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Something's very cool in the state of Denmark
Danish P.M. urges United States to reengage in climate talks |
Kate Sheppard |
25 Sep 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen is in the United States this week to encourage engagement in the negotiations over a new global climate pact between now and the United Nations Climate Change Conference scheduled to take place in Copenhagen in late 2009. In a speech before a meeting of the Environmental Grant Makers Association on Wednesday, Rasmussen outlined his vision for a new global climate deal, setting the goal of converting the world to a low carbon ... |
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| Topics: climate, IPCC, Muckraker, news, politics, United Nations (all these topics) |
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You're Not Fueling Anyone
Ending fossil-fuel subsidies would help climate and economy, U.N. says |
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27 Aug 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 4:21 AM on 27 Aug 2008 Ending fossil-fuel subsidies around the world could slash greenhouse-gas emissions by up to 6 percent and help the economy at the same time, according to a new United Nations report [PDF]. Globally, governments spend some $300 billion on fuel subsidies that encourage consumption, delay transition to cleaner energy sources, and mainly benefit the already-rich even tho ... |
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| Topics: climate, economy, fossil fuels, gas prices, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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On the Brink of Disaster
Report identifies areas where natural disasters could hit hardest |
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22 Aug 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:51 PM on 22 Aug 2008 Natural disasters made more severe by climate change will hit especially hard in regions with shaky political, economic, and security situations, says a new report from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and relief agency CARE International. Vulnerable areas include central Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Sahel; Afghanistan, the Casp ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, severe weather, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Ghana But Not Forgotten
Nations gather in Ghana to talk shop on next climate-change accord |
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22 Aug 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 12:12 PM on 22 Aug 2008 Some 1,600 delegates from 160 nations are moving forward on negotiations for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol as they gather this week in Accra, Ghana. The meeting is the third in a series of eight that will culminate in the adoption of a new global climate-change accord in Dec. 2009. "The negotiations need to speed up and become more concrete if governments are to m ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Ghana, greenhouse-gas emissions, international treaties, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Taste Makes Waste
We waste a lot of food and a lot of water, says report |
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22 Aug 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:18 AM on 22 Aug 2008 The world grows more than enough food to sustain the global population, but half of that food is wasted -- and thus half of the water used in food production is wasted as well, says a new report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, International Water Management Institute, and Stockholm Water Management Institute. In developing countries, food spoils or is damaged by i ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, food, news, United Nations, waste, water crisis (all these topics) |
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Yaoza!
Yao Ming to serve as UNEP 'environmental champion' |
Sara Barz |
13 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player extraordinaire and eco-activist green Olympian, recently agreed to be the United Nations Environmental Program's first-ever 'Environmental Champion.' Yao accepted the UNEP's invitation the day after the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing. Said Yao, 'In my role as 'Environmental Champion,' I will work with governments, the private sector, and the public to promote good and effective management of our environment so we can preserve ... |
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| Topics: green living, Olympics, sports, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Mechanism Bull
U.N. clean-energy program criticized for not funding clean energy |
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11 Jul 2008 |
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| Posted at 2:32 PM on 11 Jul 2008 The United Nations Clean Development Mechanism, set up under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, issues carbon credits to industrialized nations that pay for renewable-energy projects in developing countries. Last we checked, coal and natural gas weren't renewable -- but the CDM is currently paying out millions of dollars a year to 13 natural-gas-burning plants in China and India, and in Sept. ... |
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| Topics: carbon offsets, carbon trading, climate, coal, energy, fossil fuels, natural gas, news, renewable energy, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Sachs Education
Jeffrey Sachs, economist and eco-problem solver, chats about his plans to save the world |
Amanda Griscom Little |
08 Jul 2008 |
Grist Feature |
| Jeffrey Sachs speaks at the University of North Carolina. Photo: Kevin Tsui Jeffrey Sachs -- the renowned economist who devised a grand plan in 2005 to rid the world of poverty -- is now focused on an even broader ambition: saving the planet and all of us who call it home. His new book, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, explores the crises ... |
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| Topics: books, climate, environmental movement, international politics, United Nations (all these topics) |
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The Wings Beneath Our Wind
Investment in renewable energy skyrockets |
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02 Jul 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:19 AM on 02 Jul 2008 Global investment in renewable energy was a record $148 billion in 2007, jumping 60 percent from 2006, the United Nations reported Tuesday. About one-third of the investment went to wind power; solar power was the fastest-growing clean-energy sector from 2006 to 2007, with investment nearly doubling to hit $28.6 billion. Investment in biofuels dropped in the same time period, falling to $2.1 bi ... |
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| Topics: business, energy, investing, news, renewable energy, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Mad Max meets Wall Street ... on ice
Colbert on the Arctic |
David Roberts |
11 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: Arctic, energy, funnies, oil, polar bears, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Victoria Falling
Climate change, deforestation, erosion take toll on African landscape |
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10 Jun 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:01 PM on 10 Jun 2008 A new United Nations atlas depicts alarming changes to Africa's landscape. On a continent that produces a mere 4 percent of the world's greenhouse-gas emissions, significant landmarks are taking a hit from climate change: Lake Chad and Lake Victoria are shrinking each year, and Mt. Kilimanjaro could be snow-free by 2020. The deforestation rate in Africa is twice the world aver ... |
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| Topics: Africa, agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, deforestation, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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I Know What You Did Last Summit
U.N. food summit ends without agreement on solutions |
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05 Jun 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 12:14 PM on 05 Jun 2008 A high-level three-day United Nations food summit ended Thursday without wide agreement on solutions to the world food crisis. At the meeting, delegates sparred over trade barriers, biofuels' role in keeping food prices high, agricultural subsidies, how food aid should be spent, and how much aid to give. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened the conference by declaring that ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, food, international politics, news, politics, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Just Forget All the Bad Stuff for a Day
World Environment Day is June 5 |
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04 Jun 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 4:55 PM on 04 Jun 2008 Thursday is World Environment Day, and you will no doubt celebrate by donating to Grist. (Thank you!) Once you've got that out of the way, you can also help out our dear environment by packing a lighter suitcase when you travel, jogging in the park instead of on the treadmill, using a wind-up alarm clock, and ditching your electric toothbrush, says a 202-page United Nations report called &qu ... |
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| Topics: environmental movement, grassroots activism, holiday, New Zealand, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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It's Only Biological
Ocean seeding banned at U.N. biodiversity conference |
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30 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:08 AM on 30 May 2008 A 12-day United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity ended Friday with just a wee bit of progress toward salvaging the world's rapidly disappearing flora and fauna. Perhaps most encouraging: The 191 countries present agreed to ban the controversial practice of seeding the ocean with nutrients to encourage growth of carbon-sucking algae. In addition, Germany, which hosted the conferen ... |
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| Topics: biodiversity, Bosnia, Congo, geoengineering, Germany, Indonesia, Malaysia, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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The Future's Coming Fast
U.N. report forecasts continued high food prices for the next decade |
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29 May 2008 |
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| Posted at 1:12 PM on 29 May 2008 Food prices worldwide are likely to remain relatively high for at least the next decade, according to an analysis by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Biofuel demand, high energy costs, and commodity speculation will continue to keep food prices high in the long term, despite periodic dips in price. Climate change is also expected to increase food pr ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, business, food, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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On His Pope-box
Pope preaches environmental protection to United Nations |
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18 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 12:00 PM on 18 Apr 2008 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 environmental, security, development, a ... |
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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 |
News |
| 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 |
| Um, wow. So this is what the United Nations Environment Programme is up to these days: |
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| Topics: fashion, United Nations (all these topics) |
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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 |
News |
| 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 |
News |
| 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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When You
U.N. General Assembly holds climate gathering in New York |
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11 Feb 2008 |
News |
| "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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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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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 |
News |
| 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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