Editorial note: If, like many Brazilians, you were on holidays for most of January, you might have missed two important international summits of relevance for climate and energy. Luckily for you, CleanTechnica was there to cover them while you were out and about on your first full-electric road trip (or whatever … [continued]
The world now has its first universally accepted plan to limit climate change. The new agreement will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from human activities in order to curtail dangerous atmospheric warming and related climate changes. *** See UPDATE at this link! *** BBC News reported at 3:40 am UTC Saturday … [continued]
Yes, an enormous cheer was to rock the world today, celebrating the unanimity of human will in our struggle with atmospheric carbon and its toxic accompaniments. Maybe tomorrow. Last night, COP21 President Laurent Fabius convened another overnight round of open-ended informal consultations (“Indaba of Solutions”) for parties to the convention to address the … [continued]
In the last meeting of Wednesday, December 9, the Comité de Paris (Paris Committee) of the COP21 climate conference reconvened to register the reactions of conference parties to the draft agreement Laurent Fabius presented at 9 am today. Fabius opened by proposing that after Comité de Paris session closes, parties … [continued]
Laurent Fabius, COP21 president and France’s foreign minister, has just released version 1 of a draft text on COP21 agenda item 4 (b)—the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (decision 1/CP.17) at 3:00PM GMT. Read the text here. Fabius characterized the current situation thus: “We’ve made progress but still a lot … [continued]
The Ad Hoc Working Group on Durban part of the COP21 meeting in Paris sewed up its last draft in the week just past. ADP delegates from every country expressed their views on the version they last officially considered in Bonn in October, patched as much as UN officials could amend … [continued]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has presented some thoughts on why he cares so much about the climate issue: “First, like any grandfather, I want my grandchildren to enjoy the beauty and bounty of a healthy planet. And like any human being, it grieves me to see that floods, droughts, and … [continued]
High-level government officials and ministers from more than 70 countries attended a meeting Monday and Tuesday of this week. It served as a precursor to the upcoming 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The pre-COP21 meeting aimed to “provide the … [continued]
Earlier this week, the French government hosted another round of a series of informal leadership consultations on climate change mitigation and adaptation. The climate talks helped prepare for November-December’s 21st UNFCCC’s Conference of Parties. Earlier this year, Laurent Fabius, French Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development and President of … [continued]
The United Nations hosts another high-level event today Monday, June 29, in New York to help steer a widening coalition of global efforts to limit the damage and adapt to the challenges of ongoing climate change. This end-of-June meeting is not part of the critical negotiation process that will culminate … [continued]
