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Posts Tagged ‘Kyoto’

24 January 2012

Divided energy priorities will result in post-Kyoto failure, warns reportp

The vast majority of energy and natural resource executives believe that a post-2012 Kyoto agreement will fail, according to a new report.

13 December 2011

Canada to leave Kyoto accord

exitdoor_170_170 Canada has revealed that it will now leave the Kyoto accord to save it from losing potentially billions of dollars in penalties.

12 December 2011

Durban’s climate deal is called into questionp

chimney_170SQ A last minute breakthrough may finally have been reached at the United Nations climate change conference in Durban last week but sceptics are already questioning whether it will be too little, too late.

12 December 2011

New climate deal to boost carbon trading

A global deal to extend the life of the Kyoto treaty and create new targets could give a vital boost to faltering carbon markets, according to bankers and analysts.

6 December 2011

Chinese signal intention to sign up to climate treaty

China-flag1_170SQ Xie Zhenhua, head of the Chinese delegation at the United Nations Climate Change conference in Durban, has said that Beijing was prepared to agree to some form of legally biding emissions target.

15 April 2011

New Zealand emissions falling, on track to meet Kyoto targets

New Zealand’s net emissions of greenhouse gases fell in 2009, putting the on track to meet its commitments under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

9 December 2010

UK calls for second Kyoto commitment period

The UK government has called for a second commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol at the Cancuún negotiations, in order to prevent global temperatures rising beyond a dangerous two degrees Celsius threshold.

8 June 2009

UK on track to double Kyoto target, according to Department of Energy and Climate Changep

The UK remains on track to almost double its greenhouse gas reduction obligations under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, according to a new report released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).

27 November 2008

Will Barack Obama change the face of the US green economy?p

With the US on the brink of change following Barack Obama's historic triumph in the presidential election, those in the clean energy space were left considering what this would mean for the US' burgeoning green economy. In a web video released last week for the Bi-Partisan Governors Global Climate Summit, the President-elect pledged new leadership to address global climate change.

24 November 2008

UN nations agree to replenish fund assisting developing countries to phase out ozone substances

Treaties combating ozone layer damage and climate change can learn from each other in order to maximise economic and environmental benefits, according to the Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention. Nations also agreed to replenish multi-million dollar fund assisting developing countries to continue the phase out of ozone depleting substances.

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