Wednesday, 21 December 2011

As 2011 comes to a close, we review policies that have shaped and influenced this year’s renewable energy path. Every initiative, every project, wherever it may be throughout the world, had and will always have an impact on the earth’s status on where we are now as a global community, and would markedly determine how we will be able to survive and ride out whatever challenges are in store for us, emerging as victors in the campaign for a cleaner and greener world.
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Monday, 12 December 2011

As conceptualized by the Durban Platform, which was agreed upon by 195 United Nations member countries during the recently concluded 17th Conference of the Parties of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Green Climate Fund will soon be made operational, garnering the commitment of the International Development Finance Club, a network of 19 leading development banks to leverage resource support to their constituencies.
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Sunday, 11 December 2011

The 2011 United Nations climate talks ended after two weeks of negotiations, with the 195 parties to the 17th climate change convention in Durban, South Africa agreeing on a roadmap proposed by the European Union for drawing up a legal framework by 2015, committing to a second phase of the 1997 Kyoto protocol, and discussing in detail how the Green Climate Fund can be made operational.
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Thursday, 08 December 2011

The government of Japan will be providing a $15 million grant to support small island nations’ clean energy efforts. The grant was announced yesterday during the climate talks at Durban, South Africa. The grant is going to the SIDS-DOCK partnership, which was created by the Alliance of Small Island States, the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program at the 2010 climate talks in Cancun.
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Wednesday, 07 December 2011

The United States is not keen on considering a legally-binding treaty that would limit heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions. U.S. special envoy for climate change Todd Stern said that the U.S. would maintain its focus exclusively on bringing the Cancun Agreements – which cover 80 percent of the world’s emissions – negotiated last year to fulfillment and would only be open to discussing a new process for addressing emissions after 2020, the year in which the Cancun Agreements end.
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Monday, 05 December 2011

Doubts that a legally-binding agreement on global greenhouse gas emissions reduction would be reached in this year’s two-week United Nations climate change conference in Durban, South Africa are cast as climate talks near its end this week, with environmental groups pointing to the United States as the culprit for the occurrence.
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Sunday, 04 December 2011

A new analysis from the Global Carbon Project said carbon dioxide emissions have increased by 49 percent in the last two decades, threatening global efforts to limit dangerous global surface temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius over the pre-industrial average – despite formal recognition of the threat and some mitigation efforts from countries.
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Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Global climate negotiators have begun this year’s climate change talks in Durban after wrapping up final negotiations in Panama City last month, where the stage was set for what could be accomplished in this year’s ultimate meeting.
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Monday, 28 November 2011

Finding a market for its recently passed carbon price scheme will be Australia’s focus during this week’s United Nations climate change negotiations in Durban as the talks are a “stepping stone along the path” towards a global climate change agreement.
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Wednesday, 09 November 2011

Global carbon dioxide emissions could rise 43 percent between 2010 and 2035 as fossil fuels remain as our chief source of energy, according to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The large hike in emissions is deemed to be caused by the continued use of polluting energy sources unabated by projects and policies that seek to cut down the heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions they emit.
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Tuesday, 08 November 2011

A new study aiming to give a broad view of the global picture of climate financing under the international climate talks suggests unresolved questions and “definitional uncertainties.” The study, published by the Climate Policy Initiative, is the first of its kind to look into the global climate finance picture. The organization is funded by George Soros.
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Monday, 24 October 2011

Climate negotiators were provided an opportunity to draft changes to the Green Climate Fund at last week’s Cape Town meeting, with discussion of the changes to be forwarded to the Durban climate talks on November 11 to December 9. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change executive secretary Christiana Figueres said the draft instrument reflects a well-balanced approach to operating the fund and taking into account the different member countries’ diversity of needs and interests.
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Tuesday, 11 October 2011

The United Nations is optimistic that the extension of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol will be resolved during the next round of climate talks in Durban, South Africa, climate negotiators said after a “successful” conclusion of formal climate negotiations in Panama late last week.
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Monday, 15 August 2011

Focus to be on disaster risk reduction due to climate change
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Monday, 08 August 2011

Experts from the Himalayan nations – Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal – have recently concluded a series of planning sessions that laid down the foundation to put up a ten-year regional climate change adaptation plan. The series of planning sessions were held in advance of the November 2011 Climate Summit for Living Himalayas that will address the effects of climate change on the region.
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Thursday, 04 August 2011

The Multilateral Fund, a financial body established to aid developing countries meet their Montreal Protocol commitments, has given China a $265-million grant, to reduce the country’s use of hydrochlorofluorocarbons which contributes to ozone layer degradation. China, the largest producer and consumer of the gas, uses HCFC mainly for air-conditioning refrigerant as well as industrial and commercial refrigeration, foam blowing agents, and as solvents.
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Friday, 29 July 2011

China’s climate change minister Xie Zhenhua emphasized the need for a global carbon capture and storage fund, one that will aid developing countries adopt the technology. Carbon capture and storage is the process of capturing the carbon dioxide emissions that would otherwise go into the atmosphere and store them into porous rock formations deep underground. However, captured carbon can be reused for industrial applications.
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Thursday, 28 July 2011

WELLINGTON , July 27 (Reuters) - A global deal on a pact to succeed the U.N.'s main climate agreement is still within reach but will not be struck this year, with the pace of talks still far too slow, New Zealand's top climate negotiator said on Wednesday. Inevitably, there would be a gap after the Kyoto Protocol's first period expires in 2012, Minister of Climate Change Negotiations Tim Groser said in an interview after delegates from 35 nations attended two days of climate talks in Auckland.
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Thursday, 26 May 2011

OSLO, May 25 (Reuters) - The United Nations committee of climate scientists will fix any future errors "within a week or so," its head said on Wednesday, after coming under fire last year for bungling a forecast of when Himalayan glaciers would thaw. "I think we now have a firm procedure by which we are going to deal with errors, or alleged errors," Rajendra Pachauri told Reuters during a visit to Oslo, referring to a set of reforms agreed at a meeting in Abu Dhabi on May 17.
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Monday, 23 May 2011

According to the World Resource Institute, governments have amassed a total of $28 billion worth in pledges for the Fast-Start Climate Finance that will support developing countries in addressing climate change. The Fast-Start Climate Finance, which was agreed on in the Copenhagen talks in 2009, was made to collect funds that will be used to help developing countries in their actions regarding mitigation of emissions, adaptation, technology development and transfer and capacity building.
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