Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN BY ERNEST COREA IDN-InDepthNews Service WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – The concluding moments of COP15 (the fifteenth conference of parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, better known as the Copenhagen Conference) were overshadowed here by, of all things, the local weather. In this federal capital, where 2 [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE: Brazil to Recover Leadership Role with CO2 Limits
November 17, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Mario Osava RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 17 (IPS) – Brazil’s decision to adopt voluntary reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions is an indication that the planet’s climate change emergency has joined strategic, economic and ideological issues as a new factor on the global political agenda. At the World Climate [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE-US: Too Little, Too Late for Copenhagen?
November 6, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Matthew Berger WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (IPS) – The momentum that U.S. climate change legislation has picked up in recent weeks will not be enough to get it through prior to the Copenhagen climate talks that kick off Dec. 7. It has also come at a steep price for those [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE: Divide Before You Add
November 6, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Analysis by Sanjay Suri ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, Nov 6 (IPS) – You could almost begin to divide the figures before you add them up. The numbers being advertised by way of aid to the developing world to contain carbon emissions do not quite add up. What is more certain [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE: Jockeying for Position in Copenhagen
November 2, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Servaas van den Bosch WINDHOEK, Nov 2 (IPS) – The global climate change caravan has arrived in Barcelona for a last round of talks before the Copenhagen summit. What’s at stake for Africa? ”I hold my fingers crossed, but to be realistic I don’t see major things happening in [...]
