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The UN Conference on Climate Change, which took place in Poznan, Poland, December 1-12, yielded no conclusive results on new targets to reduce carbon and greenhouse gas emissions, following the completion of the Kyoto Protocol, in 2012. However, there were some step forward in the new summit, and officials expre... |
20 December 2008
03:31 GMT |
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Over the last two decades, some 19 percent of all coral reefs on the face of the planet have disappeared, mostly because of global warming and man-caused pollution. The new survey, detailing these data, was presented on the sidelines of the 190-nation UN Climate Change Conference, currently taking place in Poznan, Po... |
11 December 2008
04:28 GMT |
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China came up with a very surprising proposal at the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan, saying that it would agree to a system where carbon limits would be set by means of establishing per capita emission levels for every man, woman and child on the planet. For example, the nation argues that a 2.33 tonnes of ca... |
9 December 2008
08:17 GMT |
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UN officials made the announcement on the sidelines of the Climate Conference, currently underway in the city of Poznan, Poland. They added that the estimates only referred to the minimum number of refugees that could be created by rising sea levels, intense droughts and floods, and other severe atmospheric events. C... |
9 December 2008
03:50 GMT |
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The environmental organization Greenpeace announced last weekend that it was pressuring president-elect Barack Obama harder and harder, urging him to take an active interest in the UN Climate Change Conference, which takes place in Poznan, Poland, between December 1-12. Greenpeace says that Bush's disastrous pol... |
8 December 2008
16:31 GMT |
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Several countries, among which Poland, the organizer of the current UN Conference on Climate Change, are lobbying for reduced emission targets by the year 2020, despite the fact that they recognized global warming as being one of the most hard-pressing international issues at the moment. The financial crisis is the m... |
8 December 2008
06:53 GMT |
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Soot, as in black and impure carbon particles that are emitted in the atmosphere as a result of the incomplete burning of fuel in car engines and factories, has now been identified as one of the main accelerators of Arctic ice meltdown, say scientists attending the UN Climate Conference in Poznan, Poland. The Europea... |
5 December 2008
10:27 GMT |
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A new study carried out by the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) argues that monitoring and keeping large amounts of carbon out of our atmosphere would be far more effective than simply shutting down some 1,400 fossil fuel-powered electrical plants. The point of view is to be presented at the Poznan Conference of the... |
4 December 2008
08:28 GMT |
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The December 1-12 UN Climate Change Conference, hosted by the city of Poznan, in Poland, adds to the very problem it's trying to fix, global warming. Estimates of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) say that more than 13,000 tonnes of carbon will be released into the atmosphere during the talk... |
4 December 2008
04:28 GMT |
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In the first days of the Poznan Conference, where delegates from all around the world have gathered to discuss the threats posed by global warming and climate change, developing nations have requested high levels of subsidies from rich countries, to help them tackle issues such as deforestation and the preservation o... |
3 December 2008
06:26 GMT |
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A new report released by Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), a Jakarta-based initiative, urges the leaders of the world to act swiftly for the prevention of global warming, so as to save the world's forests from threats posed by climate change. The study is addressed to the delegates of the 190 n... |
28 November 2008
17:01 GMT |
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Although bringing 190 nations to the table to discuss the delicate problems of climate change and global warming was no easy deal, the United Nations predicts a "gloomy" outcome, among talks of the widely-spread financial crisis. Yvo de Boer, head of the UN Climate Change Secretariat, predicts that participant countr... |
28 November 2008
05:05 GMT |
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