Posts Tagged ‘UN’

• EU told to prepare itself for millions of climate change refugees

  Refugee children waiting with their family for a food distribution. Photo by Nicolas Rost. Two senior foreign policy officials from the European Union says in a new report that the EU should “brace itself” for a new and much larger …

• UN official says biofuels are a “crime against humanity”

  Jean Ziegler, UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food, yesterday called for the suspension of biofuels production saying biofuels are a “crime against humanity.” “Biofuels, with today’s current production methods, are a crime against a great part of humanity. …

• China is now the world’s biggest polluter

  China is number one, in greenhouse gas emissions that is. A report from the University of California says that Chinas greenhouse gas emissions have been “underestimated” and that the country probably took the number one position from USA in 2006-2007. …

• Bert Bolin, first chairman of IPCC, have passed away

  The 30 December 2007 the 82 year old Bert Bolin, a Swedish meteorologist who served as the first chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), passed away. He was one of the people who played a key roll …

• Video: Al Gore in Bali

  Watch a video (summary) of Al Gore’s rather passionate speech at the United Nations climate change conference in Bali. “You can make a path that goes around that blank spot…” Video after the jump.