Tag Archives: Copenhagen

Students plant thousands of trees across Kenya as part of UNEP initiative

The campaign, launched in partnership with schools, youth groups and community groups including Pinklakeman and Mavuno Michezo, aims to plant more than 85,000 during the Kenyan rainy season in ......

Highlights of the week

IOC ACTIVITIES This week, IOC President Jacques Rogge has been in Madrid for the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Spanish Olympic Academy, an occasion attended also by the Prince of Astu......

Climate Change is linked to India´s Economic interests: Shyam Saran

India needs to make a decisive shift away from fossil fuels to nuclear and renewable sources of energy irrespective of what the International Negotiations on Climate Change will yield in Copenh......

Transcript of BBC Interview with Nick Bryant

JOURNALIST: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, thanks for joining us on the BBC. PM: Pleasure. JOURNALIST: Weve heard many differing assessments of what will come out of the Copenhagen climate change c......

Climate change puts world at ‘tipping point’, WWF and Allianz report says

We tend to think of climate change like the retreat or growth of a glacier, a slow and steady process, almost imperceptible, but following a manageable path. That is a mistake, warns the Tippi......

Maldives urges UN Member States to take critical action to combat climate change

The President of the Maldives implored world leaders gathered at the United Nations to urgently help the group of islands he governs in the middle of the Indian Ocean fight the menace of global......

An Economy Fit for a Low Carbon World – The Pre-COP Earthcast

An Economy Fit for a Low Carbon World – The Pre-COP Earthcast Can economies be redesigned for a low-carbon future? What opportunities does the financial crisis present? Is a constructi......

Healey: removing red tape in move towards a low-carbon future

In proposals published today for consultation, homeowners, developers and businesses will be able to install their own on-site wind turbines, and air source heat pumps without the expense and r......

International Youth Foundation Announces Recipients of 2009 StarbucksTM Shared PlanetTM Youth Action Grants

The Youth Action Grants program is a key component of the Starbucks™ Shared Planet™ commitment to communities. Grant recipients were chosen by Starbucks and the International Youth ......

Ben and Jerry’s, Eileen Fisher and Stonyfield Farm Join BICEP Coalition

The new members were announced as the U.S. Senate considers a comprehensive climate and energy legislation and as world leaders prepare to meet in Copenhagen next month to negotiate a new inter......

At UN food summit, Ban lays out steps to save billions from hunger

A three-day United Nations summit on world food security opened in Rome today, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warning that on this day alone more than 17,000 children will die of hunger – o......

Green energy on rise across Africa but still lags behind other regions – UN

More green energy and climate-friendly projects target Africa than ever before, but the numbers still lag behind Asia and Latin America, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announce......

UN report calls on policymakers to boost investment in ecosystems for higher profits

Governments that invest in natural resources and ecosystems are likely to yield stronger economic growth and higher rates of return, according to a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNE......

On eve of food security summit, Ban to fast in solidarity with world’s hungry

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon intends to join a 24-hour fast over the weekend on the eve of the World Summit on Food Security in solidarity with the planet’s one billion people who do not have ......

EU on track to meet or over-achieve Kyoto emissions target

The latest projections indicate that the EU-15 countries will meet their 8 per cent reduction target under the Kyoto Protocol. Out of the 12 remaining EU member states, 10 have also individual ......

Ban calls on US to put full weight behind agreeing new climate change treaty

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the United States to take a leading role in forging a new international pact to combat global warming, warning that the consequences of failure outweigh ......

Christopher Columbus points the finger at US for blocking climate deal

The monument commemorates the explorer’s discovery of the New World. However, today Columbus is pointing at the nation that bears historic responsibility for climate change, and which has done ......

UN official still hopeful for strong climate deal as latest talks end

As the last negotiating session before next month’s United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen concluded today, a senior official with the world body called on countries to push ahe......

Hong Kong: LCQ8: Policies to address climate change

Following is a question by Hon Cyd Ho and a written reply by the Secretary for the Environment, Mr Edward Yau, in the Legislative Council today (November 4): Question: Governments around the wo......