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Text of Obama’s Speech at UN Climate Conference

Text of Obama’s Speech at UN Climate Conference

President Barack Obama‘s remarks Friday at the U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen: “Good morning. It is an honor for me to join this distinguished group of leaders from nations around the world. We come here in Copenhagen because climate change poses a grave and growing danger to our people. All of you would not...
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First of Its Kind Climate-Change Film Festival

First of Its Kind Climate-Change Film Festival

The United Nations’ University is hosting a film festival on “Indigenous Voices on Climate Change” this week in Copenhagen, Denmark to draw attention to various climate-change related issues during to the 15th session of the Conference of the Parties  to the UNFCCC (COP 15). The film festival is organized around a collection of stories...
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India Rejects Legally Binding Emissions Cuts

India Rejects Legally Binding Emissions Cuts

India said it would reject any legally binding emission cuts and agreement to any peak year of carbon emissions at the global climate talks in Copenhagen, according to a statement made by Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh. “There is no question of India accepting a legally binding emission reduction cut,” Ramesh told India’s parliament in...
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Assessing the European Assessment of Climate Negotiations

Assessing the European Assessment of Climate Negotiations

The Centre for European Policy Studies has released a new set of publications related to climate change or energy policy, which are available for no cost on the CEPS website. Fujiwara, N., 2009 “Flexible Mechanisms in Support of a New Climate Change Regime: The Clean Development Mechanism and beyond“, CEPS Task Force Report, December*...
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