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Yesterday, April 9, a new round of climate talks began in Bonn, Germany. Organized by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the discussions are aimed at resolving some of the most important issues our planet faces today, including the threat of global warming. The developing world is cri... |
10 April 2010
04:52 GMT |
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After the Conference of the Parties (COP) 15 meeting ended in Copenhagen, last December, many analysts, and officials in countries that are directly under threat from the effects of global warming, called the results disappointing, to say the least. Many have qualified them as null, and a large number of experts were... |
17 March 2010
10:49 GMT |
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Following the December 2009 United Nations Summit on Climate Change (COP 15), international analysts drew attention to the fact that nothing was actually decided, or made legally-binding. In fact, everything was left to be decided by each individual nation, and a deadline, January 31, was imposed so that countries ha... |
8 February 2010
19:01 GMT |
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One of the only achievements of last December's UN Climate Summit, held in Copenhagen, was the promise that the developed world made to developing and poor countries. The terms of the agreement dictated that rich nations would provide about $30 billion in funding to the rest of the world, over a period of three ... |
25 January 2010
02:52 GMT |
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Authorities from some 54 nations in the United Kingdom recently to discuss the terms of the United Nations initiative that would turn 2010 into the International Year of Biodiversity. The meeting was meant to be a starting point in negotiations that would culminate at a full UN summit this October, to be held in Nago... |
22 January 2010
05:39 GMT |
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The new draft proposal on global warming that was adopted at the 2009 UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen last week is now generally being acknowledged as weak. Countries say that the direct body of pieces of evidence to support immediate actions is mounting as more and more scientific studies come out, and that the gene... |
23 December 2009
03:41 GMT |
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In a move that developing nations called the “death of the African continent,” representatives of the countries that attended the 2009 UN Climate Summit, held in Copenhagen, decided to adopt a draft proposal for a new treaty. The document is the same we were telling you about on Saturday. Even then, it dr... |
21 December 2009
03:19 GMT |
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Though the negotiations of the 2009 UN Climate Summit were scheduled to conclude yesterday, representatives from nearly all countries involved decided to give compromise another chance today, in an extended session. Things don't appear to be running too smoothly however, as a draft proposal presented earlier was... |
19 December 2009
04:49 GMT |
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A large number of world leaders, from 194 United Nations countries, gathered today in the Danish capital Copenhagen for the last planned day of the 2009 Climate Summit. Though there was a lot of big talk before and during the meetings, and high representatives expressed their faith in the success of the negotiations,... |
18 December 2009
05:26 GMT |
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With only 48 hours left to decide on the future of the world as we know it, world leaders are still bogged down in procedures and petty disagreements in Copenhagen, at the 2009 UN Climate Summit. The Conference of the Parties (COP 15) seems to have lost sight of the reason why it gathered in the Danish capital in the... |
17 December 2009
04:53 GMT |
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Amid fears and outrage that the Danish government, the host of this year's UN climate talks, is seeking to sideline discussions on more emission cuts under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the G77-China Bloc has decided to withdraw its cooperation in the matter. The Bloc represents more than 130 countries, including dev... |
14 December 2009
10:55 GMT |
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Officials representing the 190+ countries that are attending the 2009 UN Climate Change conference, held in Copenhagen, have worked through the night, in an attempt to come to a decision about how to fund poorer nations in the international struggle against global warming and climate change. At the forefront of the d... |
11 December 2009
02:37 GMT |
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In the third morning of the 2009 UN Climate Summit on the issue of global warming, analysts revealed that a large split appeared between developing nations. While some of them think that a legally binding deal tougher than the 1997 Kyoto Protocol should be set in place, richer, developing states such as China oppose ... |
9 December 2009
10:11 GMT |
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This year's UN Climate Summit is undoubtedly the largest event of its kind in human history. For the first time ever, officials from nearly all countries in the United Nations are being joined by their presidents, in a large-scale effort to stop the ruthless effects of global warming, and to mitigate climate cha... |
7 December 2009
08:53 GMT |
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US President Barack Obama has announced for a long time that he will be attending this year's UN Climate Summit, held in Copenhagen, but he recently said that he would no longer attend the works. Rather, he will meet up with other leaders at the end of the conference, in the very last day. The purpose of the new... |
5 December 2009
06:05 GMT |
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The upcoming UN Climate Summit, scheduled to begin in Copenhagen, Denmark, in just a few days, will be a cornerstone for the international community. It's highly unlikely that any compromise will be achieved during the meetings, analysts say, as there still isn't any will at high levels to take care of our ... |
2 December 2009
04:04 GMT |
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In a gesture of good will towards the international community, China published just a few days ago its emission-cut goals, just a couple of weeks ahead of the UN Summit on Climate Change, to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. The country is one of the few large polluters around the world that have become actively engage... |
26 November 2009
19:01 GMT |
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With the last meeting of the United Nations on the issues of global warming scheduled to start on December 6 in Copenhagen, policymakers are looking in every possible place for studies to inform them and their decisions. This is a very active time, right before the summit, as demonstrated by the scandal that is curre... |
26 November 2009
04:29 GMT |
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The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, announced recently that the planned UN climate talks, which are to begin in less than ten weeks, in Copenhagen, Denmark, were in danger of failing for the third consecutive year, if countries did not come to an agreement on the nature of the problems at hand and their potenti... |
21 September 2009
04:42 GMT |
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Denmark and Holland are known around the world for their love of bicycles, which have become an important part of their culture. But the Danish capital, Copenhagen, which is to host the UN Climate Change summit later this year, is vowing to take its already-amazing love for the environment a step further. Authorities... |
28 August 2009
04:25 GMT |
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According to a declaration published by the participant nations in the G8 Summit this year, developing and developed nations alike have agreed that global temperatures must not be allowed to increase by more than 2° Celsius from 1990 levels. Leaders of the most powerful countries discussed with presidents and oth... |
10 July 2009
07:02 GMT |
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With the December UN summit in Copenhagen less than 200 days away, leaders of the world are struggling to find ways to get along on an issue related to fighting global warming and climate change. Everyone admits that the future agreement, which is slated to replace the Kyoto Protocol, signed in Japan in 1997, will ta... |
26 May 2009
06:59 GMT |
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The United Nations released a 53-page recommendation report on Wednesday, saying that the world was not yet “standing still” as far as a consensus on climate change was concerned. At last December's summit in the Polish city of Poznan, the divide between the developed and the underdeveloped world wid... |
20 May 2009
08:37 GMT |
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According to top Australian and Chinese officials, there is a good chance that the December 2009 UN summit, to be held in Copenhagen, will be concluded with an international treaty that will replace the Kyoto Protocol. The two representatives say that signs show that the increasing gap between rich and developing nat... |
15 April 2009
06:04 GMT |
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In addition to the momentous space achievement that the world saw today, as 13 astronauts flew in orbit at the same time, our planet will also see one of its largest and most popular movements in action. Earth Hour 2009 promises to be a grand event, in which more than 1 billion people from over 89 countries will be p... |
28 March 2009
06:28 GMT |
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On Tuesday, Yvo de Boer, the climate chief at the United Nations, warned that time was running out for governments and national authorities to come up with new and sustainable methods of reducing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. He said that, with just 265 days left until this December's Copenhagen intern... |
18 March 2009
06:29 GMT |
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On Monday, sources within the Japanese team handling the agreement announced that the first government-to-government carbon trading scheme was about to be sealed this week, between representatives of Ukraine and Japan. The Asian nation will be the one buying the rights to pollute from its Eastern European counterpart... |
16 March 2009
11:28 GMT |
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN organism that deals with estimating the future effects of global warming and climate change, as well as with ways of preventing them, said in a 2007 study that the global sea level would increase by 7 to 23 inches (18 to 59 centimeters) in less than 100 yea... |
12 March 2009
04:30 GMT |
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European environment ministers have met today in Brussels to discuss the faith of the developing world, as far as climate funding goes. Because poor countries hold up most of the rain forests in the world, it's crucial for the international community to protect these sites of special interests. The problem is th... |
2 March 2009
09:41 GMT |
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China announced on Thursday that its efforts of combating global warming and climate change would not be weakened by the global financial crisis, and that the country would respect its promise of employing measures that were bound to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and methane the Asian nations pumped into the at... |
19 February 2009
05:16 GMT |
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President-elect Barack Obama founded much of his campaign on his environmental policies, and the people who voted for him, especially environmentalists and ecologists, hope to see their confidence pay off in the coming year, when the UN Conference on Climate Change is scheduled to take place in December. Copenhagen w... |
24 November 2008
09:22 GMT |
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