News: August 2009
08.31.2009
UN Tackles Climate Change
Officials from UN member states are gathering in Geneva for a five-day conference on climate change.
The World Climate Conference will look at ways to help countries cope with the effects of climate change, such as an increase in floods and drought...
08.28.2009
Annual Cost of Climate Change 'will be £190 billion'
The true global cost of adapting to climate change is likely to be many times greater than official United Nations' estimates...
08.28.2009
China Endorses Resolution on Climate Change
BEIJING — China's legislature passed a resolution Wednesday signaling its interest in "actively dealing with climate change" by considering new laws and strengthening controls over greenhouse emissions.
08.25.2009
US officials: Climate bill needed before Copenhagen
Two top officials from the Obama administration said on Monday that the United States needs to have a proposed climate change bill in place before international talks on a renewed global climate pact begin in December in Copenhagen, Reuters reports.
08.17.2009
Tcktcktck Campaign partners with Climate Week NYC
Today the tcktcktck campaign joined The Climate Group, the City of New York, the United Nations, the UN Foundation and the Carbon Disclosure Project as an official Partner of Climate Week NYC, a program of city-wide events to be held the week of September 20, 2009 that are designed to demonstrate widespread international and domestic support for an ambitious, fair and binding international climate change treaty.
08.12.2009
Ban invites world leaders to ‘unprecedented’ UN climate change summit
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today extended an invitation to heads of State and government to attend an “unprecedented” global summit at the United Nations to spur action towards reaching an ambitious climate change pact later this year.
08.12.2009
UN, New York to stage Climate Week in September
NEW YORK (AFP) — UN chief Ban Ki-moon and the mayor of New York on Tuesday announced plans to launch "Climate Week NYC" on the sidelines of a UN summit in September to galvanize public support for a landmark global warming treaty by year's end.
08.12.2009
For UN and Its Leader, Climate Deal Stakes High
For Ban Ki-moon, bringing about a new U.N. climate treaty by the end of this year is a must.
Ban decided from the moment he became U.N. secretary-general in January 2007 that "climate change should be the most important top-priority issue for the United Nations, for the entire world," he said in an Associated Press interview this week.
