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One dollar a tonne
4 March
The Indian government is expected to back up its recent commitment to curb carbon emissions with a controversial move to levy a new tax on coal in order to pay for the roll out of renewable energy technologies. Speaking in his annual budget speech to the Indian parliament, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said that a clean energy tax of 50 rupees ($1) a tonne will be leveled on all domestically produced or imported coal with the resulting revenue ring-fenced for use in a new national (...)
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A new Policy Dialogue on Climate Change
4 March
Its purpose is "to strengthen and coordinate the efforts of the parties to address climate change effectively in the context of sustainable economic growth, reducing greenhouse gas emissions," says the document. The agreement also establishes a new Policy Dialogue on Climate Change between the two governments to discuss various aspects related to the topic. Among them are the work to implement the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, and ways to build on the Copenhagen Accord "as (...)
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Target : 15% of consumption
3 March
The government will spend billions of dollars on building nuclear and solar power plants, wind farms and on research into renewable energy technology, Zhang Guobao said in Tuesday's edition of the China Daily. The plan would accelerate efforts already under way to help ease reliance on expensive oil imports and heavily polluting coal, which fuels about three-quarters of China's electricity generation. It also is in line with Beijing's pledges to rein in output of (...)
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Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of IPCC
2 February
The science of climate change is now well established. This is the result of painstaking work of over two decades carried out by thousands of scientists drawn from across the globe to assess every aspect of climate change for the benefit of humanity. The Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was produced in the year 2007, and highlighted, on the basis of careful observations extending over a long period of time, that “warming of the (...)
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According China.org
1 February
The source denied recent reports that the Guangzhou plant will produce cars under Volkswagen's Spanish brand Seat, underscoring only Volkswagen brand vehicles will be made at the new facility when it begins operation in 2013. The insider declined to comment on investment levels or other details of the plan. Since it began operations in China in 1984, Volkswagen has mainly focused on the north and east of the nation, while Japanese brands Toyota, Honda and Nissan have long prevailed (...)
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A success risked being reversed
28 janvier
World Bank's top expert on Telecommunications, Phillipe Dengier, said there was a growing trend by African governments to demand for the re-negotiation of telecommunication licenses issued to foreign firms operating mobile phone networks. Dengier, the Bank's Information, Communications and Technologies (ICT) Sector Manager, said the success achieved in connecting the African population through mobile phones, risked being reversed unless the increased taxes were removed. "We (...)
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A growth powered by rising commodity prices and good policies
26 January
Presenting a World Economic Situation and Prospects report for 2010, Adam Elhiraika, ECA senior economic affairs officer, said the expected recovery in the global economy would have an overall positive effect on African economies. From a negative growth of 2.2 percent last year, the world economy is expected o grow by 2.4 percent this year, which the ECA official said would strongly stimulate demand for most African exports, particularly commodities. In 2009, hard hit by the global (...)
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COP 15 Copenhagen : Statement by the President of Palau
29 December 2009
Mr. President, I am truly thankful for this opportunity to address the leaders of the Planet Earth. I stand here by virtue of my status as a Head of State, but I address you as a Son of the Pacific Islands. Mr. President, Palau's legend teaches us that we spring from Mother Nature. And historically, we have shared a symbiotic relationship. But, as a result of abuses which we have committed against her, the capacity of our Mother for tolerance has been pushed to the breaking point. (...)
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COP 15 Copenhagen : Statement by President of Maldives
23 December 2009
«We are now in the final days of this process. This is the endgame, in more ways than one. The negotiations have been fraught, time consuming and often difficult. I think we should celebrate the progress made so far: no one expected such an historic endeavour to be easy. I am still optimistic that we can leave this meeting with a planet saving deal. The AOSIS group has proposed a text for this purpose, and the Maldives will do its utmost to help make this outcome a reality. For us this (...)
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COP 15 Copenhagen : Statement by the Prime minister of Tuvalu
22 December 2009
Mr. President, Heads of State, Heads of Government Ministers, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, and, most importantly the youth and leaders of tomorrow It is a great pleasure to be in this wonderful city of Copenhagen and it is a great honour to speak on behalf of the people of Tuvalu at this very special moment. As people are no doubt aware Tuvalu has been quite prominent in the newspapers and media over the last week. This is for a very good reason. As we are the most vulnerable (...)
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UN Climate Change Conference will open today
7 December 2009
“Within two weeks from Monday, governments must give their adequate response to the urgent challenge of climate change,” said UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer. “Negotiators now have the clearest signal ever from world leaders to craft solid proposals to implement rapid action,” he added. Referring to numerous emission reduction pledges that developing and developed countries have made in the run-up to COP 15, the UN's top climate change official said (...)
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COP-15 Copenhagen
7 December 2009
According to the UN's top climate change official Yvo de Boer, developed countries will need to provide fast-track funding on the order of at least 10 billion USD a year through 2012 to enable developing countries to immediately plan and launch low emission growth and adaptation strategies and to build internal capacity. At the same time, developed countries will need to indicate how they intend to raise predictable and sustainable long-term financing and what their longer-term (...)
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According to the New Scientist
4 December 2009
«Tackling climate change will cost consumers the earth. Those who campaign for a green revolution are out to destroy our western lifestyles. Such are the cries of opponents of emissions cuts, and their message has political clout: a number of surveys, including one by New Scientist in 2007, have found that the enthusiasm of voters for policies to alleviate climate change falls off as the price tag increases. However, a new modelling exercise conducted exclusively for this magazine suggests (...)
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Climate change is accelerating beyond expectations
26 November 2009
"Sea level is rising much faster and Arctic sea ice cover shrinking more rapidly than we previously expected. Unfortunately, the data now show us that we have underestimated the climate crisis in the past." Professor Stefan Rahmstorf, Professor of Physics of the Oceans and a Department Head at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. "Carbon dioxide emissions cannot be allowed to continue to rise if humanity intends to limit the risk of unacceptable climate change. (...)
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Climate Scientists make ’Copenhagen Diagnosis’
26 November 2009
Dowload full report Global ice-sheets are melting at an increased rate; Arctic sea-ice is disappearing much faster than recently projected, and future sea-level rise is now expected to be much higher than previously forecast, according to a new global scientific synthesis prepared by some of the world's top climate scientists. In a special report called ‘The Copenhagen Diagnosis', the 26 researchers, most of whom are authors of published IPCC reports, conclude that (...)
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State of World Population 2009. Facing a changing world : women, population and climate
19 November 2009
Global climate is changing. And it is we ourselves—in our lifestyles, our rapidly increasing numbers and the massive scale of our consumption and production—who are changing it. Technology, especially the combustion of carbon-based fossil fuels that arose with the Industrial Revolution, has everything to do with this problem. Newer, cleaner technologies will be important to mitigating and adapting to climate change, but it is not technology that will save us. We will have to (...)
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Message from the Director-General, Irina Bokova
19 novembre 2009
« World Philosophy Day 2009, devoted this year to dialogue between cultures, is an excellent opportunity to reflect on relations of exchange, transfer and movement between men and women, ideas and concepts. In the run up to 2010, declared by the United Nations General Assembly the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures, it is more important than ever before to examine the current foundations for the free flow of discourse and practice, out of which world cultural diversity is (...)
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Reunion Island made a sensation at Dubai Airshow
19 November 2009 Manuel MARCHAL
30% cheaper, it will be possible for Reunionnese through Reunionnese's work. Yesterday, these Réunionnese that have been the event of the Dubai International Exhibition. It is indeed a reunionnese company that is the first to announce an order for Airbus A380s this year, and it is a very special version that will be delivered. Indeed, the two aircrafts will be operated by a subsidiary of Air Austral; there will have only a single class. Thus, they will carry more than 800 passengers (...)
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Highlight in the Dubai Airshow 2009
17 November 2009
Air Austral, an airline based in Reunion Island, has ordered two A380 in a single-class configuration. Long-haul and low-cost, it will be possible with the aircraft ordered by Air Austral: two A380s in a single-class configuration. “The A380 will offer the best comfort of any aircraft in a high density configuration. With its spacious and extremely quiet cabins, we'll enter a new era in terms of economic air travel.” said Gérard Ethève, CEO of Air Austral. “Air (...)
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Long-haul and low-cost flights
16 November 2009
Air Austral, based in Reunion island, will become the first airline to fly planes carrying over 840 people after confirming an order for two Airbus A380 superjumbos later on Monday, industry sources said according to Reuters. The sources said a provisional order for two of the European planes worth some $650 million at list prices, placed in January, would was expected to be firmed up at the Dubai event. Airbus declined to comment. Air Austral is the first airline to order a single-class (...)
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