Climate change deal agreed on ozone

 

(ClimateRadar.com) Governments Agree to Accelerated ‘Freeze and Phase-out” of Ozone and Climate-Damaging Chemicals at Montreal Protocol’s 20th Anniversary Celebrations

http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=517&ArticleID=5671&l=en

Businesses must support emissions reduction, top UN official says

(ClimateRadar.com) The private sector must support industrialized countries’ serious emission reduction commitments to curb climate change and maintain the momentum of the system of exchanging emissions on the ‘carbon market,’ the top United Nations climate change official said today.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=23882&Cr=climate&Cr1=change 

Schwarzenegger embraces role as global-warming statesman

(Source: Union Tribune, SanDiego) When the U.N. secretary-general extended an off-the-cuff invitation to participate in a global-warming conference in New York City, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger didn’t hesitate.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070920-9999-1n20warming.html 

Climate change: long-term framework conditions are needed now!

(ClimateRadar) Bojrn Stigson, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, has launched a plea for parties to work together at the UNFCCC conference in Bali due this December.

http://president.wbcsd.org/2007/09/climate-change-.html

Vital graphics to understand climate change

Link to carbon cycle graphic and other vital diagrams.

http://www.vitalgraphics.net/climate2.cfm?pageID=7#

Climate Change Threatens World Food Production

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) www.fao.org held a special session in Rome, Italy, [September 10-12] to discuss the impact of climate change on world food security. Experts say that if industrial emissions continue to rise as predicted, the warming temperatures, increased rainfall, droughts and floods resulting from global warming threaten to disrupt farming systems around the world, with developing nations expected to fare the worst. In Washington this week, a new country-by-country analysis describes in detail the impact climate change is likely to have on global agriculture.

http://www.voanews.com/english/Science/2007-09-13-voa16.cfm 

UNEP organises Clean Up Week

Community-based action on climate change involving an estimated 35 million people across the planet in 2007 will culminate in the Clean Up the World Weekend on 14-16 September.

http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=517&ArticleID=5661&l=en

UNFCCC launches online CDM marketplace

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have announced the official launch of the CDM Bazaar web-portal <www.cdmbazaar.net>, designed to facilitate exchange of information among buyers, sellers and service providers engaged in the clean development mechanism (CDM).

http://cdm.unfccc.int/CDMNews/issues/issues/I_L6W569ZH62RDVOQETAT7X578TNTG0I/viewnewsitem.html