tcktcktck — Copenhagen 7 Dec 09 | The World Is Ready

As BP´s oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, I´m sitting here in Bonn at the first full round of climate talks since the fiasco in Copenhagen.   

We are doing our best to get this lot to make some progress. To get an agreement that will prevent dangerous climate change.  

But there are others here with a different view.  The oil industry.  The coal industry. The corporate lobby that whispers in Government ears -- especially in the industrialized world.  

Source: Greenpeace International

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In the last 24 hours, the fight for survival has heated up here at the UN Climate Talks in Bonn.

Island nations have been pushing for a discussion about how to reach the strong climate targets necessary to safeguard their survival, specifically limiting temperature rise below 1.5 degrees C and lowering C02 to below 350ppm. But at every turn, Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich countries have blocked any discussion about new targets, crassly telling countries that if they want more information on how climate change could impact their countries, they should just “Google it.”

Source: 350.org

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Anna Collins is a member of TckTckTck's Adopt a Negotiator team. She is tracking the progress of the climate negotations in Bonn.

The UNFCCC is all about text. The texts are what everyone comes here to negotiate over. Pages and pages of legal speak laying out options for the things we could do to tackle climate change. One day we will all agree on the same text (yes I’m in an optimistic mood today…) and that will be signed off as the world’s response to climate change

Source: Adopt a Negotiator

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The prospect of a global climate treaty is fading as the world's top two carbon emitters, China and the United States, avoid legally binding action. Experts say a shift to a less ambitious goal might help. Less focus on a new treaty might resolve a tangle of disputes over the legal framework and drive concrete action, for example to preserve rainforests or to help developing nations cope with droughts, heatwaves, floods or rising seas.

Source: Kuwait Times

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I know this might sound strange after so many people have expressed so much anger and disappointment at the failure of our political leaders to make the necessary decisions – and that is how I felt immediately after the conference - but this might be how the history books record it.

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UNITED NATIONS -- The goals set by the world's biggest polluters for emissions rollbacks will likely fall short of what many scientists say is necessary to avoid the disastrous effects of global warming.

The climate adviser to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the U.S., China and the European Union were among the 50 nations to have submitted plans in keeping with a United Nations deadline to do so before Monday.

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Source: Forbes

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PARIS — Fifty-five nations including the world's top carbon polluters have registered their commitments to combat global warming, the UN climate chief said late Monday.

The pledges from both industrialised and developing countries for cutting greenhouse gases up to 2020 cover nearly 80 percent of total emissions, and provide a much-needed boost to December's Copenhagen Accord.

"This represents an important invigoration of the UN climate change talks," said Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Source: AFP

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WASHINGTON — The climate change accord reached at Copenhagen in December passed its first test on Monday after countries responsible for the bulk of climate-altering pollution formally submitted their emission reduction plans, meeting the agreement’s Jan. 31 deadline.
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Busy factories and traffic are part of life in Ahmadabad, India. On Monday, India was one of the countries that submitted pledges to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
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Source: New York Times

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Fifty-five countries have submitted pledges for curbing greenhouse gas emissions to the UN climate convention.

Governments were asked to do so before 31 January by the "Copenhagen Accord", the document produced at December's UN climate summit in the Danish capital.

In some cases the pledges are weaker than those made before the summit.

The UN's top climate official, Yvo de Boer, said the pledges would invigorate the UN process, but several environment groups say they do not go far enough.

Source: BBC

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OSLO (Reuters) - Major nations' plans for fighting climate change under the "Copenhagen Accord" are insufficient to limit average temperature rises to the projected 2 degrees Celsius, a leading expert said on Friday.

The accord, brokered at a summit last month by top emitters led by China and the United States, sets a Jan. 31 deadline for countries to say how far they will curb greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 to help keep temperature rises below 2 degrees.

Source: Reuters

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