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 …
Consensus at the climate change conference lying tattered, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh heads for Copenhagen on Thursday amid frenetic efforts to stitch together a face-saving deal. It
AS NEGOTIATORS at Copenhagen struggled to untangle controversial issues that stood in the way of a political agreement, India on Wednesday said it will ensure that the post-Copenhagen negotiations are carried out on the basis of the principles and provisions of the UN Convention and the Bali Action Plan.
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has addressed the international climate change summit, COP 15, in the Danish capital Copenhagen, Wednesday. PM Nepal urged developed nations to provide sustainable and long-term financial support to vulnerable countries like Nepal to preserve the white mountains and green earth.Informing the summit of the new …
“And the riot squad they’re restless They need somewhere to go” – Bob Dylan in Desolation Row A coalition of activists from around the world, absolutely fed up with the long drawn ‘negotiation’ on climate change for ages, decided to present their version. These activists are predominantly young, who have …
Copenhagen: The Copenhagen climate talks will generate more carbon emissions than any previous climate conference, equivalent to the annual output of over half a million Ethiopians, figures commissioned by hosts Denmark show. Delegates, journalists, activists and observers from almost 200 countries have gathered at the Dec 7-18 summit and their …
AS NEGOTIATORS raced against time to hammer out a deal on climate change, a key UN panel on Tuesday issued a new draft on measures to combat the problem but provided no figures for long-term goal of cutting carbon emissions and financing for poorer countries. The new draft text, which …
As talks remained stalemated for a second straight day in Copenhagen, the climate change conference appeared to have hit a dead end, with little hope of the emergence of the comprehensive and equitable agreement that it was mandated to deliver. The ministerial meetings convened Monday after African nations protested the …
WITH just three days to go before the Copenhagen conference draws to a close, it is becoming increasingly clear that the real decisions on hammering out an agreement will be pushed to a later date. While expectation is being placed on the heads of state to come up with a …
At Copenhagen, Denmark, on 15th Dec 09, addressing the assembled delegates, Ministers and Heads of State at the high-level segment of the conference, Yvo de Boer stressed that now is the time to deliver:
Obama will grace COP15. And that is the biggest story out here. The story is so big that negotiators are forced to take this fact into their negotiating account. Why? It is because Obama cannot afford to lose a game. It does not really matter if the atmosphere or the …
Should we be concerned that the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference is not going to produce a concrete plan to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions? Lots of people clearly are. Indeed, while activists prepare to unfurl protest banners, politicians are scrambling for a face-saving way to declare the summit a success. They should …
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
This document presents the summary of the Agriculture and Rural Development Day event held at the University of Copenhagen, in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 12 December 2009. The Agriculture and Rural Development Day was co-hosted by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security, the …
COPENHAGEN WAS going to be the big opportunity to sign on to a better environmental world order. Instead, the road to it has been marked with zero-visibility smog impairing collective human vision. Just when one thought things could not get worse, along came
Expressing concern over the slow progress in climate change negotiations, Bangladesh demanded a legally binding agreement implementing the Bali Action Plan. The Bangladesh delegation at a press briefing in Copenhagen said negotiations are being done by a handful of influential parties bypassing the most vulnerable countries (MVCs) and least developed …
