Accra Climate Change Talks 2008 August 21 (8:00 am) - August 27 (11:59 pm), 2008 The third session of the Ad hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA 3) and the first part of the sixth session of the Ad hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-K...
Don't Offset Your CO2 Emissions, Retire Them LONDON - At the age of 25, Dan Lewer is going into retirement -- carbon emissions retirement that is. Lewer is co-founder of a new online carbon offset company called Carbon Retirement... + Full Story
Arctic lake a laboratory for studying climate change's effects on ecosystemScientist Anne Hershey paddled a small inflatable raft across an arctic lake, pausing in her stroke to consider how the melting permafrost caused a landslide of mud and sediment spilling down the... + Full Story
100 months to save the planetA "Green New Deal" is needed to solve current problems of climate change, energy and finance, a report argues. According to the Green New Deal Group, humanity only has 100 months to prevent dangerous... + Full Story
The Conference of the Parties (COP), by its decision 19/CP.8, adopted the revised guidelines for the technical review of greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories from Parties included in Annex ...
Report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol on its resumed fifth session, held in Bonn from 2 to 12 June 2008. This is an adva...
The sixth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) will be opened by the Chair on Thursday, 21 August 2008, in Ac...
UNFCCC Bali Roadmap
Thanks for all our hard work at COP 13, CMP 3, SBSTA 27 & AWG 4, we now have the Bali Roadmap. The hard works in the negotiation and supporting the negotiation now paid. But still, the fight for better climate must continue.
It is now recognized that the science of climate change is unequivocal. And that the measures to address the uncontrollable climate change must be acted immediately. Both of developed and developing countries together join the action with the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities.
Important decision has also agreed on forest role in climate. It is now accepted that reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries
(REDD) is an important mitigation efforts and incentives should be given to preserve the tropical rainforests.