In my previous post, Reducing GHG emissions in a finance-constrained world, I mentioned the fact that pledges of climate funding at Copenhagen, though very encouraging, is nowhere near the expected needed level. After the excitement upon the funding news waned, many people began to question the vagueness in the language of the Copenhagen Accord. Will […]
In my last entry, I pointed to the argument that the committed fund for climate change mitigation and adaptation is nowhere near what is needed to meet the target of limiting temperature rise to 20C by 2030. Within the past few days of negotiation here at COP15, Africa Union has lowered its requested financial support […]
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According to the IIED Times, Environment and Urbanization published research disproved the belief that population growth leads to increases in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In reality, developing countries have growing populations, while developed countries have growing GHG emissions. The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) states that low income nations had 52.1% of the world’s […]
Poor countries want more funding for adaptation, ambitious commitments to cut GHG emissions sharply, and a limit of .15 degree C warming relative to preindustrial climate.
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