Conference of the Parties COP15

16 Nov 2009

Dear Readers,
As we were writing in our previous post, the future of the post-Kyoto agreement is seriously endangered. Yesterday, during an Asia-Pacific summit in Singapore, the US president Barack Obama and country leaders from China, Japan, Russia, Mexico, Australia and Indonesia agreed to delay a climate agreement to 2010 or even later. This means that [...]

25 Oct 2009

Dear Readers,
According to Carol Browner, climate and energy coordinator in White House, President of the United States Barack Obama will most probably not sign the climate change law before the COP15 meeting in Copenhagen in December this year. It is because the law is unlikely to be voted within the US Senate before the climate [...]

12 Aug 2009

Dear Readers,
According to data published by UNFCCC during the informal meeting in Bonn on 10-14th of August the current reduction targets related to greenhouse gases emissions disclosed so far by several industrialized countries by 2020 are amounting to 15-21% below the 1990 levels. This data come from national GHG emission reduction plans presented amongst others [...]

2 Jun 2009

Dear readers,
According to results presented by Australian Department of Climate Change emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) rose by 1,1% in 2008 compared to year 2007. However this increase is not influencing on the target from Kyoto Protocol (it is 8% increase in GHG emissions, yes increase, in period 2008-2012 comparing with 1990 levels). Australia is [...]

2 Jun 2009

Dear Readers,
At the end of May 2009 Volvo group presented an unique tool (maybe somebody heard about it but I wasn’t familiar with it) called ‘CO2 pedometer’ which helps to monitor the carbon emissions from commute (travels home – work).

14 Feb 2009

For the mistery COP 14 Poznań name stands the Fourteenth session and Conference of the Parties serving as the Fourth meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) and sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies.