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24.05.2012
Sustainable development hopes pinned on Rio+20 conference
A spirit of determination prevailed at Tuesday’s UN press briefing in Johannesburg about the Rio+20 conference, an international event aimed at igniting renewed political commitment to sustainable development issues that will take place in Brazil in June this year.
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24.05.2012
EU appeals to China on emissions
A European envoy held out a possible compromise in a dispute with China over emissions charges on airlines, saying Europe might alter its system if Beijing helps to negotiate a global agreement on controls.
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23.05.2012
Russia Concerned Over Lack of Progress in Post-Kyoto Talks
The lack of progress in the Post-Kyoto talks is threatening to put obstacles in the upcoming November UN Climate Conference in Doha, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s environmental department, Oleg Shamanov, said on Wednesday.
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23.05.2012
CO2 cut review could raise Kyoto ambition - EU
A yearly review of countries' greenhouse gas emissions cut pledges under an extension to the global climate pact the Kyoto Protocol could be a way to raise climate ambitions, the European Union's lead climate negotiator said on Wednesday.
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21.05.2012
Green Climate Fund: Critical negotiations ahead
It is heartening indeed to learn that Bangladesh has been nominated by the least developed countries (LDCs) to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to help vulnerable countries fight climate risks. This was disclosed by Dr Hasan Mahmud, Minister for Environment and Forests at a seminar on 'Adaptation Programme to Face Climate Risk' held in the capital recently. It is obvious that Bangladesh's nomination to the GCF is the recognition of its role by the climatic vulnerable countries in the international forum.
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21.05.2012
Developing nations side with BASIC in climate talks
With the small island countries and the least developed states veering towards the European line on climate change, the larger developing economies came together with African countries, binding around the BASIC four - India, China, South Africa and Brazil - to demand that principles of equity and 'common but differentiated responsibility' be operationalised in the post-2020 climate regime.
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20.05.2012
Network to save the greens
Nearly 200 young people from 11 countries, including India, recently laid the foundation stone for a worldwide youth climate network within the ‘YouThinkGreen' programme at Wolfsburg in Germany.
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19.05.2012
Germany: Durban Platform climate talks in Bonn
Africa stresses ‘fair emission cuts’ as key to moving climate talks forward - African countries attending the opening of the 'Durban Platform' climate talks in Bonn, Germany, on Thursday expressed worry that there had been no change in proposed emission cuts, even though the current inadequate pledges risk 2.5-5C of warming. In the first session of discussions on the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, the European Union and other developed countries' proposed emission that cuts remained low despite a commitment at the Durban conference last year to 'increase ambition' or the level of the targets.
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18.05.2012
Durban Platform negotiations: A long way to go
Those of you who are familiar with the Durban Platform will know that it is roughly two sides of A4 paper detailing the main agreements from the Durban conference last December.
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18.05.2012
South Africa: Common Legal Regime to Tackle Climate Change By 2015
Meeting in Bonn, the 195 parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) started to negotiate a new global pact - to be enacted by 2015 - that, for the first time, will place rich and poor under a common legal regime to tackle climate change, Times Live reports.
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18.05.2012
Industrialised Countries Under Critical Spotlight at U.N. Meet
The latest session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), taking place May 15-25 in the former German capital Bonn, is the perfect opportunity to reaffirm the enormous and growing body of scientific expertise on policies to tackle global warming.
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17.05.2012
Rich nations stall talks on their record of cutting emissions
On the second day of the Bonn climate change negotiations, the US, the EU and other developed countries tried to stall discussions on whether the rich countries had met their obligations on reducing emissions and financing the poor countries. Many developed countries pushed for talks to take place only on a new single legal treaty that would wipe out all past and existing obligations.
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