Climate change

Forests / Waelder: REDD+, Klimawandel, Klimaänderung, Climate change

Not even intense international pressure, the BP oil spill, worsening floods, or the fact that the last six months have been the warmest on record globally was enough to push US climate legislation through the Senate. In the end the legislation died without a single Republican supporting it and a number of Democrats balking. Democratic Senate leader, Harry Reid, said they would continue to push climate legislation in the fall, but analysts say success then is unlikely given up-coming elections in November.

Forests / Waelder: Klimawandel, Klimaänderung, Climate change

13 July 2010: The High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing, co-chaired by Prime Ministers Meles Zenawi (Ethiopia) and Jens Stoltenberg (Norway), held its second meeting on 12-13 July 2010, in New York, US.

Forests / Waelder: Deforestation, REDD+, Abholzung, Klimawandel, Klimaänderung, Climate change, Illegal logging, Illegale Holzschlägerungen, Land use change, Landnutzungsänderung, LULUCF

June 2010: The UNFCCC Secretariat has published the report of the informal meeting of experts, which took place in Bonn, Germany, from 25-26 May 2010, on enhancing coordination of capacity-building activities in relation to using the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidance and guidelines as a basis for estimating forest-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals, forest carbon stocks and forest area changes.

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Biomasse, Energie aus Holzbiomasse, Bioenergie, Forest energy, Biomass, Bioenergy

Forests / Waelder: Deforestation, Klimawandel, Klimaänderung, Climate change

Carbon neutrality by 2030 is the new standard for climate policies, and again the UK is leading North America in the climate debate with a bold national-level proposal about how to get there.

Forests / Waelder: Klimawandel, Klimaänderung, Climate change

BONN, Germany -- A new round of climate talks ended Friday with rich and poor countries both sharply criticizing a new text meant to pave the way toward a deal to halt global warming.