Tag: Climate change

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 06:23 UTC

  Rio+20: Development banks to invest 175bn dollars in sustainable transport

  

  The eight largest multilateral development banks (MDBs) announced on Wednesday at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, that they will invest 175 billion dollars in sustainable transportation systems over the coming decade.

• Tuesday, December 13th 2011 - 22:32 UTC

  Canada’s withdrawal from Kyoto Protocol regrettable, says UN climate official

  

  Canada’s decision to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol is surprising and regrettable, the United Nations climate change chief Christiana Figueres said on Tuesday, calling on developed countries to meet the commitments they recently made at the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa.

• Tuesday, December 13th 2011 - 17:56 UTC

  With a global, comprehensive agreement still elusive, we need a new climate change 'road-map'

  

  * By Lord Julian Hunt. The main aim of the UN climate summit at Durban, which concluded unsuccessfully on Friday/Saturday morning, was to produce an agreement about targets for emissions by developed countries, and longer term commitments from developing countries.

• Wednesday, November 30th 2011 - 12:48 UTC

  At Durban, we need to rethink the next steps to tackling climate change

  

  The main aim of the UN climate summit at Durban, which began on November 28 and finishes on December 9, is to produce an agreement about targets for emissions by developed countries, and longer term targets from developing countries.

• Sunday, November 27th 2011 - 01:49 UTC

  Imperceptibly, the tide of debate is turning on climate change

  

  The forthcoming Durban (Climate change) conference comes at a major crossroads in international relations, with continuing economic malaise in the West being counterpoised with the increasingly rapid shift of power to emerging economies. Mirroring this structural change is a fundamental shift in the centre of gravity of the global climate change debate that few have yet to recognize.

• Monday, April 18th 2011 - 06:38 UTC

  Arctic coastline crumbling due to effects of climate change, says German study

  

  Arctic coastlines are crumbling away and retreating at the rate of two metres or more a year due to the effects of climate change, it has been claimed. In some locations, up to 30 metres of the shore has been vanishing every year.

• Friday, January 28th 2011 - 18:52 UTC

  Ban Ki-moon Says World Leaders Need to “Lead By Action”

  

  United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today called for “revolutionary action” to achieve sustainable development, warning that the past century’s heedless consumption of resources is “a global suicide pact” with time running out to ensure an economic model for survival.

• Monday, May 3rd 2010 - 08:15 UTC

  Annual Antarctic Treaty Conference Opens Monday in Uruguay

  

  Uruguay is hosting two Antarctic Treaty meetings which will officially be opened Monday May 3 in Punta del Este by Foreign Affairs minister Luís Almagro. Uruguayan authorities expect an attendance of over 350 foreign officials at the Thirty three Antarctic Treaty Consultative and the Thirteenth Committee on Environmental Protection meetings.

• Saturday, May 1st 2010 - 03:50 UTC

  Lab Production of Green Hamburgers is “No Longer Science Fiction”

  

  The lab production of meat without the need of slaughtering animals is no longer science fiction and could be producing “green” hamburgers in less than ten years according to the list of Time Magazine fifty main inventions of the year.

• Tuesday, April 27th 2010 - 05:36 UTC

  Scientists Discover Deep-Ocean Current Moving Northward from Antarctica

  

  Work in Japan and Australia has revealed that a deep-ocean current is carrying frigid water rapidly northward from Antarctica along the edge of a giant underwater plateau.