talks Kick Off With Squabbling in Germany
A new round of climate negotiations kicked off in Germany on Monday with squabbling over money and procedural questions that could threaten progress at the two-week U.N. conference. | AP |
| |
U.N. climate talks resume, negotiation stalled
U.N. climate talks resumed on Monday exposing familiar rifts between rich and poor nations which delegates said would delay the start of formal negotiations. | Reuters |
| |
Second round of climate talks in 2010 starts to pave way for Cancun
The second round of UN climate talks in 2010 started in Bonn Monday, focusing on issues that remained unsolved in Copenhagen and paving the way for the Cancun meeting in Mexico in December. | Xinhua |
| |
Bonn climate change talks aim to pick up the pieces from Copenhagen
A FRESH round of UN climate change talks got under way in Bonn yesterday in an effort to pick up the pieces after last December’s summit in Copenhagen and pave the way for firmer action. | Irish Times |
| |
Negotiators face slow grind at climate summit
Environmental groups are urging countries to accelerate action on a new international deal on carbon emission reductions in the first climate change talks since the Copenhagen summit last year. | ABC News |
| |
June will be a ‘watershed month’ for climate talks – WWF
As the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) started in Bonn, Germany on Monday, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said that June would be a "watershed" month for global efforts towards a low-carbon and climate resilient future. | Engineering News |
| |
Negotiators at Climate Talks in Bonn Take Aim at Deforestation
Negotiators at United Nations climate talks aim to make progress in protecting tropical forests and providing financing for developing nations as they struggle to agree on a global accord to reduce carbon emissions. | Bloomberg |
| |
Rich-poor rifts stall progress at U.N. climate talks
U.N. climate talks opened on Monday, exposing familiar rifts between rich and poor countries which delegates said were likely to delay a re-start of formal negotiations. | Reuters |
| |
UN climate talks resume but no deal on the horizon
UN climate talks resume in Bonn on Monday with the difficult task of preparing for a December climate meeting in Mexico. But expectations are muted after the high-profile failure of the Copenhagen climate summit. | Deutsche Welle |
| |
| |
| |
Bonn debate sobre el futuro del clima
Desde ayer, alrededor de 4 500 representantes de 182 países, reunidos en Bonn, Alemania, intentan llegar a acuerdos preliminares. Es la reunión preparatoria con miras a la Conferencia Mundial de Naciones Unidas sobre Cambio Climático, prevista para noviembre en Cancún, México. | El Comercio |
| |
UN climate talks search for post-Copenhagen path
The first full-bore UN climate talks since Copenhagen were set to start Monday, with developing nations pushing for the 30 billion dollars promised them for the next few years. | AFP |
| |
Figueres Says UN Will Set ‘Pillars’ of Climate Deal
Christiana Figueres, the Costa Rican revolutionary’s daughter who becomes the top United Nations climate official in July, said envoys will form “pillars” of an agreement to tackle global warming at a summit in December. | Bloomberg |
| |
Le défi de Christiana Figueres, la nouvelle "Mme Climat" des Nations unies
"Passer des promesses et des bonnes intentions aux actions concrètes pour affronter les effets du changement climatique" : c'est l'objectif que s'est fixé la Costaricaine Christiana Figueres en apprenant, le 17 mai, sa nomination à la tête de la Convention cadre des Nations unies sur les changements climatiques (UNFCCC). | Le Monde |
| |
G8 seeks new drive to meet 2015 aid goals for poor
The Group of Eight industrialized nations plan to invest in better health for mothers and young children in poor nations to meet faltering goals for slashing world poverty by 2015, a draft text for a G8 summit said. | Reuters |
| |
UN cites Albay’s drive against climate change
United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon cited the province of Albay in the Bicol Region as among the local governments which initially signed the UN’s latest campaign on climate change in Bonn, Germany. | Manila Bulletin |
| |
Japan vows forest conservation support to fight climate change
In a ministerial meeting in Oslo, Japan vowed to support forest conservation efforts in developing countries to help alleviate problems stemming from climate change, the Foreign Ministry said. | Kyodo News |
| |
Climate funds lack clarity
The international development charity Oxfam has a new report out asking some fundamental questions about climate finance. | BBC |
| |
Prudence now the watchword as UN climate talks resume
UN climate talks resume in Bonn on Monday with negotiators branded by caution after the near-fiasco of the Copenhagen summit six months ago. | AFP |
| |
La ONU encara en Bonn la ronda preparatoria para Cancún en busca de consenso
Bonn acoge a partir de mañana una ronda de negociaciones formales, preparatoria para la próxima Cumbre de Cambio Climático de Cancún de finales de año, en la que las partes buscarán el consenso en las estrategias destinadas a la lucha contra el calentamiento global. | EFE |
| |
| |
| |
| Breakthrough for climate talks far away amid European debt crisis, U.S. reluctance | Xinhua |
| |
Global climate deal 'a year' away
THE comprehensive Copenhagen Accord on climate change formulated last year in Denmark will have to wait another year before it becomes a legally-binding treaty. | Fiji Times |
| |
Cancun talks may bring in no accord
The climate conference in Mexico this year may not witness any legal accord on cutting greenhouse gases or fund commitment for the countries vulnerable to climate change impacts, two leading climate change experts said yesterday. | The Daily Star |
| |
Disaster risk reduction key in countering climate change, boosting development – Ban
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today highlighted the importance of disaster risk reduction in countering the challenges of climate change and attaining the ambitious goals of moving developing states out of poverty. | UN News Centre |
| |
Maldives president calls for direct action over climate change
President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives told a Hay festival audience that grassroots 'street action' was needed to change the focus of the debate on climate change in the US | Guardian |
| |
Africa-France summit gives business a top billing
Piracy, terrorism and climate change get prime billing but business is the linchpin at a summit between France and African leaders that begins Monday. | AP |
| |
Climate change will affect crops, says Pachauri
At least 30 species of flora and fauna will face the threat of extinction if the global temperature increases between 1.5 degrees Celsius and 2 degrees Celsius, R.K. Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has said. | The Hindu |
| |
PM calls for poor nations' unity to deal with climate change
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday opened the Asia Conference of the Global Climate Change Alliance, calling upon the most vulnerable countries to forge greater unity to establish their rights in the international forums, reports UNB. | Financial Express |
| |
| Disburse climate funds quickly | The Star |
| |
Progress? Don't hold your breath
Seven months after world leaders failed to agree to a climate-change treaty in Copenhagen, negotiations are starting again - but with little hope of success this year either. | Montreal Gazette |
| |
| |
| |
First steps toward energy credit trading in Jeddah
A stakeholder meeting in Jeddah will mark the first application by a Saudi project for registration and eventual permission to trade Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) — also known as carbon credits — under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. The meeting is a prerequisite part of the complex process for registration by the UN that will allow trading. | Arab News |
| |
Green bond financing mechanism could help combat climate change, says IETA
The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) is proposing to introduce a green sector bond mechanism to unlock climate change investment. | Greenwise |
| |
RP reforestation program cited by climate-change conference in Indonesia
OVER 200 environment officials and experts from Asia and Europe have cited the reforestation program of the Philippines as one of the “low-carbon pioneers” in the world, the Climate Change Commission (CCC) said. | Business Mirror |
| |
Dhaka to get $100m climate aid
Bangladesh is set to receive $100 million as aid initially upon joining the EU-backed Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA). | bdnews24.com |
| |
PM stresses unity of vulnerable states
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has asked poor countries vulnerable to climate change to stand on a common platform in the upcoming global climate talks in Cancun, Mexico in November. | bdnews24.com |
| |
| Dire warning by scientists | The Star |
| |
| A changed Africa still needs our help to grow (By Nicholas Stern) | Financial Times |
| |
RSS |
SHARE
|
SITEMAP | FAQ |
CONTACT US |
DISCLAIMER |
FRAUD ALERT |
ESPAÑOL |
FRANÇAIS
