Global Warming 2020

ABC News : From the perspective of scientists at a recent climate change conference in the university town of Oxford, inaction at the UN meeting in Copenhagen is not an option.

Their newly revealed research showed that a global temperature rise of 4 degrees is more likely in our lifetimes if radical reductions in global emissions do not begin by the year 2012.

Their message to politicians is that if a binding agreement is not reached at Copenhagen and emissions are not reduced immediately, then we should expect global warming that is beyond anything yet experienced by humanity.

It can be done.

Topics : COP15, Copenhagen Climate Change Conference 2009.

ABC News : A U.N. climate conference has opened for two weeks of negotiations among 192 nations to forge a pact to secure the world from calamitous global warming.

Conference president Connie Hedegaard, U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer and the U.N.’s chief climate scientist Rajendra Pachauri were set to address the thousands of delegates in Copenhagen on Monday.

Negotiations have dragged on for two years, only recently showing signs of breakthroughs with new commitments from the U.S., China and India to control greenhouse gas emissions. Read more >>

Topics : COP15, Copenhagen Climate Change Conference 2009

COP15 Copenhagen – Climate Change Conference 2009 : South Africa is ready to cut its growth of carbon emissions if it gets financial and technological support.

Just before the opening of the UN climate conference in Copenhagen on Monday, South Africa announced that it is ready to cut the growth of its carbon emissions by 34 percent by 2020 and 42 percent by 2025 if it gets aid from developed countries to achieve its goals. Read more >>

COP15 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference 2009: The developing countries in Group of 77 want both EU and the US to deliver higher ambitions at the UN climate conference.

Developed countries should come up with more ambitious emissions reduction targets than they have already promised. They should also deliver substantial financing of developing countries in order to enable them to pursue the dual goals of both reductions of emissions and economic development, a leading negotiator of Group of 77 said on Sunday, according to the Chinese news agency Xinhua. Read more >>