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International agency Oxfam has apologized to the Government of Saudi Arabia and to the Bureau, secretariat and members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for an offensive incident that occurred at a meeting in Bonn in June.

Monday marked the beginning of the Bonn UN Climate Change Talks held in Bonn, Germany. Representatives from 182 governments were in attendance, picking up on unresolved issues left over from the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP 15) this past December and putting forward a path for the implementation of international climate change action.
Day 1
The first day of the Bonn Climate Change Talks were dedicated to the SBI and SBSTA opening plenaries. The flexibilities ... Read More...

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Climate change is the single greatest threat to development – making the battle to overcome poverty ever harder and more expensive.read more

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As regular readers will know, I’ve been banging on for a long time about the need for a comprehensive database that tells us exactly how exposed international trade is to peak oil – or, for that matter, to the maritime sector being brought into the international climate regime and made subject to really severe emission controls.

Retreating Lake (image by: suburbanbloke)
Just last week, the United Nations’ Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) reached a monumental milestone of delivering reductions of 400 million tonnes of CO2 (equivalent) sourced from developing countries all over the world.

The body charged with the administrative oversight of the United Nations’ Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is showing signs that a critical transition in the technical framework may be coming.

A small but potentially rather significant exchange in the UN Secretary-General’s spokesman’s press briefing on Thursday last week:

Wind farm in Africa (Image by: lollie pop)