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Ke Mana Cancun Menuju...
30-Nov-2010; 07:25
Selasa, 30 November 2010 | 03:45 WIB
Brigitta Isworo L
Setahun berlalu sudah. Tahun ini tak ada moto menderu menjelang Pertemuan Para Pihak ke-16 pada Konferensi Perubahan Iklim PBB di Cancun, Meksiko. Tahun lalu pertemuan serupa di Kopenhagen, Denmark, diawali dengan derasnya insinuasi istilah ”Hopenhagen”.
Ternyata pertemuan di Kopenhagen yang diawali dengan optimisme nyaris penuh itu gagal membuahkan kesepakatan yang mengikat (legally binding). Kesepakatan yang mengikat secara hukum itu amat dibutuhkan untuk memastikan kelanjutan Protokol Kyoto yang tahap pertama akan selesai pada 2012.
KTT Iklim Cancun Persempit Miskin-Kaya
29-Nov-2010; 07:23
Senin, 29 November 2010 20:06 WIB
Cancun (ANTARA News) - Putara baru KTT Iklim PBB yang dibuka Senin ini di Meksiko dan dihadiri sekitar 200 negara berharap mencapai kesepakatan dalam mempersmpit jurang perbedaan antara negara kaya dan berkembang.Konferensi dua pekan di resort pantai di Cancun itu bertujuan mencari kesepakatan dalam pendanaan dan pendekatan-pendekatan untuk memelihara hutan hujan serta persiapan menghadapi dunia yang panas.
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U.N. Climate Talks "Risk Losing Relevance": EU
30-Nov-2010; 07:14
Date: 30-Nov-10
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Author: Pete Harrison
International climate talks risk "losing momentum and relevance" if they fail to achieve concrete progress in the next two weeks, the Europe Union's climate chief warned on Monday.As the two-week talks kicked off in Cancun, Mexico, EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard also took a swipe at countries such as the United States that she said had failed to make progress this year in tackling climate change.
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Australia Brings Forward Decision On Carbon Price
30-Nov-2010; 07:15
Date: 30-Nov-10
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Author: Rob Taylor
Australia's government intends to wrap up an agreement next year on pricing carbon, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Monday, testing the strength of her minority rule and pressing the accelerator on Canberra's climate change fight.As world climate talks got underway in Mexico, Gillard said the government would bring forward by a year a decision on how to price carbon emissions, but left unclear whether a previous 2013 date for implementation of any scheme would stay in place.
Worst Case Study: Global Temp Up 7.2F Degrees By 2060s
30-Nov-2010; 07:16
Date: 30-Nov-10
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Author: Alister Doyle
World temperatures could soar by 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) by the 2060s in the worst case of global climate change and require an annual investment of $270 billion just to contain rising sea levels, studies suggested on Sunday.
Such a rapid rise, within the lifetimes of many young people today, is double the 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) ceiling set by 140 governments at a U.N. climate summit in
Special Report: Nuclear's Lost Generation
30-Nov-2010; 07:19
Date: 30-Nov-10
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Author: Sylvia Westall
On a flat, low-lying island nestled in crisp waters off the west coast of
Over 4,000 builders and engineers are at work on the sprawling Olkiluoto 3 project, whose turbine hall is so cavernous it could house two Boeing 747 jets stacked on top of each other.
When it is dark, which in winter is most of the day, enormous spotlights throw into focus scores of scaffolding towers and the red hauling equipment that encircle the grey, unfinished reactor building.
U.S. Sees Progress In Easing Climate Row With China
30-Nov-2010; 07:21
Date: 30-Nov-10
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Author: Timothy Gardner and Robert Campbell
Washington claimed progress in easing rifts with Beijing on ways to fight global warming on Monday as U.N. climate talks got under way in Mexico with warnings about the rising costs of inaction.The United States and China, the world's largest economies and top greenhouse gas emitters, have accused each other of doing little to combat global warming in 2010, contributing to deadlock in the U.N. talks among almost 200 nations.
