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COP15: Senior US official maps vision for new energy future at UN climate change summit 11 December 2009 The international agreements being negotiated in Copenhagen “will propel all of us forward in the clean energy economy,” the US Secretary of the Interior has assured delegates to the UN conference on climate change, COP15, in Copenhagen. “Carbon pollution is putting our world and our way of life in peril,” Ken Salazar warned in his keynote address. “The places we love; the resources on which we rely; the peoples of the world who are most vulnerable, are all at risk if we do not act.” The…

PM Manmohan Singh, Wen may skip Copenhagen Nitin Sethi, TNN 14 December 2009, 06:00am ISTText Size:|Topics:Kyoto greenhouse COPENHAGEN: At 55 degrees and 43 minutes north, the winter sun sets early in Copenhagen, plunging the city into a cold grey gloom that only Twitter Facebook Share Email Print Save Comment Christmas celebrations can lift. But on Sunday, the chilling news that climate change talks could break down completely spread far deeper dismay in the Danish capital. Negotiators and ministers from 192 countries took the day off from formal talks to discuss the looming…

India resists pressure to go beyond Kyoto protocol COPENHAGEN: India has opposed any amendment to the Kyoto protocol at the Copenhagen Climate meet as the EU pushed for an agreement that is "broader" Some of 30,000 people demonstrate in the center of Copenhagen to turn up the heat on world leaders debating global warming at the UN climate conference. (AFP Photo) Twitter Facebook Share Email Print Save Comment than the 1997 treaty and puts more obligations on developing countries for cutting emissions. The tiny Pacific island of Tuvalu has raised the proposal of adding another protocol to…

Climate talks: India against amending Kyoto Protocol Buzz Up Share Twitter Delicious Myspace Digg Stumble Upon Facebook Sun, Dec 13 05:04 PM Betwa Sharma Copenhagen, Dec 13 (PTI) India today made it clear that it was opposed to any amendment of the Kyoto Protocol that prescribes mandatory emission cuts on developed countries as the 12-day climate talks headed into the second week where environment ministers would seek to give a political push to the negotiations which were in disarray. Informal talks among the environment ministers on the draft deal, criticised by rich nations…

UN climate chief sees progress on clean tech deal Copenhagen: UN climate talks are making progress on sharing green technologies but rich nations need to offer deeper cuts in carbon emissions by 2020 to help unlock a deal, the UN's top climate official said on Thursday. "There's a general recognition that we need a technology mechanism," as part of a U.N. climate convention, Yvo de Boer told Reuters on the sidelines of Dec. 7-18 talks in Copenhagen, when asked about progress so far. He said that a UN clean technology mechanism would enable rich nations to share solar, hydro or wind power and…

What's new at COP15 in Copenhagen 11-Dec-2009 In the main atrium of the Bella Center is a huge globe, a few meters in diameter with countries painted in black on the white surface. Many people use this globe as a backdrop for souvenir photos, to show people back home what it was like in Copenhagen. Some are adopting an Atlas pose, as if they are carrying the world above their heads. It might indeed be true that people at the Bella Center are holding the whole world in their hands, or at least the future of this beautiful planet we are striving to protect from disaster. At closer look, however…

Instead of talk on GLOAL WARMING my secretary by mistake sent the speech on TEXTILE EXPORT . I hope you don’t mind if I talk about that. Copenhangen might be next destination of all talks and no action. All the NGOs which are hungry for wealth inflow from WEST , all nations and their folks talking of global warming should be asked what have you done to prevent global warming ? Have a you planted a single tree per person ? Have you reduced excessive use of water, electricity, wasteful use of plastics, do you reduce your travel by car , or do you reduce your pollution level in any way ?…

World should at least halve CO2 by 2050 - U.N. draft Buzz Up Share Twitter Delicious Myspace Digg Stumble Upon Facebook Fri, Dec 11 08:02 PM Enlarge Photo An activist from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) stands in a poster outlining climate woes... The world should at least halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 with rich nations taking the lead, according to a first draft text on Friday seeking to break deadlock on a new climate pact at U.N. talks. The 7-page document omits figures for how many billions of dollars the rich nations should give developing nations to help them shift…

World should at least halve CO2 by 2050 - U.N. draft Buzz Up Share Twitter Delicious Myspace Digg Stumble Upon Facebook Fri, Dec 11 08:02 PM Enlarge Photo An activist from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) stands in a poster outlining climate woes... The world should at least halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 with rich nations taking the lead, according to a first draft text on Friday seeking to break deadlock on a new climate pact at U.N. talks. The 7-page document omits figures for how many billions of dollars the rich nations should give developing nations to help them shift…

COPENHAGEN – Wealthy nations would commit to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade, and the world should strive to nearly eliminate them — or at least cut them in half — by 2050 under a draft text circulated Friday at the U.N. climate talks. The draft pulled together the main elements of a global pact that 192 nations have been negotiating for two years, but left numbers on financing and cutting greenhouse gas emissions — perhaps the most contentious bargaining points of the agreement — for world leaders to hammer out next week. The draft was meant to focus attention…