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12.01.2010
UN, Denmark get active on Copenhagen deal
NEW DELHI: With the January 31 deadline drawing close, the United Nations and Denmark have stepped up the effort to get all countries to sign the Copenhagen Accord. UN Secretary-General ban ki-Moon and Danish prime minister Lars Locke Rasmussen have written to heads of state and government asking them to submit their emission reduction commitments and to take steps to get all countries to get on board.
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11.01.2010
China Says Achieved Goal In Copenhagen Climate Deal
BEIJING - Chinese negotiators achieved their goal at Copenhagen climate talks in ensuring financial aid for developing nations was not linked to external reviews of China's environmental plans, its top climate envoy said on Saturday.
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11.01.2010
BASIC to meet in Delhi, discuss targets under 'Hagen accord'
NEW DELHI: Even as India maintains that it is ready to meet the January 31 deadline to specify steps it would take to reduce emissions, a final decision likely only after the BASIC countries meets in the third week of January. Minister of state for environment Jairam Ramesh has made it clear that there would be no new announcements beyond the voluntary commitment of reducing emission intensity by 20 to 25% from 2005.
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06.01.2010
President Obama Spearheads a Climate Agreement in Copenhagen
President Obama visited Copenhagen, Denmark, on December 18, 2009, and met with the heads of state from Brazil, China, India, and South Africa to reach a climate agreement called the "Copenhagen Accord." The agreement emerged as the primary achievement of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The non-binding agreement calls for deep cuts in global emissions of greenhouse gases so as to hold the increase in global temperature below 2°C, and it calls for industrialized countries to determine their economy-wide emissions targets for 2020 and submit them to the United Nations by the end of January. A number of developing countries, including the major emerging economies, also agreed to list their voluntary pledges to reduce emissions by the end of January and agreed to communicate their efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions every two years.
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