UPDATED: The State of the UN – Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-moon at the...
We just received from UN Foundation the full transcript of the UNSG presentation and the follow up discussion – the subject of our original posting of February 11, 2013. The event was on the record but...
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UPDATED: February 13, 2013, at Columbia U. School of Law, The United Nations...
(CONTAINS DESCRIPTION) Click flag or map to enlarge www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/rm.html After almost four decades under US administration as the easternmost part of the UN...
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Statement by Ambassador Berger of Germany in the “Arria Formula” informal meeting of the Security Council. Feb 15, 2013 Statement as prepared for delivery by Ambassador Berger in the “Arria Formula”...
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Australia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senator Bob Carr, spoke from the Island Republic of Kiribati, the Bikenikora Village, where he went to visit with President Anote Tong of the Republic of...
View ArticleWhen it comes to Climate Change Sinking Islands – these Island States have no...
15 February 2013 Press Conference held inside the UN with access to the room available only to those the UN calls PRESS, and allows in by means of a stranglehold on the process of Media Accreditation....
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Suggestions for The White House – galvanize the public with a CARBON TAX,...
Op-Ed Columnist It’s Lose-Lose vs. Win-Win-Win-Win-Win by Thomas L. Friedman Published by New York Times on-line: March 16, 2013 Oliver Munday This Painted Graph catches our attention but we...
View ArticleMore objective energy costs drive down emissions – that is Economics 01. Then...
Economic Scene A Model for Reducing Emissions By EDUARDO PORTER Energy costs and market-driven technological advances have led to a major reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Graphic: Cleaner...
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Europe this Easter is colder then at Christmas time. This, as an obvious...
YAHOO NEWS: Europe’s Freezing Easter a Global Warming Outcome. By KARL RITTER | Associated Press – Fri, Mar 29, 2013 View GalleryEurope’s big freeze STOCKHOLM (AP) — Is it Easter or Christmas?...
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From the Canadian Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) – the...
Op-Ed Contributor The Tar Sands Disaster By THOMAS HOMER-DIXON Published: on New York Times on-line – March 31, 2013 - WATERLOO, Ontario, Canada Related: Times Topic: Keystone XL Pipeline Rick...
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In Vienna – Easter, Passover, Iranian Spring, But really White Christmas on...
Vienna has had now five months of winter and there is no end in sight. Today, April 1st, was Easter Monday – a full Holy Day in Austria – everything is closed – though Catholic Austria does very...
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The UNFCCC COP 18 at Doha was faced with a Mountain of Problems and did not...
What does the ‘Doha Climate Gateway’ mean for Africa? Not nearly enough, given the continent’s vulnerability. By: Richard Munang and Zhen Han From Africa Renewal, May 2013, page 22 A dry check dam...
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Business is pushing for a negotiated position come the final end of the first...
3 Encouraging Signs of Progress from the Bonn Climate Talks. Submitted by Jennifer Morgan on May 3, 2013 Day 4 of the climate talks in Bonn, Germany. Photo credit: adopt a negotiator, Flickr A slight...
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Water Problems Given as Added Reason For The War In Syria. Will Egypt Be...
A parched Syria turned to war, scholar says, and Egypt may be next. Prof. Arnon Sofer sets out the link between drought, Assad’s civil war, and the wider strains in the Middle East; Jordan and Gaza...
View ArticleGeneva based The World Meteorological Organization got data from the Arctic...
Observed concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere have exceeded the symbolic 400 parts per million (ppm) threshold at several stations of the World Meteorological Organization’s Global...
View ArticleThe High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda met at UN...
From the UN – May 15, 2013: Statement of the High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda Today the U.N. Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda concluded its...
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About Reliance on Fossil Fuel – You can’t hit 400 ppm CO2 and still think...
Really – You can’t hit 400 ppm CO2 and still think “all of the above” is a rationale for energy strategy. A lot has happened in the last week. The Earth hit the 400 parts per million CO2 threshold...
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Thomas Friedman tells the world that the current uphevals in Syria started...
Op-Ed Columnist Without Water, Revolution. Ed Kashi/VII By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: May 18, 2013 12 Comments TEL ABYAD, Syria — I just spent a day in this northeast Syrian town. It was...
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Does the UNFCCC Secretariat try to influence CDM rulemaking due to the...
Bureaucratic influence when secretariats grow: The example of the UNFCCC, by Axel and Katharina Michaelowa, CIS Working Paper 80/2013, Zurich; download at...
View ArticleOn our Energy Day – A call to political action from Avaaz.org to save the...
from: Ricken Patel of www.Avaaz.org 30 months to save the world Dear Avaaz community, This may be the most important email I’ve written to you. Scientists have found that vast areas of Arctic sea ice...
View ArticleDying for the use of Fossil Fuels, Housing sprawl into dry forests, and the...
Opinionator Let’s Not Braise the Planet By MARK BITTMAN Our ability to turn around the rate of carbon emissions and slow the engine that can conflagrate the world is certain. But do we have the will?...
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