Legal Aspects of Implementing the Kyoto Protocol Mechanisms: Making Kyoto Work
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
New climate change treaty could be ready in 2010, U.N. official says - CNN.com Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- A new international treaty to combat climate change will not be ready when 40 world leaders meet next month in Copenhagen but may be finished next year, a top United Nations official said Friday in Barcelona. "What we will need after Copenhagen is a little time," said Yvo de Boer, head of...
Climate Feedback - Blog Posts (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
I’m sitting in the plenary session of the Kyoto Protocol, listening to an old debate over the baseline year used to assess emissions. The protocol is currently tied to 1990 emissions, but Japan, Australia and Canada have all suggested that expressing emissions reductions according to multiple baselines might be useful. The logic is that although the Kyoto Protocol is tied to 1990, many countries...
Climate Feedback - Blog Posts (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Anjali Nayar, an International Development Research Centre fellow at Nature, recently visited a pioneering project in Madagascar that's aiming to protect one of the country's few remaining forests. About 90% of the species in Madagascar's rainforests are found nowhere else on Earth, but efforts to save the island nation's forests are about more than conserving biodiversity. It's hoped that projects...
Climate Feedback - Blog Posts (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Jeff Tollefson; cross-posted from In the Field I arrived at the conference this morning only to encounter global leaders with unusually large heads pulling funny money out of one box labelled "aid" and putting it into another labelled "climate change." It was a short stunt by Oxfam - and just one of many put on by various activist groups each day - intended to raise awareness of...
AMERICAN.COM (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Reading the climate news in recent weeks, one might start to wonder who won the last election.
Climate Feedback - Blog Posts (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Jeff Tollefson; cross-posted from In the Field I arrived at the United Nations climate conference today - late, on the second day, after a red-eye flight over the Atlantic and an all-too-brief nap at the hotel – and encountered drama much sooner than expected. I registered, oriented myself at the conference centre, gathered the requisite daily briefing documents and then found a bathroom to...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
British Launch Ad Campaign to Raise Fading Climate Concerns - NYTimes.com LONDON -- The U.K. government has launched a guilt-laden advertising campaign after a series of opinion polls showed that the majority of the public has not bought into climate change despite years of political haranguing and millions of pounds spent on information and advertising. ... It immediately drew more than 200 complaints...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Gordon Brown’s climate change [hoax] finance package hangs in balance - Times Online Gordon Brown’s plan for Europe to lead the world in tackling climate change stands on the brink of failure as a row about its cost threatens to overshadow the European Council. The Prime Minister was the first to call for a $100 billion (£60 billion) fund to help emerging nations to meet the terms...
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The BBC has an interesting article (thx DB!) on an east-west split within the EU on financing adaptation under a potential international climate agreement. On climate change, the EU is keen to reach a united position ahead of December's United Nations Copenhagen summit, which aims to hammer out a new global climate treaty to replace the UN Kyoto Protocol. Mr Reinfeldt called on EU leaders to agree...
From Sea To Shining Sea (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The UN has signaled that member nations are backing off on supporting climate change agreements. Perhaps news that world temperatures have been plateauing or declining since 1998 has gotten through to some of these people as well as the understanding that earth’s climate has gone through countless increasing and decreasing cycles for as long as records and ice core samples can show. It would...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Africa: Continent Rejects New Climate Change [Scam] Pact As the clock ticks towards the climate change talks in Copenhagen, Africa has now declared that it will not accept a new pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol. The African negotiators have also stated that neither will they accept a merger of the protocol that is currently in use, with a new agreement. Green Party and friends wrongly link warming...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
CBC News - World - Climate change treaty in doubt: UN official Janos Pasztor, director of the secretary general's Climate Change Support Team, said Monday a number of factors are making it less likely that climate talks in Copenhagen in December will produce a deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol. ... But enthusiasm about U.S. involvement has begun to wane, as the Obama administration has made health...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Climate Legislation Would Hammer U.S. Refiners, Wood Mac Says - Environmental Capital - WSJ Current legislation leaves a loophole in which imported gasoline wouldn’t be subject to the same restrictions. Which means that the government’s environmental plans could end up undermining another administration goal—energy security—by increasing the share of imported fuels. There’s...
Green Options (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
With hope of the US Climate Bill being cleared before the Copenhagen Summit in December there are substantial doubts over the successful negotiation of an international climate treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol. However, the pressure on developing countries to do their bit has resulted in announcements of many national climate goals and regional cooperation deals. It would be interesting to see...
Weather & Earth Science News (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
In North Queensland there are windy new years fears with the first cyclone of the season expected around the beginning of 2010. Ethiopia requests $175 million in aid as drought crises looms Heatwave Earth in 50 years, warns top scientist - which is possible , just very highly unlikely .... Typhoon Lupit spares Philippines - and having then been downgraded, Tropical Storm Lupit brings flooding to northeast...
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