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“We are seeing a number of different texts coming forward, and there will be more drafts as the day unfolds, however, nothing we have seen so far matches the level of ambition needed on the legal nature of an agreement, or the numbers required for mitigation and finance.”
Posted on 18 December 2009 | Read more
Leaders arriving to sign a Copenhagen climate agreement and finding that they now need to salvage it need to take a global rather than national approach to the numerous outstanding issues, WWF said today.
Posted on 17 December 2009 | 3 comments | Read more
Malagasy youths have mobilized to draw attention to the effects of climate change in Madagascar in a first-time signature pledge.
Posted on 17 December 2009 | Read more
As talks heat up in Copenhagen, several countries put forward additional fast-start financing proposals to help broker a deal, but the important missing component remains long-term finance. Today, Japanese Environment Minister Sakihito Ozawa announced USD15 billion for fast start funding by 2012, under the Hatoyama Initiative.
Posted on 17 December 2009 | Read more
As the lights were turned back on at the conclusion of the special Earth Hour Hopenhagen, Vijay Nambiar, the Chief of Staff of the Secretary General UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said: “Climate change may be bigger than each of us but it is not bigger than all of us.”
Posted on 16 December 2009 | 0 comments | Read more
Little of substance has been decided in the texts now being passed to ministers and soon to go before Heads of State in Copenhagen, WWF warned today.
Posted on 16 December 2009 | 0 comments | Read more
Pledges for emissions reductions now on the table from developed nations at the Copenhagen climate change conference could be lost in loopholes being built into an agreement, WWF warned today.
Posted on 15 December 2009 | Read more
The world's wealthy nations have a long way to go on the key negotiating element of climate change adaptation at Copenhagen, WWF warned today "Climate change adaptation mechanisms and measures and especially finance must be a key part of any successful deal reached at Copenhagen, but it is an issue starved of attention, commitments and funds," said Kim Carstensen, leader of WWF global climate initiative.
Posted on 14 December 2009 | 1 comments | Read more
Ministers arriving for the high level segment of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen are being urged to not get distracted from a goal of preserving the world from climate catastrophe.
Posted on 14 December 2009 | Read more
Negotiators at the UN climate summit have delivered a framework that can be developed to ensure a fair, ambitious and binding Copenhagen climate deal, WWF said yesterday.
Posted on 12 December 2009 | Read more
