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So here is our final update on COP in Durban. A great success… not really. The end of all hope…. Well, apparently not. See if you are convinced. Really, the Kyoto Protocol has been slayed after Canada, Japan, Russia and the US declared no interest in continuing the treaty with mandatory emission targets (or even [...]
Durban Climate Change Conference – high expectations?
28 Nov 2011
by Denise Recheis - Category: News
We might be the last generation with the capacity to act in our struggle to mitigate climate change. The future looks bleak; recent disasters such as the floods in Australia can almost definitely be attributed to global warming, and most experts take an increase in temperature of several degrees Celsius for granted. Today, Monday November [...]
Early morning of 11th, Dec., 193 countries gathered at COP16 finally reached two Accords which include $30 billion “fast-start” support for developing countries during 2010 and 2012, $100 billion per year after 2020 to mitigate climate change through setting up the Green Climate Fund dominated by developed countries; financial support for reducing deforestation and forest [...]
UN climate talks agrees deal, restores faith in UN process
13 Dec 2010
by Lauri Kinnunen (www.energy-enviro.fi) - Category: Contributed News
The UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, ended on Saturday with the adoption of a balanced package of decisions that set all governments more firmly on the path towards a low-emissions future and support enhanced action on climate change in the developing world. The package, dubbed the “Cancun Agreements” was welcomed to repeated loud [...]
UN climate talks seek to avert damaging failure
10 Dec 2010
by Lauri Kinnunen (www.energy-enviro.fi) - Category: Contributed News, Events
Several environment ministers said on Wednesday that failure at the talks in Cancun, Mexico, could undermine faith in the ability of the United Nations to tackle global problems in the 21st century as power shifts toward emerging nations led by China and India, writes Reuters. “I think that what is at stake here is also [...]
The US has, so far, been reluctant to sign any binding document limiting CO2 emissions such as the Kyoto protocol. With a change of leadership and some new legislation in the US under President Obama, many were hopeful that a change in policy towards climate change was viable.
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