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• Deadlock breaks at UN climate talks, agenda agreed

  26 mai
  Source: Reuters - More than 180 countries agreed on an agenda for work on a new climate treaty by 2015 at United Nations climate talks on Friday, breaking a week-long deadlock over procedure.

• China chief climate negotiator says Durban outcomes should be understood, implemented completely

  26 mai
  Source: Xinhua - As a whole package of climate talks achievement, the decisions made in Durban last year should be understood and implemented completely by all parties, said China's chief negotiator at the Bonn talks Su Wei in a recent interview with (...)

• Climate Deadlock Breaks as Slow UN Talks Frustrate U.S., EU

  26 mai
  Source: Bloomberg - Climate change envoys broke a deadlock at United Nations talks in Germany, with European, U.S. and island nations warning the slow pace of negotiations threatens the chance of reaching a deal at the end of the (...)

• Climate forum offers a chance for Qatar

  26 mai
  Source: Gulf Times - Qatar is offered an opportunity when it hosts the UN forum on climate change in December, say veteran watchers of the process.

• Bonn climate talks end in discord and disappointment

  26 mai
  Source: Guardian - Climate crisis is not caused by lack of options and solutions, but lack of political action, says Greenpeace spokeswoman

• Bonn climate talks end in squabbling

  26 mai
  Source: Deutsche Welle - Mistrust has beleaguered two weeks of climate talks in Bonn that were supposed to put old negotiating tracks to bed and get the ball rolling on the design of a new deal to fight global warming.

• Climate talks stall with nations 'wasting time'

  26 mai
  Source: BBC - The latest round of UN climate talks has made little progress, observers say.

• Is China poor? Key question at climate talks

  26 mai
  Source: AP - Another round of U.N. climate talks closed Friday without resolving how to share the burden of curbing man-made global warming, mainly because countries don't agree on who is rich and who is poor.

• 17-Year-Old Wins "Date with History": An All Star Salute, Trip to Rio, and Chance to Save the World

  26 mai
  Source: Huffington Post - While the world waits to see if the leader of the free world, President Barak Obama, will attend the most important international environmental summit in decades -- The Rio Earth Summit -- another great orator is already confirmed to address global leaders about the (...)

• Countries doing too little on warming: researchers

  25 mai
  Source: Reuters - Greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 could rise to nine billion metric tons (9.92 billion tons) above what is needed to limit global warming as some countries look set to miss their emissions cut targets, a report by three climate research groups said on (...)

• China Projects Skirt Around Price Floor, Avoid CO2 Supply Cuts

  25 mai

• China Says U.S. Renewable Subsidies Violate Trade Rules

  25 mai

• African Leaders Discuss Roadmap for Sustainable Development

  25 mai
  Source: Voice of America - African leaders are meeting in Botswana's capital to produce a declaration on sustainable development in Africa. The meeting is preparation for the United Nations Conference on Sustainability next month.

• UN chief Ban Ki-moon calls Rio summit negotiations 'painfully slow'

  25 mai
  Source: Guardian - Ban Ki-moon and other United Nations officials think Rio+20 is unlikely to replicate breakthroughs of 1992 global summit

• Lagos Schools Join Climate Change Efforts

  25 mai
  Source: Vanguard - The managing director, Nigerite Limited, Jean Luc-Viatour, has called on government and academics to partner in the campaign to initiate support and implement ideas that hold the key to the future of the children.

• Korea to help Jakarta on green education

  25 mai
  Source: Korea Herald - A Korean green schools initiative is set to teach Indonesian kids how to better protect their environment.Student-led environmental group Daejayon signed a pact Wednesday with the education department of the Indonesian capital of Jakarta to form a green schools network (...)

• Rio+20 should prioritise sustainable agriculture, says Caroline Spelman

  25 mai
  Source: Guardian - The UK secretary of state for the environment, food and rural affairs says the challenge for the UN Earth summit must be how to 'green' the world economy

• U.N. Chief Disappointed Over Deadlocked Rio+20 Negotiations

  25 mai
  Source: IPS - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who has invested heavily in the success of the upcoming U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), is publicly expressing his frustration at the lack of substantial progress on a final plan of action for a greener economy and a sustainable (...)

• New Google Earth tool maps deforestation, threatened forests in Sumatra

  25 mai
  Source: mongabay.com - The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and a coalition of Indonesian environmental groups known as Eyes on the Forest have released a new Google Earth-based tool (maps.eyesontheforest.or.id)that maps forests, land use, carbon stocks, and biodiversity across the Indonesian island (...)

• Rio 20: Nigeria, Others Tasked on Concrete Commitments

  24 mai
  Source: This Day - United Nations member states, including Nigeria, have been called upon to make progress in the last round of negotiations before the Sustainable Development Conference (Rio+20) Conference starts next month in (...)

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