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Why Panama's indigenous pulled out of the UN's REDD program
2013-06-25 16:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: An Interview with Cacique Betanio Chiquidama, National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples of Panama This week in Lombok, Indonesia, the Policy Board of the United Nations climate change program known as UNREDD is addressing the first major test of the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the United Nations (UN DRIP), which recognizes the right of Indigenous People to stop projects in their territories that could endanger their traditions and livelihoods. The National Coordinating...
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Climate Change: Russia Is Steamed About U.N's Kyoto Carbon Credit COP-Out
2013-06-23 08:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: Representatives of Russia and other Eastern bloc countries at the recent climate talks in Bonn made it clear that they arent one bit happy about efforts within the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Changes Conference of Parties (COP) to cap their free Soviet-era carbon credit trading green stamps previously gifted to them under the Kyoto Protocol. The original deal was that signatory nations that reduced carbon emissions by targeted amounts under their 1990 levels would be able to sell credits...
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U.S. should do more on climate change to aid economy: U.N.'s Figueres
2013-04-23 23:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The United States should do more to fight climate change and help industry catch up on missed economic opportunities in clean energies, the head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat said on Tuesday. Christiana Figueres, speaking during a visit to the United States, welcomed President Barack Obama's plans to promote wind and solar power or to set tougher emissions standards for power plants in the coming years. "There is a very broad array of issues that the United States can and should be...
UN's green Earth plan faces first test
2013-02-18 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A new United Nations plan to involve all nations in marshaling science to fix environmental problems ranging from toxic chemicals to climate change will be put to the test from Monday at talks in Nairobi. The 40-year-old UN Environment Programme will open its annual governing council to all the world's almost 200 nations, up from a current group of 58, under reforms aimed at making the world economy greener at a time of weak economic growth. "A strengthened UNEP will ... improve and enhance...
UNs Figueres Says Self-Interest Must Drive Climate Laws
2013-01-14 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Climate laws should be governed by national self-interest rather than a desire to save the planet, the United Nations diplomat guiding treaty negotiations said. Domestic action is needed to spur on global talks that are progressing too slowly, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres said today in a speech to lawmakers from more than 30 nations in London. Legislators should mix carrots and sticks to incentivize carbon reductions and punish polluters,...