China drafts 10-year ’green energy’ plan
3 March 2010China plans to have ’clean energy’ account for 15 percent of its total consumption under a 10-year renewable energy promotion program soon to be (…)
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Climate change : Singapore Runs for 350
3 March 2010The race is on to get back to 350 ppm! On the 20th of March, our friends at the Young National Trade Union Congress and ECO Singapore are planning (…)
«Challenge of climate change, post-Copenhagen»
2 February 2010Rajendra Pachauri in ’The Hindu’: Are the world and human society in general ready and willing to take action on critical issues that require a (…)
Johnson Toribiong : «Let us respond to Mother Nature’s call by taking drastic action to minimize greenhouse gas emissions and going green»
29 December 2009Johnson Toribiong, President of Palau, adressed the world leaders as a Son of the Pacific Islands. He said that «Mother Nature (...) has gone from (…)
Mohamed Nasheed : «reducing emissions is not a shared sacrifice, but a common opportunity»
23 December 2009Maldives is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. «Carbon concentrations higher than 350 parts per million, and (…)
Apisai Ielemia : «No amount of short term finance can buy our long term future»
22 December 2009Back to the highlights from COP 15 in Copenhagen. Temoignages decided to give the floor first to the most vulnerable coutries to the impacts of (…)
«Copenhagen is already a turning point in the international response to climate change»
7 December 2009More than 15,000 participants, including delegates from 192 countries, are expected to take part in the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (…)
Fast track funding : 10 billion USD per year
7 December 2009According the UNFCC Executive Secretary, 10 billion USD a year through 2012 must be available to launch adaptation strategies in vulnerable (…)
A green revolution is not expensive
4 December 2009Fear that it will be costly for consumers to address climate change is largely unfounded, a new modeling exercise conducted for the magazine New (…)
Copenhagen Diagnosis : Statements by Authors
26 November 2009Carbon dioxide emissions cannot be allowed to continue to rise if humanity intends to limit the risk of unacceptable climate change. CO2 levels (…)
Future sea-level rise is now expected to be much higher than previously forecast
26 November 2009Climate change is accelerating beyond expectations, urgent emissions reductions required, say leading scientists. Following a joint media release (…)
COP-15 Copenhagen : Managing human-induced climate change and improving human lives
19 November 2009How do population dynamics affect greenhouse gases and climate change? Will urbanization and an ageing population help or hinder efforts to adapt (…)