09.12.2009:
Representatives of several organizations active in SPARE are present in Copenhagen. The main task of the organizations is to influence on their national delegations policies and positions in the negotiations, and to bring information back to their home countries on the negotiations.
09.10.2009:
After participating at the Bangkok Climate Change Talks 2009, the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance, a continental coalition of civil society, is dismayed at attempts by developed countries to undermine the future of the Kyoto Protocol. They are seriously concerned by the fact that there seems to be an emerging consensus among industrialised nations particularly the US to move away from the Kyoto Protocol.
29.09.2009:
They are poor, making a living by cutting wood, and they know it's a suicidal strategy. While the president's plane took off from Lomé in Togo, to the climate summit of the United Nations, the Togolese Trade union for forestry workers and charcoal producers took the first steps to stop their destructive environmental practices.
29.09.2009:
On September 10, the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev published an article about national strategic tasks. In it, among five strategic vectors of economic modernization, he named securing the leading role of Russia in efficiency of energy production, transportation and consumption, development and putting to the international market new types of fuel, and development of nuclear technologies. Russian NGOs are sure that Russia must abandon nuclear energy and set a goal to reduce risks of negative impact of technogenic climate change as a priority. Now Russian policy shows no practical steps towards efficient low-carbon energy sector.
29.09.2009:
On September 10, the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev published an article about national strategic tasks. In it, among five strategic vectors of economic modernization, he named securing the leading role of Russia in efficiency of energy production, transportation and consumption, development and putting to the international market new types of fuel, and development of nuclear technologies. Russian NGOs are sure that Russia must abandon nuclear energy and set a goal to reduce risks of negative impact of technogenic climate change as a priority. Now Russian policy shows no practical steps towards efficient low-carbon energy sector.
12.12.2008:
The Norwegian Minister for Environment and Development told today environmentalists from Brazil and Nepal that he is on the restrictive side when it comes to new licenses for oil extraction in Norway. Mr. Solheim participated in an electronic meeting on Norwegian climate policy arranged by Norges Naturvernforbund, Norwegian Rainforest Foundation and Future in Our Hands.
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