International Environmental Agreements

FACTBOX: Greenhouse gas curbs, from Australia to India

reuters.com     yesterday   1 related          

The following factbox compares national goals for fighting climate change, from the United States to India, after Australia's top climate adviser proposed 2020 greenhouse gas emissions targets on Friday. The 37 nations...                    

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UN-backed carbon forum helps Africa profit from greenhouse gas offset scheme

un.org     yesterday   1 related          

5 September 2008 – Three days of deal-making and networking wrapped up today at the United Nations-backed Africa Carbon Forum in Senegal, aimed at improving the continent’s standing in the global carbon marketplace....                    

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Call for greenhouse gas policy review

ruralnews.co.nz     yesterday          

Primary producers must pressure their leaders to demand the Government takes no further action on greenhouse gas emissions trading without a thorough and independent review of the science behind climate change. That’s the...                    

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UN climate chief urges more African engagement inclimate change talks

xinhuanet.com     03-Sep-2008   1 related          

DAKAR, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Africa is the continent hardest hit by climate change yet benefits least from the current international climate change regime, a situation which cries out for concerted engagement by African...                    

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voanews.com: Over 1600 participants attend the UN climate change conference which is held between 21-27 Aug 2008 in Accra, Ghana voanews.com

Severe Storms Getting Stronger, scientists find

voanews.com     03-Sep-2008          

Latham report - Listen (MP3) Ghanaian officials at the U.N. climate change conference in Accra are publicizing a plan to harvest submerged timber from underneath the man-made Lake Volta. Discussions began last week in...                    

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Environmental Law Scholar Michael Wara Joins Stanford Law School Faculty

euroinvestor.co.uk     02-Sep-2008   1 related          

Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of environmental scholar Michael Wara as Assistant Professor of Law. Trained as a lawyer and a scientist, Wara’s current research focuses on the emerging global carbon...                    

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cnn.com: Carbon trading is said to be one way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. cnn.com

Trading the carbon market

cnn.com     02-Sep-2008   4 related          

Carbon trading is said to be one way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions Existing carbon trading systems have had limited impact on emissions to date The European experience serves as a good lesson for new trading systems...                    

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We must scrap carbon levy plans and grant-aid insulation of homes

independent.ie     01-Sep-2008          

Ireland signing up the Kyoto Protocol on climate change is turning out to be a very costly decision for taxpayers. And the impact of the country meeting its obligation to rein in greenhouse gas emissions could be about to...                    

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ENB - AWGs Summary and Analysis - 21-27 August 2008 - Accra - Ghana

iisd.ca     30-Aug-2008          

IISD Reporting Services (IISD RS), ENB, Climate Change, Third session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action and first part of the sixth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for...                    

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The Greening - and Maturing - of Boris

opendotdotdot.blogspot.com     30-Aug-2008          

Despite previously attacking the Kyoto Protocol - which regulates international carbon emissions - as "pointless" and saying that anxiety over climate change was "partly a religious phenomenon" Johnson now admits that the...                    

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