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02.12.2009
Global warming threatens China harvests: forecaster
Droughts and floods stoked by global warming threaten to destabilize China's grain production, the nation's top meteorologist has warned, urging bigger grain reserves and strict protection of farmland and water supplies. Skip related content
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02.12.2009
Global warming measures will cost ‘twice as much as predicted’
Preventing runaway global warming may be twice as expensive as previously thought and Britain will have to incur billions of pounds of additional debt to cover its share of the cost, according to the world’s most influential climate change economist.
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02.12.2009
Climate Change Impact on Nepal
The Earth’s climate is unique as it supports life due to the availability of oxygen in atmosphere, water on its surface and the occurrence of reasonable range of surface temperature due to the presence of naturally occurring green house gases (water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide). Climate thus, has been playing central role in human societies since long. However, humanity today is playing a dice with its natural environment through multitude of interaction- injecting trace atmospheric gases like the green house gases, engineering massive land use change, depleting species in the natural habitat and accumulating stockpiles of nuclear equipment sufficient to destroy human civilization.
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02.12.2009
Australia's Parliament defeats global warming bill
SYDNEY – Australia's plans for an emissions trading system to combat global warming were scuttled Wednesday in Parliament, handing a defeat to a government that had hoped to set an example at international climate change talks next week.
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01.12.2009
Topirea gheţii polare va determina o creştere de circa 1,4 metri a nivelului mărilor
Realizat de Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), studiul menţionează că apele calde ale mărilor accelerează topirea gheţii din Antarctica, în condiţiile în care gaura de ozon ce contribuise la răcirea regiunii şi protejarea ei în faţa încălzirii globale se închide treptat. Temperaturile în creştere din Peninsula Antarctica oferă condiţii de trai potrivite pentru diverse specii de uscat şi maritime.
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01.12.2009
S.Korea in dilemma over gas emissions cut: minister
SEOUL (AFP) – South Korea is caught in a dilemma between its promise to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions and mounting concerns that the move will only benefit business rival China, a minister said Tuesday.
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01.12.2009
Mexico to pledge halving emissions by 2050
MEXICO CITY (AFP) – During crunch talks in Copenhagen next week, Mexico will propose to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2050 so long as it receives international aid, officials said Tuesday.
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01.12.2009
India rejects Danish climate proposal
NEW DELHI (AFP) – India Tuesday rejected a Danish draft proposal on climate change which seeks to cap emissions, widening the gulf between rich and poor nations ahead of next week's Copenhagen talks.
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01.12.2009
Coreea de Sud isi reduce emisiile cu 30%
Coreea de Sud si-a asumat o tinta de reducere a emisiilor cu efect de sera cu 30% pana in 2020, desi a anuntat ca va avea probleme in atingerea acestui obiectiv, informeaza Earth Times.
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01.12.2009
China urca in trenul spre Copenhaga
Saptamana trecuta, China a prezentat date concrete legate de angajamentele de mediu pe care intentioneaza sa si le asume, fiind astfel pregatita sa intampine negocierile de la Copenhaga, informeaza site-ul presedintiei suedeze a UE.
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30.11.2009
China must show climate change leadership, EU says
NANJING, China (AFP) – The European Union said Monday that cataclysmic climate change cannot be averted without Chinese leadership but Beijing stood firm in pushing for the rich world to take the lead.
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30.11.2009
UE, acuzata ca pericliteaza negocierile de la Copenhaga
Uniunea Europeana a fost acuzata ca pericliteaza negocierile globale pe tema schimbarilor climatice, dupa ce mai multe documente confidentiale obtinute de The Guardian au aratat faptul ca Uniunea doreste mai degraba ca statele sarace sa primeasca ajutoare din fondurile deja existente pentru a face fata incalzirii globale, fara sa primeasca sume suplimentare, informeaza publicatia.
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30.11.2009
Cei mai mari poluatori ai lumii
Un top al celor mai mari poluatori, calculat in functie de emisiile absolute de dioxid de carbon pe an, plaseaza China pe primul loc in randul statelor cu cele mai mari emisii. Aceasta este urmata, conform datelor din 2007, de Statele Unite, in timp ce locul al treilea este ocupat de Rusia, informeaza site-ul International Energy Agency.
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30.11.2009
Дания предлагает сократить выбросы парниковых газов на 50% к 2050 году
Выбросы парниковых газов должны сократиться к 2050 году на 50% по сравнению с уровнем 1990 года, причем большую часть сокращения должны взять на себя развитые страны. Такие цифры содержатся в черновике предложения Дании по проекту заключения саммита ООН по климату, который пройдет 7-18 декабря в Копенгагене. Текст проекта приводит Reuters.
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29.11.2009
Leaders say momentum building on climate change
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – Leaders of the Commonwealth countries called Saturday for a legally binding international agreement on climate change and a global fund with billions of dollars to help poor countries meet its mandates.
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