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15.02.2010
CLIMATE CHANGE: U.N. to Mobilise Funds for Developing Nations
After countries failed to reach a binding agreement on greenhouse gas emissions at the crucial Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last December, the United Nations moving forward to enforce a pledge to help developing countries cope with the worst impacts.
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12.02.2010
G-20 reflects growing importance of India, China: Obama
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama has told the US Congress that the key role given to the Group of 20 (G-20) leading economies in the global financial crisis reflects the growing importance of key emerging economies such as India and China.
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12.02.2010
Australia and Japan pledge larger emission cuts than EU
THE EU is in danger of being overtaken by Australia and Japan in pledging tougher targets for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions blamed by scientists for causing climate change, according to an analysis of the most recent pledges.
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10.02.2010
Climate Fight Is Heating Up in Deep Freeze
WASHINGTON — As millions of people along the East Coast hole up in their snowbound homes, the two sides in the climate-change debate are seizing on the mounting drifts to bolster their arguments
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09.02.2010
EU ETS intervention call howled down
A call by British politicians for intervention in the EU carbon market to lift the “flat-lining” price of carbon has drawn cautionary and critical responses from the government, Brussels and carbon market players.
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08.02.2010
US government plans new climate service
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama's administration announced plans Monday for a new office handling climate change, aiming to help businesses chart future plans as the nation shifts to a greener economy.
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08.02.2010
U.N. Climate Panel and Chief Face Credibility Siege
Just over two years ago, Rajendra K. Pachauri seemed destined for a scientist’s version of sainthood: A vegetarian economist-engineer who leads the United Nations’ climate change panel, he accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the panel, sharing the honor with former Vice President Al Gore.
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05.02.2010
Indian PM backs UN climate panel
NEW DELHI (AFP) – Indian Premier Manmohan Singh on Friday lent his support to the beleaguered UN climate change panel, saying a glaring error in the body's key 2007 report did not change the science of global warming.
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04.02.2010
Spain Sees Emissions To 2012 Breaching Kyoto Limit
MADRID - Spain on Tuesday predicted on Wednesday that its greenhouse gas emissions in the 2008-12 period will be almost 20 percent above the upper limit it was set in 1990 under the Kyoto Protocol.
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03.02.2010
EU agrees billions to fund renewables, CCS
EU member states this week (2 February) agreed how to allocate billions worth of EU money from the bloc's emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) to support renewable energies and emerging technology to capture carbon dioxide and store it underground.
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01.02.2010
World’s Biggest Emitters Sign Up to Copenhagen Accord
China, the U.S. and the 27-nation European Union signed up to the Copenhagen Accord, giving life to the first climate-protection agreement that contains numerical goals for all the biggest greenhouse-gas emitters.
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