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12.09.2011
Summit sounds climate change alarm
AUCKLAND (AFP) – Pacific leaders identified climate change as the greatest threat to the region Thursday, ordering officials to start work on plans to help people forced to relocate by rising sea levels.
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12.09.2011
EU wants firm decisions on legally binding climate agreement
While much of the focus for the Durban climate change conference was on getting the institutions under the Cancun Agreements up and running and deciding on the future of the Kyoto Protocol, the European Union (EU) is also pushing for an outline of the process towards a legally binding climate change agreement.
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11.09.2011
New UK fund to help poor nations in trade talks
London: Britain is setting up a new Advocacy Fund to provide legal advice and support to poor countries to prepare for key climate and trade talks so that they are not marginalised in negotiations, official sources here said.
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08.09.2011
UN Chief Calls Climate Change “Real,” Demands Action
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called Thursday for stepped-up efforts to fight global climate change, directly linking the phenomenon to drought in the Horn of Africa and severe flooding in Australia.
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07.09.2011
EU will re-sign Kyoto if others act
The European Union is willing to sign up to a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, after the present one expires at the end of next year, but only if commitments are forthcoming from other major emitters, EU Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard says.
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05.09.2011
UN, EU Leaders to Hear Pacific Climate Concerns
Auckland, New Zealand. Pacific leaders will highlight the threat that rising seas pose to low-lying nations at a regional forum in Auckland this week attended by the heads of the United Nations and the European Commission.
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30.08.2011
Kyoto team suspends Romania from carbon market
The Kyoto Protocol committee has blocked Romania from selling carbon credits over concerns about irregularities in the country's carbon emissions data, Romania's environment ministry said Sunday.
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29.08.2011
Climate will make us depressed and anxious
If we don't start tackling climate change, Australians will be increasingly depressed, anxious or stressed.... and more prone to substance abuse, a new report says.
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24.08.2011
'Happy' Bhutan alarmed by Himalayan climate change
Bhutan's prime minister has issued a dire warning about the impact of Himalayan climate change, saying it could wreck the tiny kingdom's ambitious plans to be a world leader in hydropower.
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23.08.2011
An island's climate response
AN island in the Lau Group has started taking steps to strengthen its resilience to the impacts of climate change.
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22.08.2011
World Leaders Praise Libyan Rebel Advances
World leaders are applauding the rebel advance into Libya's capital, Tripoli, as a step toward ending violence in the country and beginning a democratic future.
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22.08.2011
EU may propose plan to extend Kyoto:sources: report
LONDON - The EU could yet table a proposal that would throw the beleaguered Kyoto Protocol a lifeline and secure the future of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) beyond 2012, government negotiators and observers have told Point Carbon News.
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