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Climate Change, Politics, Nov 7th, 2011,
A recent BBC News article concerning the upcoming climate change summit in Durban, South Africa, which takes place at the end of the month, includes a carbon emissions chart according to countries or political/geographic areas. The article, by Richard Black, outlines the major conflicts and cleavages between various individual and groups of countries. The large rapidly industrializing BASIC group of Brazil, South Africa, India and China form one bloc with the position that they should be allowed to develop and emit, as they do not have anything near the cumulative, historic emissions of the US and Europe. The US, Japan,…
Tags: China, co2, countries, emissions, EU, US
Climate Change, Politics, Jul 20th, 2010,
Six nations pledged to either go carbon neutral or low carbon at a meeting this past weekend in the Maldives. All are developing countries and most are low-lying island nations, which are particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels resulting from climate change. Though these countries contribute almost nothing to climate change, their commitments to cutting greenhouse gases are a strong political statement in the lead-up to the UN climate change meetings in November and December in Mexico. The government of the Maldives issued this statement, as quoted in an AFP report: Antigua and Barbuda, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, the Maldives, the…
Tags: carbon, change, climate, Costa Rica, countries, developing, emissions, Ethiopia, greenhouse, island, Maldives, nations, neutral, sea levels, vulnerable
Climate Change, Politics, Jun 10th, 2010,
The climate talks in Bonn, Germany are emphasizing cleavages between wealthy and poor nations characterized by mistrust and a clash of priorities. While the poorest nations are the most vulnerable to droughts, floods, and a rise in sea levels; they have contributed the least causes of climate change. There are fears that the $30bn (€25bn/23bn) – pledged by wealthy countries to poor nations to help with the effects of climate change at last December’s climate talks in Copenhagen – may not materialize as promised. From a report in the Guardian: At a time of economic emergency, when several poor countries…
Tags: Bonn, climate, Climate change, countries, nations, poor, rich, talks
Climate Change, Nature, Politics, Jun 8th, 2010,
The UN climate talks taking place in Bonn, Germany this week are not proving to be a source of positive news for the global environment. An binding agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently enough to avoid the risk of runaway global warming and climate change were meant to be the goal of last December’s climate talks in Copenhagen. But according to the outgoing UN climate chief, this will probably take at least 10 more years. Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is quoted in an AFP report: I don’t see the…
Tags: 10, Bonn, climate, Climate change, copenhagen, countries, emissions, logging, nations, rich, talks, years
Climate Change, Politics, Apr 23rd, 2010,
The Gates Foundation is a philanthropic organization founded by Bill and Melinda Gates with the principal aims of improving healthcare, fighting poverty and improving education. It has an endowment of over $30 billion (€22.5bn/₤19.5bn). On Thursday the foundation announced that it would contribute $30 million (€22.5m/₤19.5m) to the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program, an international fund set up to aid for farmers in the developing world. From an AFP report: The fund was first discussed at the G8 meeting in L’Aquila, Italy last year, where 14 wealthy nations committed to contributing some 22 billion dollars to invest in agriculture…
Tags: agriculture, bill, Canada, countries, farmers, foundation, fund, funding, G8, Gates, Korea, Melinda, philanthropists, poor
Climate Change, Politics, Apr 12th, 2010,
The first UN climate talks since Copenhagen ended in Bonn, Germany, much as expected – with little concrete progress. The cleavage between industrialized and developing countries that characterized the Copenhagen conference is likely to continue through the next major climate talks in Cancun, Mexico at the end of the year. This rich poor divide provided the fireworks for the meetings in Bonn, which ultimately ended in an agreement to intensify negotiations before Mexico. From an article in the Guardian: In what was interpreted as a major rebuff to the US, Russia and Japan, the G77 (plus China) group of 130…
Tags: accord, ALBA, binding, Bolivia, Bonn, Cancun, China, climate, copenhagen, countries, deal, developing, japan, kyoto, Mexico, nations, talks, UN, US
Climate Change, Politics, Apr 9th, 2010,
Copenhagen it’s not, but the first UN climate meetings since December’s disappointment in Denmark began today in Bonn, Germany. According to a report from BBC News, developing countries are strongly on board with the UN process and would like to see a binding global climate deal under the Kyoto Protocol by the next major summit, which takes place in Mexico in November and December. But political will is lacking in some richer nations, especially the US. US President Barack Obama’s modest pledge made at Copenhagen to reduce emissions by 17% from 2005 levels by 2020 probably does not have the…
Tags: accord, Bonn, climate, Climate change, copenhagen, countries, developing, emissions, Germany, kyoto, meetings, Mexico, nations, protocol, rich, treaty, UN, US
Climate Change, Green living, Health, Politics, Mar 8th, 2010,
The main opposition to legislation connected to climate change seems to stem from a public and corporate outcry against paying higher taxes. This could in many instances be interpreted as a selfish reason to oppose any government-backed climate or environmental action. A more sympathetic take on the opposition to regulating global emissions could focus on the belief that such regulations might hinder economic growth in developing countries, thereby keeping them in poverty. However, a recent article from BBC News explores an astonishingly seldom-discussed facet of climate change – whether man-made or not: the immense toll on human health and human…
Tags: Climate change, countries, developing, disease, global, Health, human, warming
Climate Change, Politics, Jan 14th, 2010,
The major developing nations of China, India, Brazil and South Africa will meet on January 24th in New Delhi to hash out a common position on emission reductions and climate aid. It is believed that once such an agreement is reached the block of powerful developing countries will then attempt to convince other nations to sign on to the Copenhagen accord, according to an article published in the Guardian. ‘Countries have until January 31 to sign up to the accord and provide the UN with information on the specific commitments and actions they plan to take to reduce emissions. But…
Tags: Bolivia, Brazil, China, Climate change, copenhagen, countries, developing, Evo Morales, Guardian, India, nations, New Delhi, South Africa
Climate Change, Politics, Dec 16th, 2009,
Inevitable changes in climate mean the vulnerable must adapt or suffer the worst consequences of climate change. Even climate skeptic Lord Lawson, who is not convinced that human activity is the main cause for climate change, supports aiding poorer, vulnerable countries to prepare for and deal with coming adversities. In a CNN ‘climate change debate’ with Lawson, Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai agreed that poor countries must prepare for the worst and should not expect agreements at COP15 to solve coming problems associated with global warming. ‘Africans will have to work very hard to deal with very harsh climates…
Tags: adaptation, adaption, Climate change, copenhagen, countries, poor
Climate Change, Politics, Dec 15th, 2009,
It has been expected from the start of the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen that there would be a clash of interests between the developing world and the wealthy industrialized countries. The rich nations cause most of the pollution and the poor ones suffer the most from its effects. So they would like some recompense or – depending on which nation you ask – at least be able to industrialize and pollute their way into the developed countries club. As actor/comedian/columnist David Mitchell puts it in Sunday’s Observer ‘our long, unaffordable global lunch is coming to an end’, we’ve asked…
Tags: Africa, copenhagen, countries, developing, industrialize, kyoto, Obama, United States
Green living, Videos & Documentaries, Oct 16th, 2009,
This headline is admittedly a gross simplification of what happens to the diets of certain countries’ populations in times of economic hardship and instability, but it does crystallize a very enlightening phenomenon. In essence, the diets of lower income people in developed countries are unhealthy compared with their counterparts in developing nations. The foods they eat are often processed and loaded with sugar, salt, fat, preservatives and chemical additives and their diets feature less fresh and fewer wholesome foods like fruits and vegetables. The cheaper a food product is, the more likely it is to contain larger amounts of those…
Tags: countries, Cuba, developed, developing, diet, economic, food
