international policy
Posted by bex — 30 September 2004 at 8:00am
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coal fired plant
Posted by bex — 5 January 2004 at 9:00am
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international climate talks 2001
The latest round of international discussions about global warming concluded in Milan, Italy on 12th December. Sadly, the UN Convention on Climate Change (COP9) again failed to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, prompting critics to write it off for the umpteenth time.
In the past ten years, it has been almost impossible to count the number of times that the Kyoto Protocol has been declared 'dead'.
Last edited 2 December 2003 at 9:00am
Milan, Italy - Today's (Tuesday 2nd December 2003) statement by a Russian economic suggesting Moscow is now against ratifying the Kyoto Protocol was nothing more than pre-election bluster ahead of Moscow's Duma election this Sunday, according to WWF and Greenpeace.
A Russian economic advisor to President Putin, Andrei Illarionov, had stated that he believed Russia would not ratify Kyoto in its present form, because it placed "significant limitations on the economic growth of Russia".
Posted by bex — 13 August 2002 at 8:00am
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Earth from Space
Rémi Parmentier, Political Director, Greenpeace International
You can hardly open a newspaper these days without finding the latest revelations about how the White House and American intelligence failed to interpret signs that the September 11th attack was being prepared. Eleven months after that day, discussions about 'security' seem to have stalled within that very narrow framework.
Last edited 12 November 2001 at 9:00am
Saturday 10th November, Marrakech: At the close of COP7, the latest negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement aimed at preventing dangerous climate change, Greenpeace today described the outcome as a hard won battle for a token outcome.
Last edited 5 November 2001 at 9:00am
Australia, Canada, Russia and Japan are attempting to undermine the landmark Kyoto Protocol, by watering down its language and exploiting loopholes, Greenpeace warned as climate negotiations resumed today in Morocco. Greenpeace are concerned that these countries must not be allowed to weaken the Protocol further after the US walked away from the vital agreement reached in Bonn in July.
Last edited 5 November 2001 at 9:00am
Governments at international climate negotiations underway in Morocco are being asked today to support an ambitious project to help tackle poverty and fight climate change, by providing renewable energy to more than two billion people globally.
Last edited 23 July 2001 at 8:00am
The international community has finally taken the long overdue second step today in the fight against global warming with the agreement of the rules for implementing the Kyoto Protocol.
As a consequence Greenpeace calls upon all countries, in particular Japan, Russia, the European Union and other European countries, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to take immediate steps to ratify the Kyoto Protocol as matter of urgency. Greenpeace called on Japan in particular to honour the Kyoto Protocol and commit to its ratification now on the basis of the Bonn agreement, and without the USA.
Posted by bex — 23 July 2001 at 8:00am
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Update: 23rd July
0600 hrs: As dawn broke over the conference center in Bonn, our emotional roller coaster hit another trough, as word came through that the rumors of a deal that we had heard of a few hours earlier, had run onto the rocks again.
Most of us had been up all night, as well as most of the night before, and the strain was just enormous. As I left the conference center to run back to the office, the banner the students had hung in the trees stood out against the dawn, a forlorn plea for sanity and a stark reminder of the simplicity of the fundamental issue - to either move forward, or move backward in our fight to protect the climate.
Posted by bex — 23 July 2001 at 8:00am
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sounding the climate alarm
Sirens set off by Greenpeace activists outside the United Nations climate conference sounded the alarm - it is time for ministers to start talking. Activists outside the conference unfurled a banner which read "Australia, Canada, USA - Climate Criminals" while inside Australia and Canada were doing their best to either stall or vandalise the Kyoto Protocol and frustrate attempts to combat climate change.
"It's desperation time for the world's climate and this conference," said Steve Sawyer, Greenpeace climate campaigner.
