International Environmental Agreements

Don't bank on 'adverse impact' from Hatoyama's carbon cuts

I would like to commend Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama wholeheartedly for his determination to work toward a 25 percent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2020. It is utterly absurd to question the...

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African nations end boycott of U.N. climate talks

African nations agreed on Tuesday to resume work on a new U.N. climate pact after a day-long boycott of the 175-nation negotiations, the chair of the talks said. "We were able to arrive at a solution," John Ashe, the head of a...

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Australian PM Rudd on Climate Change, Copenhagen

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has bulletproof green credentials—his first act as P.M. was to sign the Kyoto Protocol, forcing his country to slash carbon emissions. In December he'll play a key role in negotiating...

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CLIMATE CHANGE-US: Too Little, Too Late for Copenhagen?

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Matthew Berger WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (IPS) – The momentum that U.S. climate change legislation has picked up in recent weeks will not be enough to get it through prior to the Copenhagen climate...

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Slow Sino-U.S. Synergy on Climate Change

Will concrete action follow? Cooperating on climate change was the focus of a telephone conversation October 21 between Chinese President Hu Jintao and U.S. President Barack Obama. Most observers agree that these countries, the...

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Daunting task ahead for Copenhagen after Barcelona talks on climate change

The last negotiating session before the United Nations (UN) climate change conference in Copenhagen in December concluded Friday in Barcelona, Spain, making little progress in the key issues concerning climate change and...

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UNFCC should remain foundation of climate change action: India!

India on Friday said the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, seeking common but differentiated responsibilities, should remain the foundation of climate change action irrespective of the outcome of next month`s summit.

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Nigeria: Tackling Climate Change

THE recent call by former Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Kofi Annan, for global cooperation to avert the catastrophic consequences of climate change ought to be heeded by Nigeria as the country falls within the...

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European patent office to study green innovation

The European Patent Office (EPO) has embarked on a detailed study to map the growth in eco-innovation since the introduction of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The move comes ahead of the next month's UN climate summit in...

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Kenya: Country Needs Sustainable Biofuel Projects

Last month, Unep issued an enlightening report titled: Towards Sustainable Production and Use of Resources: Assessing Biofuels (www.unep.fr). The report gives guidance mainly to policy-makers on wider and interrelated factors...

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