Full Coverage: Climate change
November 2009
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The aim of this Guide is to provide an introduction to the subject of Climate Change with particular emphasis on the problems faced by developing countries
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06.11.2009
Prospects for a robust agreement to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries (REDD) are on a knife-edge, according to the Ecosystems Climate Alliance.
more...Related topics/regions: [Forests] [Climate change] |
06.11.2009
India’s response to climate change has been paltry, half-hearted and directed at preserving existing elite lifestyles. Its credibility in international negotiations will only be restored if it takes urgent measures to reduce domestic energy use, says Praful Bidwai.
more...From: Transnational Institute Related topics/regions: [India] [Climate change] |
06.11.2009
As politicians meet for more climate talks in Barcelona, they continue to be fixated on measures like carbon trading that will only exacerbate the climate crisis. Fortunately, argues Kevin Smith, the last year has shown that direct action against carbon-intensive projects can deliver results.
more...From: Transnational Institute Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Activism] [Environmental activism] [Climate change] |
05.11.2009
G20 governments must end their perverse fossil-fuel subsidies, which contribute directly to climate change, cost hundreds of billions of dollars each year, and create artificial barriers to sustainable development, urges the Green Economy Coalition.
more...From: International Institute for Environment and Development Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Climate change] [Energy] |
05.11.2009
British chancellor Alistair Darling and finance ministers from the world’s leading economies are accused of sticking to policies which threaten higher unemployment and climate chaos.
more...From: War on Want Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Climate change] [Labour] |
05.11.2009
An MP calls on Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg to take part in a televised debate on climate change that all national TV stations must broadcast.
more...Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Politics] [Information & media] [Climate change] Image: 'Climate change is the most pressing issue humanity faces, but judging by opinion polls, and previous experience, it will not feature highly in the forthcoming general election'
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05.11.2009
Plans to expand carbon markets at UN climate talks this December could trigger a second 'sub-prime' style financial collapse and fail to protect the world from global warming catastrophe, warns a new report.
more...From: Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland Related topics/regions: [Climate change] [Energy] |
04.11.2009
Bolivia will be battered on five fronts by climate change, according to a new report that underlines what is at stake at UN climate talks in Barcelona and an EU–US Summit in Washington today.
more...From: Oxfam International Related topics/regions: [Bolivia] [Climate change] |
04.11.2009
The new Bangladesh-based International Centre for Climate Change and Development launches its first short course on climate adaptation on 15 November.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [Bangladesh] [Climate change] [Education] Image: Dr R K Pachauri
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03.11.2009
African countries have won more time to hammer out an agreement on rich country emissions reductions at climate talks in Barcelona today
more...From: Oxfam International Related topics/regions: [Africa] [Climate change] |
03.11.2009
African countries have called for a suspension of all further talks on the Kyoto Protocol - except for discussions on rich country emissions reduction targets - until substantial progress is made on this critical issue.
more...From: Oxfam International Related topics/regions: [Africa] [Climate change] |
03.11.2009
There is a stronger desire for action against climate change in emerging economies than in the industrialised world, according to the annual Climate Confidence Monitor - with Britons least concerned among the dozen countries surveyed.
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03.11.2009
Alarm over the continuing unprecedented loss of species and the failure to halt biodiversity loss is sounded today by the latest "Red List" of Threatened Species.
more...From: The World Conservation Union Related topics/regions: [Biodiversity] [Animals] [Conservation] [Climate change] Image: World Conservation Union Red List
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02.11.2009
The future of the world's remaining rainforests may inch closer to resolution when UN climate change negotiations resume in Barcelona today as delegates from 190 countries try to decide on the fate of the forest component of the proposed Copenhagen climate treaty.
more...Related topics/regions: [Forests] [Climate change] Image: Logging (Ecosystems Climate Alliance)
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02.11.2009
The US should join Europe in laying its climate finance cards on the table, said an international development group as international climate talks opened in Barcelona.
more...From: Oxfam International Related topics/regions: [United States] [Europe] [Climate change] [Aid] |
02.11.2009
Climate change and food security negotiations are stumbling over the reluctance of rich countries to stump up the costs. They have thrown all their resources at a bunch of bankrupt banks.
more...Related topics/regions: [Climate change] [Finance] [Poverty] [Food] |
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