When parties meet to negotiate and evaluate progress on climate change, financing for loss and damage will be high on the agenda for developing countries
Wars and pandemics have managed to reduce global emissions in the past but delegates to COP 26 in Scotland will need to find other solutions
Amendments to offset regulations published on 8 July give clarity on big emitters carrying old carbon credits to a new framework
One country pays for greenhouse gas emissions in another country and uses that credit for its own emission reduction targets — but accounting irregularities increased carbon emissions
The stage has been set for one of the most anticipated climate conferences to address global warming – and targets for the biggest emitters
The real test will come next year in Glasgow, when countries have to make concrete commitments to reducing emissions
There appears to be no legal consequences for organs of state that fail to comply with the Bill
We knew that 2017 was the year to put the brakes on activities that cause global warming, but we didn’t do enough – welcome to the future.
The world’s top greenhouse gas emitters, China and the United States, have signed an agreement to work together to address climate change issues.
Russia has confirmed it will not make cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from 2013 under the UN’s Kyoto Protocol, joining Canada and Japan.
Concerned countries want a new phase of the protocol to kick in immediately after it expires, writes Fiona Macleod.
Crucial issues were not resolved, leaving much committee work before Rio+20 and COP18.
COP17 has come and gone, leaving many South Africans still scratching their heads about what it all meant. You have questions, we have answers.
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/ 13 December 2011
Canada has withdrawn from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, saying the accord did not represent the way forward for the country or the world.
Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has hailed South Africa’s role at COP17 as an "outstanding success".
According to the presidency of COP17, an ad hoc group will now work towards charting a new universal legal agreement on climate change.
After two and a half days of round-the-clock discussions at the end of COP17, global leaders have finally agreed on a course to fight climate change.
Ministers fought to save UN climate talks from collapse, searching to narrow differences between rich and poor nations over fighting global warming.
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/ 10 December 2011
A draft global pact on climate change has boosted UN talks, already deep into overtime, but negotiators are worried it’s a little too late.
EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard has stepped up warnings that if major economies do not compromise, a Durban deal may be out of reach.
All who gathered in Durban had their own mission and ideas of what was needed.
As hopes of securing the Kyoto Protocol faded at the COP17 climate talks this week, large emerging economies united on alternative solutions.
Environmental NGOs have lambasted ministers at COP17, saying that governments were creating theatre out of the climate talks.
President Jacob Zuma has launched a flagship solar power plant in Hazelmere, KwaZulu-Natal, which is set to provide job opportunities.
On the first day of COP17 rumours that Canada planned to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol began circulating.
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/ 2 December 2011
The science is clear: even if Durban delivers a second round of carbon-cutting commitments and everyone agrees, climate change will accelerate.
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/ 2 December 2011
Developed nations argue that the Kyoto Protocol agreement is based on outdated notions of global economies.
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/ 28 November 2011
President Jacob Zuma has urged delegates at the UN climate summit in Durban to work for an outcome that was "fair and credible".
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/ 28 November 2011
UN talks to save the Kyoto Protocol begin today in Durban, aimed at cutting emissions blamed for rising sea levels, intense storms and crop failures.
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/ 26 November 2011
As delegates gather in SA to plot against climate change, some governments are pushing to redefine distinctions between rich and poor nations.
Pessimistic commentators are predicting that the earliest a new global deal on reducing carbon emissions is likely to come into force is 2020.
Creating legally binding carbon caps at COP17 is the only way to mitigate climate change, writes <b>John Ashton</b>.