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On Monday, a coalition of environmental organizations unveiled their manifesto for a new climate treaty, calling on wealthy, developed nations to reduce their carbon emissions by more than 40 percent by 2020 and by 95 percent by 2050.The ambitious plan, which the group calls the "Copenhagen Climate Treaty," was released publicly just as the UN wraps up its planning sessions for worldwide negotiations on climate change scheduled to take place in the Danish capital in...
ARCADA, Calif., June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Internews (http://www.internews.org), the global media assistance organization, opened the Earth Journalism Awards on World Environment Day (http://www.unep.org/wed/2009/english/) today, calling on professional and citizen journalists around the world to enter their best reporting on climate change. Winners will be flown to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (http://unfccc.int/2860.php) in Copenhagen this December, where they will cover these...
Dozens of the world's top scientific academies urged the United Nations on Monday to include the issue of ocean acidification in upcoming discussions aimed at establishing a global climate change treaty.Their appeal coincided with the start of a 12-day meeting in Bonn under the banner of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The group is tasked with guiding 192 parties towards a climate change agreement in Copenhagen in December that will establish targets for curbing...
On Monday, a 192-nation UN forum will take its first look at a draft text for negotiations that will ultimately craft a global climate change pact.After 18 months of swapping visions, the 12-day huddle in the German city of Bonn, under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is a giant step towards reducing global carbon emissions.Over 6 months are left before the "Bali Road Map," launched in Indonesia in 2006, reaches its supposed destination at a...
The world's largest carbon polluters made progress in talks on Tuesday on how to help poor nations that may be dramatically affected by climate change.The Major Economies Forum (MEF) made headway on a new global treaty that should be crafted in Copenhagen in December, senior officials said."We made progress on a major subject, which is finance and financial architecture. It's not final, but one feels that there is a real consensus," said French Ecology Minister Jean-Louis...
Recent climate change negotiations are delivering "encouraging developments," said the head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, BBC News accounted. The UNFCCC website published his comments, which come as the first "negotiating text" for the UN's December climate change conference. This document marked "an important point on our road," said Yvo de Boer.The text is based on a collection of discussion proposals from all of the nations planning...
Most nations have submitted less-than-ambitious proposals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the months leading up to the UN convention on climate change in Copenhagen in December.Australia on Monday announced plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 while postponing its carbon emissions trading plans by a year to mid-2011. The country cited the ongoing economic recession in its decision.According to Reuters calculations, international plans amount to average reductions in greenhouse...
African nations are asking for billions to fight the threat of droughts, heat waves, and rising seas - all natural disasters they believe are imminent due to climate change. According to a new African text for negotiations on a U.N. climate treaty, developing nations will need at least $267 billion a year by 2020 to fight climate change.The figure is more than double current development aid from wealthy nations who gave a record $120 billion in 2008."Africa is one of the most vulnerable...
It was announced on Thursday that the United States and Mexico are embarking on a new partnership to address climate change and will encourage environmentally-friendly forms of green living.U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon, in a conference in Mexico City, decided to expand political and technical partnership on those subjects by creating a "US-Mexico Bilateral Framework on Clean Energy and Climate Change," the White House said."The Bilateral...
According to a green ranking of stimulus plans released Thursday, Germany and U.S. economic recovery plans are more climate friendly that those in France, Britain or Italy, but all fall short of what is needed to avoid dangerous levels of global warming.A G-20 summit is being held in London on Thursday with the world's largest economies in an attempt to align efforts to combat global recession."These packages amounting to billions of dollars provide a clear opportunity to shift to a...
