Denmark is one of the first countries in the world to earmark financing for developing countries to strengthen their capacities to tackle climate change in the short term, the Danish government says Denmark – the host country of the ongoing UN climate change conference – has put money on the
Chinese climate official blames the US, EU and Japan for too low ambitions on emissions cuts The United States and the European Union (EU) are expected by the Chinese delegation to bring more notable emission reductions targets to the Copenhagen climate talks.At a press conference Tuesday, the De
According to The Guardian, developing countries “react furiously” after a draft text allegedly written by the UN conference’s host country was leaked Tuesday For more than a week a rumour has circulated that Denmark, host of the ongoing UN conference on climate change, has drawn up a compromise t
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The British Met Office has released world-wide temperature data into the public domain to give evidence that the globe is warming. The British Met Office has published station temperature records for over 1,500 of the stations that make up the global land surface temperature record. The data
This decade has very likely been the warmest in the historical record, and 2009 will probably end up as one of the warmest years, the UN weather agency announced Tuesday at the second day of the 192-nation climate conference in Copenhagen In some areas — parts of Africa, central Asia — this w
Carbon emissions from next year´s soccer World Cup are expected to soar from the 2006 benchmark set by Germany, but host South Africa has said it would invest in carbon credits to mitigate the impact.Emissions accelerate global warming and major sports events, including the Olympics and World Cup, h
Even before any climate adaptation fund has seen the light of day, Bangladesh makes substantial demands If sea levels rise by one meter, at least 20 million Bangladeshis, of a total population about 150 million, would be displaced. If the glaciers on the Himalayas melt due to global warming, the
Rather than getting every small detail of a new global climate treaty done in Copenhagen, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer hopes the conference will reach agreements on four political essentials.The UN climate conference in Copenhagen in December this year may not yield a new global climate treaty with
South Africa has committed to reducing its carbon emissions by 34% by 2020, but says it will need financial aid from developed countries to do so.The announcement was made as the world climate talks started in Copenhagen this morning. Environmental group Greenpeace said the announcement had made Sou