May 15, 2012 – (via Sky News) A new round of global climate talks have opened in Bonn, with rich and poor countries squaring off over greenhouse gas reduction targets to halt the pace of planet warming. As UN climate chief Christiana Figueres urged all states to turn political pledges into concrete action to save [...]
Continue Reading →May 14, 2012 – By Wolfgang Weinmann, Head of Impact and Sustainability at Cafedirect – We’re often reminded that climate change is one of the biggest challenges we face globally today. And yet sometimes we can get lost in the overwhelming scale of the problem. But, if like me, one of the highlights of your [...]
Continue Reading →May 14, 2012 – (via 3BL Media/ Just Means) With Rio+20 around the corner, the leading international development corruption monitoring group warns of failure if mechanisms for climate financing transparency are not put into place According to the United Nations’ 2011 World Economic and Social Survey, an “incremental green investment of about 3 percent of [...]
Continue Reading →May 14, 2012 – (via Business Green) Around 30 of the world’s largest companies have saved more than double the annual CO2 output of Switzerland through WWF’s corporate carbon cutting scheme since it began in 1999. A review of the campaign group’s Climate Savers Programme, whose members include Coca-Cola, HP, Sony and IBM, found over [...]
Continue Reading →May 14, 2012 – (via BBC) UN climate talks open in Germany on Monday, with the EU struggling to keep its position of a global leader. Small developing countries that linked up with the EU in a new coalition last year say the bloc must commit to tougher emission cuts and more finance. Existing pledges [...]
Continue Reading →May 14, 2012 – (via The NY Times) GLOBAL warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in which he said that Canada would exploit the oil in its vast tar sands reserves “regardless of what we do.” [...]
Continue Reading →May 11, 2012 – (via Business Green) Brazil’s new carbon market could experience “huge” growth in the next eight years, as the government seeks to curb emissions from deforestation and industry. That is the bullish prediction of some of Brazil’s leading economists, who are also looking to the UK for advice in developing a successful [...]
Continue Reading →May 10, 2012 – (via The Guardian) Old divisions between developed and developing countries in who should lead the fight against climate change should be laid aside, according to ministers from some of the world’s poorest countries and European representatives meeting on Tuesday. The vexed issue of which countries should bear the greatest responsibility for [...]
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