Experts from leading institutions and government organisations working in the field of climate change in the Himalayan region called attention to mountain issues and challenges in the light of climate change. They linked these issues to the debate on how to mainstream the sustainable development...
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SCOOP NZ |
13 years 11 months ago
New Scientist |
13 years 11 months ago
Cancún's climate conference was largely a diplomatic triumph. No nations promised to up their emissions reduction targets from those pledged in Copenhagen. The compromise text that the delegates applauded was only work in progress, full of pledges to settle differences later – differences like...
Reuters |
13 years 11 months ago
(Reuters) - Finland is aiming to set up an scheme to produce renewable biomass energy from Indonesian forests next year, following in the footsteps of a lauded Norwegian agreement to tackle Indonesia's high deforestation. Finland's scheme, with initial investment of four million euros, is...
Blogs Nature |
13 years 11 months ago
We're now heading into crunch time in Cancun, and suffice it to say that the ultimate fate of everything remains utterly unclear. More on that in a moment, but first let's take a more-detailed look at what is happening within the deforestation talks, where things are either going rather...
Allafrica |
13 years 11 months ago
A DECISION by the Norwegian government to negotiate post Kyoto Protocol with other countries bilaterally is aimed at sending a strong message to international community that Oslo is committed to address causes of green house gas emissions blamed for causing global warming.
FERN |
13 years 11 months ago
Destruction of forests is a significant contributor to climate change. Preserving forests helps mitigate global warming. These two facts explain why halting deforestation is a central part of much of the current negotiations on climate change, with an international binding forest climate...
13 years 11 months ago
U.S. government’s plans on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) The four speakers included Joe Aldy, Special Assistant to the President on the Environment Maura O’Neill of USAID Billy Pizer, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy at the Department of Treasury Patrick...
Daily Telegraph |
13 years 11 months ago
India's mobile subscribers totalled 563.73 million at the last count, enough to serve nearly half of the country's 1.2 billion population.
IUCN |
13 years 11 months ago
IUCN has published a brochure on the contributions that enhanced multi-stakeholder dialogues can make to more effective and equitable REDD-plus planning. REDD-plus offers major opportunities to turn around tropical deforestation and degradation, but if not designed well, implementation can...
Miller McCune |
13 years 11 months ago
I was in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca during one of Mexico’s best-known traditions, the Day of the Dead.
Clear Sky Climate Solutions |
13 years 11 months ago
The heavy interest in REDD+ projects is palpable here in Cancun. What is not so evident is that the compliance markets are going to be ready to move the REDD+ agenda forward. Even if an agreement comes out of this COP, it will effectively be authorizing the technical working groups to begin...
CIFOR |
13 years 11 months ago
A binding deal on the REDD+ scheme to conserve the world’s forests has never been so close. How to finance REDD+ is still under debate, but experts in Cancun have reiterated that a combination of financing mechanisms will be needed to ensure adequate REDD+ funding. Pavan Sukhdev, special advisor...
PNAS |
13 years 11 months ago
Forests provide multiple benefits at local to global scales. These include the global public good of carbon sequestration and local and national level contributions to livelihoods for more than half a billion users. Forest commons are a particularly...
IPS News |
13 years 11 months ago
CANCÚN, Mexico, Dec 11, 2010 (IPS/TerraViva) - If success is measured by delaying difficult decisions, then the Cancún climate meeting succeeded by deferring crucial issues over financing and new targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the next Conference of the Parties meeting a...
Vancouver Sun |
13 years 11 months ago
CANCUN, Mexico — The international community has reached a consensus on the building blocks for a legally binding treaty on global warming that could dramatically slash greenhouse gas emissions, senior Canadian government officials said Saturday.
Global Post |
13 years 11 months ago
CANCUN, Mexico — For a climate change conference that began with universally low expectations, the Cancun meeting achieved surprisingly concrete progress, including an agreement to help preserve tropical forests. Despite lacking the teeth many wanted, the deforestation provisions offer a way to...
Surfbirds |
13 years 11 months ago
Major world leaders gathered today at an event sponsored by non-profit Avoided Deforestation Partners to call on the global community to work towards a speedy end to deforestation, a major source of global CO2 emissions and driver of climate change. "The time for global action to protect forests...
CNN |
13 years 11 months ago
(CNN) -- As talks at the United Nations climate summit enter their final hours, hopes of progress on key issues including the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) program appear to be fading. Despite an upbeat prognosis from the executive director of the U.N....
Washington Post |
13 years 11 months ago
Mexican President Felipe Calderon -- who looked cool and crisp in one of his trademark guayabera shirts as the host of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change conference in Cancun -- sat down for an interview with The Washington Post on Thursday evening.