UNICEF Innocenti's Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Beyond children’s immediate environments, over-consumption in some of the world’s richest countries is destroying children’s environments globally. This threatens both children worldwide and future generations. To provide all children with safe and …
The climate change conference in Poznan, which ended last week, would be remembered for little else but the activation of the Adaptation Fund a year after it was set up. Developing countries, including India to some extent, can now send proposals to the Fund for projects to safeguard vulnerable communities …
At the climate change conference in Poznan, Poland, the world could get cooked, for good A curtain raiser on the climate negotiations in Poznan. By Chandra Bhushan, Mario D
Priscilla Jebaraj POZNAN (POLAND): At the U.N. climate talks which finished in the early hours of Saturday, the divide between rich and poor nations was obvious in their differing views of what has been achieved here.
Priscilla Jebaraj POZNAN (POLAND): As the U.N. climate talks wound down here on Friday evening, developing countries are celebrating the small success of operationalising an Adaptation Fund, even while expressing frustration about the progress toward a post-2012 treaty to fight climate change.
By Marianne de Nazareth Oxfam erected 10 human ice sculptures to remind negotiators of the impact climate change is already having, on poor people around the world... Amidst all the negotiations among countries, the heavy purposeful footfall of 11,600-odd delegates from across the globe through the enormous halls everyday, the …
POZNAN: The high-level segment of the 14th meet of the UN climate convetion (COP-14) began on Thursday in the background of distrust and suspicion that has dogged this meeting from day one. Though UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon began the plenary session by calling for a Green New Deal, his …
The classical have and have not divide is destined to turn the climate change summit here into a failure. Forget identifying the elements that would be negotiated in Copenhagen next winter, there is a strong possibility that rich industrialized countries or Annex 1 countries could even tinker with the set …
The global negotiations, under way in Poznan (Poland) on working out a successor to the Kyoto protocol on climate change that expires in 2012, have been strategically mistimed, and it would be a surprise if they delivered any satisfactory build-up to the final Copenhagen conference scheduled for a year from …
Jyoti Parikh / New Delhi December 10, 2008, 0:55 IST A liability framework for adaptation funds should be set up by linking payments with emissions. Thousands of delegates are deliberating this week on climate change at Poznan, in Poland. While spectacular outcomes are not expected, Poznan will prepare the ground …
The survey was conducted during the past four weeks by researchers at GlobeScan with the support of the World Bank, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), along with other contributing …
Priscilla Jebaraj POZNAN: The mood at the United Nations climate change talks here seem to reflect the weather. At the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change meet in Bali last year, the sweltering weather was a convenient motif both for global warming and the heat of arguments as negotiators scrambled …
Kevin Watkins The crucial climate change negotiations in Poznan, Poland, are heading nowhere fast. Charged with producing a plan for cutting carbon emissions, governments have so far produced copious amounts of hot air and little else, with ministers recycling vague promises of future action. They doubtless go to bed at …
POLAND: An ancient technique of plowing charred plants into the ground to improve the quality of soil may also trap greenhouse gases for thousands of years and forestall global warming, which is being caused by the emission of harmful green house gases, a team of scientists and experts working on …
EU environment ministers started a key meeting Thursday as wrangling over pollution trading rights held up a major climate change accord that the EU wants passed at a summit next week. Germany, Europe's biggest economy, and Poland are leading opposition to the scheme under which rights to pollute would have …
