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Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol

Dangerous decade: What follows the Durban climate deal
New Scientist | 13 Dec 2011
The Durban climate talks rewrote the rule book for fighting climate change - but committed no one to anything until 2020 at the earliest

Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol | Climate Change Negotiations

Canada: First out of a sinking Kyoto ship?
CNN | 13 Dec 2011
For Canada, the cost of either meeting its commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, or failing to do so, was too much to bear.

Climate Change and Development | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol

Analysis: World still in arrears on climate change pledges
Reuters | 11 Dec 2011
DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) - When the Kyoto Protocol, the world's only legally-binding pact to tackle climate change was adopted in the economically-booming 1990s, it was meant to be a down payment.

South Africa | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol | Climate Change Negotiations

Africa: Renew Kyoto Now, UN Boss Tells Parties
AllAfrica.com | 07 Dec 2011
United Nations Secretary General, Ban ki-Moon, has urged struggling climate change negotiators at the COP17 talks in Durban to press ahead for solutions because the future of the planet is at stake. He rejected any excuses that the global economic crisis was partially responsible for the delay in setting up an international fund to help countries combat the effects of climate change.

South Africa | Biodiversity | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol | Climate Change Negotiations

Prescott accuses US over climate deal
The Independent | 03 Dec 2011
Former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott has accused rich countries such as the United States and Canada of trying to scupper a new climate deal.

Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol

Durban - your guide to the latest vital climate summit
New Scientist | 25 Nov 2011
The ostensible aim is to devise a successor to the Kyoto protocol, but there's so much more going on

Climate Change | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol

What Will Happen in Durban? Hints from Panama on COP17
ClimateBiz | 08 Oct 2011
The recent climate negotiations in Panama offer some insights as to what commitments might be made during the next big U.N. climate negotiation, taking place in South Africa in late November.

Climate Change | Economy | Global Warming | Industry

Deep divisions, loads of work as nations move toward climate change summit
Washington Post | 09 Apr 2011
Nineteen years after the world started to take climate change seriously, delegates from around the globe spent five days talking about what they will talk about at a year-end conference in South Africa. They agreed to talk about their opposing viewpoints.

South Africa | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol | Climate Change Negotiations

U.N. climate agenda agreed, roadmap set for 2011
Reuters | 08 Apr 2011
Rich and poor nations overcame deep divisions on Friday to cut a deal that maps out U.N. climate negotiations for 2011, building on last December's agreement in Mexico and hardening the focus on tougher issues.

Climate Change | Climate Change and Development | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol | Climate Change Negotiations

U.N. climate talks risk backsliding on Cancun outcome
Reuters | 07 Apr 2011
Arguments over the agenda that have stalled U.N. climate talks in Bangkok this week show that some nations are trying to row back from hard-won agreements reached last December, Russia said on Wednesday.

Climate Change | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol | Climate Change Impacts | Government and Climate Change

Progress on Cancun climate goals uncertain: envoy
Reuters | 06 Apr 2011
Tensions between developed and developing countries in global climate talks could hamper progress on U.N. agreements hammered out in Mexico last year, the U.S. climate envoy said on Wednesday.

Climate Change | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol | Government and Climate Change

Kyoto pact rift threatens progress at U.N. climate talks
Reuters | 05 Apr 2011
Poorer nations upped the ante on rich countries at U.N. climate talks on Tuesday by demanding that the world's main climate treaty be extended from 2013 and for industrialized countries to deepen carbon-cutting pledges.

Japan says not seeking exemption from Kyoto CO2 pledge
Reuters | 05 Apr 2011
Japan is not seeking an exemption from its Kyoto Protocol pledges to cut greenhouse gases, a government official said on Tuesday, despite a nuclear safety crisis that could hamper efforts to reduce its use of fossil fuels.

UN climate change talks in Bangkok
Guardian Unlimited | 04 Apr 2011
What is the UN climate change conference in Bangkok? From 3 April to 8 April 2011, government delegates, representatives from business and industry, environmental organisations and research institutions will meet in Bangkok, Thailand, to build on an international deal on cutting carbon emissions....

Climate Change | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol | Climate Change Negotiations | Government and Climate Change

As global carbon-trading market stumbles, investors think locally
Washington Post | 26 Mar 2011
A former carbon trader's decision to get out of the market is one more sign that the consensus for a global carbon market, reached 14 years ago by 193 nations and the European Union in Kyoto, Japan, may have fractured beyond repair.

Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol | Government and Climate Change | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Responses

U.S. sees major emitters setting own climate goals
Reuters | 21 Feb 2011
Major greenhouse gas emitters should set voluntary curbs on emissions for the time being since a U.N. climate treaty looks out of reach in 2011, the U.S. climate envoy said on Monday.

Climate Change | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol | Government and Climate Change | Greenhouse Gas Emissions

U.N. panel eyes ways to expand and speed carbon offsets
Reuters | 14 Feb 2011
A United Nations panel will discuss this week ways to give poor countries better access to clean energy projects and clear a backlog of applications for carbon offsets, members said in a webcast on Monday.

Carbon Storage | Clean Development Mechanism | Climate Change | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol

Australian carbon emissions set to rise: government
Reuters | 08 Feb 2011
Australian remained on track to meet its Kyoto Protocol goal to curb carbon emissions, but strong international demand for the country's coal and gas would see a marked rise in emissions unless more action was taken, the government said on Wednesday.

EU to reopen 5 carbon registries shut after thefts
Reuters | 03 Feb 2011
The European Commission, which halted spot trade in its carbon market two weeks ago due to thefts, said it will reopen emissions registries in five countries on Friday after being told security was in place.

Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol | Economy | Emissions Trading and Flexible Mechanisms | EU Emission Trading Scheme

Extra U.N. climate talks set for April in Bangkok
Reuters | 28 Jan 2011
Climate negotiators from almost 200 nations will hold an extra session in Bangkok in April to try to unblock work on a successor to the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol for slowing global warming, officials said on Friday.

Climate Change | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol | Climate Change Mitigation | Climate Change Negotiations | Government and Climate Change

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