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Inside COP17 - eco-business.com

Mon, 12/19/2011 - 03:18

Inside COP17
eco-business.com
By : James Fahn DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA—It's not easy to be a climate reporter. You have to understand the science of climate change, as well as the politics and the economics. You need to cover energy policy, forest issues, agriculture, oceans, ...

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Climate sensitivity - paleoclimate record points towards potential rapid ... - Bay Area Indymedia

Sat, 12/17/2011 - 03:43

Climate sensitivity - paleoclimate record points towards potential rapid ...
Bay Area Indymedia
This has implications particularly for action on climate change mitigation and adaptation with major impacts on sea level rise, ocean acidification and many other areas. The latest proposals and pledges from Durban put the world on the path of 4.3°C of ...

Categories: Environment

Saving the rest of the rainforests - New Straits Times

Fri, 12/16/2011 - 20:14

New Straits Times

Saving the rest of the rainforests
New Straits Times
AP pic SINCE the 13th round of climate change talks in Bali in 2007, the issue of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries has moved from laggard to leader in the international climate change ...

Categories: Environment

'End of Kyoto would mean nothing for the climate' - Tehelka

Fri, 12/16/2011 - 11:06

Tehelka

'End of Kyoto would mean nothing for the climate'
Tehelka
Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, tells Shonali Ghosal that the hard-fought agreement at the Durban climate change conference is not going to save the planet. You are known to be critical of the Kyoto Protocol. ...

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Categories: Environment

Indonesia: Govt helps farmers, fishermen deal with climate change - PreventionWeb (press release)

Fri, 12/16/2011 - 08:13

PreventionWeb (press release)

Indonesia: Govt helps farmers, fishermen deal with climate change
PreventionWeb (press release)
The central government has also prepared a number of programs to mitigate the adverse impact of climate change which include education, capacity building and preparing a new school curriculum. by Flickr user Jeda Villa Bali Bart Speelman , Creative ...

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Categories: Environment

Suo Moto Statement in Lok Sabha by Minister of State for Environment and ... - Press Information Bureau (press release)

Fri, 12/16/2011 - 03:36

Suo Moto Statement in Lok Sabha by Minister of State for Environment and ...
Press Information Bureau (press release)
The climate change conference is held every year under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol. The key aim of the Durban Conference, this year was to complete the ongoing work as per the Bali ...

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Categories: Environment

Pole-vaulting to a global climate treaty - ABC Online

Thu, 12/15/2011 - 23:01

ABC Online

Pole-vaulting to a global climate treaty
ABC Online
When describing international climate change negotiations, commentators often use the analogy of a 'long and treacherous journey'; with each global meeting resulting, slowly but surely, in an 'important step' towards the ultimate goal of a binding ...

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Categories: Environment

Climate change threatens human existence – Group - Nigerian Tribune

Thu, 12/15/2011 - 18:05

Climate change threatens human existence – Group
Nigerian Tribune
The President of EMAN, Sir Ating Feman, made the statement, on Thursday, in Abuja at the second National Climate Change Conference. Feman said that the Bali climate change conference of parties meeting organised by the United Nations Framework called ...

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Much ado at Durban - Financial Express

Thu, 12/15/2011 - 15:00

Much ado at Durban
Financial Express
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 7th Session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties (CMP7) to the Kyoto Protocol was held at Durban, South Africa, from November 28 to December 9, ...

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Diplomats win, but climate loses - Mail & Guardian Online

Thu, 12/15/2011 - 00:32

Diplomats win, but climate loses
Mail & Guardian Online
The outcome of the COP17 climate change conference was a political coup, analysts said this week, but it failed to deal with the nitty-gritty of how to keep global temperatures from rising. Although it saved the Kyoto Protocol and the United Nations ...

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Copenhagen's dark cloud looms over SA - Independent Online

Wed, 09/21/2011 - 15:44

Independent Online

Copenhagen's dark cloud looms over SA
Independent Online
The South African government is doing all it can to avert the “death” of the Kyoto Protocol, because it does not want the upcoming climate talks to be tainted, as the Copenhagen talks were two years ago. Ferrial Adam, a climate change ...

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Categories: Environment

Programme Manager - UN REDD, UNDP - Ecosystem Marketplace

Mon, 09/19/2011 - 22:19

Programme Manager - UN REDD, UNDP
Ecosystem Marketplace
In order to secure this Objective, the proposed NP will be implemented for three years in order to pursue the following five Outcomes: To implement the NP, a UN-REDD Programme Management Unit (PMU) will be established in the Office of Climate Change ...

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African Countries To Tackle Climate Change - RadioVop

Sun, 09/18/2011 - 15:32

African Countries To Tackle Climate Change
RadioVop
The Annual Conference running under the theme African Media and the Global Sustainability Challenge seeks to encourage journalists to cover issues of Climate Change, Food security and global sustainability particularly looking at African Journalism. ...

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Categories: Environment

Physicist Resigns in Opposition to Claims of Manmade Climate Change - The New American

Thu, 09/15/2011 - 13:36

Physicist Resigns in Opposition to Claims of Manmade Climate Change
The New American
In December 2007, the United Nations climate conference in Bali urged the adoption of a global carbon tax that would represent “a global burden sharing system, fair, with solidarity, and legally binding to all nations.” The proposal prompted one of the ...

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India talks tough on climate issues - Hindustan Times

Thu, 09/15/2011 - 13:19

India talks tough on climate issues
Hindustan Times
Former environment minister Jairam Ramesh had shown flexibility but the new minister Jayanthi Natarajan abandoned the soft approach after her first meeting on climate change issues with 150 environment ministers in South Africa. ...

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India to push for Kyoto Protocol's extension - Economic Times

Thu, 09/15/2011 - 11:37

India to push for Kyoto Protocol's extension
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: India along with other developing countries will push for a second commitment period for Kyoto Protocol - the only legally binding framework on reducing emissions - at the forthcoming climate change conference in Durban, Environment Minister ...

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Steps to address problem of climate change through purely voluntary actions ... - Press Information Bureau (press release)

Thu, 09/15/2011 - 08:08

Steps to address problem of climate change through purely voluntary actions ...
Press Information Bureau (press release)
India and some other developing countries have taken steps to address the problem of Climate Change through purely voluntary actions. Sharing important perspectives from India's point of view with media in a press conference here today, Smt Jayanthi ...

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Categories: Environment

The 98% climate consensus, where did the number come from? - Tucson Citizen

Tue, 09/13/2011 - 11:04

The 98% climate consensus, where did the number come from?
Tucson Citizen
13, 2011, under Climate change, Politics The mainstream media is all exercised that some Republican candidates, notably Rick Perry, do not agree that humans are the principal cause of global warming. Typical of the stories is one from the Los Angeles ...

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Categories: Environment

South Africa - Key note address by Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane on the ... - ISRIA (registration)

Tue, 09/13/2011 - 10:52

South Africa - Key note address by Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane on the ...
ISRIA (registration)
Climate change is no more a speculation as there is overwhelming evidence that anthropo-genically induced greenhouse gases emissions are increasing and with that global temperature and rainfall patterns are changing. No one knows exactly how the future ...

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EU wants firm decisions on legally binding climate agreement - Creamer Media's Engineering News

Mon, 09/12/2011 - 06:29

EU wants firm decisions on legally binding climate agreement
Creamer Media's Engineering News
While much of the focus for the Durban climate change conference was on getting the institutions under the Cancun Agreements up and running and deciding on the future of the Kyoto Protocol, the European Union (EU) is also pushing for an outline of the ...

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