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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 [...]

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 [...]

Where you can meet us in Copenhagen

I am sure most of you will be in Copenhagen for the next one or two weeks, therefore I thought it might be useful to tell you where we (REEEP) will be and which events we plan to do. It would be great to see you in Copenhagen and have a chat with some reegle-blog [...]

The impact of a global temperature rise of 4ºC

It is both a potent portrayal of the effects of climate change and an urgent call to action. On 22 October, David Miliband, The UK Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Ed Miliband, the UK Secretary of State of Energy and Climate Change publicly released a world map developed by the UK Met Office [...]

What’s happening in Copenhagen?

To be honest it comes as a slight disappointment that just weeks before the Copenhagen meeting opens Dec. 7 the United Nations have to signal that we have to scale back expectations about the outcome.  Janos Pasztor, director of the secretary-general’s Climate Change Support Team, said that it is hard to say how far the [...]

Another summit on climate change

Nearly 100 world leaders accepted UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s invitation to participate in UN Climate  Summit on Climate Change in New York on 22 September to mobilize political will and strengthen momentum for a fair, effective, and ambitious climate deal in Copenhagen this December.
The UN summit not have been the spectacular breakthrough in the international climate [...]

 

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