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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[ 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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whitehouse.gov

[ 11.03.2010 ]
Obama convenes key Senators to hammer out wish list for stalled US climate bill
NEW YORK – US President Obama this week huddled for the first time with Senators who are pushing the currently mothballed climate bill, meeting with a dozen crucial senators in a final surge to pass the legislation that is bound to be fraught with a number of compromised that will be less palatable to the environmental and international community.
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[ 08.03.2010 ]
EU pushes worldwide binding standards on nuke plant builds while France leads way with possible Chernobyl II
NEW YORK – The head of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso began a European Union-wide push on Monday to enforce European nuclear safety standards on the building of atomic energy plants to become the binding worldwide standard, while French president Nicolas Sarkozy chastised international banks’ reluctance to invest in nuclear power.
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Charles Digges/Bellona

[ 04.03.2010 ]
Bellona and Norwegian government put emphasis on helping environmental protection in Ghana
Bellona is urging environmental protection organisations in the African country of Ghana to adopt some its environmental policies against climate change and to face the environmental challenges standing before the developing, newly democratic nation.
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kremlin.ru

[ 02.03.2010 ]
Putin announces $1.77 billion for new reactor builds, and earmarks another $2billion for fast reactor production
NEW YORK – In conjunction with other large energy producers around the world, most notably the United States, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has just tabled a proposal to pump $1.77 billion into its nuclear industry to fund new plants, Russian news agencies have reported.
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whitehouse.gov

[ 23.02.2010 ]
‘Hybrid’ US climate legislation likely to back track on some environmental promise to throw big bones to industry
NEW YORK – For weeks following Predident Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, in which he more or less put at arms length or overturned some of the brighter climate promises he had made only a year before, his administration is spreading itself thin to come up with climate and energy legislation that will pass the Senate.
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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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