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UN climate talks: toughest negotiations on planet earth

March 13, 2014 Leave a Comment

Villagers face a daily struggle against a declining water table, affecting their health and their futures as farmers. “You see the challenges they face over the years in terms of access to water, and linking food security to water and the impact that climate change has on those gives me the energy to really push for climate diplomacy, so that our people can live,” he tells … [Read more...]

Rich countries must make 40% carbon cut by 2020

March 11, 2014 Leave a Comment

China’s government says industrialised countries should commit to new 2020 emission reduction targets of 40% on 1990 levels by the end of next month. In a strongly worded submission to the UN’s climate body China also says developed countries must provide $40 billion of low carbon finance in 2014, rising by $10 billion a year to 2020. “The pre-2020 mitigation gap would … [Read more...]

Countries gather in Bonn on road to climate deal

March 11, 2014 Leave a Comment

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...]

Public not keen on climate engineering

February 17, 2014 Leave a Comment

As political apathy and inaction on climate change dims hopes of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, scientists are increasing exploring plan B – engineering the climate to avoid the worst of what is predicted to come if emissions can’t be curtailed. A Royal Society of London paper put the issue squarely in the spotlight in 2009 when it issued an influential paper that … [Read more...]

Can Green Climate Fund deliver a ‘paradigm shift’?

December 6, 2013 Leave a Comment

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UN’s green bank has been talked up, but few know exactly when, or how, it will really open for business. “It’s not particularly high profile. No is the short answer.” That was the answer Nathan Goode, Head of Energy, Cleantech & Sustainability at Grant Thornton gave when asked if the UN’s flagship climate change fund was the talk of boardrooms across the … [Read more...]

UN Climate Change Secretariat announces new members

July 10, 2013 Leave a Comment

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The United Nations Climate Change secretariat announced the appointment of eight new members to its Momentum for Change Advisory Panel. Through its Momentum for Change initiative, the United Nations Climate Change secretariat provides a public platform to highlight broad-ranging climate change actions that are already achieving impacts on the ground, in addressing both … [Read more...]

Stop forest destruction and hot air now at Doha

December 6, 2012 Leave a Comment

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As ministers arrived at climate talks in the Qatari capital Doha, Greenpeace urged European countries not to take the side of Poland and Russia in a battle over whether to maintain the Kyoto Protocol’s biggest loophole and to make real progress on a deal to prevent catastrophic climate change. Europe has traditionally been seen as a progressive force in climate negotiations, … [Read more...]

Fynbos fire project gets underway

September 11, 2012 Leave a Comment

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South Africa has been granted US$3.5m for a three-year project to implement integrated fire management programmes in the Fynbos biome. The grant was made available through the Global Environment Facility Special Climate Change Fund, established to support adaptation and technology transfer in developing countries party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate … [Read more...]

Second meeting of new Technology Mechanism’s policy kicks off

February 15, 2012 Leave a Comment

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"Technology is vital for developing countries to both curb their emissions and to build more climate-resilient societies," said Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC. "This meeting is an important next step towards ensuring that the Mechanism becomes fully operational this year and begins delivering concrete results,” she said. The second meeting of the … [Read more...]

Plastics ready for COP17

November 17, 2011 Leave a Comment

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All eyes are on South Africa this year. COP17 is upon us and the world is hoping for global agreement and participation in order to stop the undeniable effects of global warming. This mark the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and it is being held in Durban from 28 November to 9 December. At the … [Read more...]

No ceiling in ongoing climate negotiations

October 26, 2011 Leave a Comment

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What is your assessment of the outcomes of Cancun and how much progress has been achieved in following up and in implementation of the decisions that were made, particularly as relates to adaptation and finance? The Cancun Outcome must be commended as one that contributed to keeping the climate change negotiations process alive after Copenhagen where trust in the process was … [Read more...]

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