Durban Climate Meet's Bright and Dark Sides
By Ramesh Jaura
IDN-InDepth News Report
BERLIN (IDN) - The outcome of the Durban global climate talks, which dragged on for 14 long days, has been declared as disappointing or encouraging depending on the perceptions of beholders – some of whom are setting their sights on the half-empty glass and others who prefer to focus on the half-full glass.
Donors Helping to Tackle Climate Change
By Richard Johnson
IDN-InDepth NewsReport
PARIS (IDN) - How to scale up, deliver and better direct international public climate finance has been a subject of discussion at the global climate change conference in Durban, South Africa. New data show that the member countries of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) apportioned up to USD 22.9 billion, or 15 percent of total official development assistance (ODA), to climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries in 2010.
'Momentum for Change' at UN Durban Meet
By Jerome Mwanda
IDN-InDepth NewsReport
NAIROBI (IDN) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and South African President Jacob Zuma will launch a new initiative entitled 'Momentum for Change' at the global climate change conference in Durban on December 6, 2011.
The initiative, designed to demonstrate how the public and private sectors are already working together to fight climate change, will be inaugurated during the 17th conference of parties (COP17) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – and the seventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP7) – which kicked off in Durban on November 28.
Bhutan Holds a 4-Nation Climate Summit
By Rahul Bhatia
IDN-InDepth NewsReport
THIMPHU (IDN) - Keen to guard its ranking as Asia's happiest country, Bhutan has hosted a climate summit and an international symposium accompanied by an exhibition in the Kingdom's capital Thimphu – far away from the hustle and bustle of world's metropolitan cities – in run-up to a landmark UN conference in Durban, South Africa, from November 28 to December 9, 2011.
The importance of these events lies in the fact that in the face of climate change, there is urgent need for Himalayan nations to build resilience to buffer the impacts of climate change and generate resources for adaptation, capacity building, and technology transfer. Such actions can no longer wait for a global agreement, a Bhutanese government spokesperson said.
Difficult Road from Panama to Durban
By Meena Raman*
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
GENEVA (IDN) - The forthcoming global climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, is set to face a tough time to arrive at an agreed outcome on all critical issues. Some progress was achieved on the last day of the preparatory round of talks October 1-7 in Panama but several crucial issues remained unresolved.
Hurdles in Designing Green Climate Fund
By Martin Khor*
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
GENEVA (IDN) - The Green Climate Fund, on which developing countries are relying to support their actions against global warming, suffered a setback when a committee designing the facility could not agree on recommendations to give to the United Nations Climate Convention.
Resource Battles Polluting Africa
By Godwin Uyi Ojo*
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
At the UN climate change conference from November 28 to December 9 in Durban, South Africa, Africa should take its place to demand pay-back of climate debt owed by the North for polluting the global commons. It should equally demand clear and binding mechanisms that will ensure that the north commits to clean up its act and sign up to reduce greenhouse gasses released into the atmosphere. Ecological debts and climate debts together represent a large scale unequal exchange in trade and resources owed to the people on the continent.
The Global Climate Regime on the Brink
By Martin Khor*
IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint
GENEVA (IDN) - We agreed in Bali in December 2007 to build a much stronger international climate regime to better cope with recent alarming analysis of the disastrous effects of climate change. But instead of achieving this new regime, we now see quite unbelievably an attempt to dismantle even the weaker regime that we now have.
World Bank Blamed for Fuelling Climate Chaos
By Jutta Wolf
IDN-InDepth NewsReport
BONN (IDN) - Reflecting profound concerns of developing countries, a new report has strongly criticised the World Bank group for promoting false solutions to climate change, such as carbon trading, megadams, agrofuels and industrial monoculture tree plantations.
Rising Harmful Emissions Trigger Grave Concern
By Jaya Ramachandran
IDN-InDepth NewsReport
BONN (IDN) - The United Nations' top climate change official has expressed profound concern over a report that greenhouse gas emissions emerging from energy generation around the world have reached record levels in 2010.
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), considers the latest estimates of the International Energy Agency (IEA) "a stark warning to governments to provide strong new progress this year towards global solutions to climate change."
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