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Indonesia and Norway inked a deal last week to take concrete actions to reduce Indonesia’s deforestation emissions. Indonesia is the world’s 3rd largest emitter of global warming pollution (when deforestation emissions are included) so this is a very important effort. The deal between Indonesia and Norway was reached in the lead-in to the Oslo forest conference where over 50 countries agreed to a new Partnership to address deforestation (as I discussed here). The deal with Indonesia is a critical agreement as it requires action from the Indonesian government and assistance from the Norwegian government to make a serious dent in the loss of Indonesia’s forests.
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The World Bank has just announced its intent to seek $86 billion for a general capital increase (the GCI) from its donor countries (see World Bank press release). It is time for the World Bank to become a full part of the solution to global warming, not part of the problem and part of the solution at the same time. The World Bank needs to seize this opportunity to shift its energy investments to clean energy. The US should only approve a contribution towards the Bank’s general capital increase if it secures a firm commitment to transition to clean energy.
Continue Reading Now is the Time to Shift World Bank Resources to Clean Energy
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The UN climate change conference opened in Copenhagen today as delegates and world leaders gather this week to try to hammer out a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. GWIR published Tom Schueneman is in Copenhagen to report.
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Barbara Finamore, The Natural Resource Defense Council’s China program director, outlines four proposals to help the U.S. and China work together to fight global warming.
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The amount of carbon frozen, stored and now thawing in northern permafrost is double previous estimates and double that contained in the atmosphere, heightening concerns that these regions will become major sources of carbon dioxide and methane emissions.
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Looking to strengthen world leaders flagging resolve, a report by The Climate Group says that realizing the global CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets necessary to avoid the costs and strife of severe climate change are both technologically and economically achievable.
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United Nations’ executives and agencies highlight the need for new models, policies, and investments in sustainable agriculture, water resource conservation and management, and ecosystem services if future crises worse than recently experienced are to be averted.
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The UN and partners announced the launch of an international research project that aims to evaluate and assess the ability of soils and forest in nine developing countries to capture and store carbon, as well as provide a range of additional environmental, social and economic benefits. The project aims to open up nascent carbon markets to farmers, ranchers, foresters and conservationists around the world.
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Business leaders and members of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development at the 5th World Water Forum in Istanbul called on climate negotiators to consider water, energy and climate change issues in an integrated fashion and released a report illustrating how businesses are trying to do so.
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An overwhelming majority of Americans support actions to reduce global warming and mitigate climate change despite the tough economic times or what other countries do, according to a national survey by Yale and George Mason University researchers.
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