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The World future Energy Summit happening right now in Abu Dhabi (16th – 19th January) has prompted UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to remind participants of the need to bundle all efforts to make access to clean energy for all a reality. Highlighting the advantages of non-conventional energy he addressed IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency) [...]
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 [...]
The United Nations guidelines on air pollution from cars and factories that can cause heart disease, lung cancer, asthma, and acute lower respiratory infections could save over a million lives a year – if they were adhered to! The WHO has conducted “unprecedented” compilation of data from nearly 1,100 cities across 91 countries and found [...]
New studies released by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) provide a clear path for staying below the danger threshold of an average temperature rise of 2°C above pre-industrial levels by 2050. Its content explains how the emission cuts that are necessary in order to avoid even higher temperatures in the future could be [...]
Dr. Marianne Osterkorn, REEEP‘s Director General attended the Cancun conference and was recently quizzed on her thoughts about the outcome. Looking at the Cancun Agreements, would you rate COP16 as a success or failure? I’d say Cancun was a qualified success in that there was an agreement at all – albeit a fairly weak one. [...]
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 [...]
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