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 [...]
UN seals climate deal, but few are impressed
Copenhagen: UN climate talks avoided a total collapse on Saturday by skirting bitter opposition from several nations to a deal championed by the US President Barack Obama and five emerging economies including China.“Finally we sealed a deal,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. “The ‘Copenhagen Accord’ may not be everything everyone had hoped for, but this [...]
Read more...Copenhagen climate summit in numbers
16,500… people will fly in to attend the summit.
75… heads of state and other VIPs are expected to turn up, including Barack Obama.
200,000… cups of (organic) coffee will be served to delegates.
2,500… meetings will be held during the two week conference, across 38 rooms at the Bella Center.
192… lines are included in [...]
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...Mexico pledges to halve emissions by 2050
DURING crunch talks in Copenhagen next week, Mexico will propose to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per cent by 2050 so long as it receives international aid, officials have said.
The second-largest economy in Latin America after Brazil also aims to reduce emissions from the heat-trapping gases by six to seven per cent [...]