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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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| Topics: climate, climate science, news, politics, United Nations (all these topics) |
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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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| Topics: news, scientific research, United Nations (all these topics) |
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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 |
| If our own Brian Beutler's blogging from the UN climate meeting isn't sating your ravenous appetite for ... blogging from the UN climate meeting, check out Hill Heat for a roundup of other bloggers at the event and what they've written. |
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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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| Topics: climate, international politics, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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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 |
| Al Gore's address to the U.N. General Assembly today was a much darker affair than I assumed it would be. Given that the stated goal today is to lay the groundwork for international institution-building and unity of vision, I expected he'd take a more inspirational approach. Instead, about three-quarters of his speech was a thorough enumeration of the effects global warming is already having on the planet. Included in his litany of woes: The faster-than-expected ... |
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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 |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger, who gave a rather good speech today here at the U.N. climate summit, is famously attempting to cut California's greenhouse-gas emissions. Now come accusations that the White House is behind a lobbying effort to get the U.S. EPA to reject Schwarzenegger's plan to regulate GHGs from cars and trucks. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chair of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, got wind of the situation. Writes Jesse Lee in 'The Gavel ... |
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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 |
| Here at today's U.N. Climate Summit in New York, everyone seems to agree that bringing America into a leadership role on climate change is a necessary condition for forestalling the climate change crisis. From my perspective, then, the success or failure of this summit should be judged by its ability to make progress on that front. We've heard from -- among others -- Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and Federal Chancellor of Austria Alfred Gusenbauer, both of wh ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, politics, United Nations (all these topics) |
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We're Just Going Through a Phaseout
Faster phaseout of ozone-damaging chemicals agreed to by 191 nations |
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24 Sep 2007 |
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| Posted at 5:51 AM on 24 Sep 2007 At the conference marking the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol last week, some 191 nations agreed to a faster phaseout of ozone-depleting chemicals than had originally been negotiated in 1987. Hydrochlorofluorocarbons, or HCFCs, emerged in the 1990s as a less-ozone-damaging alternative to CFCs, which did truly nasty things to the ozone layer. But HCF ... |
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| Topics: international treaties, news, ozone, United Nations (all these topics) |
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The Long, Hot Summit
U.N. climate summit kicks off in New York; Bush preps for his own climate meeting in Washington |
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24 Sep 2007 |
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| Posted at 12:48 AM on 24 Sep 2007 Al Gore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and lots of other bigwigs and heads of state are gathering at U.N. headquarters in New York on Monday for the most high-level climate summit ever, but one world leader will be noticeably absent: George W. Bush. The meeting is intended to build moment ... |
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| Topics: George Bush, international treaties, United Nations (all these topics) |
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U.N. Climate Summit: Free beer with big shots
Bloggers and U.N. officials chat, don't quite connect |
Brian Beutler |
24 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Sunday night, I along with some other writers attended a U.N. Foundation dinner designed to bring the U.N.'s climate change directors into better contact with members of the online media. As far as accomplishing that goal, I suppose the dinner was a huge success. I and other members of the online media came into contact with some important employees of the U.N.! As to bringing American political writers and U.N. officials to a common understanding of the political p ... |
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| Topics: politics, climate, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Perchance Meeting
U.N. climate meeting ends with a whole lotta nothin' |
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31 Aug 2007 |
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| Posted at 1:31 PM on 31 Aug 2007 We are psychic, if we do say so ourselves. As leaders from 158 countries gathered this week at a U.N.-convened meeting to discuss post-Kyoto Protocol climate targets, we claimed doubt that anything of substance would come out of it. And voila! Deadlock and vagueness abounded. The E.U. and developing nations pushed for an indication that industrialized countries should be guided by a goal of r ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Sudan Impact
Lack of water in northern Sudan refugee camps threaten tens of thousands |
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28 Aug 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Sudan Impact Lack of water in northern Sudan refugee camps threaten tens of thousands Many of the refugees who fled war in Sudan's Darfur region have ended up in refugee camps that are now straining to maintain water supplies in the arid region. In June, a United Nations report indicated that the conflict, which has resulted in the deaths of an estimated 200,000 people and made some 2.5 million others homeless ... |
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| Topics: news, Sudan, United Nations, water conflicts (all these topics) |
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Talkin'
Latest round of UN climate talks focuses on energy investment |
David Roberts |
28 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Just how excited can one get by the latest round of international talks on climate change? This one is focused on business, specifically energy investment: A new report by the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change says additional investments of about $210 billion a year will be needed - mostly in the developing world - to maintain greenhouse gas emissions at their current levels until 2030. 'If the funding available ... remains at its current level and con ... |
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| Topics: climate, international politics, politics, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Let the Doodling Begin
U.N.-initiated climate-change meeting kicks off |
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27 Aug 2007 |
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| Posted at 1:09 PM on 27 Aug 2007 Some one thousand representatives of government, industry, and research institutions from more than 150 countries came together in Vienna today to kick off a United Nations-initiated week-long hobnob on WTF Should We Do About Climate Change. We're betting relatively little of substance will come out of it, but check in for updates as the week progresses. sources: Agence France-Presse, BBC Ne ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Unable to Flush With Success
Sanitation a big problem worldwide, says U.N. |
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20 Aug 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Unable to Flush With Success Sanitation a big problem worldwide, says U.N. The United Nations has declared 2008 the International Year of Sanitation, but we won't wait until then to ply you with depressing statistics: One-third of the global population has no access to a toilet. In 38 African countries, more children under the age of 5 die from diarrhea than HIV/AIDS. The World Health Organization estimates that 80 percent of ... |
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We Could've Sworn Someone Was Already Working On That
Bush confirms plans for U.S.-hosted climate summit |
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06 Aug 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| We Could've Sworn Someone Was Already Working On That Bush confirms plans for U.S.-hosted climate summit Late last week, President Bush solidified plans for an international climate summit in September. The meeting, to be hosted by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, will convene 12 to 15 industrial and developing countries, including India and China, to discuss long-term climate goals. ... |
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| Topics: climate, international politics, news, United Nations, White House (all these topics) |
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One Swamp Forward, Two Swamps Back
Everglades, stripped of U.N. endangered status, may see federal funding |
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01 Aug 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| One Swamp Forward, Two Swamps Back Everglades, stripped of U.N. endangered status, may see federal funding The Florida Everglades may get a budgetary boost from the U.S. government, a month after being removed from the U.N. World Heritage Committee's list of endangered sites. The nearly $2 billion is part of a $21 billion national water bill expected to be passed by Congress this wee ... |
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| Topics: biodiversity, Congress, Florida, national parks, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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