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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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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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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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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 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 |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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