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13.07.2011
Economists Find Flaws in Federal Estimate of Climate Damage
Uncle Sam's estimate of the damage caused by each ton of carbon dioxide is fundamentally flawed and "grossly understates" the potential impacts of climate change, according to an analysis released July 12 by a group of economists.
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06.07.2011
Climate change will increase threat of war, Chris Huhne to warn
Climate change will lead to an increased threat of wars, violence and military action against the UK, and risks reversing the progress of civilisation, the energy and climate secretary Chris Huhne will say on Thursday, in his strongest warning yet that the lack of progress on greenhouse gas emission cuts would damage the UK's national interests.
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04.07.2011
SA aiming to raise $100bn for climate change
SA is hoping that a second round of climate change talks being held in Germany ahead of a UN summit in SA will convince developed countries to raise $100bn in finance by 2020 for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
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30.07.2010
US rejects claims of falsified climate science
US environmental regulators on Thursday rejected a series of challenges to the science behind climate change, reaffirming that global warming is real and the result of man-made pollution. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling was welcomed by US climate groups and comes after a number of recent controversies over the workings of climate scientists provided fodder for sceptics around the world.
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30.07.2010
EPA Denies Challenges To Greenhouse Gas Rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday rejected 10 petitions challenging EPA's 2009 finding that climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and the environment.
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27.07.2010
Developing Nations See Cancun Climate Deal Tough
Reaching a binding climate deal at the upcoming U.N. conference in Mexico will likely be difficult, delegates from a group of developing nations said on Monday, spurring further doubts about a global climate accord this year.
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26.07.2010
Beijing Fund Warns On Kyoto CO2 Offset Rule Changes
A Chinese government fund has told a U.N. panel it supports project developers which earn carbon offsets under a lucrative Kyoto Protocol scheme, and which rejects the idea that they are over-compensated.
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24.07.2010
US Senate deals blow to global climate talks
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A year and a half after President Barack Obama breathed new life into global talks on a climate treaty, the United States is back in a familiar role -- the holdout.
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24.07.2010
Latin America: Climate Change Swing States
U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern traveled with Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela to Chile, Peru, and Ecuador last week, to discuss climate change with his government counterparts and civil society. Deepening bilateral and multilateral cooperation to increase economic growth, cutting greenhouse gasses, and helping climate-vulnerable populations were on the official program.
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22.07.2010
U.N. Lists Kyoto Plan B Options If No Climate Deal
The U.N.'s climate agency has for the first time detailed contingency options if the world cannot agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, whose present round expires in 2012 with no new deal in sight.
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21.07.2010
AU moves to deal with climate change
The African Union Commission is working on a strategy to enable African countries mitigate the devastating effects of climate change.
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19.07.2010
When Climate Change Becomes a Health Issue, Are People More Likely to Listen?
Framing climate change as a public health problem seems to make the issue more relevant, significant and understandable to members of the public -- even some who don't generally believe climate change is happening, according to preliminary research by George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication (4C).
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19.07.2010
Most vulnerable nations pledge climate action
COLOMBO (AFP) – Six countries seen as most threatened by rising sea levels have vowed to cut their carbon emissions as a gesture of their commitment to fight global warming, the Maldivian government said Monday.
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16.07.2010
Senate Climate Bill Falls Short Of Copenhagen Aim
A scaled-back climate change bill Senate Democrats are considering would achieve far less than President Barack Obama promised at a U.N. global warming conference last year -- but even this may be too much for Congress.
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15.07.2010
Environment's Poverty-Fighting Potential Largely Ignored
The environment remains a second-tier matter in Latin America and the Caribbean despite being interwoven with persistent poverty and stalled economic development in the region, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme.
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