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16.11.2011
Japan to field bureaucrat to head global green fund
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government said Tuesday it will field a senior Finance Ministry official as a candidate to head the Global Environmental Facility, a green fund linked to the World Bank and other international development bodies.
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15.11.2011
EU resolution to nudge higher goal for carbon cuts
(Reuters) - European politicians are expected to vote through a resolution on Wednesday that nudges higher the bloc's ambitions to deepen its carbon reduction, ahead of climate change talks this month in Durban, a European Parliament source said.
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15.11.2011
UN carbon scheme undermined: report
The UN-backed carbon offset market needs an overhaul as it lacks transparency and is vulnerable to bribery and collusion that threaten efforts to help developing nations cut their growing carbon emissions, researchers in Britain said.
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15.11.2011
Ahead of Durban, major economies to meet in New York
NEW DELHI: The 17 major emitters are making a last ditch attempt to resolve the impasse over the fate of the Kyoto Protocol and the shape of a future global legal deal to tackle climate change. With a fortnight to the UN-sponsored climate meet at Durban, the Major Economies Forum is meeting in New York this week to hammer out a working compromise.
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14.11.2011
Climate deal unlikely soon, as emissions grow
(Reuters) - A new and broader climate deal is out of reach for now and instead nations need to focus on how to replace the ailing Kyoto Protocol before 2020, Britain's minister of state for energy and climate change said on Monday.
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13.11.2011
Russia Intransigent on Kyoto Protocol Extension
Russia's chief climate negotiator said the country will "never" sign up to extend the Kyoto Protocol for a second implementation period, casting further doubt on chances of a deal at the international climate conference in South Africa at the end of this month.
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13.11.2011
Eurozone crisis may cloud Durban climate talks
Ahead of the Durban climate change talks beginning Nov 28, experts are worried that Eurozone crisis may curtail the billions of dollars of funding from industrialised countries to their poorer counterparts to adapt to climate change.
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13.11.2011
Carbon Trading May Be Ready for Its Next Act
LONDON — Gone are the days when carbon trade was seen as a vital policy tool to cut emissions at the cheapest cost, and not many people talk about its prospects for overtaking the oil market in terms of traded value anymore.
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08.11.2011
Australia passes landmark carbon price laws
(Reuters) - Australia passed landmark laws on Tuesday to impose a price on carbon emissions in one of the biggest economic reforms in a decade and injecting new impetus into December's global climate talks in South Africa.
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08.11.2011
Ambitions in check on global climate deal
With just weeks to go before UN talks on climate change open in South Africa, negotiators have shifted their goal from striking a historic deal to ensuring that the global system survives.
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07.11.2011
IEA economist: ‘We have to leave oil before it leaves us’
The International Energy Agency (IEA)’s annual World Energy Outlook, due for publication on 9 November, will contain alarming research that the world is on track for a catastrophic rise in global temperatures unless fossil fuel subsidies are cut, energy efficiency is improved, and more countries introduce some form of carbon pricing.
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07.11.2011
G-20 Leaders Endorse Green Climate Fund, Marine Protection
CANNES, France - The leaders of the G-20 group of major economies wrapped up their two-day annual meeting on Friday with promises to finance the fight against climate change through the Green Climate Fund, protect the marine environment from oil spills, and promote low-carbon development strategies.
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07.11.2011
Africa is ready for climate showdown
The climate change conference in Panama City last month was the most recent in a series of multilateral meetings leading up to COP17. What happened there? Did these discussions have any impact on the message that the African Group of Negotiators will be taking to Durban?
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04.11.2011
Plan to offset COP17 emissions
WITH the huge UN COP17 climate change summit just 24 days away, the eThekwini municipality has revealed a ground-breaking project as part of its greening programme to offset the carbon footprint of Durban’s hosting of the event.
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04.11.2011
COP17 will produce 15 000 tons of CO2
This is the estimate of how much carbon dioxide will be produced during the 17th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17).
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03.11.2011
Russia sees need for more urgency on climate deal: EU
(Reuters) - Russia recognizes that concrete steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions need to be agreed at climate talks in South Africa next month before a globally binding climate deal can emerge by 2015, EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard said on Thursday.
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03.11.2011
NGOs ‘excited’ over climate change laws
New climate change legislation that will give “real teeth” to the enforcement of carbon budgets – mandatory caps on the total quantity of greenhouse gases emitted within a specified time frame – for South Africa’s industrial sectors will be welcome, says conservation group WWF SA.
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