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UK legislators: Doha talks confirmed only domestic action can drive global...
With the Doha summit now concluded, with only very modest achievement, there is growing consensus that a faster response toclimate change is desperately needed. This is especially so when the science...
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Kelly Rigg: Finding hope in the final hours of the Doha climate talks
Courtesy: Kelly Rigg “What gives you hope? This is a question I’m often asked these days. And what I’ve come to realize is that being hopeful, in the face of so much bad news about climate change, is...
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Fossil fuel subsidies in focus at Doha climate talks
Creative Commons: Shell, 2009 Hassan al-Kubaisi considers it a gift from above that drivers in oil- and gas-rich Qatar only have to pay $1 per gallon at the pump. “Thank God that our country is an oil...
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Greenhouse gas emissions rose three percent in 2011: UN Report
Creative Commons: Gregory Wake, 2008 The amount of heat-trapping pollution the world spewed rose again last year by 3 percent. So scientists say it’s now unlikely that global warming can be limited...
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Russia backslides on 25 percent emission reduction goal in Doha
A draft presidential decree seen by RIA Novosti shows that Russia might be backing away from an unconditional 25% emission reduction target announced by Prime Minister Medvedev during the Rio+20...
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Youth activists bring energy, urgency to Doha climate talks
Creative Commons: Adopt a Negotiator, 2012 When the US university student Anjali Appadurai lambasted diplomats from 194 countries for their lack of action and ambition at last year’s climate talks in...
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UNFCCC: UN partners with Rockefeller Foundation to showcase women’s role in...
Creative Commons: Red Cross The Rockefeller Foundation today awarded a grant to the United Nations Climate Change secretariat to launch Momentum for Change: Women for Results, an initiative to...
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CAN: NGO’s call for Action, Ambition, Equity at UN Climate Talks
At the opening of the biggest climate talks of the year, international experts from NGOs organized in the Climate Action Network (CAN) said the Doha negotiations presented a turning point for world...
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CIDSE: Keeping faith in the climate talks
The buzz around the Copenhagen climate summit is a distant memory. Since December 2009, climate change has quickly moved down the priority list of many. In the midst of a deep global financial and...
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Kelly Rigg: It’s time for world leaders to take a walk in the woods
Courtesy: Kelly Rigg There’s a sign hanging at Muir Woods, a gorgeous redwood forest not far from San Francisco, which reads: In 1945, delegates from all over the world met in San Francisco to...
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Climate reports forecast dire future, even with moderate action
Creative Commons: Kinumi Yoshida, 2011 In the absence of aggressive government policies aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, a number of leading organizations, including the United Nations, the...
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President Obama under pressure to show commitment on climate change
President Obama speaking at UN Summit on Climate Change- Creative Commons: UN Photo/Marco Castro, 2009 Barack Obama is being pressed for proof of his intent to act on climate change ahead of next...
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And Action! How the climate movement is changing the world this week
Creative Commons: 350.org, 2012 The climate movement raised an incredible amount of momentum already this year, and this week it built even more. Our allies are continuing to face off against the big...
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Partner Spotlight: Jennifer Morgan, World Resources Institute
Courtesy: World Resources Institute, 2012 Our partner interview this week is with World Resources Institute Climate and Energy Program Director Jennifer Morgan. With the next round of UN climate talks...
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Days before the UN climate talks, Qatari climate leader parties with Big Oil
Creative Commons: Moaksey, 2006 With less than two weeks before the next round of UN climate negotiations in Doha, guess who the president of those crucial climate talks was having a party with? Yes,...
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Pa Ousman Jarju: An open letter to Obama from the world’s poorest countries
Courtesy: IISD Reporting Services, 2012 Dear President Obama, As the lead negotiator for the world’s 48 Least Developed Countries(LDCs) in the United Nations climate change negotiations, I...
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New Zealand disappoints by refusing to re-commit to Kyoto Protocol
Creative Commons: Sarah Marchildon, 2011 New Zealand’s government said Friday that it would not sign on for a second stage of the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty, a stance that angered environmentalists...
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Australia signs up for second phase of Kyoto Protocol
Creative Commons: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011 Australia’s government says it is “ready to join” a second phase of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Climate Minister Greg Combet said Australia...
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Meet the six countries vying to host the Green Climate Fund
Creative Commons: Oxfam, 2011 Six countries – Germany, Poland and Switzerland – are in competition, along with Mexico, Namibia and the Republic of Korea, to host the Green Climate Fund. This issue...
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Yvo De Boer: Climate change talks need greater clarity
Creative Commons: World Economic Forum, 2011 The former head of the UN Climate talks (UNFCCC) believes confusion over the aim of the negotiations and the meaning of last year’s Durban Platform...
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