Posts from ‘December, 2009’

via cbsnews.com (CBS) This month, a poll of 3,000 Americans showed 49 percent were not that worried about global warming. That’s up from 39 percent in 2007, when Al Gore’s book and documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” was the hot topic in the climate change debate. So, does the political will to save the planet from [...]

Secretary-General confers with world leaders on climate change Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on a trip to the Polar Ice Rim to see the effects of climate change firsthand. [File Photo] 30 December 2009 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been speaking to numerous world leaders on the heels of the historic United Nations conference in Copenhagen which [...]

Facing climate change, developing world benefits from UN online scientific scheme 30 December 2009 – As part of a project to promote scientific knowledge in the developing world in the face of climate change, the United National environmental agency this month extended its online programme to Yemen, offering it a chance to gain greater access [...]

Despite the epic failure of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, I think there are plenty of reasons to be hopeful that 2010 will be a banner year for achieving new and lasting environmental protection. Here are the top 5 reasons why: 5.) The EPA’s official “endangerment finding” on greenhouse gases — the determination that [...]

via business.rediff.com By sealing the so-called Copenhagen Accord [ Images ] with the United States, the BASIC grouping (Brazil [ Images ], South Africa [ Images ], India and China) has mocked at the multilateral negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), destroyed the unity of the developing-countries bloc, the Group [...]

via guardian.co.uk * Environment * Copenhagen climate change conference 2009 Copenhagen climate conference Obama’s arrival expected to inject fresh momentum into Copenhagen talks US president said to be preparing ‘knock out punch’ after Hillary Clinton’s gamechanging promise to back $100bn climate aid * Comments (11) * Buzz up! * Digg it * Suzanne Goldenberg in [...]

via telegraph.co.uk The document is an internal briefing paper drawn up by the UN Framework Committee on Climate Change that is in charge of the talks. It says that even the most ambitious emission reduction targets currently offered by developed and developing countries, including the EU and US, would set the world on course for [...]

via latimes.com Reporting from Copenhagen – Overnight gloom at international climate negotiations here has given way to cautious afternoon optimism, with delegates and observers expressing hope today that world leaders are moving toward clearing several key roadblocks to a new agreement to limit greenhouse gases. Two moves revived the talks, which appeared this morning to [...]

via globalwarming.change.org Canada has emerged as a serious climate criminal in the last two weeks in Copenhagen by weakening its pledged emissions cuts. But Brazil has emerged as potential climate heroes in their determination to both cut emissions, cut deforestation, and use 10 per cent of an oil exploration fund to invest in climate change [...]

via independent.co.uk The Copenhagen Wheel is a bike wheel with a “Swiss army knife’s worth of electronic gadgets,” designed by researchers at MIT’s Senseable City Lab. The Copenhagen Wheel is one of many initiatives created to help the city of Copenhagen achieve its goal of becoming the first carbon neutral capital in the world by [...]