Posts Tagged ‘WWF’

• Polish EU budget chief questions global warming and climate targets

  Janusz Lewandowsk, the Polish budget commissioner and chief architect of the EU’s forthcoming €130 multi-annual budget, is receiving strong criticism after expressing his doubts about global warming and the future emission policies of the EU. In an interview with a …

• Earth Hour 2011 – Go beyond the hour

  In less than three weeks it’s time for another annual event of Earth Hour – the global happening which millions of people from around the world participate in by turning off their lights. I have complained earlier that I think …

• Failure: Sweden will reach EU’s climate targets 195 years too late

  The Swedish Green Party has released a report which shows that Sweden will reach the EU’s climate targets in 2205 instead of 2050 – 195 years too late. During the last four years with a right-wing Government in Sweden the …

• Obama says he will attend Copenhagen climate talks, also announces emissions reduction target

  Maybe he liked the city? Either way, President Barack Obama announced today that he will attend the climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December. The climate summit is held between 7-18 December and is the last chance we have to take …

• 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 …

• Climate change is happening much faster than previously expected

  Photo credit: azrainman A new report from WWF says that climate change is happening much faster than the scientists have predicated earlier. The report says that we must take action on a global scale to avert devastating climate effects such …

• Italy and Poland tries to weaken EU’s climate goals

  photo credit: rockcohen The governments of Italy and Poland are, as I write this, trying to weaken the already weak climate goals that the European Union agreed on in January. Italy and Poland blames their will to inaction against climate …

• “Europe, it’s time to lead”

  “Europe, it’s time to lead” and “keep global warming below 2°C”. That is what a new campaign from Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, WWF and the Climate Action Network Europe is demanding. And they want you to help put pressure …

• Two polar bears are killed on Iceland just weeks after USA lists them as a “threatened” species

  Iceland has killed two polar bears since the U.S. Department of Interior formally listed the polar bear as a “threatened” species a few weeks ago. The first polar bear, named Björn Björnesson, came to Iceland in the beginning of June …

• Will the United Arab Emirates build the first zero-carbon city?

  The United Arab Emirates, home for around 5 million people, wants to build the world’s first zero-carbon city called Masdar City. In Masdar City cars will be banned. A light rail system will serve the residents inside the city as …