COP15

Part of: Climate change

United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen Dec 7 — Dec 18 2009.

Bellona’s programme of activities at the UN Climate Summit will include 64 seminars and meetings at the Bellona pavilion at Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, where the climate negations will be taking place.

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ARTICLES
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[ 06.08.2010 ]
Safety of Russian nuclear sites remains at risk as record heat wave holds and wildfires engulf vast expanses of Central Russia
ST. PETERSBURG – Deadly forest fires are threatening Russia’s Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and have already forced the evacuation of radioactive materials from a nuclear research centre in Nizhny Novgorod Region as this summer’s scorching heat – and overall ill-preparedness for this sudden onset of some of the worse effects of climate change – continues to facilitate conditions for the growing emergency.
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[ 05.08.2010 ]
Energy bill takes fatal blow before Congress adjourns for summer as oil spill efforts soldier on
WASHINGTON – At the end of last week, the Senate abandoned efforts to put together a comprehensive energy bill that would have limited greenhouse gas emissions, delivering a fatal blow to a proposal most Democrats supported and US President Barack Obama campaigned on.
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[ 29.03.2010 ]
Greek Environment, Energy and Climate Change Ministry announces € 5.5 billion plan for green development
ATHENS – The Greek Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change announced last week its strong commitment to use €5.5 billion toward the undertaking of environment and energy investments, drawing the majority of the funding from the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) for EU funds and other financing schemes like Goal III
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[ 23.03.2010 ]
Russian government battle rages around wrenching more energy from coal or energy efficiency to maintain gas exports
NEW YORK – Contrary to conventional wisdom among Russian energy leadership, Russia can meet the power needs not only of its own country but those of Europe without driving up its carbon footprint, a new study from the US-based German Marshall Fund asserts.
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[ 19.03.2010 ]
Democratic Senators advance climate bill, but colleagues fret over pre-empting EPA and local authority
NEW YORK – A sweeping US energy and climate bill that had been the subject of closed meeting on capital hill for much of the week may be on its way to debate where the legislation has stalled in the Senate, but may also contain concessions to industry the will not appeal to the American or international environmental community, US media have reported.
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[ 15.03.2010 ]
Russia anxious to position itself in the vanguard of climate change solutions
MOSCOW – A round-table discussion held in earlier this month by the Russian foreign ministry’s Diplomatic Academy on the current status and future of the global climate debate has apparently forged new goals and guideposts for the Russian climate policy. Talking points on the agenda included a more dynamic role for Moscow to play in climate negotiations and the expected launch of the Kyoto mechanisms on domestic grounds. The Kremlin keeps pushing for a unification of the two ongoing negotiation processes – on the Kyoto Protocol and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change – but, some experts warn, a new legally binding and comprehensive climate change agreement may not become a reality before 2013.
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NEWS
[ 11.01.2010 ]
No progress on CCS under UN’s CDM at COP15

BRUSSELS – No progress was achieved on including CO2 capture and storage (CCS) in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) during the UN climate talks in Copenhagen – the so-called COP15 – despite lobbying efforts by countries such as the UK or Saudi Arabia. All eyes are now set on COP16 in Mexico in December 2010.

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[ 18.12.2009 ]
IPCC head calls for CCS in Copenhagen

COPENHAGEN – Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, head of the international Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Nobel Peace Laureate, called for an immediate implementation of carbon capture and storage on his visit to Copenagen for the UN climate talks.

[ 02.12.2009 ]
Australia blows climate legislation for second time in Senate vote

Australia’s Senate rejected the government’s climate-change bill a second time, leaving Prime Minister Kevin Rudd empty-handed when he travels to Copenhagen this month, new agencies reported.

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BLOGS
Posted 20.01.2010 in Jonathan Temple's Blog by Jonathan Temple

Washington View: Massachusetts defeat shakes Democrats

WASHINGTON – The Republican win of Scott Brown in Massachusetts – a traditional Democratic bulwark – in a special election held to fill the Senatorial seat of the late Ted Kennedy has shaken up US Congress, which, until today, held the upper hand over the Republicans. Brown’s win, meanwhile, puts a question mark over the passage of energy and climate legislation, including a cap-and-trade scheme.

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