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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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02.11.2011
Climate Change Imperils Global Prosperity, U.N. Warns
A new report from the United Nations Development Program warns that if drastic measures are not taken to prepare nations for the impacts of climate change, the economic progress of the world’s developing countries could stall or even be reversed by 2050.
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