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 …
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attend the Copenhagen Summit on climate change on December 18, heeding calls from world leaders who started piling intense pressure on him during the Commonwealth meeting last month. Singh, who is starting his Moscow tour tomorrow, will leave Delhi on December 17 to attend the …
How the world divides on a global deal BEYOND the planet-saving rhetoric, the argument at Copenhagen and beyond will be about emissions levels and money. On both, large gaps need to be closed for a deal to be reached. The main gap on emissions levels is between America and the …
So far the effort to tackle global warming has achieved little. Copenhagen offers the chance to do better, says Emma Duncan (interviewed here) THE mountain bark beetle is a familiar pest in the forests of British Columbia. Its population rises and falls unpredictably, destroying clumps of pinewood as it peaks …
Rich and poor countries have to give ground to get a deal in Copenhagen; then they must focus on setting a carbon price AT A time when they are not short of pressing problems to deal with, the presence of 100-odd world leaders at the two-week meeting that starts in …
AS THE world gathers in Copenhagen over the coming weeks to discuss how much carbon dioxide people should be putting into the atmosphere, the Benguela Stream will be docking in the Windward Isles to bring bananas to Europe for Christmas, and doing her bit to help ascertain where a large …
Bangladesh will seek Tk 70,000 crore from the international community at the Copenhagen conference to deal with the impacts of climate change, said the chief of a parliamentary committee yesterday. The parliamentary standing committee on environment and forest ministry at a meeting at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban discussed the preparation …
Halogenated gases currently contribute 12% to overall radiative forcing. While actions under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Montreal Protocol) are already addressing CFCs and HCFCs, atmospheric concentrations of some HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons) are rising rapidly, by more than 23% each year. A global agreement to phase …
The commitments made by countries to cut carbon emissions have put the world on the threshold of hitting the target of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 2 degrees C. This report, 'Deciding our future in Copenhagen: will the world rise to the challenge of climate change', says that …
The climate change summit began in Copenhagen on 7 December 2009. The climate in which it began was somewhat better than most analysts and observers had believed would be the case. There was greater optimism as the opening ceremony was held. This was largely the result of the announcements made …
Extreme weather events are generally expected to increase in frequency and intensity due to global climate change. They have the potential to significantly undermine progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Global Climate Risk Index 2010 analyses to what extent countries have been affected by the …
The objectives of the regional E-discussion on climate change and poverty: Collect and summarize the expert opinions on climate change and poverty issues in CA countries; Exchange information about the state policies and strategies, action plans on climate change and poverty, as well as involve CA experts, the public and …
The need to enable and promote access to innovative energy technologies that address both poverty reduction and climate change needs is both urgent and timely. Cognizant that are no
This paper sets out an assessment of the latest national positions regarding emission reduction targets and actions going into the forthcoming negotiations in Copenhagen. These targets and intentions are quantified and translated into global emissions to give an understanding of how close we are to a possible agreement consistent with …
The 15th Conference of the Parties (CoP 15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in Copenhagen from the 7th to the 18th of December, 2009. At this CoP, agreements were to be finalised in two sets of parallel negotiations.
It has been revealed that 65 heads of states and governments will be attending the most important environmental summit held in December this year in Copenhagen, Denmark. The organizers of the climate summit announced this week that leaders of most of the world
