Guardian: “Jeremy Leggett among 100 signatories to letter opposing oil firm’s likely influence over university’s climate change studies.”
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US claims “enormous efforts” on climate change, including fracking gas.
Guardian: “The US is claiming credit for “enormous” efforts on climate change – delivered in part by the carbon reductions from its investments in the controversial practice of “fracking” for shale gas. The claim came as nearly 200 governments gathered in Doha, Qatar, for two weeks of talks aimed at forging an agreement on the climate. Governments have until 2015 to draw up a binding treaty, the first since the 1997 Kyoto protocol, to cut greenhouse gas emissions and avoid dangerous global warming.” Read more
De Boer says the 2013 IPCC report will “shock nations into action.”
November 6, 2012 Climate
SMH: “The next United Nations climate report will ”scare the wits out of everyone” and should provide the impetus needed for the world to finally sign an agreement to tackle global warming, the former head of the UN negotiations said.” Read more
“The fossil-fuel industry could and should pay for provable climate damage.”
July 11, 2012 Climate
Myles Allen of Oxford with an interesting perspective: “The presumption in climate change negotiations is that “countries with historically high emissions” would be first in line to foot the bill for loss and damage. There may be some logic to this, but if you are an African (or Texan) farmer hit by greenhouse-exacerbated drought, is the European or American taxpayer necessarily the right place to look for compensation? As any good lawyer knows, there is no point in suing a man with empty pockets. The only institution in the world that could deal with the cost of climate change without missing a beat is the fossil fuel industry: BP took a $30bn charge for Deepwater Horizon, very possibly more than the total cost of climate change damages last year, and was back in profit within months. Of the $5 trillion per year we currently spend on fossil energy, a small fraction would take care of all the loss and damage attributable to climate change for the foreseeable future several times over.”
Canada pulls out of the Kyoto Protocol.
December 13, 2011 Climate
Just a day after signing the Durban accord, Canada commits an act that is condemned at home and abroad. China calls it “preposterous.”
Latest climate talks end without progress.
June 17, 2011 Climate
Two weeks of tense global climate talks end in Bonn nowhere near agreement in the three key areas of finance, greenhouse gas emission cuts and the future of the Kyoto protocol. The economic crisis in Europe and elsewhere is making it harder to make progress, the secretariat maintains.
Future of the Kyoto Protocol clearly in peril as latest talks end.
June 11, 2011 Climate
Major nations including Japan, Canada and Russia have refused to be part of it in the second commitment beyond 2012. Climate Progress reports that this and other disagreements threaten the protocol’ continuance.
Climate talks reopen with resentment thick in the air.
June 6, 2011 Climate
Developing nations had been promised funding for adaptation 18 months ago, but it has not been forthcoming. Despite increasingly dire warnings from scientists, no progress is expected in Bonn. CO2 in the atmosphere has reached nearly 395 ppm.