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19.05.2011
Europe's steelmakers challenge EU's green strategy
Europe's steelmakers launched their most vocal challenge yet to the region's green growth strategy on Thursday, saying the added cost of curbing emissions would hand the advantage to overseas rivals.
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18.05.2011
EU says $7 billion CO2 sale to be slightly delayed
(Reuters) - The European Union has delayed by one month a vote that would allow the European Investment Bank (EIB) to raise about five billion euros ($7.1 billion) to support innovative low-carbon technologies.
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18.05.2011
Anglican Communion News Service - Digest News
The eyes of the world will be on South Africa from Sunday 27 November to Friday 9 December this year. Negotiators and political leaders from around the world will gather in Durban at the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17). With provincial and diocesan programmes around the Communion, particularly in the southern hemisphere, increasingly having to integrate a response to the impacts of climate change within local mission, it is hoped that governments will make firm and urgent commitments to decrease national carbon emissions.
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17.05.2011
Ensure adequate green funds
The industrialised nations should provide adequate fund for adaptation and easy access of green technology at an affordable price to vulnerable economies, urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday at Geneva.
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17.05.2011
Australia to Set Expected Carbon Tax Price by July
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A planned tax on carbon gas emitting industries in Australia would be far below a recommended price that might have forced polluters to switch to greener technology, the government said Tuesday.
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16.05.2011
Kenyan firms to tap new IFC carbon fund
Kenyan companies investing in carbon trading projects are set to benefit from a new fund set up by IFC to cover a financing gap arising from the European Union’s decision to stop buying carbon credits from developing countries beginning next year.
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15.05.2011
Migratory birds have wings clipped
KATHMANDU: The World Migratory Bird Day was marked today in Nepal by organising various programmes to raise awareness on the feathered creatures.
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12.05.2011
Govt seeks UN funds to reduce carbon footprints
NEW DELHI: In order to lock climate changing carbon dioxide in the growing forests, the government has asked the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to provide a substantial part of the Rs 90 billion needed every year for 10 years.
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12.05.2011
Europe confirms pledge to aid SA’s greening
THE recent United Nations (UN) climate change talks in Bangkok are the latest step in the lengthy process of bringing the international community together to fight climate change. The talks agreed on a work programme for the coming months, and also helped to clarify the issues at stake in the next negotiation rounds and positions regarding a second commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol.
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11.05.2011
Hillary Clinton lands in Greenland for Arctic summit
NUUK, Greenland (Reuters) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Greenland on Wednesday for an Arctic summit to improve management of a vast, pristine region being rapidly transformed by climate change.
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10.05.2011
US, China must ensure climate success: Clinton
WASHINGTON - SECRETARY of State Hillary Clinton asked China on Monday to work with the United States on climate change, saying the two largest carbon emitters could together ensure the success of UN talks.
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10.05.2011
Finance key to using renewable energy
THE ability to attract finance and improve grid infrastructure are key in the big-scale deployment of renewable energy technologies, the sector said yesterday.
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