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The signing of US law on climate change unlikely this year
25 Oct 2009
Dear Readers, According to Carol Browner, climate and energy coordinator in White House, President of the United States Barack Obama will most probably not sign the climate change law before the COP15 meeting in Copenhagen in December this year. It is because the law is unlikely to be voted within the US Senate before the [...]
UNFCCC documents to faciliate the post-Kyoto negotiations
19 Oct 2009
Dear Readers, The UNFCCC Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) published documents which are to help parties prepare to the meeting of UNFCCC in Barcelona (which is being held at the beginning of the November) and facilitate the work on new international agreement on climate [...]
Concerns rose after an informal UNFCCC meeting in Bonn in August
14 Aug 2009
Dear Readers, The weekly informal negotiations of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn (Germany) regarding the future post-Kyoto agreement ended on Friday 14th of August 2009. Taking into consideration that participants didn’t reach a considerable progress during this meeting more fears come up among experts and observers that new international agreement [...]
Current commitments from industrialized countries are insufficient to fight with climate changes
12 Aug 2009
Dear Readers, According to data published by UNFCCC during the informal meeting in Bonn on 10-14th of August the current reduction targets related to greenhouse gases emissions disclosed so far by several industrialized countries by 2020 are amounting to 15-21% below the 1990 levels. This data come from national GHG emission reduction plans presented amongst [...]
The leaders of G8 accepted the so-called 2 Celsius degree target
8 Jul 2009
Dear Readers, The heads of group of the world most influencial countries i.e. G8 agreed on the 8th of July 2009 during the G8 summit in L’Aquila to accept the general long-term target of keeping the growth of average global temperature below 2 Celsius degree to 2050 in relation to pre-industrial times during the whole [...]
UNFCCC Bonn meeting 1-12 June 2009 – still nice atmosphere but no milestones
3 Jul 2009
Dear Readers, We are after another UNFCCC meeting of ad-hoc working groups this year. The summit in Bonn started at 1st of June and ended on 12th of June. In experts opinions it brought some progress i.e.
Greenhouse gases emissions in Australia – rise by 1,1% in 2008
2 Jun 2009
Dear readers, According to results presented by Australian Department of Climate Change emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) rose by 1,1% in 2008 compared to year 2007. However this increase is not influencing on the target from Kyoto Protocol (it is 8% increase in GHG emissions, yes increase, in period 2008-2012 comparing with 1990 levels). Australia [...]
Carbon ‘Pedometer’ enables Volvo to cut emissions from commute
2 Jun 2009
Dear Readers, At the end of May 2009 Volvo group presented an unique tool (maybe somebody heard about it but I wasn’t familiar with it) called ‘CO2 pedometer’ which helps to monitor the carbon emissions from commute (travels home – work).
Kyoto Protocol – negotiation paper, Bonn 2009
1 Jun 2009
Dear Readers, The beginning of June brings an important (maybe still not crucial) meeting of UNFCCC parties – working groups that will focus mainly on the negotiation documents presented by UNFCCC in May 2009. In this short article I would like just to indicate the main purpose of the two documents regarding Kyoto Protocol and [...]
UNFCCC negotiating texts
1 Jun 2009
Dear readers, Today we have an international Children’s day, but additionally on 1st of June 2009 the second UNFCCC meeting starts in Bonn. Will this 12-day event bring any progress for global agreement that should be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009? It depends.
