By Morten Andersen*
When leaders from USA, China, Brazil, India and South Africa sat down together Friday night to draft the Copenhagen Accord which on Saturday became the outcome of the UN conference on climate change, it marked a process that was quite different from the normal procedures of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change [...]
The United Nations agency entrusted with accelerating sustainable industrial development in poorer States opened its general conference Monday, focusing on the opportunities offered by “green industries” in both combating climate change and attaining economic growth.
“Rather than limiting growth, a green industrial revolution could and should form the core of our response to climate change, and [...]
By Ban Ki-Moon*
The lines were drawn as the industrialized nations of the Group of Eight gathered in Heiligendamm, Germany on 6 June 2007. The forces mustered to fight global warming were divided into competing camps.
Germany and the United Kingdom sought urgent talks on a new climate change treaty, to go into effect when the [...]
*By Ochieng’ Ogodo
Starting today, Monday, December 7th, the attention of world will be glued to the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark where the United Nations Climate Change summit will be taking place until December 18th. The expectations are both high and low.
The roadmap to Copenhagen has mostly been haggling over the reaching of a legally [...]
An African international agreement has opened the door to a debate on the rights and protection of people displaced by natural disasters, with a nod to migration as a result of climate change.
The Kampala Convention, a ground-breaking treaty adopted by the African Union (AU), promises to protect and assist millions of Africans displaced within their [...]
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