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28.10.2010
KIRIBATI OPTIMISTIC ABOUT TARAWA CLIMATE CHANGE TALKS
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - The Kiribati government is optimistic agreement can be achieved on issues such as funding for climate change adaptation at an international conference it’ll be hosting next month, but it says it can’t say the same for the United Nations conference in December.
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28.10.2010
Hopes for treaty rise at UN biodiversity summit
NAGOYA, Japan (AFP) – Hopes rose that rich and poor nations would be able to forge a historic treaty to protect the world's ecosystems after grinding progress was made at a UN summit on Thursday, delegates said.
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28.10.2010
World Bank launches scheme to green government accounts
NAGOYA, Japan (Reuters) – The World Bank on Thursday launched a program to help nations put a value on nature just like GDP in a bid to stop the destruction of forests, wetlands and reefs that underpin businesses and economies.
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28.10.2010
Chinese firms blamed in huge greenhouse gas scam
BRUSSELS: The European Commission is planning to clamp down on a €2 billion ($2.8 billion) carbon trading scam involving the deliberate production of greenhouse gases which the fraudulent manufacturers are then paid to destroy.
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27.10.2010
U.N. talks to save nature zero in on historic deal
NAGOYA, Japan (Reuters) – Ministers from around the world began on Wednesday a final push for a U.N. deal to protect nature, urged by the World Bank to value the benefits of forests, oceans and rivers on economies and human welfare.
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27.10.2010
Japan looks to ancient wisdom to save biodiversity
TOYOOKA, Japan (AFP) – Four decades ago the oriental white stork became extinct in Japan, the victim of rapid industrialisation and modern farm practices and heavy pesticide use that destroyed its habitat.
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26.10.2010
COP10 flirts with Copenhagen funk
NAGOYA — As the COP10 biodiversity conference headed into its second week Monday with no sign of accord on the key issues dividing delegates, participants feared the same failure that befell last year's climate change talks in Copenhagen.
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25.10.2010
EU tweaks CO2 emissions cap for 2013
The European Commission has revised the EU's greenhouse gas emissions cap under its emissions trading scheme for 2013 in order to accommodate new sectors such as aluminium and petrochemicals.
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25.10.2010
Nations in stand-off at green summit
UN talks aimed at brokering a deal to protect the world’s diminishing natural resources have made little progress, green groups said ahead of the summit’s second phase starting today.
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25.10.2010
Biopiracy, the new threat to global food supply
Nagoya, Japan: The world's largest seed and agrochemical corporations are filing hundreds of sweeping, multi-genome patents by saying they are developing "climate-ready" crops that will grow in a warmer world but they are actually making a bid to control global farming, the international NGO ETC Group charged here Monday.
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25.10.2010
Asian megacities threatened by climate change
World Bank report finds that costs from major flooding events on infrastructure and the economy could run into the billions of dollars, with urban poor populations likely to be the hardest hit. Report examines the impact of climate change on Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, and Manila, under a range of different scenarios through to 2050.
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