Category Archives: UNFCCC
Investing in Peatlands – Demonstrating Success
This week ecologists from across the UK, Europe and from as far away as Tibet descended upon Bangor University to consider the major challenges and opportunities facing the restoration and conservation of the globe’s peatlands. The meeting was organised jointly … Continue reading
Ocean acidification: a policy gap to address at Rio+20?
A study due to be published in Nature Climate Change journal (released to press) suggests that the current rate of ocean acidification, caused by increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, could be up to two orders of magnitude greater than … Continue reading
From ‘Sliding Doors’ to a paradigm shift – What’s needed in Rio+20?
The Rio +20 Earth Summit, taking place in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, needs to build upon the momentum begun by the last round of UNFCCC climate change negotiations in Duban, South Africa. That was the message of an … Continue reading
UN climate change summit kicks off in Cancún
The latest round of UN climate change negotiations (COP16) begins today in Cancún, Mexico. Representatives from 193 countries will meet over the next fortnight, in hopes of securing an international deal on climate change. Several world leaders including the US … Continue reading
Political will needed to reach ‘climate finance’ deal at COP16
A new report by the high-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Finance (AGF) has indicated that at least $100 billion (£62 billion) per year by 2020 could be raised for climate change adaptation in developing nations. The conservative analysis, commissioned … Continue reading
Science Academies Aiming to Raise the Profile of Ocean Acidification
The Royal Society has managed the impressive feat of co-ordinating with 69 other science academies from around the world to write a formal Inter-Academy Panel statement on ocean acidification. The statement is to be launched this week in a very … Continue reading
Finding a global solution to Climate Change: 26 January 2009
The Policy Team this afternoon attended a seminar organised by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) on ‘Brokering a global deal on climate change’. Speakers Joan Ruddock MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Climate Change, and Yvo de Boer, Executive … Continue reading
Progress Towards Copenhagen as Officials Meet in Ghana
The latest round of UN climate change negotiations began yesterday in Accra, Ghana, and will conclude on 27 August. The talks mark an important step between the negotiations in Bali last year and the 2009 convention on climate change, to … Continue reading