brazilian president Lula Da Silva sign’s law to cut greenhouse emissions
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Tuesday signed a law requiring that Brazil cut greenhouse gas emissions by 39 percent by 2020, meeting a commitment made at the Copenhagen climate change summit.
The new law, however, is subject to several decrees setting out responsibilities and regulations for the farming, industrial, energy and environmental sectors.
Lula [...]
EU pledges €7.2 billion in climate change aid
European Union leaders have agreed to offer around €7.2 billion to help developing countries deal with the effects of climate change over the next three years.
After a hard push by the Swedish presidency of the EU at a summit of the bloc’s premiers and presidents in Brussels on Friday to get every single member state [...]
Fingers crossed as Copenhagen talks start
The Copenhagen climate change summit kicks off today in what will be a two-week marathon set of negotiations involving 15,000 delegates from 192 nations. The run-up to the talks saw a series of announcements by several of the world’s largest polluters pledging all sorts of commitments to reducing carbon emissions, but it has been China [...]
Read more...China eyes 40 per cent reduction of CO2 emission in 2020
China will reduce the intensity of its carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020 by 40 to 45 percent of the 2005 level, a ”voluntary action” which its State Council described as Beijing’s “major contribution to the global effort in tackling climate change.”
The State Council’s decision was relayed to the [...]