Merely Recycling Already Committed Development Assistance As Climate Funds

The two-day Asia Regional Conference of Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) ended here on Monday adopting a joint declaration to help least developed countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing Countries (SIDS) in Asia to cope with the climate change.

Bangladesh, Cambodia and the Maldives signed the joint declaration at a city hotel.

Climate finance is becoming a dark curve on the road from Copenhagen to Canc

Counting the Gigatonnes: Building Trust in Greenhouse Gas Inventories from the United States and China, outlines the systems already in place in both countries that can ensure accurate and timely data on greenhouse gas emissions.

This paper assesses the state of the adaptation negotiations under the UNFCCC after the historic climate summit of Copenhagen. It compares the current draft negotiating text (June 2010) and compares it to key essentials that an ambitious adaptation action framework needs to contain to assist developing countries living up to the challenge of adaptation.

A new round of climate negotiations kicked off in Germany on Monday with squabbling over money and procedural questions that could threaten progress at the two-week UN conference.

Picking up from the outcome of the Copehagen talks last year, which left most countries bruised or confused, climate talks are set to kickstart this year again, with the first formal negotiations beginning on June 1 in Bonn, Germany.

EMMA GRAHAM-HARRISON and LANGI CHIANG
BEIJING

A senior Chinese climate official said that negotiators aim to seal a binding global pact on warming by the end of 2011, a blow to any lingering hopes the world could reach a deal at talks this year in Mexico

GLOBAL warming is real and the time to act is now. The climate summit in Copenhagen fielded an impressive number of participants from various sectors, including top government officials, but as the summit came to a close, no emission reduction targets were set.

Suzanne Goldenberg

There are concerns that the debate about the energy future could be lost in the wrangling about offshore oil drilling permits.

U.S. Senators are set to take a last run at producing a climate and energy law on Wednesday, betting on the spectre of environmental disaster raised by the BP oil spill to build support for a comprehensive overhaul of America's energy strategy.

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