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Climate Negotiations

Durban Platform Paves Way for Global Climate Treaty by 2015

December 20, 2011

At the longest climate conference on record, parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) were able to make significant progress towards a global deal at COP17 in Durban, South Africa. By the end of the meeting, the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action was agreed to by 190 nations with the intention [...]

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Political Leaders Stress Need for U.S. Action on Climate Change

May 1, 2011

Two of the most prominent political leaders when it comes to taking action on climate change, European Union Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard and United States Senator John Kerry, sat down with EnergyNow corespondent Tyler Suiters to discuss current efforts of the E.U. and U.S. to curb global carbon emissions.

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Deputy Envoy for Climate Change Gives Post-Cancun Update

January 5, 2011

Jonathan Pershing, Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change at the U.S. Department of State, presented a comprehensive Post-Cancun Update today at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) here in Washington D.C. This was the second year in a row that the Deputy Special Envoy presented at CSIS after global climate negotiations. The high level overview given by Pershing [...]

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Lead U.S. Climate Negotiator Debriefs Public on Global Talks

December 24, 2010

Fresh off the latest UN global climate talks in Cancun, U.S. Climate Envoy Todd Stern sat down at the Department of State in Washington D.C. for a debriefing. In this interview with Tyler Suiters from EnergyNOW!, Stern discusses progress made at negotiations, the state of climate policy and the challenges in working with emerging nations [...]

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Webcasts Bring UN Climate Negotiations to the World

December 13, 2010

The organizing body of the global climate change negotiations wholeheatedly embraced webcasting technology this year giving people from around the world unprecedented access to plenary sessions, press conferences, and side events in Cancun. On the official COP16/CMP6 website, the UNFCCC provides a whole host of resources and multimedia for interested parties to explore in their [...]

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UNEP Report Projects Likely 5 Gigaton Emissions Gap by 2020

December 5, 2010

The Emissions Gap Report (PDF) is the product of an unprecedented partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and twenty five leading research centers from around the world that specialize in modeling climate change scenarios. This report integrates the scientific findings of these centers and overlays them with the political ambitions set out by the [...]

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Norton Rose Hosts Climate Change Negotiations Webinar

November 26, 2010

Norton Rose Group hosted a very informative webinar this past week outlining the negotiating process and key issues up for consideration at this year’s United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties 16 (COP16) beginning on November 29th in Cancun, Mexico. Their presentation covers both procedural and substantive issues that will be dealt [...]

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