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29.03.2010
RI wants ASEAN to adopt Copenhagen Accord
Indonesia will lobby other Southeast Asian countries to adopt the Copenhagen Accord at the upcoming ASEAN meeting in Vietnam, as only Jakarta and Singapore have done so, a source said.
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29.03.2010
Science alone not enough to boost world farm output
But unlike the "Green Revolution" that dramatically hiked agricultural output in Latin America and Asia from the 1950s, a new agricultural restructuring will need to focus as much on new seed varieties as on good governance, women's empowerment and things like curbing commodities speculation, they added.
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29.03.2010
E.P.A. Delays Plants’ Pollution Permits
WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it would not require power plants or other industrial sites to obtain federal pollution permits for emitting greenhouse gases before next January.
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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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