This report discusses how Denmark - a country whose major agricultural organizations have committed to become carbon neutral by 2050 - can achieve carbon neutral agriculture. The report’s lessons can inform not only Denmark’s agricultural future, but also that of other advanced agricultural economies.
Pallavi Aiyar / Copenhagen December 14, 2009, 0:56 IST The day after tens of thousands of protestors took to the street to express frustration over the deadlock at the ongoing United Nations climate negotiations, a lull hung over this city, with the conference site, the Bella Centre, closed to business. …
DESPITE the gloomy talk that preceded the UN climate conference, the opening was upbeat. Most big countries had vowed to cut or limit emissions during the previous few weeks. As delegates arrived, America
China hit back at the US yesterday for belittling its commitment to tackling climate change as negotiations in Copenhagen on reaching a new agreement on global warming moved into a higher gear. On the fifth day of talks, the United Nations published an official draft text from which countries are …
George Soros, the billionaire financier, unveiled a plan yesterday to lend poor countries $100bn to deal with the threat of climate change. The money would come from the International Monetary Fund, from financial instruments known as special drawing rights. These SDRs, used to create liquidity, are a type of basket …
Most of the world's big postal companies agreed yesterday to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent by 2020. The agreement, brokered by the International Post Corporation, an industry trade body, is one of the first among the prominent players in an industry to cut its contribution to …
Amidst talks of divisions in the G-77, the group of developing countries, over demands from the small island nations, India and China today closed ranks and held telephonic consultations with each other to press ahead with a joint strategy for a successful outcome from the Copenhagen climate change conference. Chinese …
China will receive no significant funding from the US to combat climate change, the US delegation leader at the Copenhagen conference vowed yesterday. The statement, which shocked many negotiators, was part of a broader US attack on China and other developing countries for not promising deeper concessions to reduce greenhouse …
Amitabh Sinha : In the warm-up here, the maximum buzz and heat has been around two contrasting drafts, one proposed by Denmark and the other by four large developing countries, including India, that have been doing the rounds to be considered as the possible outlines for the agreement coming out …
In the warm-up here, the maximum buzz and heat has been around two contrasting drafts, one proposed by Denmark and the other by four large developing countries, including India, that have been doing the rounds to be considered as the possible outlines for the agreement coming out of Copenhagen. Both …
Amid concerns that many countries may be compelled to sign an incomplete political document to get a deal at the UN climate meet, top Indian official Shyam Saran today said no "uncooked" papers should be presented at its final leg. "All the G-77 members and China have made it very …
JOHN HEILPRIN Some of the poorest nations feared too much of the burden to curb greenhouse gases is being hoisted onto their shoulders Negotiators on Wednesday worked to bridge the chasm between rich and poor countries over how to share the burden of fighting climate change, and a top US …
On Wednesday, the small Island nation of Tuvalu led a few developing countries in a walkout from the conferencing, forcing the conference to shut down for a few hours. Tuvalu and other island nations says they are the most vulnerable to rising seas which will result from climate change want …
HARDEV SANOTRA Negotiations at the climate change conference in Copenhagen appear headed for a roadblock as the so-called Danish text was leaked to the website of London's Guardian, with the G-77-plus-China group said it would reject this attempt to "violate the sanctity of talks." India said it would not let …
President Barack Obama has been armed with new ammunition for the Copenhagen summit on climate change with an announcement yesterday giving the US administration enhanced authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. A formal ruling issued by the Environmental Protection Agency that carbon dioxide and five other gases were a danger …
The European Union withdrew an offer to increase its greenhouse gas emissions reduction target on Monday because it said similar offers made by many nations in the past month were inadequate to prevent significant climate change. The tough stance is intended to spur other governments into increasing their proposed cuts …
The largest and most important UN climate change conference in history opened Monday, with organisers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the last best chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming. The two-week conference, the climax of two years of contentious negotiations, …
As the biggest environmental meeting in history opens in Copenhagen, the scientific case for a global agreement to fight man-made climate change remains overwhelming. The furore over alleged data manipulation, following the theft of e-mails from the University of East Anglia , has stirred up the sceptics (and shaken some …
Business leaders have called for agreement at Copenhagen, urging governments to provide the support for the vast investment in clean energy they say will be needed to sustain fuel supplies while curbing carbon dioxide emissions. Opinions differ over the details, but chief executives contacted by the Financial Times were united …
FT Energy Source is posting a daily question for our panel of expert commentators. Below, guest panellists Mindy Lubber of CERES, Robert Stavins of Harvard University, Jeremy Leggett of Solar Century and Julian Morris of the Policy Network respond to today
