Climate Change

TemasEtUnam The Dominican Republic’s Environment Secretariat ( SEMARENA ) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean ( ECLAC ) recently co-hosted an event in Santo Domingo designed to prompt Dominicans into tapping the many international funding opportunities for projects related, directly or directly, to climate change (”carbon markets”). And well they should! For some reason I have yet to figure out, many Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) nations have been very slow to tap this market even though they may have many, many tasks and potential projects that would meet the funding criteria. Sadly enough, so far only a ... Read Full Story

The Environment Secretariat ( SEMARENA ) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America  and the Caribbean ( ECLAC ) recently held an event in Santo Domingo designed to prompt Dominicans into tapping the many international funding opportunities for projects related, directly or directly, to climate change ("carbon markets"). And well they should!  For some reason I have yet to figure out, the DR has been very slow to tap this market even though they may have many, many tasks and potential projects that would meet the funding criteria.  [Probably did not help that the DR waited until 2002 to ratify the Kyoto ... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Article-byline , BREAKING NEWS , ENVIRONMENT , SCIENCE , World News / Doing ‘Nothing’ at Poznan Seems to Be Par for the Course - December 5, 2008 Day 4 in Pozan. Concrete commitment still lacking by Dan Bloom POZNAN, POLAND (RUSHPRNEWS)12/05/08 – The climate talks are getting close to the end of their first week here, and things are not looking good. Two Americans watching the events unfold, one on the ground in Poland and the other monitoring the talks from his university office in Chicago, have said as much. First, the middle-aged professor, watching from afar, and then some ... Read Full Story

2009 Deep Research Report on China Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Industry was a professional and depth research report on China CDM Market. The purpose of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is to assist developing countries achieve sustainable development, and to assist industrialized countries achieve compliance with their emission targets under the Kyoto Protocol (KP) through the acquisition of certified emission reductions accruing from project activities. Such project activities are expected to mobilize financial and technological resources from the public and private sectors in industrialized countries to promote sustainable development in developing countries, and contribute to the ultimate objective of the UNFCCC. CDM is a ... Read Full Story

2009 Deep Research Report on China Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Industry was a professional and depth research report on China CDM Market. The purpose of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is to assist developing countries achieve sustainable development, and to assist industrialized countries achieve compliance with their emission targets under the Kyoto Protocol (KP) through the acquisition of certified emission reductions accruing from project activities. Such project activities are expected to mobilize financial and technological resources from the public and private sectors in industrialized countries to promote sustainable development in developing countries, and contribute to the ultimate objective of the UNFCCC. CDM is a ... Read Full Story

The Dolgan (meaning "people living on the middle reaches of the river") indigenous peoples of the Arctic are experiencing many challenges in the face of climate change and the growing drive in Russia to exploit Arctic oil, gas, and coal deposits. Descendants of several Evenki clans (Tungus speaking peoples), who later adopted a dialect of the Turkic-speaking Yakut, the Dolgan indigenous peoples currently form the basic population of the Taymyr Autonomous Okrug (Province) of Russia. Their population is believed to be around 5,500, although there are no recent figures. Migrating from the southwest to their present area of residence in the eighteenth century because ... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Article-byline , ENVIRONMENT / Climate Libations: What are delegates doing at Poznan? December 6, 2008 By Dan Bloom POZNAN, POLAND (RUSHPRNEWS)12/06/08 – It’s enough to drive some people to drink.As the climate talks continue unabated in Poland, with over 9000 delegates in attendance and over 5000 observers and activists on the sidelines and giving “Birds of a Feather” presentations on global warming, pro and con, a blogger in Australia has also voiced his fears that nothing much will get accomplished this month in Poznan. John Hepburn, writing on his blog “Rooted”, tells RushPRNews that while the first week of the ... Read Full Story