Tag archives for United Nations Climate Change Conference
Global Fishing Communities Putting the Heat on Climate Change Talks
Posted by Wildlife Conservation Society on December 7, 2011 Political disagreements on how to address climate change continue, while in the real world, shifting weather patterns, increasing temperatures, and more acidic oceans indicate that climate change is having significant impacts on people around the world.
Pleas, Hard Lines, and Accusations of Bad Faith Negotiations at Climate Talks
Posted by Mason Inman on December 1, 2011 In Durban, South Africa, the latest round of United Nations climate negotiations opened with a plea from South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma, for countries to look beyond national interests. So far, however, the talks have been marked by many of the same divisions that plagued earlier meets. A coalition of environmental groups—including the Natural Resources Defense…
Posted by As delegates from 192 governments gather at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP16) in Cancun, Mexico, over the next ten days, expectations are low to zero that the deliberations will yield any meaningful progress to a substantive international agreement to slow and prepare the world for warmer global temperatures. In April this year a…
