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US calls 17-country green meet in April

17 mars

Source : Times of India - Even though the US climate bill is in doldrums, the Obama administration is going to organise the 17-country Major Economies Forum meeting in April to spur debate with the key players, such as India and (...)

Ban reports on progress towards possible climate change deal later this year

17 mars

Source : UN News Centre - Countries responsible for more than four fifths of global emissions of greenhouse gases have now backed the accord that emerged from last year’s climate change summit in Copenhagen, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, calling this a critical step forward towards (...)

UN at odds over climate policy

17 mars

Source : Financial Times - Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary-general on Tuesday appeared to be at odds with his own climate change envoy over the role the UN should play in securing international agreement on tackling global (...)

’Arrogant’ rich countries marred climate talks : economist

17 mars

Source : AFP - The « arrogance » of rich countries at the Copenhagen climate summit in December contributed to the negotiations’ « disappointing » outcome, a leading economist has told the BBC.

Climate Change : In Canada, No News Is Bad News

17 mars

Source : IPS - Canada’s climate researchers are being muzzled, their funding slashed, research stations closed, findings ignored and advice on the critical issue of the century unsought by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government, according to a 40-page report by a coalition of 60 (...)

UN climate envoy expects dual-track negotiations

17 mars

Source : AP - Talks on a new global climate change accord, bogged down for years in contested negotiations among nearly 200 countries, will increasingly move outside the sluggish U.N. framework and focus on a streamlined group of countries, special U.N. envoy Gro Harlem Brundtland said (...)

Pachauri wants GDP to measure natural resource depletion

17 mars

Source : Business Standard - Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief R K Pachauri said there was need to focus on ‘natural debt’ instead of the more familiar financial one while forming national and fiscal policies in view of fast-depleting natural (...)

Dems Already Looking Ahead to the Next Fight : Climate Change

17 mars

Source : CBS News - The fate of President Obama’s health care reform package is still up in the air, but he appears to be already taking on an equally challenging and contentious agenda item — climate change legislation.

Bolivia summit to seek global climate change referendum

17 mars

Source : AFP - An alternative « people’s conference » on climate change in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba in April will seek to advance an international global warming referendum, organizers said.

Experts meet in Accra to okay document on climate change in West Africa

17 mars

Source : Afrique en ligne - A three-day meeting of experts from ECOWAS member states began Monday in Accra, Ghana, to validate the draft Regional Strategy and Plan of Action to Reduce Vulnerability to Climate Change in West Africa.

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