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27.03.2010
Climate can-do in Cancun?
IF THE Copenhagen climate summit was a complete failure, nobody told the President of the Maldives. As the gavel fell on a marathon all-night final session to end two frustrating weeks in the Danish capital last December, Mohamed Nasheed punched the air to celebrate the Copenhagen Accord - a limited, non-binding agreement that the United Nations chose not to adopt.
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23.03.2010
Chinese envoy urges EU to raise its emission cut target
China welcomes the latest document issued by the European Union (EU) on climate change, but insists that the EU should raise its emission cut target to 30 percent by 2020, a visiting Chinese official said on Monday.
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23.03.2010
China climate chief: EU should not backtrack on Kyoto
Urging Europe to maintain its leadership in ongoing global climate talks, China's top climate negotiator said the EU should not step back but instead put pressure on other developed countries that have not ratified the Kyoto Protocol to make comparable emission cuts.
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22.03.2010
Senate Climate Bill To Give Free Permits: Sources
U.S. power generating companies would get free pollution permits, at least initially, as part of a compromise climate change bill being written in the Senate that also would give the coal industry $10 billion to develop "clean" technology, sources said on Friday.
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22.03.2010
Climate change funding raises little hope
Climate change mitigation funding has becomes difficult for the vulnerable countries. Fund availability is far from adequate. Allocation principles, which very from country to country made decision making complicated. China, a G77 country, proposed for a manager for deciding on what basis the fund will be distributed. The Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) also faces similar difficulties. It would be wiser for each vulnerable country to enhance its national capacity rather than depend on UN Fund for Climate Change (UNFCC).
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22.03.2010
China furthers low carbon efforts after Copenhagen
For a great part, the Copenhagen summit was a very important platform for the world to go forward where China played a big role in putting it together, according to Nicholars Stern, world's top climate economist.
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19.03.2010
EU climate chief urges U.S. to act
The European Union's point woman on global warming Thursday pressed the U.S. government to step up its efforts to forge an international climate deal, arguing that both the EU and the U.S. will reap benefits from an accord.
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18.03.2010
Kyoto protocol's substitute unlikely by Mexico conference
Moscow: A new legally binding document that would replace the Kyoto Protocol is unlikely to be ready by the next UN conference on climate change in Mexico, Russia's presidential envoy on climate-related matters said.
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18.03.2010
EU Climate Envoy: White House Hopes For Climate Bill Waning
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Hopes for a U.S. climate bill this year are waning and withering expectations are likely to adversely affect international negotiations, E.U. climate envoy Connie Hedegaard said Thursday after meeting the day before with senior administration officials.
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17.03.2010
Carlgren: Mexico Climate Talks Will Fail
The failures of last year’s climate meeting in Copenhagen are casting a long shadow on the coming international UN conference in Mexico at the end of the year. After meeting his EU colleagues on Monday, Swedish environment minister Andreas Carlgren is doubtful that the international UN group can agree on a deal to cut emissions of carbon dioxide.
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17.03.2010
Africans 'take blame for climate change'
Many Africans blame themselves for climate change even though fossil fuel emissions there are less than 4% of the global total, a new survey suggests.
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16.03.2010
Race for climate top job hots up
New Delhi: The race for the UN’s top climate change job is set to get more intense with the number of candidates in the fray increasing. After India and South Africa nominated candidates, Indonesia and Costa Rica too made known their ambitions for the post of UNFCCC executive secretary.
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16.03.2010
EU calls for urgent action to fight climate change
BRUSSELS, (KUNA) -- Environment ministers from the 27 member EU, meeting here Monday, underlined that the Copenhagen Accord requires urgent action on adaptation to the adverse effects of climate change.
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