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/ 4 November 2011
China plans to bridge the gap between rich and poor nations by urging emerging economies to make concrete emission reduction plans.
Durban will be the place where the Kyoto Protocol is either buried or resurrected.
Two months before COP17, the hardline stances of different economic blocs and countries are posing a threat to chances of a deal in Durban.
Negotiators on Friday concluded their last round of discussions before the convention in Durban, with faint hope of extending the Kyoto Protocol.
The Kyoto Protocol once again took centre stage at this week’s round of climate negotiations, indicating that a fight is brewing ahead of COP17.
South Africa will fight to ensure that the Kyoto Protocol does not die at COP17 Environment Minister Edna Molewa pledged this week.
Pledges to cut carbon emissions are due to expire next year without new binding commitments from developed nations, the UN’s climate chief has warned.
China accused some developed nations on Friday at the UN climate talks of seeking to kill the Kyoto Protocol pact to curb global warming.
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/ 23 November 2010
China acknowledged on Tuesday it is the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, confirming what scientists have said for years.
Climate-change campaigners on Wednesday welcomed plans to alter the way changes to the Kyoto protocol are made in an effort to salvage negotiations.
A group of developing countries said on Sunday a legally binding global agreement to limit climate change should be completed by 2011 at the latest.
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/ 25 October 2009
Activists around the world on Saturday marched in an effort to mobilise public opinion against global warming ahead of a crucial UN climate summit.
Oil giant Shell could help shape post-Kyoto agenda, writes Terry Macalister
Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, refers to 2009 as “the year of climate change”.
Japan’s space agency will launch a satellite later this month to monitor greenhouse gases around the world, officials said on Wednesday
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/ 12 December 2008
Environment minister Martinus van Schalkwyk got tough with countries holding up negotiations when he arrived at the UN climate change conference.
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/ 24 November 2008
A report has called for rich nations to make the first cuts in greenhouse gases while developing countries carry on as usual for the time being.
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/ 2 September 2008
China accuses EU of offering South Africa sweet development deals for cutting carbon emissions.
Last year the global trade in carbon reduction credits generated more than $64-billion, but Africa has attracted almost none of these investments.
The world’s biggest source of private sector investment to fight climate change in the developing world has stalled pending
Prospects that the G8 would reach an agreement to how to fight global warming at their summit dimmed on Sunday as leaders began arriving in Japan.
The European Union is on track to hit its short-term target for reducing emissions of the gases that create global warming, but challenges remain.
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/ 3 December 2007
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Monday he had ratified the Kyoto Protocol on climate change in his first official act after being sworn in as leader. ”Today I have signed the instrument of ratification of the Kyoto Protocol,” Rudd said in a statement.