That the Copenhagen summit did not emerge with a concrete binding solution has led some countries to blame one another. Another fact is that most countries aren’t happy with the weak outcome of the Climate Conference. It consists of a non binding accord between the U.S., China and other emerging states that global warming must be limited to [...]
The countdown is running. The last few days gave only little reason to cheer and to expect the necessary achievements. Decision makers have now arrived in Copenhagen, and are trying to commit to binding resolutions.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]