DEVELOPING COUNTRIES REBUFF DENMARK'S PUSH FOR DELAY IN COPENHAGEN
Denmark’s ‘two-step’ proposal – a ‘politically binding’ deal agreed at the Copenhagen climate Summit in December followed by a full legally binding treaty sometime in 2010 – has gathered momentum over the last few weeks. An increasing number of rich countries, including the US, the EU and New Zealand, are backing away from political commitments made two years ago in Bali to agree a new legally binding climate deal at Copenhagen.
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DEVELOPING COUNTRIES REBUFF DENMARK'S PUSH FOR DELAY IN COPENHAGEN
2009-11-18 20:04
AUCKLAND - Recent attempts by rich countries to postpone a binding climate agreement hit the rocks at a meeting of Environment Ministers in Copenhagen yesterday, as vulnerable developing countries made clear that delay was not an option.
The two day meeting in the city, attended by New...
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Protection of sharks also preserves cultural practices
2009-11-15 12:35
By Cherelle Jackson
APIA - More than 80 species of sharks that frequent the Pacific oceans will now be protected under a new regional plan of action, their protection means cultural practices based around the shark will also be preserved.
Sharks are not just significant in the marine environment...
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Climate-Change Targets Dropped Ahead of APEC Summit
2009-11-14 15:18
SINGAPORE -- Pacific Rim leaders have dropped the idea of committing to specific cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions for a region that accounts to roughly half of world trade, a Chinese official said Saturday.
Putting a concrete target for carbon-emissions cuts in the final statement of the...
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Stakes huge for Pacific in climate change talks: Rudd
2009-11-11 11:37
By David Brooks (AFP) – Aug 4, 2009
CAIRNS, Australia — Attempts to reduce the impact of climate change are crucial to the future of vulnerable Pacific island nations, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Wednesday.
Rudd was speaking as the Pacific Islands Forum summit of regional leaders...
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Tough global deal on climate change is unlikely
2009-11-04 17:37
By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent
UK TELEGRAPH- Some 190 countries are due to meet for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month to agree a new deal to stop global warming.
Scientists have recommended rich countries should cut greenhouse emissions by between 25 to 40...
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Climate change could displace 600 million people, report warns
2009-11-04 17:24
By Ahmed Naish
Climate change could force up 150 million climate refugees to flee their countries in the next 40 years, a report from the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) warns.
The EJF claim that between 500 to 600 million people, equivalent to ten per cent of the world’s...
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Message from poor countries to the polluters: Help us deal with the damage you’ve caused
2009-11-04 17:22
International negotiators are meeting in Barcelona this week for the last time before the crucial Copenhagen climate change conference in December. The amount of funding that industrialised countries will provide to deal with the crisis they have caused remains a fundamental sticking point. A deal...
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Heat-tolerant Coral Reefs Discovered
2009-10-30 13:09
ScienceDaily — Experts say that more than half of the world's coral reefs could disappear in the next 50 years, in large part because of higher ocean temperatures caused by climate change. But now Stanford University scientists have found evidence that some coral reefs are adapting and may actually...
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