Yesterday, October 20, marked the second day of five comprising the eleventh part of the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action. That is to say, international negotiators continued their climate talks. These discussions work around a UN-proposed text to direct work on … [continued]
Originally published on Think Progress. Right now, the global climate is a patient that has no plausible chance of survival if left untreated. The climate is not merely in “critical” condition — with vital signs that are “unstable and not within normal limits.” It is getting wildly inadequate care. The … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. The International Energy Agency has painted a bleak picture of progress towards a successful outcome in the climate talks in Paris this year, saying that the sum total of additional pledges made by leading countries have made little difference to the globe’s carbon budget. The IEA … [continued]
It’s 6 am in Lima. Dawn has broken, songbirds are waking, the West Peruvian doves have resumed their eerie low fluting. A car or two whishes by on a nearby avenue in the business section of San Isidro, and one plane is heading out from the airport in a leisurely … [continued]
Leading world professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers released its sixth annual Low Carbon Economy Index report (Two Degrees Of Separation: Ambition and Reality), an analysis of economic growth rates and greenhouse gas emissions data for G20 economies), this morning. PwC’s sustainability and climate change team says that not only are the … [continued]
For the first time in the history of climate negotiations, all nations, including the world’s largest carbon emitters – China and the US – have agreed to work towards emissions-reduction targets binding every nation equally “with legal force.” The last-minute successful agreement at Durban puts pressure on what has been … [continued]
Powerful multinational corporate interests are spending the equivalent of national GDPs to make sure that a climate change treaty isn’t agreed to at the UNFCCC’s COP 17 in Durban beginning next week, but a glimmer of hope remains, according to a new report from Greenpeace International.
Both United States and European Union are considering to limit United Nations role in international climate negotiations as the results of the Copenhagen meeting and the discussions which preceded the summit. But they must ensure that with concentrated negotiations must also consider the scientific facts which call for an urgent action … [continued]
India’s proposal to set up a network of climate innovation centers across the world for the development of affordable clean energy technologies for the developing and poor countries has gained approval ‘in-principle’ at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. [social_buttons] The issue of technology transfer has been a contentious one with … [continued]
