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Tag Archives: EU

Barcelona must pave the way for binding climate deal

By Ashwini Prabha | Published: November 2, 2009
WWF Barcelona Oct 30 2009
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Vague messages but no concrete measures at European Climate Council

By Christian Teriete | Published: October 31, 2009
The European Council opted for vague messages on most of the essential issues blocking international climate change negotiations today, further diminishing hopes on strong European leadership in the global fight against climate change. “It is especially frustrating that no clear European financial offer to developing countries has been agreed, and that the increase in CO2 emission [...]
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Ministers Start to Pull Europe Back from the Brink of Disaster on Climate Policy

By Christian Teriete | Published: October 22, 2009
Wednesday’s Environment Council intended to move the EU’s position on climate change forward and prepare the road for next week’s European Council as well as the Copenhagen climate talks in December. On the agenda were 2020 and 2050 emissions targets for the EU, as well as the development of policies on forestry, future carbon markets, [...]
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Norway injects some fresh air at UN Climate talks

By Ashwini Prabha | Published: October 8, 2009
The climate negotiators saw some ’silver lining in the clouds’ as Norway announced it’s new target to reduce emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels. The Norwegian government said Wednesday that it was prepared to toughen its target for cutting carbon emissions by 2020 to help support efforts to reach a global climate accord. Norway, the world’s [...]
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French perspective for Bangkok climate talks

By Ashwini Prabha | Published: October 3, 2009
Recently the European Union challenged industrialized countries to come up with the cash developing countries need to deal with climate change. The EU is ‘talking’ about putting forward 100-billion-euros per year for this. But there is much debate around this figure and countries like France and Germany are even opposing it.  Elise Buckle of WWF France [...]
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