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On His Pope-box
Pope preaches environmental protection to United Nations |
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18 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 12:00 PM on 18 Apr 2008 Photo: AP / Julie Jacobson After gallivanting around Washington, D.C., Pope Benedict XVI traveled to New York Friday to make an address to the United Nations General Assembly. In a speech largely focused on human rights, the pope also made note of the world's plentiful other problems, including "the protection of the environment, of resources, and of the climate." Our environmenta ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, religion and spirituality, United Nations (all these topics) |
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A Journey of a Thousand Meetings ... Continues With Another Meeting
U.N. climate talks open in Bangkok |
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31 Mar 2008 |
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| Posted at 8:29 AM on 31 Mar 2008 United Nations climate talks opened Monday in Bangkok, Thailand, as another step in the process of drafting a successor to the Kyoto Protocol climate-change treaty that expires in 2012. Officials admitted they didn't expect any breakthroughs at the meeting this week, but there is hope that the countries can manage to agree on an agenda for the new treaty as wel ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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U.N. says: Don't iron your jeans
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Sarah van Schagen |
03 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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Don't Let Your Right Get Left
United Nations calls climate change a matter of human rights |
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22 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 1:49 PM on 22 Feb 2008 If climate change is a "largely unscientific hoax" and "political concoction" (in the words of Republican strategist Mary Matalin), it's a hoax and concoction that could threaten the rights of millions of people. Or so said the United Nations deputy high commissioner for human rights this week. "Ultimately climate change may affect the very right t ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Ask Not What the Climate Can Do for You, But What It Can Do for Your Portfolio
Investors meet at U.N. to discuss how to stay wealthy amid climate change |
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15 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 5:28 AM on 15 Feb 2008 Nearly 500 corporate leaders and institutional investors representing $20 trillion in capital met at the United Nations Thursday to discuss the risks and opportunities presented by climate change. The gathering called itself the largest ever meeting of investment types specifically convened to discuss climate ch ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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When You
U.N. General Assembly holds climate gathering in New York |
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11 Feb 2008 |
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| "Assemble" You Make an Ass Out of 'Em and ... Oh, Never Mind U.N. General Assembly holds climate gathering in New York Posted at 8:24 AM on 11 Feb 2008 The United Nations General Assembly convened a two-day climate conference, starting today, at U.N. headquarters in New York City that it hopes will keep up and/or spur momentum in the lead up to a meaningful post-Kyoto climate agreement by 2009. The event is being billed as a "thematic debate" and has attracted celeb ... |
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| Topics: climate, international politics, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Earthly Business
United Nations declares 2008 International Year of Planet Earth |
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31 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 4:19 PM on 31 Dec 2007 When the clock strikes midnight tonight and you kiss your nearest partygoer in drunken revelry, the world will be entering the United Nations-declared official International Year of Planet Earth. (The IYoPE technically lasts from January 2007 to December 2009, which makes it a three-year-long International Year, but why quibble?) In 2008, the U.N. will also celebrate sanitation, lan ... |
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| Topics: news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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No Day at the Beach in Bali
High drama leads to compromise at climate conference |
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15 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 12:11 PM on 15 Dec 2007 After days of bitter fighting and an overtime stretch filled with twists and turns and even tears, world leaders on Saturday came to agreement on a rough roadmap for developing a new global climate treaty by 2009. The European Union had pushed for industrialized countries to commit to cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions of 25 to 40 percent by 2020, but the U.S., Canada, and Japan, amo ... |
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| Topics: Bali 07, climate, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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The Forbidden Specificity
Bali climate meeting goes overtime, drops specific emissions targets |
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14 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 7:48 AM on 14 Dec 2007 The two-week United Nations climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, has gone into overtime, lasting past its scheduled end as the U.S., Canada, and Japan duked it out with European countries and developing nations in a battle over emissions targets. As expected, the U.S. team, led by Chief Negotiator "Snarlin'" Harlan Watson, has successfully negotiated agains ... |
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| Topics: Bali 07, climate, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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No Continent Is an Island
Australia ratifies Kyoto Protocol |
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03 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 6:36 AM on 03 Dec 2007 On his very first official day in office today, new Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd ratified the Kyoto Protocol, committing his country to deep emissions cuts and putting ever more peer pressure on the United States -- the only industrialized nation still holding out on Kyoto ratification. Full official ratification for Australia is still 90 days away since the U.N. has to do its bureaucratic waiti ... |
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| Topics: Australia, climate, Kyoto Protocol, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Whole Lotta Leaf
U.N. hails success of billion-tree planting program |
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28 Nov 2007 |
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| Posted at 1:00 PM on 28 Nov 2007 Nature-lovin' nations around the world planted more than 1 billion trees during 2007, meeting a kinda arbitrary goal set by the U.N. last November. The effort, boosted by Ethiopia's planting of 700 million trees, "is a further sign of the breathtaking momentum witnessed this year on the challenge for this generation -- climate change," said Achim Steiner, head of the U.N. Environment ... |
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| Topics: news, progress, United Nations (all these topics) |
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The Destitution Will Not Be Televised ... But There Is This Report
World's poor to be shafted most by climate change, U.N. report says |
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27 Nov 2007 |
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| Posted at 6:59 AM on 27 Nov 2007 It's official: The world's poorest people will be the most screwed over by climate change and its ill effects, including drought, agricultural failures, water shortages, disease, flooding, and all the rest, according to a new report from the United Nations Development Program. "For millions of people, these are events that ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, scientific research, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Hear No Yvo
Industrialized countries' GHG emissions near all-time high |
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20 Nov 2007 |
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| Posted at 2:07 PM on 20 Nov 2007 Take it away, Yvo de Boer of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change: "Industrialized countries' overall greenhouse-gas emissions rose to a near all-time high in 2005. Greenhouse-gas emissions between 1990 and 2000 went down, but then between 2000 and 2005 they increased again, by 2.6 percent." Oy. Bali can't come soon enough. source: Agence France-Presse < Previous | Ne ... |
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| Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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The Bali's in Your Court
Latest IPCC climate report comes out strong, lays groundwork for Bali talks |
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19 Nov 2007 |
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| Posted at 8:11 AM on 19 Nov 2007 "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal," warned the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its hardest-hitting report yet, released on Saturday. Delegates from more than 140 countries came to agreement on the document, which summarizes three previous reports and warns of the grave dangers posed by climate change. The ne ... |
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| Topics: Bali 07, climate, news, scientific research, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Original Syn
IPCC Synthesis Report coming out Saturday |
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16 Nov 2007 |
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| Posted at 8:57 AM on 16 Nov 2007 Policymakers of the world, get ready. Tomorrow, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases its Synthesis Report that will attempt to summarize the world's climate-y plight in a language governments can understand. Saturday's report will be the official abbreviated version of the 2,500 pages of scientific reports the IPCC churned out earlier this year. The summary aims to walk the fine line betwee ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, scientific research, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Work It
Climate change could put millions out of work, says U.N. |
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13 Nov 2007 |
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| Posted at 10:15 AM on 13 Nov 2007 Not only is climate change not a hoax manufactured by dirty hippies who hope to put every American out of a job, global warming is real enough to, um, put millions of people out of jobs, United Nations officials said yesterday. At a meeting of the International Labor Organization, the heads of the U.N. climate and weather agencies noted that work in the tourism and fisheries industries could be par ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, climate change impacts, green jobs, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Policy Academy 4: Citizens on Petrol
IPCC to hammer out summary of climate science for policymakers |
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12 Nov 2007 |
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| Posted at 6:03 AM on 12 Nov 2007 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is meeting this week in Valencia, Spain, to distill the panel's three massive scientific climate-change reports released earlier this year into a concise 25-page summary for the world's governments. Expect environmentalists and others concerned about climate-change's effects to lobby for strong language clearly spelli ... |
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Reports of the World's Health Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
U.N. report says world environment doing quite poorly |
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26 Oct 2007 |
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| Posted at 6:22 AM on 26 Oct 2007 Just in case you thought the world's environment might be doing well, the United Nations Environment Program released a comprehensive 550-page, 5-year report this week declaring that things are officially not OK, environment-wise. The UNEP's Global Environmental Outlook attempted to strike that rare balance between cataloguing the world's substantia ... |
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Wait and Sea
Senate may soon vote on U.N. Law of the Sea Treaty |
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04 Oct 2007 |
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| Posted at 12:19 PM on 04 Oct 2007 The U.S. Senate may soon vote on whether or not to ratify the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty, an agreement between some 150 countries that lays out the basic rights and responsibilities that countries have to the world's marine resources. The treaty was signed by President Clinton in the 1990s but has never been ratified by the Senate. Historically, a handful of senators have resisted the trea ... |
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| Topics: news, oceans, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics) |
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Incandescent Descent
China joins campaign to phase out incandescent bulbs |
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03 Oct 2007 |
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| Posted at 4:36 PM on 03 Oct 2007 China makes 70 percent of the world's light bulbs, and has just agreed to participate in a campaign to globally phase out inefficient bulbs over the next decade. But you didn't hear it from us: China's participation in the incandescent-hatin' campaign, which is being spearheaded by green funder Global Environment Facility, will be formally announced at the United Nations climate meeting in ... |
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| Topics: China, energy, energy at home, green living, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Bloggers at the UN climate confab
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David Roberts |
25 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: climate, international politics, politics, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Every Momentum Counts
U.N. hosts one-day climate meeting to spur climate-agreement fever |
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25 Sep 2007 |
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| Posted at 7:05 AM on 25 Sep 2007 Gathering momentum for a United Nations climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, in December where the successor to the Kyoto Protocol is expected to be born, the U.N. hosted a one-day climate conference at its headquarters in New York on Monday. The conference attracted 150 nations, about 80 of which sent at least their heads of state, making it the best-attended climate meet ... |
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U.N. Climate Summit: Gore goes grim
Gore recites climate woes in speech at U.N. |
Brian Beutler |
24 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, international politics, politics, United Nations (all these topics) |
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How Bush really feels about California's climate efforts
White House behind lobbying campaign to undermine California auto-emissions plan, Waxman charges |
Brian Beutler |
24 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: California, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics, United Nations (all these topics) |
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U.N. Climate Summit: Heads of state speechify about mitigation
Leaders of Chile, Austria, Ecuador, and other countries talk about the climate challenge |
Brian Beutler |
24 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, politics, United Nations (all these topics) |
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