Monday, November 28th, 2011
The officials from around the world who will gather in South Africa on Monday to convene the latest round of U.N. climate negotiations are facing an uncomfortable fact: The global pact that has dictated greenhouse-gas targets since 1997 may no longer be relevant. The mandatory targets of the Kyoto Protocol cover less than a third of the world’s carbon output. Major emitters are not bound by it. And, increasingly, the world is relying on a patchwork of measures rather than a universal treaty to lessen the impacts of global warming. Read full article > >
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As U.N. climate talks get underway in South Africa, local strategies are replacing the Kyoto global pact
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Thursday, September 16th, 2010
The UK needs to prepare quickly to deal with the impacts of climate change, government advisers say in a report viewed by ministers as a “wake-up call”.
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‘UK must act’ on climate impacts
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