Environmentalists and business leaders take the Climate Express to Copenhagen
9 November 2009According to the UNEP, more than 400 climate change negotiators, business leaders and environmental activists will travel together on board the (…)
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UN Member States reach agreement on financing of sustainable forests
9 November 2009United Nations Member States reached an agreement that sets out the path to financing sustainable forest management, ending nearly two decades of (…)
All aboard the UN Kyoto-Copenhagen express for climate change
3 November 2009A one-time train link between Kyoto and Copenhagen opens up this week – a United Nations-sponsored one-month, 9,000-kilometre journey symbolically (…)
Senior UN official urges rich countries to commit to deeper cuts in emissions
3 November 2009The final round of talks ahead of next month’s landmark climate change summit in Copenhagen kicked off today with a warning from the chief United (…)
Financial and economic crisis : emissions of greenhouse gas could fall in 2009
7 October 2009U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, should fall 5.9 percent in 2009 as the recession cuts electricity and transportation (…)
Island nations frustrated at climate talks
6 October 2009Up to half a million people in the Pacific will lose their homes and their countries to rising sea levels because small island nations cannot (…)
UNEP hosts an intergovernemental negociations
5 October 2009Ecosystem health and sustainability are central to the well being of human kind. Over the past 50 years, the world has suffered an estimated 60 % (…)
Ban voices hope ahead of final leg of negotiations on climate change treaty
5 October 2009The frozen positions preventing governments from making progress in negotiations for a new greenhouse gas emissions treaty are beginning to thaw, (…)
A global project for a new lighting
30 September 2009Promising innovations and long term cost saving: energy saving bulbs will replace all the old incandescent lamps. Historically, the main (…)
Replace old bulbs by compact fluorescent lamps
30 September 2009A new global initiative to accelerate the uptake of low energy light bulbs and efficient lighting systems was launched last friday by the Global (…)
Meeting of the Major Economies Forum in London
29 September 2009UK will host pre-Copenhagen talks. The world’s major economies meet in London in October in an attempt to boost stalling climate negotiations, (…)
India promises annual greenhouse gas reporting to UN
29 September 2009According to ’The Economic Times’, India has undertaken a ”nuanced shift” in its position and now offers an annual report to the UN, detailing the (…)