The media outlet TV2 Lorry reports that the citizen representation of the municipality of Copenhagen has approved phasing out all diesel buses in the city before the end of 2025, starting with the budget of 2019. Two routes in the city have been tested for two years in cooperation with …
The media outlet TV2 Lorry reports that the citizen representation of the municipality of Copenhagen has approved phasing out all diesel buses in the city before the end of 2025, starting with the budget of 2019. Two routes in the city have been tested for two years in cooperation with …
Copenhagen has been struggling with air pollution for many years now. Pollution from lorries, vans, buses and cars each year costs lives. Now, research conducted by the University of Copenhagen and a series of collaborators shows that the average lifespan of Copenhageners could increase by an entire year in 2040 …
A few years ago, in the run-up to another climate change conference, in Copenhagen, in 2009, India had promised to reduce its emission intensity by 20 to 25 per cent from 2005 levels by the year 2020. India is among the small group of countries that are on track to …
India said that it has initiated the domestic process for ratifying the Paris Agreement, the global treaty to tackle climate change adopted by 195 countries in December. Addressing the seventh edition of the informal ministerial meet, Petersberg Dialogue, co-hosted by Germany and Morocco, the chair of the 22nd round of …
Nagpur: It is because Laxmi has become much more important than Saraswati that our world is facing complex problems related to environment and climate change, believes waterman of India Rajendra Singh. After attending the recent climate summit at Paris, he feels that many redundant issues were given too much time …
LE BOURGET, France: Just a month after the Paris attacks, France has surmounted that atrocity to help achieve a seemingly unachievable triumph: uniting the world to seal a global climate pact. The Paris climate agreement, adopted on Saturday, was the culmination of more than a year of intense diplomatic efforts …
Modi will join US President Barack Obama, Chinese President Xi Jinping, UK Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and leaders of Brazil, S Africa and Canada amongst others. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and 80 other world leaders will attend the two-week climate change conference in Paris this year, …
Heads of state may not be part of concluding round of talks during the crucial Paris climate summit in December unlike the Copenhagen conference which failed to clinch a deal despite presence of almost all top political leaders there during final leg of negotiations six years ago. Though the host …
France is also acutely conscious of the fact that the previous such move had backfired and Copenhagen meeting had ended in a failure. Global leaders and heads of states might have to assemble again this year, in Paris, just as they had done in Copenhagen six years ago, to make …
If you want to workout and save money doing it, a bike might be right up your alley. Researchers at Lund University and the University of Queensland found that traveling by car was six times more expensive for society and people than cycling alone. For the study, researchers examined the …
Nations meeting in Berlin on Thursday pledged $9.3 billion for a climate fund to help poor countries cut emissions and prepare for global warming, just shy of a $10 billion target. The South Korea-based Green Climate Fund (GCF) aims to help developing nations invest in clean energy and green technology …
Green champion’s push to funnel car emissions into the emissions trading system seen as attempt to bend rules. A Danish bid to expand carbon offsetting to the transport sector has triggered uproar among NGOs and academics, with one new analysis saying it would devastate efforts to reign in fuel emissions. …
The largest gathering of world leaders on climate change opened at the United Nations on Tuesday facing calls for action to put the planet on course towards reversing global warming. “Today, we must set the world on a new course,” UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told leaders from 120 countries. …
The largest gathering of world leaders on climate change opened at the United Nations on Tuesday amid calls for action to put the planet on course toward reversing global warming. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is hosting the summit of 120 leaders, the first high-level gathering since the Copenhagen conference …
On SEPTEMBER 23rd 120-odd presidents and prime ministers will gather in New York for a UN meeting on climate change. It is the first time the subject has brought so many leaders together since the ill-fated Copenhagen summit of 2009. Now, as then, they will assert that reining in global …
Europe has never been afraid of binding treaties, says EU official While accepting Common But Differentiated Responsibility (CBDR), the world should look at a new climate treaty which is binding but also reflects the ground realities, according to Connie Hedegaard, Commissioner for Climate Action, European Commission. At a media interaction …
The United Nations secretary-general is calling on world policymakers to show greater effort in addressing the threat of climate change as negotiators attempt to forge a new global warming pact next year. Ban Ki-moon told delegates at a gathering in Abu Dhabi on Sunday that efforts to improve global prosperity …
In March 2012, President Anote Tong of Kiribati, an archipelago nation in the Pacific, informed international journalists that his Cabinet has endorsed a plan to buy 6,000 acres on Fiji’s main island. This was not for real estate speculation, but for more humanitarian reasons. The land in Fiji would help …
Warsaw, Stockholm : Climate envoys from rich countries, emerging economies and low-lying nations at risk of being swamped by rising seas will meet in Poland for the next two weeks to lay the groundwork for a new global warming pact. Though no major decisions are expected at the conference starting …
Emissions Are Up, Temperatures Are Up, But Is It Killing Us? The Jury Is Still Out Are we too late? Or is there time to arrest the rollercoaster ride to doomsday predictions? Either way, has the science of climate change ever influenced negotiations at cl i m at e m …
