G8 leaders agree to act on climate, air pollution
Are we finally getting things right on climate change ? Not completely, but what happened last week may be a good omen for the Rio +20 conference. As I noted in a post published...
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The G8 meeting in L’Aquila: a missed opportunity
A few months before the Copenhagen meeting which will decide of the future of the Kyoto Protocol, the countries who met in Italy this week missed another opportunity to agree on climate change mitigation....
A renewed interest for energy efficiency
According to the International Energy Agency many developing countries like India or China are increasing their energy efficiency efforts to slow down their oil consumption. This is great news for peak oil and climate...
UNEP calls G8 Hokkaido meeting a “missed opportunity”
The last three days, the eight richest nations in the world met in Hokkaido, Japan to discuss about Africa and climate change and the least we can say is that it was a failure…...
Climate change at the G8 meeting this week
As you surely read or saw, the eight main world economies are meeting this week in Germany. One of the main topics is due to be climate change.