Posts Tagged ‘Poland 2008’

• Carbon cuts will only give us a 50/50 chance of saving the planet

  Photo credit: azrainman New research from the UK Met Office, one of the world’s leading providers of environmental and weather-related services, shows that the world’s efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions would only offer a 50-50 chance of keeping temperature …

• Gore: We cannot negotiate with the facts, the truth and the consequences

  During the embarrassing UN Climate Change Conference in Poznań, Poland, Al Gore held a speech where he said that the old and now “inadequate” climate change targets of 450 ppm (parts per million of CO2) had been made obsolete by …

• George Monbiot: The new European climate deal is carbon colonialism

  Photo credit: World Economic Forum George Monbiot writes today on the Guardian that the new EU emissions agreement is a disaster and calls it carbon colonialism. So much for the Europeans leading the way on climate change. Even as our …

• Embarrassment: EU leaders fail to agree on a strong climate deal

  Photo credit: rockcohen Leaders from the European Union (EU) have just agreed on a new watered-down climate deal to tackle global warming. The actual emissions cuts could amount to as little as 4% by 2020. Yesterday UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon …

• Obama: I look forward to working with all nations to meet the climate challenge

  Yesterday, during the Governors Global Climate Summit in California, Obama promised that USA would “engage vigorously” in the climate negotiations and “help lead the world toward a new era of global cooperation on climate change”. Unfortunately Obama yesterday turned down …

• Obama promises actions on climate change, not going to attend UN climate conference

  During a climate summit in California today Barack Obama said, in a taped video, that his “presidency will mark a new chapter in America’s leadership on climate change”. Obama spoke about his support for a cap-and-trade system and that he …