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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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15.07.2010
China’s CO2 emissions need to peak by 2020: IEA
BEIJING - China’s emissions of carbon dioxide need to peak by 2020 if the world is to meet its 2050 targets aimed at curbing climate change, the head of the International Energy Agency said on Thursday. IEA director Nobuo Tanaka, in Beijing to launch a new report into clean energy technologies
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13.07.2010
UN Eyes Private Help in $100 Billion Climate Aid
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- A pledge by rich nations in Copenhagen to provide as much as $100 billion a year of climate-related aid to developing countries by 2020 may depend in part on the generosity of private donors and other non-governmental sources.
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13.07.2010
UN chief calls for delivery on climate change financing
UN Secretary-general Ban Ki- moon on Tuesday reiterated the need for world leaders to deliver sizable financial support to developing countries to fund their efforts in mitigating and adapting to climate change.
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12.07.2010
New York talks to tackle climate financing deadlock
The latest round of crucial UN-backed talks to identify how to raise climate finance for developing countries will take place in New York later today, with the UK warning that progress is essential to the chances of an international climate treaty being agreed.
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