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20th Jan 2012 by Madlen King
Yesterday the European Union launched a public consultation on possible measures that the European Commission could take to cut greenhouse gas emissions from ships. This consultation seeks to collect opinions on GHG emissions and their climate change impacts from this sector, with a view to shaping a possible Commission proposal in the future. The Commission’s [...]
20th Jun 2011 by Madlen King
‘LRQA’s Madlen King, Global Head of Climate Change reviews UN Climate Change Conference, 6-17 June 2011 held in Bonn, Germany.
5th May 2011 by Madlen King
The UNFCCC has recently produced and issued 12 audio files on the subject of the joint implementation (JI) mechanism. The audio files were prepared to raise the profile of JI and to help explain the mechanism in layman’s terms. The audio files include subjects such as: which countries can participate in JI, what methodologies can [...]
11th Apr 2011 by Madlen King
At the last minute of the six-day talks of the UN Climate Change Conference in Bangkok, attended by 2,000 participants from 175 countries, the Parties agreed on an agenda for the negotiations to be held in Bonn and elsewhere in the run-up to Durban at the end of the year.
6th Apr 2011 by Madlen King
The latest sessions of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) and the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperation under the Convention (AWG-LCA), as well as workshops relating to the Cancun Agreements, started on Sunday 3 April and will run through to Friday 8 [...]
24th Mar 2011 by Madlen King
The UNFCCC secretariat has produced five radio stories to make the CDM understandable and accessible to a broad audience
17th Feb 2011 by Madlen King
Last week the UNFCCC published a notification to parties and observer States regarding the UN Climate Change Talks, to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 3-8 April 2011. The meetings will include: the 16th session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties the 14th session of the Ad Hoc [...]
17th Feb 2011 by Madlen King
Greenhouse gas auditors band together to offer important new industry voice as spotlight grows on emission-reduction projects Association formed to encourage dialogue between carbon market participants and regulators Some of the world’s leading greenhouse-gas auditing firms have joined forces to promote dialogue among the carbon industry’s disparate stakeholders and to ensure consistent representation of their [...]
17th Feb 2011 by Madlen King
Martin Hession, was this week appointed as the new Chair of the CDM executive board to drive the improvements requested of them at the UN climate talks in Cancun last year. Those improvements included Improve the transparency and consistency of the regulatory framework of the CDM by continuing to revise its official documentation. Provide greater [...]
9th Dec 2010 by Andy Ritchie
Unfortunately, as is to be expected at this stage of the COP negotiations, hard facts are difficult to obtain and uncertainty is rife, blogs Andrew Ritchie live from COP 16 in Cancun.
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