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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 [...]
After the rather disappointing outcome of the Copenhagen Climate Summit 2009 right now 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is being held in Cancun. Compared to the massive promotion and high expectations of last year’s event, the Cancun Summit isn’ t [...]
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 [...]
IEA World Energy Outlook 2009 Preview – Climate Change Excerpt
22 Oct 2009
by Florian Bauer - Category: News
The IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka recently released a special early excerpt of the upcoming World Energy Outlook 2009 at the Bangkok UNFCCC meeting entitled “How the energy sector can deliver on a climate agreement in Copenhagen”. The paper lays out the latest greenhouse-gas emissions trends and shows a pathway for the energy sector to [...]
Today the International Enery Conference 2009 started in Vienna covering the topics around Securing Sustainable Policies and Investments’ . The conference is very well attended (I think there are a lot more than the proposed 500 participants, I do not see a single emtpy chair in the conference room) and we already listened to the [...]
UN: New year carries green expectations
30 Dec 2008
by Lauri Kinnunen (www.energy-enviro.fi) - Category: Contributed News
There is evidence the dawning New Year may carry “green” expectations of environmental action on climate change, according to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Old and new environmental benefactors are making enthusiastic pledges on the policy front. Voluntary action, on the other hand, continues to be a major driver on the ground. In December 2009, [...]
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