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27.11.2011
Figueres: Alarm bells are ringing now
Durban - New research and findings are “sounding alarm bells” for urgent action to halt global warming, the United Nations’ top official on climate change, Christiana Figueres, told journalists on Sunday.
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27.11.2011
A Pledge That Didn't Meet Its Potential
BRUSSELS — A pledge that could be worth $100 billion each year to developing countries was one of the few concrete outcomes of a United Nations climate summit meeting two years ago in Copenhagen that was otherwise seen as a fiasco.
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21.11.2011
On COP17 Climate Change Conference, Brazil Keeping The Faith
According to a poll by The Economist taken during last week’s virtual Global Energy Conference, just 15% of respondents think that any substantial deals on climate change will be reached at next week’s COP-17 in Durban, South Africa. Brazil, on the other hand, is keeping the faith.
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21.11.2011
On COP17 Climate Change Conference, Brazil Keeping The Faith
According to a poll by The Economist taken during last week’s virtual Global Energy Conference, just 15% of respondents think that any substantial deals on climate change will be reached at next week’s COP-17 in Durban, South Africa. Brazil, on the other hand, is keeping the faith.
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17.11.2011
Success of Durban climate-change summit in doubt
THIS year’s United Nations (UN) climate-change summit in Durban, which already promises only modest steps for cutting greenhouse gas pollution, could be in more trouble unless host SA improves its image.
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17.11.2011
No tax, no trading but US says it's serious
THE US could meet its promised greenhouse emission reduction commitments without an emissions trading scheme, President Barack Obama said yesterday, but would continue to insist any new international agreement also include pledges from major developing country emitters.
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16.11.2011
UN Chief Calls for Support on Climate-Change Mitigation
U.N. Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon in Thailand to assess the country’s flood crisis says the global community needs to back funding for climate-change mitigation to follow up the promises made during the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference. Ban's call comes three weeks before a climate-change conference in Durban, South Africa.
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16.11.2011
Meles: Durban Summit Must Salvage 'Essence of Kyoto'
Africa's chief negotiator at next month's climate summit says his objective will be to salvage at least the essence of the landmark Kyoto Protocol. Disagreements between rich and poor countries make it increasingly unlikely that the treaty will survive intact.
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16.11.2011
Building of Ark in Durban in progress
Implementing creative solutions like the use of art for environmental issues allows people the opportunity to participate and take ownership of saving the environment and effectively saving the future.
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16.11.2011
What can U.N. climate talks in Durban deliver?
(Reuters) - Delegates from nearly 200 countries meet in South Africa from November 28 for major climate talks with the most likely outcome modest steps toward a broader deal to cut greenhouse gas pollution to fight climate change.
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16.11.2011
Japan to field bureaucrat to head global green fund
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government said Tuesday it will field a senior Finance Ministry official as a candidate to head the Global Environmental Facility, a green fund linked to the World Bank and other international development bodies.
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15.11.2011
EU resolution to nudge higher goal for carbon cuts
(Reuters) - European politicians are expected to vote through a resolution on Wednesday that nudges higher the bloc's ambitions to deepen its carbon reduction, ahead of climate change talks this month in Durban, a European Parliament source said.
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15.11.2011
UN carbon scheme undermined: report
The UN-backed carbon offset market needs an overhaul as it lacks transparency and is vulnerable to bribery and collusion that threaten efforts to help developing nations cut their growing carbon emissions, researchers in Britain said.
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15.11.2011
Ahead of Durban, major economies to meet in New York
NEW DELHI: The 17 major emitters are making a last ditch attempt to resolve the impasse over the fate of the Kyoto Protocol and the shape of a future global legal deal to tackle climate change. With a fortnight to the UN-sponsored climate meet at Durban, the Major Economies Forum is meeting in New York this week to hammer out a working compromise.
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