India Okays Conditional Association With Copenhagen Accord
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 19:34
Times of India
After three months of confabulation within the government, India on Tuesday allowed a conditional association of its name with the Copenhagen Accord.
The accord, which had been negotiated by 29 countries including India at the Danish capital in December 2009, had become a bone of contention with some countries refusing to accept it while the...
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EU: Not This Year ... But Next
Friday, 05 March 2010 16:33
Reuters
The European Union executive is tempering its hopes of securing a legally binding climate deal in talks this year culminating in Cancun, Mexico, focusing instead on a 2011 summit in South Africa, a source said.
"The realistic approach is to aim for deliverables in the Bonn and Cancun meetings this year, and then to aim for a legally binding...
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EU Struggling To Find New Climate Strategy
Thursday, 04 March 2010 10:46
EurActiv
Global agreements in areas such as cement or steel could offer a solution if the UN negotiation process fails to deliver a binding climate treaty, said Jo Leinen, chairman of the European Parliament's influential environment committee.
Speaking in Brussels yesterday (3 March), Leinen conceded that Europe might need a Plan B for international...
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EU Desperately Seeking Climate Strategy
Sunday, 07 February 2010 09:13
Leigh Phillips, EU Observer
"The EU's post-Copenhagen strategy should be just to have a strategy, any strategy," quips one Brussels think-tank wag during an interview.
The rough hip-check Europe received in the Danish capital in December, sidelining the bloc during the eleventh-hour huddle between major powers that produced the Copenhagen Accord, has produced a wave of...
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China rejects UK claims it hindered Copenhagen talks
Tuesday, 22 December 2009 15:57
administrator
BBC News: China has dismissed claims made by a British minister that it "hijacked" efforts to reach an agreement at the climate summit in Copenhagen. Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband had accused China of vetoing two agreements on limiting emissions. Beijing's foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said the accusations were a political plot...
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China 'positive' on Copenhagen summit
Sunday, 20 December 2009 08:51
administrator
AFP: China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, lauded Sunday the outcome of a historic U.N. climate conference that ended with a nonbinding agreement that urges major polluters to make deeper emissions cuts — but does not require it.
The international climate talks that brought more than 110 leaders together in Copenhagen...
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Developing world threatens battle on drafts
Wednesday, 16 December 2009 07:32
Morten Andersen
COP15 News: African countries, Brazil, China, South Africa and India say they have produced a default proposal to be used only if rich countries try to shortcut UN-led negotiations in Copenhagen.
At the ongoing UN conference on climate change, COP15, a group consisting of African countries plus the BASIC block – Brazil, South Africa, India...
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