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UN woos visitors to climate change site |
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
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New York, UN - The United Nations (UN) has invited people to assess its new Climate Change Internet site to get what it calls “vital” information on the dangers of global warming. The site titled: “Gateway to the UN System's Work on Climate Change”, highlights the wide-ranging work of the various agencies of the UN system on climate change. It was inaugurated early this month. “The new website makes it easier for Internet users to find information on climate change from across the United Nations system,” a UN spokesman, Yves Sorokobi, told PANA Wednesday. “So, we are asking everybody to assess the Web site,” he said. Sorokobi disclosed that the site was launched in order to bring Member States together to find common ground to address climate change at the international level, The organisation is currently assessing the most up-to-date science on climate change, so as to develop projects that would assist people at the grass-roots level to adapt to the consequences of climate change. “The UN is also working to develop creative solutions that will reduce the emissions of the gases that cause climate change,” the UN official noted. Article Link |
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
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By Elizabeth C. Economy From Foreign Affairs, September/October 2007
Summary: China's environmental woes are mounting, and the country is fast becoming one of the leading polluters in the world. The situation continues to deteriorate because even when Beijing sets ambitious targets to protect the environment, local officials generally ignore them, preferring to concentrate on further advancing economic growth. Really improving the environment in China will require revolutionary bottom-up political and economic reforms. Elizabeth C. Economy is C. V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenges to China's Future. China's environmental problems are mounting. Water pollution and water scarcity are burdening the economy, rising levels of air pollution are endangering the health of millions of Chinese, and much of the country's land is rapidly turning into desert. China has become a world leader in air and water pollution and land degradation and a top contributor to some of the world's most vexing global environmental problems, such as the illegal timber trade, marine pollution, and climate change. As China's pollution woes increase, so, too, do the risks to its economy, public health, social stability, and international reputation. As Pan Yue, a vice minister of China's State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), warned in 2005, "The [economic] miracle will end soon because the environment can no longer keep pace." |
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Western climate change group sets greenhouse gas reduction goals |
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
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The eight states that make up the Western Climate Initiative have agreed to establish a regional goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the West to 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. The Initiative was created earlier this year by the governors of Arizona, California, New Mexico and Oregon with a commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to establish a goal by August. Each state also will participate in a multi-state emissions registry and work to design a multi-sector, market-based mechanism, such as a load-based cap-and-trade program, by August 2008. Since February, Utah and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Manitoba have joined the Initiative. |
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