Climate change negotiators representing 200 countries yesterday kicked off the latest round of negotiations in what will be a make or break year for efforts to deliver a global agreement to tackle climate change at the Paris Summit in late 2015. United Nations climate envoys met in Bonn, Germany for the first negotiating session of 2014 for the Durban Platform for Enhanced … [Read more...]
Pressure on after lack of leadership at Bonn talks
As UN climate negotiations closed among terrible floods in Southern Germany and Eastern Europe, civil society observers warned that the European Union had a lot of work ahead to make November’s annual UN climate summit in Warsaw, Poland, a success. “This week one of the most conservative bodies in the world, the International Energy Agency, warned we are on track to risk … [Read more...]