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“Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon predicted Tuesday that a robust agreement to combat climate change will be reached in Copenhagen and implemented immediately.” “From all corners of the globe we see unprecedented momentum for a deal,” the UN chief told reporters at UN headquarters. “I’m encouraged and I’m optimistic.” Ban said for the Copenhagen conference to be a [...] “Indonesia, former chair of the Group of 77, proposes to extend the time frame for a new global climate treaty until June 2010. But there is a conflict of interests within the group, The Jakarta Post reports.” Division among the members makes it difficult for the Group of 77 (or G-77) to speak with one voice. [...] “No developed country is on the top 20 list of countries worst affected by extreme weather events.” 600,000 people died as a direct consequence from more than 11,000 extreme weather events from 1990 to 2008, the 2010 Global Climate Risk Index shows. The report from the climate and development organization Germanwatch was released on Tuesday at [...] The British Met Office has published station temperature records for over 1,500 of the stations that make up the global land surface temperature record. The data shows that global-average land temperatures have risen over the last 150 years and that global warming has increased since the 1970s. According to Reuters, the Met Office Hadley Centre [...] If sea levels rise by one meter, at least 20 million Bangladeshis, of a total population about 150 million, would be displaced. If the glaciers on the Himalayas melt due to global warming, the situation is even worse. “The population of our one coastal district is bigger than the entire population of all island countries [...] Kouchner says a very small tax — 0.005 percent on financial transactions — would help developing countries fight poverty, promote education and health, and meet the costs of combatting climate change. Such a tax on all financial movements would be “impossible to feel,” he says, explaining that it produces just 5 cents “on a movement of [...] Although Swedish Minister for Environment Andreas Carlgren, who currently holds the rotating EU presidency, has said that the union would not reveal its emissions cuts until the very last moment, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown breaks the silence. “It’s not enough to say, ‘I may do this, I might do that, possibly I’ll do this’. I [...] |
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