16.12.2011
Topirea brusca a permafrostului ameninta grav clima planetei
Pe masura ce Arctica se incalzeste, gazele cu efect de sera vor fi eliberate din permafrostul dezghetat rapid si la nivele mult mai mari decat se estimase initial, se arata intr-un nou studiu efectuat de 41 de cercetatori internationali, si publicat in jurnalul Nature. |
16.12.2011
ŞOC ÎN LUMEA ŞTIINŢIFICĂ: Metanul din Oceanul Arctic ameninţă Pământul
"În urmă cu ceva timp, am descoperit structuri gen torţă, dar acestea nu depăşeau câteva zeci de metri. Este pentru prima dată când descoperim scurgeri continue, puternice şi impresionante. Vorbim de suprafeţe cu peste 1.000 de metri în diametru", a spus un membru al Academiei de Ştiinţe din Rusia, Igor Semiletov. |
15.12.2011
COP17 - Binding deal in 2015
Responses to the deal reached by 195 countries at the climate change talks in Durban last week range from praising the compromise as a “historic agreement” to accusing it of giving in to polluters at the expense of the planet. |
15.12.2011
EU Looks to Carbon Reductions
BRUSSELS—Efforts to cut greenhouse-gas emissions in the European Union will pay off over the next four decades as they will reduce the fossil fuel bill, but such a scenario hinges on where oil prices are headed, the European Commission said Thursday. |
15.12.2011
Despaduririle, subiect ocolit la Durban
Conferinta ONU asupra schimbarilor climatice, incheiata de curand la Durban, Africa de Sud, nu a adus raspunsurile necesare pentru a frana despaduririle, sustin expertii. |
14.12.2011
UN: Canada, out of Kyoto, must still cut emissions
Reuters) - Canada still has a legal obligation under United Nations rules to cut its emissions despite the country's pullout from the Kyoto Protocol, the U.N. climate chief said on Tuesday. |
13.12.2011
COP-17: Durban UN climate deal hailed as ‘watershed’
THE United Nations (UN) climate change negotiations that ended in Durban on Sunday were "historic" and had delivered a "watershed" deal that took in developed and developing nations, Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said yesterday. |
13.12.2011
Carbon markets still on life support after climate deal
LONDON (Reuters) - Carbon markets are still on life support after a U.N. climate deal agreed in South Africa on Sunday put off some big decisions until next year and failed to deliver any hope for a needed boost in carbon permit demand. |
13.12.2011
Canada quits Kyoto climate pact
(CNN) -- Canada officially renounced the expiring Kyoto Protocol on Monday, a day after international negotiators agreed to extend the treaty's limits on carbon emissions blamed for a warming climate. |
13.12.2011
Acord slab si lipsit de echitate la Conferinta ONU privind schimbarile climatice
Dupa aproape doua saptamani de negocieri, Conferinta ONU privind schimbarile climatice de la Durban, Africa de Sud, s-a incheiat ieri cu un acord slab, lipsit de ambitie si echitate, se arata intr-un comunicat remis de Reteaua de Actiune pentru Clima Europa (CAN Europe), a carei membru este şi Fundaţia TERRA Mileniul III. |
12.12.2011
Kyoto protocol lives on
After two weeks of tense negotiations at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17), governments have come to several decisions, including the continuation of the Kyoto protocol, and a more active Green Climate Fund. |
12.12.2011
International Energy Agency welcomes climate pact
The world's global energy authority has welcomed the Durban road map for a new climate pact as a positive step towards avoiding catastrophic climate change but warned countries not to use to the talks as a reason to ease off on immediate action. |
11.12.2011
UN chief hails Durban climate roadmap
New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday hailed what he called the "significant" breakthrough at UN climate talks that produced a roadmap towards an accord joining all major greenhouse-gas emitters. |
11.12.2011
Hope at last at the Durban conference on climate change
UN climate change conferences don't of themselves cut greenhouse gas emissions. Negotiations about targets and texts cannot do that; only government policies that incentivise and require business investment in low carbon technologies and other emission-reducing activities can. |
11.12.2011
Climate accord: 'Good but not good enough'
Though the UN's top climate-change official, Christiana Figueres, and South African International Relations and Cooperation Minister and COP17 president Maite Nkoana-Mashabane hailed the unexpected outcome of COP17 as a victory, environmental groups said the future of the planet was still at risk. |
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