Posted by jossc — 4 December 2007 at 7:18pm
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Yes, it's bad. But there's a whole lot us Habbos can do about it!
According to conventional wisdom (oh all right the tabloid press to be more precise) all teenagers ever think about are themselves. So it may come as a surprise that a global survey of almost 50,000 teens released today reveals that they have many other concerns - and that they worry more about dangerous greenhouse gases than drugs, violence or war.
Posted by jossc — 3 December 2007 at 2:24pm
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If a week is a long time in politics, then is two weeks long enough for world leaders to finally get to grips with the single biggest challenge we all face - limiting the effects of global climate change?
The answer has to be yes, if only because the consequences of any other outcome would be unthinkable. The start of the 2007 UN Climate Change Conference (otherwise known as COP 13) in Bali today coincides with alarming reports that the tropical belt that girdles the Earth's equator is expanding - pushing its boundaries out towards the poles at a rate not predicted by current computer models, which anticipated such developments only towards the end of this century.
A quick guide to the 2005 climate change negotiations in Montreal, where the 11th Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) begins on 28 November.
Frequently asked questions about the 11th Conference of the Parties (COP 11). The Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meet every year at a COP. This year, Montreal hosts COP 11 but alongside this meeting will be the historic Meeting of the Parties of the Kyoto Protocol (MOP), which will be the very first meeting of those who have ratified the Kyoto Protocol since it became legally binding this year.
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'.
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.
The 7 th Conference of the Parties (COP7) of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) begins on 29 October in Marrakech, Morocco. The Framework Convention was agreed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992, and has been ratified by 186 countries.
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.
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.
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.
