Tag Archives: Greenhouse gas

Coalition growing for new deal on greenhouse gas cuts

December 9, 2011 by IndepthAfrica

Rich and poor nations at climate change talks are lining up behind an EU plan for achieving a global pact on cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2015, under pressure to reach some kind of a deal before Friday’s planned end … read more »

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COP17: The great escape III

December 8, 2011 by IndepthAfrica

After nine days of negotiations there is no doubt that we saw this movie before. It is the third remake of Copenhagen and Cancun. Same actors. Same script. The documents are produced outside the formal negotiating scenario. In private meetings, … read more »

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Nigeria, Indonesia top deforestation list, China lowest

November 24, 2011 by benim

Nigeria, Indonesia and North Korea have the world’s highest rates of deforestation while China and the United States, the top two greenhouse gas polluters, have the lowest, a global ranking released on Thursday shows. Growing demand for food and biofuels, … read more »

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Madagascar must wake up to climate change – and not just at election time

November 11, 2010 by benim

The lack of effective information and active citizen engagement are among the reasons why the impact of climate change has been felt so strongly in Madagascar. There has been a flagrant degradation of all natural resources, and the Malagasy state … read more »

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