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Environment ministers prepare for UN climate change summit
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 24 days ago
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Hedegaard said the two-day closed door session offered a chance to focus on the "tough issues." As hopes for a legally-binding deal in Copenhagen have faded, the focus has centred on achieving a politically-binding treaty at the Dec 7-18 summit...Swedish...
Tags: climate change, Copenhagen, environment ministers, Denmark, binding treaty, legally binding, binding deal, global warming, Carbon dioxide, Kyoto Protocol, Connie Hedegaard, Politics, Carbon finance, Diplomatic conferences, Environment, Humanitarian aid, Food security, Urban agriculture, world food price crisis, Poverty, Food politics, Food and Agriculture Organization, Peak oil, Business Finance, Post-Kyoto Protocol negotiations on greenhouse gas emissions, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Treaty of Lisbon, V2G, Seychelles, James Michel, Minister for the Environment, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, European Union, Copenhagen Climate Council, Energy in Denmark
India, China ink MoA on climate change; set up JWG
New Delhi :: India | about 1 month ago
Credibility Moving closer on climate issues, India and China on Wednesday announced setting up of a Joint Working Group to exchange views concerning international negotiations on global warming. The Joint Working Group (JWG), which will hold meetings alternately...
Tags: India-China, China Agree, climate change, Andreas Carlgren, Copenhagen, environment ministers, European Union, European Community, greenhouse gases, Luxembourg
Voting begins in Chiba mayoral election
Beijing :: China | 5 months ago
Credibility Voters started casting ballots Sunday to pick the next Chiba mayor in what is seen as an early skirmish between Japan's ruling and opposition parties ahead of the upcoming general election. Kojiro Hayashi, 63, supported by the ruling Liberal Democratic...
Tags: Japan PGA Championship, Democratic Party of Japan, Sayo Sasaki Toshihito Kumagai, China, Yuta Ikeda, chiba mayoral, Chiba, environment ministers, Tomokazu Ohka, mayoral election
Australian e-waste dumped on China
Hobart :: Australia | 6 months ago
Credibility Since the start of last year, 12 ships carrying "e-waste" have been intercepted leaving Australia for Asian ports without hazardous materials permits, including four so far this year, Australian Customs and the Department of Environment confirmed yesterday.
Tags: Hobart, environment ministers
Rich, poor nations discuss green tech stimulus
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 7 months ago
Credibility The three-day meeting of the Group of Eight industrial countries and major developing economies opened in Sicily, with attention focused on how far the new U.S. administration would go in its environmental strategy. The meeting, taking place on Earth...
EU to coordinate measures against climate change
Prague :: Czech Republic | 7 months ago
Credibility European Union member countries will coordinate their measures against climate change, Czech Environment Minister Martin Bursik said after a meeting of EU environment ministers that he chaired on Tuesday. The meeting will continue on Wednesday. The...
EU environment ministers vote to uphold ban on biotech crops
Brussels :: Belgium | 9 months ago
Credibility European Union governments delivered a blow Monday to the biotechnology industry, allowing Austria and Hungary to maintain national bans on growing genetically modified crops from Monsanto. The vote, taken by European environment ministers, could irritate...
Tags: Czech EU, Hungary, genetically modified, Austria, Monsanto, environment ministers, European Commission, European Union, modified maize, GMO
Ministers get close look at Antarctic ice threat
Cape Town :: South Africa | 9 months ago
Credibility A parka-clad band of environment ministers landed in this remote corner of the icy continent on Monday, in the final days of an intense season of climate research, to learn more about how a melting Antarctica may endanger the planet. Representatives from...
Environment Ministers to Tackle Mercury Pollution
Nairobi :: Kenya | 9 months ago
Credibility More than 140 nations agreed on Friday to negotiate a legally binding global treaty to phase out the use of deadly mercury, a toxic heavy metal that threatens the health of hundreds of millions of people worldwide. The deal came at a major U.N. meeting...
Tags: mercury pollution, environment ministers, Nairobi, heavy metal
Climate change summit may make no headway
Poznań :: Poland | 12 months ago
Credibility The classical have and have not divide is destined to turn the climate change summit here into a failure. Forget identifying the elements that would be negotiated in Copenhagen next winter, there is a strong possibility that rich industrialized countries...
Tags: climate change, U.N., coral reefs, fight climate, Poland, greenhouse gas, Kyoto Protocol, financial crisis, environment ministers, Mexico
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