Climate politics
Twitter report: Chatham House climate change conference
Tweets, pictures and newslines from the 2012 Chatham House climate change conference
UN biodiversity chief calls for finance deal at Hyderabad talks
CBD COP11: Braulio Dias calls for negotiating teams in Hyderabad to break current deadlock over finance and demonstrate a “willingness” to talk.
Swaminathan: greed driving destruction of India’s environment
CBD COP11: Father of India’s ‘green revolution’ says a combination of poverty and greed are destroying his country’s landscape
Youth anger at lack of participation in UN biodiversity talks
CBD COP11: United Nations policy process should be more open to input from youth groups, according to campaigners in Hyderabad
Deadlock on finance at UN Biodiversity summit
CBD COP11: Familiar splits as global north and south fail to agree on biodiversity finance targets or framework
Biofuels deal agreed at UN biodiversity summit
CBD COP11: Parties to the UN’s Biodiversity Convention (CBD) agree that the impact of biofuels on biodiversity will be taken into account when they develop future energy strategies.
UN biodiversity chief calls for political urgency on environment
CBD COP11: Braulio Dias tells RTCC world is sleepwalking into an eco-catastrophe unless politicians and society take collective action
Brazil sparks REDD+ duplication row
CBD COP11: Brazil, Columbia, Ethiopia and Argentina argue REDD+ discussions should be left to UNFCCC conference
Greenpeace protest highlights India’s tough choice between coal and forests
CBD COP11: Greenpeace warns more must be done to protect the India’s forests from increasing exploitation
Countries focus on finance as they move to implement biodiversity targets
CBD COP11: At the CBD’s latest summit delegates look for ways to implement the decisions made two years ago in Japan, but there can be no implementation without finance.
UN biodiversity chief calls for new way of ‘doing business’
CBD COP11: Braulio Dias calls for more integration of ambitions and working as summit opens in Hyderabad
WWF reminds nations of promises on environmental finance
WWF express ‘concern and disappoitment’ over lack of delivery on finance since last major UN Biodiversity conference two years ago
Biodiversity loss, benefit sharing and finance on CBD COP11 agenda
RTCC previews the Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP11 conference, which starts in Hyderabad today
Figueres: Asia is new centre of the universe for carbon cuts
UN climate chief praises efforts to use carbon markets to reduce emissions as Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia follow the example of South Korea and China.
Can we break the REDD+ stalemate?
Accelerating the pace of REDD+ negotiations would send strong signals that the world is serious about addressing climate change, say CIFOR scientists.
What can the US learn from Australia’s clean energy roadmap?
Business and government could do worse than follow in Australian footsteps writes, Jennifer Morgan, director of the climate and energy programme at the World Resource Institute.
Call for UN climate agency to back Robin Hood Tax
The tax has a role to play in raising climate change cash and the UNFCCC can send that signal to member governments, says Institute for Policy Studies says.
EU ambition on potent greenhouse gases questioned
Environmental Investigation Agency says replacement chemicals are lined-up and bloc should not water down legislation to appease industry.
In tweets: UN climate change finance workshop #LTFchat
Climate finance will determine how well some countries are able to adapt to climate change and how deep they are able to cut their emissions. So has the latest UN talking shop provided any progress?
Opposition mounts over aviation’s inclusion in EU ETS
Director General of IATA and Saudi Arabian government have become the latest to speak out against the controversial scheme.