United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP23
appeared 17 November 2017
Brazil and Paraguay, developing nations and signatories of the Paris Agreement, face the challenge of promoting economic development to create income and jobs for their people, at the same time as avoiding negative climate and environment impacts of growth on their citizens.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP23
appeared 17 November 2017
The challenges of greening the world’s most populous nation are daunting. An estimated USD 247 billion-USD 468 billion of annual investment is needed between 2014 and 2020 to shift China’s economy toward the government’s vision of a more sustainable future. However, the opportunities are enormous too: up to 90% of the funding will have to come from the private sector.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP23
appeared 17 November 2017
The United Kingdom and Canada are leading a new global coal alliance aimed at accelerating clean growth and achieving the rapid phase-out of traditional coal power.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP23
appeared 16 November 2017
UN Climate Change News, Bonn, Nov 10 – Airports have been taking a lead role in reducing the emissions from aviation and can help further to bring down the carbon footprint of a sector which is still growing rapidly, airport managers said at a UN Climate Change secretariat’s Climate Neutral Now event at COP23.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP23
appeared 16 November 2017
Ethanol has existed as a motor fuel for over a century, but it is only in the last decade that its overall greenhouse gas (GHG) profile has been studied with any rigor to assess its role as a tool to reduce emissions.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP23
appeared 15 November 2017
UN Climate Change News, 15 November 2017 – At the UN climate change conference in Bonn (COP23, to 17 November), COP23 President and Prime Minister of Fiji Frank Bainimarama called on governments to make swift progress on taking forward climate action and finalizing the rulebook of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP23
appeared 15 November 2017
Bonn, 15 November 2017 —The NDC Partnership is in the process of establishing a new regional hub to support implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in the Pacific. This initiative responds to the needs expressed at the Climate Action Pacific Partnership (CAPP) Conference in July 2017 by the Pacific Small Island Developing States.