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Mistake puts all in question?

Reuters wrote on Monday that scientist called for the IPPC  (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) to undergo for thorough reform in terms of sticking to solid scientific evidence and avoid policy advocacy in order to stay credible.
The IPPC has been criticized over the last few months about admitting its 2007 report wrongly warning about Himalayan [...]

I just read a new publication from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies called “From Silos to Systems: Issues in Clean Energy and Climate Change” which I would like to recommend to all of you. It is a comprehensive report on the work of the Renewable Energy and International Law (REIL) Network of the [...]

Ministers and businesses agree on accelerating transition

Last Thursday The Financial Times, Le Monde and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published an article which set out possible economic benefits that could be achieved by increasing the EU’s target of 20% to a more ambitious 30%.  Ministers of the UK, Germany and France laid out their visions for simultaneously increasing those targets and achieving better [...]

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has recently published a new report on “Assessing the Role of Microfinance in Fostering Adaptation to Climate Change” which I would like to recommend to our blog-readers.
This report, authored by Shardul Agrawala and Maëlis Carraro, offers an assessment of the linkages between microfinance supported activities and adaptation [...]

News from Southern Africa (March 2010)

South African company removes barriers to emissions reporting:
Despite the failure of the climate change conference in Copenhagen to achieve a binding treaty around carbon emission reductions, a South African company, sustainableIT has just developed TheCarbonReport.com, which now allows companies, irrespective of size, to measure and report on emissions through validated processes. See 25degrees.net for details.
DBSA [...]

A new report from GVEP-I sets out to tackle the question of why the adoption of improved cook stoves has been so slow in developing countries.
GVEP International has produced a report compiling a series of articles written by key stakeholders active in the promotion, dissemination and marketing of cookstoves globally.
The main purpose of the report [...]

In Copenhagen alongside the COP15, Dr. Osterkorn (Director General of REEEP) gave an interview describing REEEP’s role in the climate change environment.

Against the background of the slow progress at COP15, two panel discussions organised by ClimateOne and REEEP highlighted the importance of sub-national states, provinces, cities and private business in meeting the climate change challenge. During the two discussions which were recorded for public radio in the United States, moderator Greg Dalton quizzed Governor Schwarzenegger, Huang [...]

Fair play for Africa

According to several observers there´s one major obstacle at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen in order to agree on a binding political agreement.  It’s the issue on compensation for developing countries from the developed world. Africa is demanding billions of dollars in compensation from rich countries to cope with climate change, because it contributes [...]

Idea: building agreement at Copenhagen

Can buildings be a fast track to a climate accord?
It is a radical yet simple suggestion. The IEA has estimated that if 25 energy efficiency policy recommendations were fully implemented globally, they would save 8.2Gt of CO2 emissions in 2030, which corresponds to some 20% of all energy sector emissions projected in the business-as-usual scenario [...]

 

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