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Private sector backing could transform UN's Green Climate Fund
2014-10-13 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: From a business perspective, the issues of climate finance and carbon pricing stole the show at last months UN Climate Summit in New York City. The events centerpiece on climate finance was a formal session structured around the broad and inter-connected areas of green finance, green regulatory frameworks, and UN Green Climate Fund (GCF) pledges. As the 23 September summit wrapped up, World Bank president Jim Kim summed it up best when he remarked: The message is clear. Investor interest...
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The UN's New York climate summit is guilty of a major sin of omission
2014-09-22 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On Tuesday, the UN headquarters in New York is hosting the largest gathering of world leaders ever to address climate change. It is an enormously important event, intended to catalyse action ahead of next years Paris conference where leaders have pledged to reach a new global climate agreement, and a great credit to secretary general Ban Ki-moon and his team. But the summit is guilty of a major sin of omission: the ocean, over two-thirds of the planet, is completely absent from the programme....
Mavrovo-Petition: Helfen Sie uns die 100.000-Marke zu knacken!
2014-09-04 14:50:00| Euronatur - Pressemitteilungen
Über 92.000 Menschen haben sich bereits an der Petition für die Rettung des Mavrovo Nationalparks in Mazedonien beteiligt! Mitten im Nationalpark sollen zwei große Wasserkraftwerke gebaut werden. Die Bauvorhaben drohen den Lebensraum der letzten Balkanluchse sowie vieler weiterer Arten zu zerstören. HELFEN SIE UNS, BIS MONTAG DIE 100.000-MARKE ZU ERREICHEN! Bitte unterschreiben und teilen!!
UNs zero draft of SDGs 'is vague on boosting science'
2014-06-13 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: The recent 'zero draft' of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) document directly references the need to improve science and technology skills and capacity in developing countries, with developing country delegates to the UN hoping that those will not be sidelined or weakened in subsequent negotiations. The Open Working Group tasked with drafting the goals after an agreement to launch the SDG process at the Rio+20 summit, in 2012, will meet again in June and July before presenting the...
U.N.s Energy Funding Falls Short of Target by Billions
2014-06-10 22:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: When the United Nations inaugurated the first-ever global forum on renewable energy last week, it provided a laundry list of financial pledges aimed at achieving one of the world body`s most ambitious goals: sustainable energy for all (SE4ALL) by 2030. The forum specifically focused on the developing world where one out of five people are without access to basic energy: electricity. According to the United Nations, Norway is expected to spend about 330 million dollars for global renewable energy...