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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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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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