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Ambitious global pact on climate change in sight

Calcutta News.Net
Friday 12th June, 2009

An ambitious and effective global pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is in sight, the top United Nations climate change official said Friday, as the latest round of negotiations wrapped up in Bonn, Germany.

Delegates from 183 countries met for two weeks to discuss, for the first time, key negotiating texts which can serve as the basis for the global climate change deal, to be clinched in Copenhagen in December.

“A big achievement of this meeting is that governments have made it clearer what they want to see in the Copenhagen agreed outcome,” said Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

“In my view, an ambitious and effective agreed outcome in Copenhagen is in sight – an outcome that provides a strong and definitive answer to the alarm raised by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.”

The Copenhagen outcome is to follow on the first phase of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which expires at the end of 2012.

The negotiating text under consideration covers issues of a shared vision for long-term cooperative action, enhanced action on adaptation, mitigation and finance, as well as technology and capacity-building.

A group looking at further commitments for industrialized countries under the Kyoto Protocol focused on a proposal for amendments to the Protocol, including the future emission reduction commitments of 37 industrialized countries for the second phase of the Protocol.

Mr. de Boer noted that the group was still far away from the emission reduction range that has been set out by science to avoid the worst ravages of climate change – a minus 25 per cent to minus 40 per cent reduction below 1990 levels by 2020.

“Between now and Copenhagen, the level of ambition needs to be increased. This is still possible if the opportunities for international cooperative action are fully seized,” he stated.

The gathering in Germany, which brought together more than 4,600 participants from government, business and industry, environmental groups and research institutions, was the second in a series of five major UN negotiating sessions slated for this year ahead of Copenhagen.

The next meeting is scheduled to be held from 10 to 14 August in Bonn, followed by sessions in Bangkok from 28 September to 9 October and Barcelona from 2 to 6 November.

 

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Name Change
06-13-09, 12:15 AM

Ambitious global pact on climate change in sight

Did you ever notice how it once was Global Warming and now they call it Climate Change? Co2 Tax is a tax on life...a total scam. It seems the whole world is under dictatorship and is following the men behind the curtain. Today I went to by a mobile phone and I had to get it registered with the government...HELLO!

Anonymous
06-13-09, 04:01 AM

Regardless of what you believe

As far as i can see and what is beyond question is that millions of tonnes of Carbon are being take from under the ground and put up into the air. Large polar sheets of ice are melting.. Do we sit and say do nothing and risk what most of the scientists on the planet are predicting? Sorry, i want my child and young to people to have a future! This is an opportunity to change the polluting pratcices of the past and make a better future!.. I want clean running rivers and blue clean skys.. We can do it

waltky
06-13-09, 05:58 PM

possum worried `bout Rudolph...

Drop In Reindeer, Caribou Population Linked To Climate Change, Habitat Disturbance
June 12, 2009 - The number of herds of caribou and reindeer in the northern hemisphere is declining due to climate change and disturbance of their habitat, according to Canadian scientists.

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The findings detailed in the Global Change Biology Journal was based on the analysis of available herd data performed by Liv Vors, a Ph.D. student at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and university biologist Mark Boyce. Out of 58 major herds in the northern hemisphere, 34 were found to be declining for decades and statistics on 16 other herds were non-existent. Only eight herds were increasing in number.

The researchers blame feeding problems as the cause of the decline in the animals' population namely lack of spring green-ups, disruption in feeding due to intense insect activity during warmer summers and more freezing rains that cut the lichens they eat during colder months.

Populations of woodland caribou in Canada have declined as human disturbance has increased, caused by logging, oil and gas exploration, and road building, said Vors, according to BBC News. “The concern is that their habitat and the climate are changing too quickly for them to adapt," she said.

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ellenbetty
06-14-09, 09:22 AM

we all must do what we can to reduce our carbon footprint

The World governments do not have the will to do what is truely needed to reduce CO2 air pollution to avoid major disruptions to weather patterns that we need to reliably produce food. World food production will be cut in 1/2 over then next 100 years unless all American’s act to reduce their carbon foot print. I sold my too large home move in with my Mom. I paid for installing a white roof with 2 inches of hard foam insulation on my Mom’s home’s to cut our home co2 production in 1/2. I traded in my second car, a 17 mpg Ford Ranger, to buy my second Toyota Yaris that gets 35 mpg highway, to offset my Mom’s wasteful Subaru that gets only 25 mpg highway.

RonniRuled
06-14-09, 10:37 AM

All the below built on fabrication and lies

ellenbetty;145088:
The World governments do not have the will to do what is truely needed to reduce CO2 air pollution to avoid major disruptions to weather patterns that we need to reliably produce food. World food production will be cut in 1/2 over then next 100 years unless all American’s act to reduce their carbon foot print. I sold my too large home move in with my Mom. I paid for installing a white roof with 2 inches of hard foam insulation on my Mom’s home’s to cut our home co2 production in 1/2. I traded in my second car, a 17 mpg Ford Ranger, to buy my second Toyota Yaris that gets 35 mpg highway, to offset my Mom’s wasteful Subaru that gets only 25 mpg highway.



Did you know Carbon dioxide is a life gas?
You would be better off truely going green!
Green in the sense you do what Johnny Appleseed did and plant lots of trees!
Lot’s of NON-GMO food producing plants!
Or Go crazy plant lots of drought tolerant plants.
If they really wanted to reset the globe they would be making the Middle East bloom with plants.

Next the nuts pushing global warming OOOOPPPS now it’s climant change will want you to fall on your own sword to save the planet!
Don’t worry take your tainted vaccines, drink your floride water and report to the nearest federally funded hr 645 FEMA concentration camp for sterilization the Government and world elite love you.

Eugenics
Fuedalism
Serfdom
Facism
Nazism
Marxism

All terms people need to be aware of and learn exactly what they mean doing so will reveal patterns in all governments and movements of human interaction.


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