je.st
news
Tag: countries
Poor countries clamoring for aid slam into 'hard reality' in Warsaw
2013-11-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: The top U.S. negotiator on climate change has effectively ruled out any new American pledge this year to a U.N. fund for helping poor countries cope with global warming, but vulnerable nations and human rights groups gathered for the climate summit here refuse to accept that. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also called climate finance "critical" in his first press briefing of the summit today. Pointing to Typhoon Haiyan, which he said puts "an anguished human face" on climate change, he...
Cost of climate change adaptation could destabilise African countries, UN warns
2013-11-20 13:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: African countries are increasingly vulnerable to climate change and could struggle to feed and defend their people as temperatures rise, according to a major UN report. The cost of developing drought-resistant crops, providing early-warning systems for floods, droughts and fires, and building seawalls, dykes, and wave breaks will be vast, says the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) emissions gap report, launched this week at an African environment ministers' meeting in Warsaw. It will cost Africa...
Tags: un
change
cost
countries
Poor countries walk out of UN climate talks as compensation row rumbles on
2013-11-20 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Representatives of most of the world's poor countries have walked out of increasingly fractious climate negotiations after the EU, Australia, the US and other developed countries insisted that the question of who should pay compensation for extreme climate events be discussed only after 2015. The orchestrated move by the G77 and China bloc of 132 countries came during talks about "loss and damage" how countries should respond to climate impacts that are difficult or impossible to adapt to, such...
3 Countries That Are Bailing on Climate Action
2013-11-19 20:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: Japan isn`t the only country walking away from climate promises. When Japan dramatically slashed its plans last week for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, from 25 percent to just 3.8 percent compared to 2005 figures, the international reaction was swift and damning. Britain called it "deeply disappointing." China`s climate negotiator, Su Wei, said, "I have no way of describing my dismay." The Alliance of Small Island Nations, which represents islands most at risk of sea level rise,...
Tags: action
countries
climate
bailing
Congress Urged to Demand Fair Treatment from Countries Getting US Trade Benefits
2013-11-19 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - An ad hoc coalition of agricultural and food organizations led by the National Pork Producers Council is urging Congress to establish criteria for revoking a country’s tariff-free access to the US market if it fails to give US products treatment consistent with international trade rules.
Tags: us
trade
treatment
benefits
Sites : [156] [157] [158] [159] [160] [161] [162] [163] [164] [165] [166] [167] [168] [169] [170] [171] [172] [173] [174] [175] next »