African Carbon Support Program looks back at COP17 and ahead to 2012
African Development Bank | 15 Dec 2011
After extended negotiations, the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban concluded with the adoption of the "Durban Platform," a set of decisions that lay the groundwork for adopting a legal agreement on climate change as soon as possible, and no later than 2015. Governments, including those from 35...
 Clean Development Mechanism | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol

Durban delivers climate breakthrough
AfricaFiles | 13 Dec 2011
This report circulated by the official South African info dept, so it puts forward the best face possible. "We have taken crucial steps forward for the common good and the global citizenry today. I believe that what we have achieved in Durban will play a central role in saving tomorrow, today,"...
 South Africa | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol

World: Climat : l`ONU se félicite des décisions prises à la Conférence de Durban
feedproxy.google.com | 12 Dec 2011
Source:  UN News Service Country:  World .11 décembre 2011 - Le Secrétaire général de lONU, Ban Ki-moon, sest félicité de l`ensemble des décisions auxquelles sont parvenus samedi les 194 pays participant à la Conférence...
 South Africa | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol

Growing Calls for Water to be Prioritised
ips.org | 05 Dec 2011
By Joshua Kyalimpa Access to water is an urgent issue here in the Southern Africa region. / Mantoe Phakathi/IPSDURBAN, South Africa, Dec 5 (IPS) – Efforts to establish water as an agenda item in its own right in climate change negotiations are gaining momentum in Durban, South Africa....
 South Africa | Access to Freshwater | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol

Le Mali lance son fonds climat à Durban
mediaterre.org | 05 Dec 2011
La Mali va lancer son fonds climat lancer son fonds climat ' la conférence de Durban, ce fonds va de pair avec la politique, la stratégie et le plan d'action contre les changements climatiques du Mali. Une fois ce fonds mis en place, il faudra (...)
 Mali | Climate Change Adaptation | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol

Africa's shrinking forests need urgent help, climate change talks hear
African Development Bank | 05 Dec 2011
Forests take up a huge amount of the continent, but are one of Africas most misunderstood and undervalued natural resources.At a discussion on deforestation at the climate change conference, or COP 17, in Durban, delegates learned that forests account for 23 percent of Africas land area. The...
 Guinea | South Africa | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol | Sustainable Forest Management

CLIMATE CHANGE: Durban or bust - the Trans-African Caravan of Hope
IRIN News | 02 Dec 2011
KAMPALA 02 December 2011 (IRIN) - Brandishing a plea for developed countries to make good their promises to reduce carbon emissions, 300 farmers, youths and activists took the scenic route to the COP17 conference in Durban, travelling more than 7,000km from Burundi in 17 days, through 10 eastern and southern African countries, aboard a convoy of buses draped in various national flags.
 Burundi | Uganda | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol | Climate Change Impacts

Cost for 'vulnerable' Africa to handle climate change could reach USD 30 billion
African Development Bank | 02 Dec 2011
Africa is the most vulnerable continent to the adverse effects of climate change, and urgently needs to deal with them. But doing so will be costly.That was the message heard at a session at the international climate change conference, COP 17, currently underway in Durban.The cost of adapting to the harm being done to the African continent such as severe weather changes, drought, desertification and so on could be as much as USD 20 to 30 billion a year, according to an economist. (...)
 Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol | Climate Change Impacts

COP 17 a defining moment: Zuma
AfricaFiles | 01 Dec 2011
President Zuma said in his welcoming speech at Conference of Parties 17 in Durban that "Climate change can no longer be treated as just an environmental problem ... It is a matter of life and death." He called for compromise and commitment to curbing global carbon emissions, and that the Cancun...
 South Africa | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol

Radical Change Needed at Durban Conference, Experts Say
ips.org | 24 Nov 2011
Global leaders will gather next week in Durban, South Africa to determine how to cap global warming at two degrees Celsius. This limit would entail de facto agreement to a global carbon budget of no more than 660 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions between now and 2050, climate science says.But at the current pace of emissions, countries will blow through the entire carbon budget before 2025.
 South Africa | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol